{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that one.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome the Government's climbdown on part-time workers. In light of the information that the Minister has just provided, will she tell me why Denmark and Holland both have a higher proportion of part-time workers than we have, yet they have higher levels of employment protection and accept the social chapter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her reply. Does she agree that a good many of the long-term unemployed never intend to work again, ever? They are, in my words, layabouts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "erous new year? Is it the Conservative party that wants to put VAT on school fees, split up the United Kingdom with devolution plans, or nationalise utilities under clause IV, or is it the lot opposite, led by Bambi, with his 60 quid-a-week haircut, who sends his son to a grant-maintained school when his party want to abolish them? Is there anything more dishonourable than that? I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the fishermen of Newham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Prison Service", "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": "ing of the movement of prisoners, especially the high-risk category A prisoners, and better supervision of their activities, adequate training of staff in the emergency control room, the presence of a governor at all times until prisoners are locked up at the end of the day, an increased dog team, improved lighting and cameras, the replacement of all compromised locks and additional alarm systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Prison Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "arthed by the Woodcock inquiry. Does not the Home Secretary accept that he stands accused today of gross incompetence in the execution of his responsibilities, for the Prison Service, to the public and to the House? First, does the Home Secretary accept that he personally and repeatedly failed properly to act on warnings that had been made about security problems in Parkhurst and Whitemoor by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Prison Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I do not claim any personal expertise in such matters. I am advised that geophones cannot be installed when extensive building works are under way because they do not work effectively in those circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Prison Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "nstalled when extensive building works are under way because they do not work effectively in those circumstances. [Interruption.] That is partly because they are constantly set off by the building works and partly—to deal with the night time point, which I understand—because the building works tend to damage the geophones regularly in a way that impairs their effectiveness. It was on the basis of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Prison Service", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "y, after the second riot at Everthorpe, to suggest that he should oblige prisoners who have rioted and done damage to remain in their cells until they have repaired them? I see no reason why the taxpayer should do that for them. I was therefore pleased to receive an assurance that prison labour has been used to restore much of the damage. Does he accept, however, that I shall be very angry indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Before the Secretary of State goes any further down this disgraceful line of argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "erial for me to approve it, vet it or check it. I ask the Minister to accept my assurance on that. Mr. Bassett simply sent it to me because it was an exclusive and he asked me to comment on it for the following day's paper. The Secretary of State is clearly so desperate that he is clutching at straws. Why does not he address the real issue of the unemployment that he has created? He is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in due course. That cut in entitlement will make thousands of people much worse off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "We are saying that the Government are putting up national insurance contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.59.8", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "e jobseeker's allowance is another example of broken Tory promises. As my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) said, during the election the Tories promised not to increase national insurance contributions, but within a year they had done exactly that. They are now cutting the amount of money that people get in return for their national insurance contributions. No one voted for this cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.59.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "We are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "ost people recognise that most of the unemployed desperately want to work, a large section of people are claiming benefit and working in the black economy. The Bill will be successful, to a limited degree, in helping to solve that problem. However, I am very disappointed that a great opportunity totally to reform the welfare state has been wasted. We have made a thorough mess of the welfare state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "g majority. In my factory, where take-home pay is up to about £300 a week, we have no trouble finding good, well-motivated workers, but it is frustrating to find new recruits who are playing the present system for all it is worth. One 22-year-old lasted three days with us, and he left saying that benefits of £160 a week were worth more to him. Presumably, he preferred to stay home watching videos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "s up to about £300 a week, we have no trouble finding good, well-motivated workers, but it is frustrating to find new recruits who are playing the present system for all it is worth. One 22-year-old lasted three days with us, and he left saying that benefits of £160 a week were worth more to him. Presumably, he preferred to stay home watching videos. [Interruption.] Two others arrived on a Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "ing videos. [Interruption.] Two others arrived on a Monday. [Interruption.] I regret to tell Opposition Members that I can speak from my experience of employing people. I expect that Opposition Members' experience of employing people extends no further than the research assistants who dominate the Palace of Westminster. I am talking about practical experience. Two other people arrived on a Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was not listening to what I was saying. It is always a pleasure to encounter the soft red underbelly of the socialist party from time to time. I was saying that the gentleman concerned received sufficient benefit to make it not worth his while to work. He preferred to stay at home watching videos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": " community. The idea of workfare has widespread support in the country, and in many ways the Bill's mention of workfare is one of its most exciting aspects. I urge the Government to ensure that whatever scheme is chosen they make simplicity their byword, because an expensive and bureaucratic system will strangle workfare at birth. For scroungers and for the feckless, the indolent and the work-shy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "they make simplicity their byword, because an expensive and bureaucratic system will strangle workfare at birth. For scroungers and for the feckless, the indolent and the work-shy— [interruption] —there is no good news in the Bill. They may even, rightly, face disqualification from benefit. However, if Britain's welfare system has been a gold-mine for those who wish to take unfair advantage of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "en on the unemployed list for more than two years. In Scarborough and Whitby we have our own powerhouse of a micro-economy. A wide range of dynamic companies have established themselves on the coast, providing jobs and prosperity. That is what counts. However, when most of my parliamentary colleagues think of Scarborough and Whitby they think of it as a nice place to go on holiday or to retire to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "ystems that include targets, incentives and thresholds, and I believe that the Bill is a step in the right direction. First, the Bill seeks to target help on those who really need it. There are people out there in the real world for whom we should do much more than we do. However, there are people for whom we do too much and who lean on the state when they should be standing on their own two feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.87.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.118.7", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "To expect me to give way in the last four minutes of my speech is unrealistic. I am trying to answer serious points made by the Liberal Democrats. I am amused that the Labour party apparently does not think that the Liberal Democrats are worth replying to. I am very interested to hear that, but never mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.118.9", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "r. Streeter), for Scarborough and for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) made the most important point that there must be a fair reciprocity of interests, a balance of interests between the taxpayer and the claimant. The talk by the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) of a climate of coercion and compulsion is exactly the kind of grotesque exaggeration which has so harmed British politics in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.118.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are not leaving, are they?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-10", "file": "debates1995-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "ca4646580238b5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "s involved increased from £18,000 to £3 million as the number of cases increased from 750 to 33,000. In 1987–88 the sums involved had reached £10 million. There is no easy answer to the problem. If one does not pay, the poor applicant who wants the home cannot jump the hurdle. If one does pay, human nature is such that every private landlord in every circumstance will demand such a deposit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-10a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.138.9", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend in congratulating the plant's management and work force. It has been a major success story. Production is up by some 30 per cent. on three years ago, despite the fact that the overall market has fallen by some 26 per cent. in the same period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.138.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "I am confident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.160.4", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Committee of Selection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely right and I stress that point. Three of my hon. Friends in the position at issue in this debate are members of Select Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Committee of Selection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the membership of the party, but I must make it clear that the question of the Whip does not enter into the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Committee of Selection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "er, the Whip was withdrawn from eight Conservative Members in one week—perhaps the same will happen to 80 in a following week. All that was done without seeking the approval of the 1922 Committee, let alone the rest of the Conservative parliamentary party. The same could not happen under a Labour Government, because, under party rules, every Labour Member of Parliament signs a contract—a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.188.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cleveland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Devlin", "preceding_text": " of consultation was seen to be independent. In the case of the abolition of Cleveland county council, not only has the consultation been independent; it has also been upheld by the law of the land.\"—[ Official Report , 7 July 1994; Vol. 246, c. 556.] The hon. Member for Hartlepool, who was present at that debate, fully supported him. So there we have it. Two members of Labour's Front-Bench scheme", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cleveland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "e, with an escort of the Household Cavalry. The strength of opposition and alarm over what is proposed cannot be overstated. It covers every service and every sector. Every key representative body from the area's business community—not just the trade unions, but the CBI, the chamber of commerce, the small business club—all regard the idea of fragmenting the Teesside conurbation as economic lunacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cleveland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": " area as small as a county, but that he regards the same principle as dangerous and totally unacceptable over an area of intermediate size, such as the United Kingdom. Finally, in seeking the right answer for Cleveland, which represents one of the most controversial of all the reform proposals, I have taken the trouble to visit the area to discuss the issues with the representatives of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cleveland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you vote for it, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " Let the decision of the House tonight be that the people of Cleveland should be the winners and not the bureaucrats, the elected councillors acting in caucus or single-issue pressure groups. Let us remember that we are here to serve, rather than to rule. That will be the concept for authorities in the future. This will be the new beginning and that is what I accept and will fully support tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": " told, by the treasurer of the borough council, who lost his job as a result. The budget overspend took place without the councillors' knowledge, and was not a result of profligate policies, as was the case in Essex. The borough treasurer moved funds between various accounts quite improperly. He covered up the problem, and left the borough council's employment as a result. Castle Point councilors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "andards and hypocrisy. When Castle Point had a budgeting difficulty, members of the Labour and Liberal parties said that, as £2.4 million had been lost, the councillors involved should resign and repay the money. Now that Labour and Liberal councillors have lost £8.5 million, their political friends—and the councillors themselves—have forgotten all about those calls for resignations and repayment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "The director of social services told me that the social services department had been given a reasonable amount of money by the Government. But he also said that social services had experienced budgeting difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-11", "file": "debates1995-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8b5618d48c30abd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "The director of social services told me that the social services department had been given a reasonable amount of money by the Government. But he also said that social services had experienced budgeting difficulties— [Interruption.] —and there had been an overspend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-11a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.266.8", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The Government do not believe that constitutional reforms are either needed or wanted by the majority of the British people. As to the hon. Lady's suggestions about regional devolved government, those are matters for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.266.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e the Minister to agree with the following words? The words decentralisation to the provinces of England would result in local communities recovering a large measure of the responsibilities they have lost in so many spheres. were the exact words that the Home Secretary's predecessor, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, used in a Bow Group pamphlet that he wrote recommending elected regional councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ngland would result in local communities recovering a large measure of the responsibilities they have lost in so many spheres. were the exact words that the Home Secretary's predecessor, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, used in a Bow Group pamphlet that he wrote recommending elected regional councils. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] It was after he had been chosen as a prospective parliamentary candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that he did not stand on such a policy. Let me read from the Conservative party manifesto of 1974. This is what the manifesto said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The difference between the United Kingdom and Europe is that the United Kingdom is a single national institution—a national state. Europe and the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.286.6", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "not think that I should try to answer a question like that on a hypothetical basis without knowing what the subject is, the meeting or anything else. The last occasion on which I recall meeting Mr. Ian Greer—although I imagine that the hon. Gentleman's question is not particularly directed at me—was passing him in a corridor at the Conservative party conference, when we exchanged some brief words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that early and anticipated shot. I shall fire a reply in a moment or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for that early and anticipated shot. I shall fire a reply in a moment or two. [Interruption.] I shall answer in a moment or two if the hon. Gentleman will just bide his time. My hon. Friend the then Minister for Local Government and Planning announced in a written answer on 17 February 1994 the Government's intention to legislate on the issue in order to put the matter beyond doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "t be just a booking exercise; it should be much more substantial. Another and equally important argument goes to the heart of this matter and relates to the very principle of whether local authorities should have to pay in the first place. There is a view that, as a council is obliged by statute to prepare the plans and to hold the inquiries, the financial burden should be borne by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " for infills to complete the circles of some of the villages. That arrangement, which would stop the linear flow, seemed much more sensible to me. When Birmingham first raised the issue early in 1994, the Department of the Environment did not respond. One Birmingham Member of Parliament does not like to be called a Birmingham Member, but nevertheless represents at least 70,000 Birmingham citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McAllion", "preceding_text": "at demonstrate the distinctive way in which Scotland is treated in the House. I believe that all that justifies Opposition Members' case for a Scottish Parliament: clauses 3 and 4 should really be debated not here but in the Scottish Parliament that a Labour Government will set up after the next election. None the less, I welcome the opportunity to debate the Scottish clauses, especially clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Costs of Inquiries Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am genuinely trying to help the hon. Gentleman. My understanding is that where the interest has been repaid on sums repaid, the amount of that interest will be recoverable by the inspectorate if the Bill becomes law. I hope that that makes the matter clear to the hon. Gentleman. If, on reading Hansard , I find that I have not made the position clear, I shall write to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Care Facilities (House of Commons)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way, even to my hon. Friend. I am making a serious point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.331.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.331.7", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Care Facilities (House of Commons)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ondon. The creche or creches would have to be kept in excellent decorative order. I can just imagine the scandal if the media were to discover a crack in a wall or that the paint was not in good condition. There would have to be an enormous amount of equipment such as sand pits, chairs, tables, potties, paddling pools, climbing frames, swings, seesaws, paints, toys, picture books and wendy houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.331.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-12", "file": "debates1995-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "8ae2379371a2b2dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Care Facilities (House of Commons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "inosaurs in this building always have an excuse. It would be better, if the dinosaurs will not give way, to consider the capital works programme on the Floor of the House. All the money is not being spent on Members and their secretaries—far from it. Some very interesting money is being spent. I shall spare some blushes in the Chamber and in the building by not going into detail. Details would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-12a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.367.5", "colnum": "367", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ait until I had the opportunity, if I caught your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, to mention it myself. The citizens charter is a useful concept, which dates back, my history books tell me, to Herbert Morrison of the London county council in 1921. He promised the citizens of London a charter on local government services. Increasingly, the Government are stealing ideas from the Labour party's manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.367.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has not been listening. I said that one poll was carried out by NOP, one client of which is the Trades Union Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ause the contractor was not meeting standards and prices were rising. The council was not getting value for money and changed the contract. The evidence from Professor Szymanski was that, in the long term, Wandsworth—like other councils—will have to pay a higher price for getting private sector contracts because a monopoly will have developed and there will not be alternatives in particular areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "of wild country available to my constituents. It is not providing a decent service in water and sewerage provision to many of my constituents. In a recent episode, the water supply to people living in part of Gorton was so poor that they were afraid to use their toilets because of the lack of water, and they had to operate a street shift system for taking baths. North West Water failed to respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The problem is that I do not know who to telephone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a member of another Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to reflect that the two brief speeches in the debate so far have come, commendably, from two members of the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Central (Mr. Lord). I believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) is also a member of that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "licy. I am pleased that he is ably aided and abetted by my local colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science. Cynicism is an important part of the politician's general panoply of aids or disadvantages. We were probably quite cynical when the programme was first launched more than three years ago. As it has filtered through society, it is being taken very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-13", "file": "debates1995-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "6530d266cf759b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Railtrack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "it has filtered through society, it is being taken very seriously— [Interruption.] I am not suggesting that all aspects of physical technology should be taken to the point of my hon. Friend the Minister wearing his pager on the Front Bench. We are bound to be very impressed by that and I noticed that it went off several times today. I shall be fascinated to learn later where the message came from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-13a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "nd teachers in schools in difficult areas, which is valuable and right? Is it not also part of my hon. Friend's policy to give parents information so that parental choice can be improved? Is not parental choice crucial in education, in Wales and elsewhere? Has not the Leader of the Opposition exercised precisely that choice, using published information about schools to choose a school for his son—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.437.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "y then trundle their way to London at 50 mph. The delay over the British link, which is a national disgrace, reflects a bumbling and short-sightedness that are extreme even by this Government's standards. When the go-ahead for the tunnel was given, the Government's initial response was to say that there was no need for the link because there would be plenty of room on existing Kent lines. It took—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.472.5", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I have just given the extra cost. The hon. Gentleman was desperately keen to intervene, and he was probably not listening to what I was saying. The proposal has been costed at an extra £70 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " They cut spending on capital projects. So I suggest that whoever can lecture the Conservative Government on delay in building the tunnel or the link, it certainly is not the hon. Member for Oldham, West or the Labour party. Indeed, I should go much further than that. Railways are now back in the news. The Labour party has just committed itself to a publicly owned, publicly managed railway system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.476.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Keep going.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "I wish to conclude, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "n of the burden. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have spoken about levels of compensation for those who will lose their homes. I would argue that during the period when the line is being constructed there should also be compensation for people who will have their environment distorted by noise, pollution and the other factors that I have mentioned. A leader in today's Manchester Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Flooding (Strathkelvin)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ding of a comprehensive hydrological study into the whole river system—the Clyde, the Kelvin, the Cart and its tributaries—and the means of preventing further damage. The Government have announced that £10,000 will be made available to the Clyde river purification board. We welcome that, but we doubt that it is even remotely enough to solve the problem. It is nothing more than a drop in the ocean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.561.7", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Flooding (Strathkelvin)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "n, and one must not decry the efforts that are being made. The hon. Gentleman rightly said that the Kelvin became a raging torrent. As I said, it rose 5 ft above its previous maximum. He wanted to know what action will be taken. He went through some of the history of flooding, but he really cannot go past the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961, which puts the responsibility on local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.561.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-16", "file": "debates1995-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "103d201593448dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Flooding (Strathkelvin)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "evere flooding on Tayside a year ago, and exactly the same considerations apply to the Clyde river basin as to the Tay river basin. Councils must present proposals. They have powers to deal with maintenance, and a 50 per cent. grant for capital expenditure. That applies throughout Scotland. Water and sewerage capital expenditure in Scotland is now running at £720 million over the next three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-16a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.578.6", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case, therefore, that last week the Prime Minister was saying that he was committed to maintaining the existing service and that now he will not say that he is committed to doing so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.578.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has read all 34 pages of Mr. Santer's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.580.8", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t that is another indication this week that it is best to be a former Labour transport spokesman than a current Labour transport spokesman. I welcome the flotation; I hope that it is a great success and that the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Snape) does well out of it. The privatisation of the bus services has proved immensely successful for bus service users and will continue to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.580.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "mes face to face with the old Labour's infantile incompetents tendency and the brothers who do not even approve of a market economy, and certainly do not want to see it modernised, dynamised or even endogenous-zone-ised. My advice to the warring parties in \"Blair Wars\" is that they should at least compromise by declaring the Dunfermline, East constituency office a demilitarised zone. Joking apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "From a constituency point of view, I have some sympathy with my hon. Friend's point because amusement machines seem to be concentrated not only in coastal locations such as Morecambe and Lunesdale but in Thanet. I have received some vigorous representations on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Coombs", "preceding_text": "t the lower end and to move more people out of taxation, as well as adding to the 5 million people who pay tax only at the 20 per cent. rate. That would stimulate the economy and gain a natural growth rate significantly higher than the rate which we are enjoying and one which would approach the growth level that we enjoyed in the late 1980s. I want to comment on three aspects of the Finance B ill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West said, increasing exemptions without decreasing the rate is not the way to go about it. An axe has to be taken to that Gordian knot and the rate of capital gains tax should be significantly reduced. During the past few days, other hon. Members and I have been lobbied by constituents who employ a significant number of people in amusement arcades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "d be of interest to Opposition Members and everyone in the House—but a loss of £15.8 million a year in national insurance and pay-as-you-earn contributions, an increase in social security costs of £200,000 a week and, ironically, a reduction in corporation tax receipts to the Exchequer of 28 per cent., or £10 million a year, from amusement arcades and operators alone. I shall finish on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "for Dudley, West (Mr. Pearson) on his excellent maiden speech. I am sure that we will hear a lot more from him in future years. The hon. Gentleman has clearly had a significant effect on the Opposition Benches, because as one who has attended practically every debate on a Finance Bill in the past 15 years, I can tell him that at 6.31 pm there would normally be just five Opposition Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "Gentleman has clearly had a significant effect on the Opposition Benches, because as one who has attended practically every debate on a Finance Bill in the past 15 years, I can tell him that at 6.31 pm there would normally be just five Opposition Members present. [Interruption.] I have to admit that, normally, there would not be all that many of my hon. Friends on the Conservative Benches, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-17", "file": "debates1995-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bb4ead81affa372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "e that, in the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Mr. Evans), \"that lot over there\" would spend less and tax less. They are in cloud cuckoo land. I also wish to comment on the Opposition Members who continually claim that so much money can be saved for the Exchequer by closing loopholes. They do not mean closing loopholes; they mean closing concessions, so let everyone beware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-17a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.692.7", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "rict councils, in terms of its tax base, and even if it were given unitary status Hampshire county council would still remain the fourth biggest. Will my hon. Friend confirm that, contrary to rumour, our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State still has an open mind on the recommendations for Hampshire? Will the Minister also talk to the Secretary of State for Education about the recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.692.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.692.7", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "in the fourth biggest. Will my hon. Friend confirm that, contrary to rumour, our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State still has an open mind on the recommendations for Hampshire? Will the Minister also talk to the Secretary of State for Education about the recommendations— [Interruption.] —as she has undertaken to look carefully at the ability of the New Forest to provide an education service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.692.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "rather rich coming from the hon. Gentleman, who is allegedly the author of \"City 2020\", which sank without trace soon after being launched; even the assistance of the mayor of Baltimore could not rescue that document. The regional office has instructions to work with all the partners in order to point out where there were deficiencies so that they are capable of bidding for the second time around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.700.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.702.6", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister reject the recommendation of his own Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee that local authorities should be forced to accept low-level nuclear waste, including waste from nuclear power stations, against their wishes? Does he admit that that is a cost-cutting proposal, connected at least in part with future privatisation of the nuclear industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.704.8", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "Clearly, I was not the Minister at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.704.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " a day. It will have no core station. Yeovil in Somerset, a base for Britain's aerospace industry, will be without one, too. Under the regulator's proposals, there will be an 88-mile stretch between Salisbury and Exeter, with Yeovil at its centre, with no core station. Thus a passenger wishing to travel from Yeovil to Birmingham will have to detour to Bristol or to Swindon to get a through ticket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "should be reduced by 80 per cent; and that as a result people will be expected, when necessary, to divert to another station on the same line—or even, from there, to another station on another line. They must then get off the train to buy a through ticket. Having purchased it, they will almost certainly find that their train has already departed, and they will have to wait for the next connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.725.8", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition put that question to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister yesterday, and the Prime Minister answered in exactly the same terms as I have answered. It is all in the record for the hon. Gentleman to read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.725.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "erators. That is also new. Under its old nationalised structure British Rail was under no such obligations. The same was true for other aspects of its operations. It was free to vary levels of service—and it did—subject only to very general constraints such as the statutory closure procedures. The railway operated under a system of bureaucratic centralised control with BR taking all the decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": ", to the amazing performance of the Labour Front Bench in response to the regulator's consultation document. My hon. Friends may have thought that today was pretty amazing, but today was not the first occasion. The hon. Members for Oldham, West, for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) and for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) each issued a press release. Taken together, they were an embarrassment to Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "o him last Friday. I asked six simple questions and wanted six straight answers. I did not ask for warm words or for him to smile at me; I wanted six straight answers. I have not yet had a reply to my letter so I am going to give the hon. Member for Oldham, West, who is putatively in charge of Labour's policy, the opportunity to answer. Does the hon. Gentleman intend to renationalise the railways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": " for him to smile at me; I wanted six straight answers. I have not yet had a reply to my letter so I am going to give the hon. Member for Oldham, West, who is putatively in charge of Labour's policy, the opportunity to answer. Does the hon. Gentleman intend to renationalise the railways? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If he does plan to do so, will compensation be paid to the shareholders of Railtrack?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "icy, the opportunity to answer. Does the hon. Gentleman intend to renationalise the railways? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If he does plan to do so, will compensation be paid to the shareholders of Railtrack? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Precisely how would passenger services be brought back under state control in view of the fact that legal franchises and contracts would govern the use of the railways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "to the shareholders of Railtrack? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Precisely how would passenger services be brought back under state control in view of the fact that legal franchises and contracts would govern the use of the railways? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the hon. Gentleman and his party do not plan to renationalise the railways, what changes would they make in the way that the railways are run?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman can do nothing other than stand idly by. It was the Government who introduced and pushed through the House that ruination of a Railways Act in 1993. However, under section 4 the regulator and the Secretary of State have dual responsibilities and both have a duty to passengers. The same section also says that through ticketing is one of the subjects that will be covered by that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise to the Minister. The hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn) has just returned. Before you were in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, he said that many of my hon. Friends and I were sponsored and controlled by trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "ir, Madam Deputy Speaker, he said that many of my hon. Friends and I were sponsored and controlled by trade unions. [Interruption.] I took exception to that at the time, but I want your advice on the matter, Madam Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Member for Dartford is prepared to withdraw his remark, nothing further need be done. If he is not prepared to do that, may I ask you for permission to refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ities to be confined to the historical pattern. The deal is a reflection of the Government's failure to represent the United Kingdom's national interest in Europe. Since 1985 the Government have had a chance to win support for a fair deal for our fishermen. All the Government needed to secure was the support of two other member states, one of which had to be a major state such as Italy or Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention from a sedentary position and I shall answer the question of how we move forward from here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "a control which would not have been possible if Spain had remained outside the Community. It was very difficult to get and I congratulate the Government on it.\"—[ Official Report , 4 December 1985; Vol. 88, c. 335.] I hope that the Liberal Democrats will be honest enough to stand by what their spokesman said then and vote down the motion today because they know perfectly well that the negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. He knows that I have been generous in the past, but this time I have a great deal of information with which to educate him on the subject of fisheries. My hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie) made a gritty speech. He was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "ivelihood to our fishermen throughout the land. My hon. Friend mentioned enforcement. I hope that he takes assurance from what I have said about that. My hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Harris) made a thoughtful and moving speech. I take the opportunity of thanking him for his personal kindness and courtesy, which he has demonstrated throughout in dealing with me over these issues. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "If you are peddling the Save Britain's Fish line, you are doing a grave disservice to Britain's fishermen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-18", "file": "debates1995-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fe3e3570a5a3ee8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-18a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.844.8", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Are we to take it from that, that the right hon. Gentleman will not even repudiate their views? After all, he is the person", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.844.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.846.6", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", 14 November 1977; Vol. 939, c. 157.] it would be wrong for those from Scotland to seek to interfere in English domestic affairs after that watershed has been reached.\"— [ Official Report , 1 February 1977; Vol. 195, c. 457.] Before the hon. Gentleman at the back of Chamber shouts, may I tell the House that the words that I have just used are a quote from the hon. Member for Livingston(Mr. Cook).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.846.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "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": "No one is devolving to the Northern Ireland Assembly tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Legal Aid and Advice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " of the measure what lies behind the Lord Chancellor's concerns. Indeed, it was reflected in the little list—or the long list—that the Minister trotted out during his rather brief justification of the measure. I think that the House, albeit a House in the early part of the afternoon, deserved a little more lengthy justification for the abolition of a body that has provided good service since 1949.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.882.5", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Legal Aid and Advice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": " should like the House to imagine for a moment that instead of coming here to dissolve the committee, I have come to create a new advisory committee. My hon. Friends may deny it, but they would be looking sullen. They would not be happy and they would probably go to the Tea Room instead of sitting here. The Opposition would be shrieking and accusing me of stacking the committee with Tory placemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "h sides of the House for their praise and support for what the scheme has achieved. Expenditure of some £150 million on encouraging 11,500 farmers to improve their waste disposal practices is a significant achievement. With respect to the hon. Members for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) and for Pembroke (Mr. Ainger), in their graphic description of the rising tide, as they put it, of farm waste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-19", "file": "debates1995-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "739449249cc2dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.899.5", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Hear me out. We are committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-19a.899.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady gives the game away if she really suggests that it is Labour party policy to re-impose some form of rent control in the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.13.6", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Overall?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I am not often driven to say, \"What a load of rubbish!\"; I shall riot be tempted to do so on this occasion. The hon. Gentleman, however, is not comparing like with like. We compare very favourably with investment in Japan. The hon. Gentleman talked about the science budget \"wilting away\". The science budget is at a record level in this financial year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.13.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " less than 70 per cent. of net income. That was never intended or expected from the simulations carried out before the agency began its operations. I thought that it would be much better to place that hard and fast cap on maintenance assessments so that when stories abound that people are being left with only a tiny fraction of their income, people will know that those stories simply are not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "d or expected from the simulations carried out before the agency began its operations. I thought that it would be much better to place that hard and fast cap on maintenance assessments so that when stories abound that people are being left with only a tiny fraction of their income, people will know that those stories simply are not true— [Interruption.] They will not be true when we have this cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for agreeing to take a twin-track approach, to regulate as swiftly as possible where possible and to legislate where necessary. I thank my hon. Friend the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Ms Gordon", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Gordon", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Madam Speaker. Finally, parents with care will get help only if they go to work, possibly in low-paid jobs, and if they can find work. What about parents with care who rightly want to stay at home with their children? Do not they perform a service to the state, and should not they have a disregard that would help their children? One further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.29.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that there will be a great deal of dismay and anger at his statement that none of the changes announced today will apply to those whose settlements have already been concluded with the CSA, or at least not until two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that there will be a great deal of dismay and anger at his statement that none of the changes announced today will apply to those whose settlements have already been concluded with the CSA, or at least not until two years— [Interruption.] That is what it says in the White Paper, as hon. Members will see if they care to read it. Is the Secretary of State aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "On the question of duty levels and the ability to prevent smuggling, the Danish example gives us a good idea of how duties need to be balanced to secure income for the Treasury and to ensure that there is no loss through smuggling. The point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Meale", "preceding_text": "ty differential, which the Government have done nothing to remedy it. That represents 3.5 per cent. of all United Kingdom beer sales and 15 per cent. of all UK take-home sales. It also amounts to the same as the sales from every single pub in Kent, the west midlands and west Yorkshire, and the output of 18 regional brewers. Many hon. Members have been on official day trips by bus to the continent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have announced their opposition to the measures before the House. At other times, the Labour party certainly has supported higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco on health grounds. That is an interesting reversal of a long-standing policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.98.5", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "bons—the Chancellor has imposed an extra tax of £51 a year on a typical car owner. This is the latest rise and it means that the duty on a litre of leaded petrol has gone up by 9.8p in the three Budgets since March 1993. The increases, which represent the Tories' one-club response to the Rio environmental targets to which they signed up, are a further blow to the many people living in rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.98.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "at Labour Front-Bench Members have in their sights punitive levels of taxation on tobacco. They have always wanted higher taxation than the Government have ever proposed, including the measures in the current Budget; 10p and 6p is not as much as Labour would like to see and the industry is aware of that. The 600 people in my constituency who work for Gallaher Tobacco in Northolt are aware of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " to France and Germany. It is not that people are smoking less, it is that they are smoking differently. Our people are losing their jobs and Labour Members think that that is clever. They should think again. My constituents and others who work in the industry are good, honest and honourable people. They are not pleased—I am not pleased—with the double whammy that they have received in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "ncidence on UK cigarettes is more than 76 per cent. of the retail price. Large savings can be made by shoppers travelling to low-tax European Union countries and stocking up on duty-paid tobacco goods, particularly cigarettes and HRT. Opportunities for bargains have attracted shoppers for the savings and bootleggers for the profits. The latest official estimates of revenue loss from tobacco goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-23", "file": "debates1995-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "8858c6fcbcb9363c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "excise policy, the significant growth in HRT cross-border trading will trigger similar activity for cigarettes, with associated serious social consequences from criminal activity. Tobacco revenue accounts for 12 per cent. of all Government taxes on consumer goods. Any reduction in that revenue would have serious implications for the Treasury, which is already facing losses on cross-border trading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-23a.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "I too have received many representations. Some of the letters that I have come from schools in Wolverhampton and they tell me of the impending crisis for their schools, and for schools throughout the country, unless the Secretary of State wins her battle with the Treasury to increase resources to schools during the next 12 months. In the midlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.127.6", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Tell that to the public schools and those who buy private education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.127.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.129.4", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend compare the position of schools in Bradford with that of those in Lancashire? Is he aware that Lancashire county council receives a substantial increase in funding, but, far from handing that over, it has threatened a cut of between 6 and 8 per cent.? Not only that, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sleaze.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had listened to my first answer, he would have known the answer about the golden share. What the hon. Gentleman illustrates, yet again, is that, whenever they can, the Opposition wish decisions to be taken by Labour Members of Parliament. They are in no sense interested in the private sector. They are not interested in putting decisions out to the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sleaze.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " answer about the golden share. What the hon. Gentleman illustrates, yet again, is that, whenever they can, the Opposition wish decisions to be taken by Labour Members of Parliament. They are in no sense interested in the private sector. They are not interested in putting decisions out to the private sector. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sleaze.\"] Whatever they may say, they want centralisation and nothing but.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.141.4", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "From time to time, many of us complain about this building—that we do not have sufficient accommodation or that it is not as modern as we would like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that there does need to be a figure, whether it is 20, 80 or eight? There is no point in forcing companies to introduce facilities for the disabled if, in doing so, they are driven out of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Hannam", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Hannam", "preceding_text": "That matter was fully considered last year. It was a matter of getting the right figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "about the disabled, demonstrating to them that disability does not disqualify a person from leading a perfectly normal life. That sort of education goes well beyond legislation. It extends to attitudes at work, in schools and in public offices. Some time ago I was delighted to visit a project under way at St. Arthur's school in Wincanton in my constituency. The project is known as the Monday club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "that it is indeed a landmark Bill. I would have preferred the Bill to be retitled Opportunities for the Disabled Bill, rather than what I would call the politically correct Disability Discrimination Bill. The civil rights lobby fails to recognise that positive discrimination—however well-meaning—is wrong. People want to be employed because of their ability, rather than because of their disability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am choosing my words carefully—for my researcher's sake and not for mine. For fear of the media, the lobbying company told my researcher that he could not keep his House of Commons pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am choosing my words carefully—for my researcher's sake and not for mine. For fear of the media, the lobbying company told my researcher that he could not keep his House of Commons pass. [Interruption.] As a consequence, he is now unable to use the parking facilities for the disabled here. When I met him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The researcher works for the lobbying company, but in his spare time he also works for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Civil Rights Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "It is indeed a case for this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "ntal choice for parents whose children have disabilities. Some promises were made—restated wishes from the Education Act 1993—but that is beside the point. Two out of every three primary schools and more than half the secondary schools in England and Wales have no suitably adapted lavatories. Moreover, I cannot be the only hon. Member with primary schools that still have outside toilets— or can I?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "With respect, the hon. Gentleman did not listen to what I said. I said that there is much in the reasoned amendment that either is inaccurate or refers to measures that have been addressed. When I spoke about measures that have been addressed, I meant the unlawful discrimination in the sale and letting of premises, which was discussed by my hon. Friend in his opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "preceding_text": "nt (Compensation for Redundancy) Regulations 1994 (S.I., 1994, No. 3025), dated 28th November 1994, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5th December, be annulled. I am delighted to have this opportunity to move the motion on the Order Paper standing in the name of myself and my hon. Friends. It is not often that the Liberal Democrats have an opportunity to initiate a debate in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-24", "file": "debates1995-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "fbe85b1bd884701a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Thomason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Thomason", "preceding_text": "an argument in favour of increasing expenditure and improving conditions of employment by mounting one settlement upon another. We know that is the very reason why inflation has gone out of control in the past. One cannot take the civil service settlement and seek to improve on it, because in turn somebody will come along with an attempt to improve it further, which leads inevitably to escalation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-24a.244.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-25", "file": "debates1995-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "f24ae888946223ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I must disagree with my hon. Friend. When one examines the growth of the fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-25", "file": "debates1995-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "f24ae888946223ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Legal Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ricious and unfair to individuals. That is why the Lord Chancellor's attempts to reform the system have been widely welcomed. Nothing has received a greater welcome than the consultative document \"Legal Aid for the Apparently Wealthy\". I referred earlier to the case of Mr. Roger Levitt, who enjoys a life style that was the envy of many people. He has a home in St. John's Wood. He quaffs champagne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-25", "file": "debates1995-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "f24ae888946223ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ar and leased it to someone who operated it as a holiday business for the remainder of the year, that person would probably end up in the High Court to determine whether or not he or she qualified for VCT tax benefits. We should think about those things while the proposed legislation is before the Committee so as to avoid the complexity and the never-ending growth in the volume of tax legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-25", "file": "debates1995-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "f24ae888946223ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "e time as the national downturn. Circumstances can change. I do not wish to disparage the idea that people can invest in property, or to suggest that property is not a legitimate business. However, simply investing in the capital appreciation of bricks and mortar does not fundamentally add to the national wealth. I repeat my earlier analysis that that is part of the problem of the British culture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-25a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "e of misleading the House. He said: The House was thus misled by the allegation made by the right hon. Member for Bristol, West\".—[ Official Report, 19 January 1995; Vol. 252, c. 865.]— that is me. The hon. Gentleman said that I misled the House by accusing the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), a former Minister, of voting to restart live animal exports, which had been stopped in 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "l, West\".—[ Official Report, 19 January 1995; Vol. 252, c. 865.]— that is me. The hon. Gentleman said that I misled the House by accusing the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), a former Minister, of voting to restart live animal exports, which had been stopped in 1973. [Interruption.] That is what he said—read Hansard. Three things are wrong with that. First, the hon. Gentleman did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Knox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Knox", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that farmers in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.468.8", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\") Conservative Members may agree with that, but precious few people in the country do. [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "What does it tell us about the Prime Minister's Government when his Secretary of State for Social Security says that Ministers should be paid more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.468.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nterest relief at source—one of the Labour party's own policy groups threatened to abolish the allowance entirely The right hon. Gentleman clearly belongs to that species of politician which believes that the facts are for bending whenever convenient. With regard to mortgages, the right hon. Gentleman should be aware that the drop in mortgages from their peak, as a result of our economic policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "In so far as it is now over six months since The Sunday Times exposed the illegal activities of the so-called noble Lord Archer, Conservative peer—insider-dealing activities in Anglia shares—and in so far as it is quite clear that it is utterly impossible successfully to prosecute what we all know to be criminal activity, is there now going to be a review of the law in this area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " impossible successfully to prosecute what we all know to be criminal activity, is there now going to be a review of the law in this area? [Interruption.] Madam Speaker: Order. I ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the last part of his question. He must not use that language and thus associate this House and all of us with what he has just said. I must ask him to withdraw it or rephrase it, please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has associated all of us in this House. I heard it very clearly myself. I ask the hon. Gentleman to rephrase. I heard the words very clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.9", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend prepared to widen the remit of the Nolan committee to examine sleaze in the media? Does he not find it unacceptable that three television executives, Mr. Greg Dyke, Mr. Barry Cox and Mr. Melvyn Bragg, should pretend to be objective in setting the agenda while they bankrolled the leadership campaign for the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair)? As First Lord of the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.471.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your guidance, Madam Speaker, but there may be a distinction between what I am asserting and what the gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": ". They, I am told, will be all right. The Association of British Insurers says to me that we do not need to worry; most of them will not qualify for a mortgage, so they will not need mortgage interest support. Even those who have mortgages and whose marriages break up will get the support that they require from their former partners—ha, ha—or from the work of the Child Support Agency, we are told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Ms Liz Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Liz Lynne", "preceding_text": "e owners, they will find that there is no low-cost rented accommodation available for them. All of that will contribute to the lack of the feel-good factor about which the Government seem to be so worried. If the Government are thinking about reforms, they should introduce real reforms and put people with mortgages on the same basis as tenants. They should introduce a benefit for mortgage holders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Ms Liz Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Liz Lynne", "preceding_text": "them. All of that will contribute to the lack of the feel-good factor about which the Government seem to be so worried. If the Government are thinking about reforms, they should introduce real reforms and put people with mortgages on the same basis as tenants. They should introduce a benefit for mortgage holders— [Interruption.] I accept that it would have to be paid with the phasing out of MIRAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "arly owner-occupiers and those in the rented sector. In fact, there is a certain balance. We give home owners generous support—some billions of pounds—through MIRAS, and it is entirely logical that those who benefit in one respect should accept a little more responsibility in another. Secondly, what has been lacking in the debate is an appreciation of how the insurance and lending markets operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.524.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " at higher rates than the standard rate will be adversely affected. New borrowers after October will have no entitlement at all for the first nine months. We have not yet heard whether that restriction will apply to new borrowers who subsequently reach retirement age. Perhaps the Secretary of State would like to tell us whether future pensioners will be subject to that restriction. We do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "According to the Secretary of State I am scaremongering by quoting the words of the House-Builders Federation. That is an indication of how extraordinarily badly informed the Secretary of State is about the market. The story in today's Daily Star about his reluctance to meet representatives of the House-Builders Federation is perhaps another indication of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's intention to stimulate the market. It is perfectly possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Mortgage Interest Relief", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "centive to improve the terms of those policies. The fact remains that the self-employed and, indeed, contract workers, can take out policies for all sorts of contingencies. The hon. Member for Greenwich said that one cannot insure against divorce, and no one should be able to do so. A prudent couple will take out insurance to deal with contingencies, including the consequences of such a situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.531.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Rural England", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "nglish Member, has been able to raise his particular concerns about Scotland and Wales. Perhaps—under the proposals from the Opposition—that might not be the case in future, and that is an important point. My hon. Friend will know that forestry throughout the UK is led by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, and that adds more fuel to the point that I just made. Where were we?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Rural England", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " hills, to see the problems of tourism and to visit a small cider maker and taste her wares, which I publicly endorse whenever I get the opportunity. I saw how much can be achieved in such a small operation. I went to the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King) to see a small cheese maker; I went away with some excellent Somerset cheese of a prize-winning variety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Rural England", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "to all, wherever they lived and whatever their circumstances. In many rural areas, people do not have easy access to health services: mobility is of key importance to them. Mobile services can help to improve access to services in such areas: they could include mobile clinics equipped to provide primary care—immunisation clinics, child health clinics and family planning services in local premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-26", "file": "debates1995-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a1037a4c92a5722d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Rural England", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "new knight of the shires—will be astonished to learn that, during the same period, there was a 70 per cent. increase in recorded crime in Staffordshire. In Sussex the figure was 59 per cent., in Lancashire it was 43 per cent., in Hertfordshire it was 33 per cent., in Leicestershire it was 96 per cent., in Dorset it was 35 per cent., in Hampshire it was 48 per cent., in Norfolk it was 55 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-26a.553.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.682.8", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor would not intervene in a judicial capacity—he would not act in an appellate function. I know that the hon. Gentleman has great knowledge of that subject because, some time ago, he introduced a private Member's Bill that dealt with it. I do not know whether we should consider obliging the press to cover each side equally, as they do in general elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.682.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman said about not making this into a partisan issue—although he will understand that, just occasionally, the temptation is large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "by the fact that, in addition to schedule 4, the Government have tabled complex amendments in acknowledgement of their errors. They have tabled them in an attempt to ameliorate the worst excesses of their original proposals, but they have failed in that attempt. I want first to consider the categories of vehicles that are now to have vehicle excise duty applied to them. Those vehicles are chiefly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ray. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray. Michie", "preceding_text": "cted Heavy Goods Vehicle tax class which are operating primarily within a region in which there has been previous exemption from plating and testing shall be £150 per year.'. This amendment was tabled because I want the Government to think again about the enormous burden that they are about to impose on small businesses and contractors operating on islands off the west and north coasts of Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": " the concessionary rates for road tax on certain islands, and that would mean that island-based operators would be faced with the sums about which I have already spoken. I am sure that the Minister can understand and imagine the shock and dismay. The Minister responsible, at the time, however, the hon. Member for Salisbury (Mr. Key), responded in a worthwhile manner. He ended his letter by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "id that inevitably there would be winners and losers; I thought from the tone of last year's ministerial letters that the islanders would be winners, but if these measures are passed, their impact will be severe and out of all proportion to the return to the Treasury. I feel badly let down, and my constituents will feel even more so. They believed what I told them, because I believed the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "I do not want to detain the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.799.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.809.7", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for the Chair. Mr. Brian Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.809.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "In reaching her decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.811.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Dead?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I accept the fine distinction, Mr. Morris, but if there are no people on the islands, there is very little heritage. Dead communities are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.818.13", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that a number of exemptions apply even to vehicle taxation. For example, police vehicles are exempt from vehicle taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.818.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-30", "file": "debates1995-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "2166a8b4bc3b0245", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "dful confession from the Minister that he has no idea which vehicles commute between islands and mainland and which are fraudulently based on the mainland. It would not be difficult to check the returns of the ferry operators to find the activity pattern of each of those vehicles. The Minister has consistently failed to say why he refuses to distinguish between fraudulent and legitimate operators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-30a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Given that the Prime Minister has already said, quite rightly, that education is the key to the country's success, how does he justify cutting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "r not the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), Labour's Front-Bench spokesman on agriculture, voted for the export of live animals in 1975. Hansard shows that, after the debate on 17 January 1975 following the O'Brien report, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East, on a free vote, voted for the restoration of the export of live animals. Furthermore, on 17 April 1975 in an Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.853.5", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. This is an abuse of the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.853.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.859.7", "colnum": "859", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am familiar with some of the claims that are made for the advantages of fundholding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.859.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.860.5", "colnum": "860", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not give way. I am sure that he will have an opportunity later. I know that he is one of the Government's avant-garde when it comes to interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.860.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "the problems caused by people having to wait for treatment in accident and emergency departments. We discovered that, although that report was published this January, it was sent to the Secretary of State last January. The Secretary of State has been sitting on it for a year, until—presumably—she could come up with some proposal for a trolley standard for her new patients charter. The report says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "8 months I have seen the hospital spiral into crisis. That person talks about patients waiting in casualty for up to 10 hours before being transferred to an outlying ward, and calls the patients charter a sick joke. He or she finishes by saying: Patients are already suffering unnecessarily, and some have died…The situation continues to deteriorate and soon the NHS will have sunk altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I will give way shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is Labour's policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "to which the Government are seeking to drive the British public— The latter method, which is the basis of the US system, inevitably results in a massive further escalation in the cost of health care\". It is not a question of value for money; it is dogma-driven policy, which was identified by Dr. Lee Potter and which has so disillusioned people like him. Speaking earlier this year, Dr. Macara said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "uestion of value for money; it is dogma-driven policy, which was identified by Dr. Lee Potter and which has so disillusioned people like him. Speaking earlier this year, Dr. Macara said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is Labour's policy?\"] I will tell Government Members what the Labour party's policy is. Our policy is to recreate a public health service which is national in its scope and equal in its access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It is disgraceful to suggest that those tragic episodes had anything to do with these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " has not been of the standard that we would wish. Today, the holder of my office can speak with confidence about the NHS, because the financial control is better than ever it was. When the Labour party was in power, this was the time of year of sudden closures, of running out of money, and of shambles in the health service as people were unable to meet their financial commitments through the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It is my intention now to make headway with my speech. I do not intend to give way further, having given way an excessive amount. If I do, I shall be rebuked by my hon. Friends, who feel very strongly about the changes in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "lf weeks ago, shows that not only have we got rid of the two-year waiters, and not only are 18-month guarantees being successfully delivered for hips, knees and cataract operations, but we can now deliver an 18-month guarantee for all care. More than that, we can move into the important area of out-patients. Nine out of 10 are being seen within three months. Nobody is waiting more than six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is completely wrong. That system works only if the patient has a trust relationship with his or her doctor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "atients obtain treatment this financial year. What clearer evidence could there be of a two-tier system than that? The growing number of consultants who, out of utter frustration, are taking early retirement shows the extent of discontent in the service. Dr. Lee-Potter is not the only example by any means. Dr. Sandy Macara, chairman of the council of the British Medical Association, was mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "t was a litany of newspaper cuttings, and I was at pains to discern much of Labour's policy. The right hon. Lady mentioned waiting lists, and I declare an interest. I and my family are national health service patients and always have been. We do not pay private health insurance. The only treatment for which we pay is dentistry, because NHS dentists are difficult to come by in my part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.921.4", "colnum": "921", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) was turning—or trying to turn—the Labour party into the acceptable face of Channel 4. He is clearly failing, because, to judge from the motion, this is the same old Labour party. The motion could have been drafted by Dave and Deirdre Spart; it is full of spite and envy and, of course, full of jobs for the boys. The Labour party has drifted to the left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.923.7", "colnum": "923", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Harlow holds its breath. Last night, we had a little time to spare because of the Liberal Democrats, as often happens, so I went into the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.923.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "erations of a local character, particularly the incidence of local taxation.\"— [Official Report, 30 April 1946; Vol. 422, c. 49.] That was Nye Bevan, the founder of the health service, an icon to the Labour party. Even he said, in those pioneering days, that it could not possibly work, so why do Opposition Members put forward policies that they know cannot possibly work? I now refer to efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " the establishment of a panel, including those working professionally in the field and representatives of patients, in order to develop national guidelines for the allocation of scarce resources. Advice might also be offered where difficult or ethical judgments have to be made. Surely the history of government is that Departments cannot run anything from the centre. Centralisation and bureaucracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "preceding_text": "or to the street where I lived. Almost every house contained three or four families, which was why ill-health prevailed. Tory Governments did nothing to remedy the problems. Mothers lost children—sometimes three or four out of a family. My own mother lost a baby because we lived in poor conditions, along with the other people who lived in the slums of Liverpool. The slums were the cause of that. .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "at party. There are two visions. Ours is of a national public service and the Conservative vision is of a fragmented private health care market. In urging my hon. Friends to vote for the motion standing in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), I should like to give the last word to Dr. Lee-Potter, an inspiration for the debate, and a man who is frequently chaired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "red from the Conservative Benches. He says: I am sorry to say it but I have given up on this Government.Surely they cannot believe what they are doing is good. If they believe it, then that is another reason not to talk to them …if the election were tomorrow I would not like the Conservatives to win. I agree with him on that. I think that he was speaking for doctors everywhere when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Will the formula be such as to allow Derbyshire to regain its certificate of efficiency? Will the Government's policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-01-31", "file": "debates1995-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "786135863910e060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "y. According to ACPO figures, of the 41 forces in the country, four have said that they will be able to improve their services, 17 will be in a standstill position, and 22 will have to make economies. I gather that, in an intervention, the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) talked about the Minister putting money in the way of Tory areas. It is rare for me to have to correct him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-01-31a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Care in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "ront-line social work before I came to this place. I know that what the hon. Gentleman has just said is nonsense. He does not deserve an intelligent response to some of the points that he has raised. Frankly, he is speaking through ignorance and I suspect that some of his briefing material is based on The Daily Telegraph rather than on any reasoned analysis of what is happening in social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Care in the Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "y form of phasing, has completely undermined the planning and assumptions of local authorities that were better off under the original formula—mainly the county areas, many of which changed political control last year. That is the reason why one or two Tory Members, who would not normally be in the Chamber to discuss something as important as community care, are showing an interest in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Lockerbie", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "of this clothing shop in Malta, on whom the whole case rests, is an exceedingly unreliable witness. Since Scots Members of Parliament cannot get at the Lord Advocate, I do not know what more we can do. The fact remains that what the Foreign Secretary says are details brought up by Mr. Francovitch and others are absolutely crucial to any kind of respectable case, and respectable case there is none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1107.4", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Olner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1107.14", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I should like to make some progress and thereafter give way as much as I can. I am trying to make a fairly short speech to allow time for hon. Members to ask questions. I know that that is unusual for me, but I shall try to answer as many points as I can. I have said that the settlement will allow most authorities to increase their spending year on year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1107.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The standard spending assessments are worked out as clearly as possible according to criteria that we have discussed long and loud with local authorities. If St. Helens spent as far below its SSA as Westminster, it would have an even lower council tax. It has a high council tax because it is a high spender. St. Helens should learn from Westminster's efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1111.6", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ust dealing with inner London. It is a pretty big list and its tone sums up what we need to look at carefully. For example, on the page that says, \"Chief Executives Office\" it lists numbers for the chief executive, assistant chief executive, assistant chief executive and a third assistant chief executive. I then see two secretarial staff, five support staff, three press and public relations staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1111.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1117.4", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) accepts that. Next year, local authorities will have £1.8 billion in recognition of their new responsibilities. That is an increase of 44 per cent. over the figure for the current year. As I have said, in 1995–96 there will be a ring-fenced grant totalling £648 million for authorities to spend on community care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1117.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "council tax is a decision for each authority and it will depend on the level of service that councils choose to provide, the improvements that they can make to efficiency and effectiveness and how well they can collect what they are owed. I am therefore not about to start predicting council tax levels. I will not make such predictions because I have tried to learn from the Labour party. Last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "and how well they can collect what they are owed. I am therefore not about to start predicting council tax levels. I will not make such predictions because I have tried to learn from the Labour party. Last year— [Interruption.] The Opposition Front Bench spokesman should not make comments from a sedentary position because I am going to tell him what I have learnt. Last year, Labour predicted that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ecognised as an expert on local government finance, put forward the view that the SSA system benefits Conservative-controlled councils rather than Labour-controlled councils. Before the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras rises, I want to give the House the opportunity to take the following fact on board. Of the 50 councils with the highest SSA per head, only three are Conservative controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "of the move to the new police funding formula. Perhaps the hon. Member for Greenwich would say that that universally asked-for change is a backhander. Special grant report No. 12 will establish those grants for 1995–96. Some £261 million of special grant will be distributed to local authorities in that way. The capping of local authority budgets—I come to the last point that I want to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I would rather get on, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I would rather get on, if I may. [Interruption.] Legions of hon. Members want to speak on behalf of their communities. We had a speech of 70 minutes from the Secretary of State, and I shall give way to a limited number of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1129.4", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No. Apparently, some Tories claim that the size of school classes does not matter—which is strange as nearly all of them send their children out of the regular school system to be educated. They send their children to the fee-paying schools which have smaller class sizes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "them as anecdotes. These days, the definition of an anecdote is a reality that gives the lie to Government statistics. The Government claim that the threats to services are exaggerated by councils. There may be some truth in that; there may be exaggeration by teachers and by pensioner groups. For every spoonful of hyperbole on the part of local people, we get a bucketful of litotes from Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1131.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-01", "file": "debates1995-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ba0d1fb830c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ot yet come up with a better idea. If they do, it will be examined rigorously and honestly. This year, we shall continue work on the police SSA because we must move to a system that fully reflects the characteristics of each area rather than establishment numbers. We have additional work to do on fire SSAs, as I have always made clear. We have introduced a factor for the problems of coastal areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-01a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Robinson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend probably knows that I have not been the greatest fan of Treasury forecasting, but will he comment on the forecasts of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), who said in the debate on the autumn statement in 1992 that the balance of payments would worsen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1207.6", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sometimes accused of having cosy tête-a-têtes with the Governor of the Bank of England and, at other times, unavailing struggles against him in our titanic clashes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1207.6", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " simply not ready for open government. The minutes of the meetings that we publish show that we are both firmly agreed on delivering sustained growth with low inflation. As a leader in The Times recently acknowledged, by doing that last year we succeeded in producing the strongest economy in Europe and arguably the healthiest economy in the developed world. Mortgage costs are now far higher—lower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1212.8", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman that he has a cheek to deny history in the way in which he just did. The level of interest rates that we have reached today is the level that was the lowest achieved at any stage under the previous Labour Government in five years of Government. The average was far higher. They also had negative interest rates and were robbing savers of their savings by devaluing the currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1212.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. It depends on two points: both our membership of the European Union and the conditions of our membership of the European Union. Certainly, the fact that we are members has helped attract a great deal of investment into this country, but it would be lost if the conditions of our membership were to include the social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1222.7", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Llin Golding", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Llin Golding", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange a debate on children's rights in Britain? He must be concerned, as we all are, by last week's report of the United Nations committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-02", "file": "debates1995-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b0a266d14194c785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Science Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "or business and local people. We are putting additional money into the work of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council on producing industrial materials from plants. That will meet with approval from my hon. Friends. I have, of course, been necessarily selective. Indeed, there was much more that I wanted to say, but I wanted to follow the practice of giving way to interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-02a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-03", "file": "debates1995-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5447a0af7f862a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ived of the benefits of the revenue which this commercial exploitation can produce. It is interesting that Mr. Stewart sends out with his letter a list. It was written on behalf of the governing bodies of Olympic sports, all of which are listed and all of which support the Bill. I am almost tempted to read out all of them, because it is so comprehensive, and it shows the wide support for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-03", "file": "debates1995-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5447a0af7f862a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I strongly support the measure but may I ask my hon. Friend about clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-03", "file": "debates1995-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5447a0af7f862a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "significant were the games held at Olympia. The others were the Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian games held at Delphi, Nemea and Corinth respectively. Similar festivals developed to the point where the Olympic games in particular became famous throughout the Greek world. There are records of champions at Olympia going back as far as 726 BC, when it was recorded that there was just one event—the stade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-03", "file": "debates1995-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5447a0af7f862a67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Olympic Symbol etc. (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ar festivals developed to the point where the Olympic games in particular became famous throughout the Greek world. There are records of champions at Olympia going back as far as 726 BC, when it was recorded that there was just one event—the stade. [Interruption.] I am informed by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Fabricant) of a different pronunciation from an older generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-03a.1362.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-06", "file": "debates1995-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8da06be758515a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "Stripping some of the Marxist rhetoric from the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-06", "file": "debates1995-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8da06be758515a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "causes have been well recognised throughout the world? If the Minister and the Government endorse and welcome the report, and if we are to stay on target in the areas that the report highlights, how can the Minister allow the aid budget to deteriorate, as it has done, and stabilise at its current level of just 0.31 per cent., making us 14th out of the 21 development assistance committee countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-06", "file": "debates1995-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8da06be758515a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "and the Government endorse and welcome the report, and if we are to stay on target in the areas that the report highlights, how can the Minister allow the aid budget to deteriorate, as it has done, and stabilise at its current level of just 0.31 per cent., making us 14th out of the 21 development assistance committee countries— [Interruption.] I simply asked the Minister how he could justify that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-06", "file": "debates1995-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8da06be758515a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "it. For example, we provide assistance for street children in Brazil, Peru and eastern Europe, for slum improvement projects in India and for family and community health care in Ghana and Pakistan. Our emergency relief in countries such as Rwanda, Angola, Somalia and Sudan targets all people at risk, including mothers and children. We can be proud of that aid programme. On the aid programme level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-06a.18.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-07", "file": "debates1995-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a4dca96457b8af5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "One of the schemes that we have to help such people is the back-to-work bonus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.133.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-07", "file": "debates1995-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a4dca96457b8af5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.138.7", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " It would be more interesting if he ever provided any answers. I have set out for the right hon. Gentleman the conditions in which it would be right for us to consider the interests of the United Kingdom. I will not make a judgment that is crucial to the constitutional and economic future of this country until I see the economic circumstances of the day—and, frankly, only a dimwit would ask me to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.138.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-07", "file": "debates1995-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a4dca96457b8af5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.150.7", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Workplace Injury Victims", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Mr. Dobson) has just cryptically said to me that the hon. Member for West Derbyshire does not look short of a meal or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.150.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-02-07", "file": "debates1995-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a4dca96457b8af5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.184.6", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Workplace Injury Victims", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "They could also utilise the underspent part of the education standard spending assessment which is the equivalent of £14.2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.184.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-07", "file": "debates1995-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a4dca96457b8af5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Workplace Injury Victims", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "preceding_text": " too long. They deserve better. For that reason I shall support the Government's amendment. My one remaining qualm has to do with timing. The trouble with the plans as presented is that they will take a little time to execute. The trouble with that is that people who will benefit from improved services will not necessarily do so quickly enough to appreciate that the Government's plans are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-07a.233.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-08", "file": "debates1995-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "240f6e472ef85337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-08a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not in this settlement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not confuse the issue. I have already made it clear that, unlike Labour Members, I believe in the maximum of delegated power. We have backed that view with our actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-08a.355.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-08", "file": "debates1995-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "240f6e472ef85337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-08a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "My colleagues in the Department probably heard that as well as I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-08a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-09", "file": "debates1995-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "51e903072b648546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.445.4", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ublic will find almost impossible to understand. It is entirely right that those who profit from drugs should be hit in their pockets. Does the Minister also accept the view of the hon. and learned Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence), the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, that the problem might have been avoided had the European convention been incorporated into English and Scots law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.445.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-09", "file": "debates1995-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "51e903072b648546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend read the all-party Eurim group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-09", "file": "debates1995-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "51e903072b648546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend read the all-party Eurim group— [Interruption.] —of which many hon. Members are members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-09", "file": "debates1995-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "51e903072b648546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "p up with reading the voluminous amounts of evidence that others have given, I have found that it appears to have been generous in taking evidence from anyone who wishes to give it. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman wishes to do so. I heard on some grapevine or other that the Liberal party was finding it difficult to decide what evidence it should give. Perhaps that difficulty has informed these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-09a.459.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-10", "file": "debates1995-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "0d237e8221f2bd19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-10a.581.10", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am particularly concerned about clause 36, which involves the money resolution. I wish to make it absolutely clear to the general public who will be following the debate why, in effect, it is the crucial clause in terms of whether the Bill makes progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-10a.581.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-10", "file": "debates1995-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "0d237e8221f2bd19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-10a.584.7", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Clearly, I will have to accept your ruling in that matter, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I will, of course, but perhaps, on a further point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-10a.584.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I'll tell him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "It was a free vote at that stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.676.7", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "If all hon. Members will wait, I shall come to that issue. We want a Europe that is outward-looking. Enlargement to the east will underpin stability, prosperity and democracy in central Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.676.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "It is a pretty easy question when a Minister of State is asked whether he agrees with the Prime Minister. I think that that is the case still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ot believe that it will always remain … throughout this decade and the next century the importance of notion of the nation state will decline, …At the same time, advanced democracies will witness the rise in the importance of community and regional identity and supranational institutions.\"—[ Official Report , 20 May 1992; Vol.208, c. 292.] There we have the view of the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.682.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "26;At the same time, advanced democracies will witness the rise in the importance of community and regional identity and supranational institutions.\"—[ Official Report , 20 May 1992; Vol.208, c. 292.] There we have the view of the Liberal party. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]. Liberal Democrat Members obviously agree. On \"The Frost Programme\" in May 1994, the right hon. Gentleman was more succinct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.682.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "Three supposes in a row make a tall order. Obviously, we will look at the position when and if it arises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "We believe that the opt-out did not create any advantage for the Government; it made them seem semi-detached from Europe. No doubt exists in my mind that the nature of the economic opt-out negotiated by the Prime Minister was one of the reasons, if not the principal reason, why London was not successful in its attempt to attract the European Monetary Institute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "ward in relation to economic and monetary union. Obviously, we would have taken a different line from the Government. As we know, they talk a great deal about flexibility and other such concepts, but they have done little to tackle unemployment or to try to promote economic growth in Europe. We wanted those conditions to be attached to moves towards European monetary union. As we have the opt-out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.690.6", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "ith answers about the implications for Britain of a single currency. I know that the original wise men brought welcome gifts with them, but I am not sure that the outcome of the deliberations by the six wise men will be welcomed by the Chancellor. One thing is true: if it is welcome news for the Chancellor, it will not be welcome news for the shadow Chief Secretary—for the Chief Secretary, rather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "tion laws, and constitutional issues such as the treaty of Maastricht, the Single European Act 1986 and—before I came here—the treaty of Rome. I agree strongly with Burke, who when speaking to the electorate of Bristol said: Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment. And he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion\". That is not a popular view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of us are saying it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "gh Parliament, vote in Westminster on comparable matters affecting the English. The only logical answer—as is certainly realised among some Labour Members—is that comparable powers have to be devolved to English regional Assemblies comparable with those that are passed to an Edinburgh Parliament. However, the Labour party shrinks from saying that because it knows that it would be deeply unpopular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ister has repeatedly said, it would be foolish to take decisions about that until we have seen the shape of the decisions taken as the European Monetary Institute gets to work in the years and months ahead. One or two of the probable consequences of an inner core of European countries joining the single currency are that long-term interest rates for those who join will fall by at least 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "only a hypothesis—that inward investment would continue. As for the ordinary tourists, they at least would be aware that, when they went abroad on holiday, if they had ecus in their pockets they would not have to change their money into foreign currencies, and change it back again; they would avoid Thomas Cook or American Express's commission and the difference between the buying and selling rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "e worked its way painfully through consideration of the Maastricht Bill over 18 months, or over whatever time it took, but it seemed like 18 months. Thus, those in the Labour party who professed to be in favour of the Maastricht treaty voted against it and the standard anti-Europeans in the Labour party happily voted against it. The Liberal party, which is very pro-European, also voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "m deeply grateful. However, I followed the debate very closely from outside. The difference was that the Europe that the other 11, or the other 14, wanted was not that proposed by the Government. Of course, I was delighted that the two main Opposition parties, which, I think, were united on this issue, spoke for all of Europe while the Government spoke for a crazy, opted-out, marginalised version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.730.8", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Of course it is a loss of sovereignty, and we have already had an example of it in the House with the Merchant Shipping Act 1988, which is the first British Act of Parliament that was declared illegal because it contravened our treaty obligations under the treaties of Rome and Paris. However, it is a question of what one receives in return for that loss of sovereignty. It is not a matter of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.730.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "corrupting. It has been destructive of democracy, and destructive of commitment to the institutions of this country to misuse them in such a fashion. Membership has been defended and advocated on what amounts to a litany of lies, half-truths and distortions. The problem is that Euro-enthusiasm—commitment to Europe—is an elite preoccupation, an elite disease in this country. The elite middle class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.748.4", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has had his say, at considerable length. Perhaps he will allow me to make a three-minute speech. The European Community has achieved a great deal for this continent. It has helped to keep peace in Europe, and it has helped to create unparalleled prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "preceding_text": "in opt-outs at Maastricht and they preferred the thought of that to the thought of Maastricht with bells on, which we would undoubtedly have received if the Labour party had won that general election. In short, it is vital that we should recognise that a referendum may be appropriate, indeed necessary, under certain circumstances, but not under the circumstances envisaged by the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate in which no fewer than eight of my right hon. and hon. Friends have made informed, robust and principled speeches. Although the Liberal Democrats have seemingly paraded and dressed up their principles, it has not been a principled debate. It has been a tawdry and ham-fisted attempt to score short-term party-political advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I promise that I will talk about the referendum when the hon. Gentleman lets me make progress on this point. It is clear that a memo was sent by the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-13", "file": "debates1995-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "2b237499898ebdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Europe and a Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": " the opportunity should be taken for a number of brief reasons. First, the emphasis tonight has been placed on people. That is absolutely right because Parliament—all of us—refer to the people for power, and that power is a trust. Tonight, in Dresden, they are talking about what happened in Coventry. Many people, both inside and outside the House, look to the treaties that we have been discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-13a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have explained our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "iling that has been imposed by the Government. We have also made it clear that we do not think that it is right that, over a lengthy period, those on benefits should be excluded from rising national wealth. As a prudent Opposition, who make promises only when we know that we can deliver, we have made it absolutely clear that we will halt that decline and try to reverse it when circumstances allow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "understand that, in the new dawn, we shall not have our lives run for us by Fabian managerialists, or ruled by big corporate interests. Instead, under new Labour, the people will have choice and Labour will embrace markets. However, as the hon. Gentleman has, I think, been saying, markets do not necessarily induce fairness, so what principles will Labour apply to regulate and civilise the markets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I think that the merriment that greeted the hon. Gentleman's interjection—which was, as ever, well reasoned—tells its own tale. Of course, we have to inject fairness into the tax system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "s a narrow battle, but are Conservatives proud of the fact that, this afternoon, Sir Desmond Pitcher of North West Water is defending the share options and salary increases of the privatised utilities? Is that the symbol of Conservative Britain? As I understand it, share options in the pipeline at North West Water, which are worth very nearly £5 million, are to be shared among six board directors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.813.4", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am not rubbishing either. I do not dislike Mr. Hills; indeed, I invited him to the Nottingham seminar which was attended by the hon. Member for Garscadden. I am simply pointing out that Mr. Hills has his political agenda, to which he is perfectly entitled but which has misled the Labour party in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I was going to quote almost those very words when I encountered the distinct problem of the widening dispersion of earning power across the western world, which is a matter to which I tried to draw the House's attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "d and costly proposals made by his friends on the Commission on Social Justice and on the Rowntree inquiry, but he will not say whether he accepts or rejects those proposals. It is time for Labour to allow some light to escape from its own black hole. It is time for Labour to abandon the cynical politics of stooge and stealth, and recognise that our policies are those of compassion and commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hutton", "preceding_text": "hich is commonly shared among Conservative Members—perhaps not by all those present, but we have certainly heard it before—that the solution to unemployment is to get tough with the unemployed because they are to blame. The theory is that, if the Government prod unemployed people harder and harder, they will find jobs. The truth is that the jobs are not there. They do not exist in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "have allotments and to grow their own vegetables, if they are in poverty, that would help to relieve their situation. In my constituency, about one third of the allotments are out of use. No one wants to be bothered to grow his own vegetables. People sit in front of the television for hours on end, complaining about their poverty and not growing vegetables when they could do so easily and cheaply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "antial attempt to improve the lot of the poorest section of the population must now be at the expense of the average man and woman, since the very rich do not collectively earn enough to make much difference, and the average man does not nowadays want to punish those who earn little more than he, since he hopes ultimately to join them. That is the answer to the arguments of the redistributionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "n, but I was disappointed by his speech. He drew attention to many problems of which we are all aware, but he failed to make many proposals to tackle those problems. On the rare occasions when he was drawn into proposals on, for example, a minimum wage, he was unable to tell the House at what level it should be fixed and what effect it might have on the employment prospects of the very people who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Etherington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Etherington", "preceding_text": "mber of unemployed people, to be used as a threat to other people who were in low-paid employment and therefore would not be in a position to better their conditions. It is coincidental that New Zealand was quoted as having a record of disparity of distribution of wealth similar to that of this country. That does not surprise me, because I was talking recently to a chap whom I went to school with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I was expecting the Secretary of State to get up and ask that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "ernment are against a minimum wage, because they do not care about low pay, and they are crying crocodile tears when they say that they are worried about the effects of low pay. While we condemn the growing divide, the Tories excuse it. Sir Iain Valiance, the chairman of British Telecom, earns at least £180 a hour, following the privatisation of BT, while a security guard in Rotherham earns £1.80.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "ple at work, there is no evidence that the low pay they receive will improve as they get older. They are stuck in a low-skill, low-pay trap with no prospects. Professor Patrick Minford, spokesman for the Tory right, was on the radio again this morning. He was echoed by the hon. Member for Finchley (Mr. Booth), who spoke earlier in the debate. Professor Minford said that inequality does not matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "w pay and unemployment go hand in hand. In the poorer areas of this country, we see low pay and unemployment—the twin symptoms of Tory economic failure. Every month, the Tories greet the headline claimant count unemployment figures with a blanket of complacency, They say that things are looking up, and that unemployment is no longer a problem. They accuse Labour of simply talking the country down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-14", "file": "debates1995-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "30b3a154e8b2346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister, to whom I gave way twice for very lengthy interventions. The pontificator maximus has arrived—wonderful, here he is. No Opposition Member mentioned the European decency level. We are Europeans and he is not very decent. but I suggest that he make his speech in Rotherham, and that he tell the people there that no poverty exists and that unemployment is not a problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-14a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1008.5", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Regional Electricity Companies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can assist the hon. Gentleman. I presume that he heard the beginning of my statement, so he will recall that I said that the Director General of Electricity Supply has the power to refer the matter in any event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1008.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Obviously, it would be wrong to seek to ask questions on a personal statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Sunday Hours) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "opposition to the Bill. Despite the fact that I shall support the Bill, I should record some of the reservations that people have about it—in addition to those already expressed by some of my hon. Friends. I agree, for instance, with my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Mr. Cunliffe). Even before the Bill goes into Committee, there is a case for further consultation with some of the organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "the savings. Let us start with the money that was wasted on Health Care International. If that is not enough to fund the increases that should be made available for services, let us take the £700 million that will be wasted on the unnecessary and unwanted reorganisation of local government. That is a start for the hon. Gentleman. I suggest that he writes it all down and puts it in his next speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " teacher motivation that is required to comply with their objectives, the Government cannot run away from their direct responsibility for financial settlement this year. The Government continually tell us that the councils are increasing their staff. We hear that refrain year on year, as though it was a great crime for councils to increase their staff at a time when 250,000 people are out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "esponsibility for financial settlement this year. The Government continually tell us that the councils are increasing their staff. We hear that refrain year on year, as though it was a great crime for councils to increase their staff at a time when 250,000 people are out of work. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) says, yes it is. No; he says that it is a crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "tructed each year. Housing philosophy has changed and no Conservative Member should apologise for that. In 1979, 63 per cent. of housing was publicly owned; today, the figure is just over 45 per cent. Scotland is moving into the modern world—a world which recognises that people like to own their own homes, invest in their property, improve their facilities and reap the rewards that flow from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman's local council can do it, so can every other council in Scotland and that proves my point. What my hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie) said in his vigorous and substantial speech tonight was extremely important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That allocation will enable the authorities to achieve their aim. Housing capital and resources for rural areas has again been increased, and those areas receive more per capita than the rest of the country. Substantial resources are being provided for the non-housing revenue account and, as for capital receipts, more than several billion pounds has been allocated to benefit public sector housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-15", "file": "debates1995-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "147515d9fcc4b488", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Many English Members of Parliament have suddenly appeared who were not present earlier. They are taking a sudden interest in the debate and appear to have come to vote, but they do not to want to listen to the Minister. Would it be possible to hear the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-15a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "On consultation, as the two Governments seek to use the document to offer a shared understanding of a possible outcome to the talks process, which would be consistent with the joint declaration, obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1125.7", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman would be wise not to misunderstand what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor is saying. If he is so concerned about matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1125.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1126.4", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really do not know what he will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1126.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Budgetising\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "n (Mandatory Awards) and the Education (Student Loans) regulations. THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY—Debate on the Army, on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. FRIDAY 24 FEBRuARY—Private Members' Bills. The House will also wish to know that European Standing Committee B will meet on Wednesday 22 February at 10.30 to consider EC document No. 7854/94 relating to budgetising the European Development Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1145.4", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "It is entirely clear that that is the policy of the hon. Gentleman and the Opposition Front Bench. I put it on record that 40 Opposition Members do not agree with that policy, and I must point out that the Labour party is entirely divided on this crucial aspect of defence policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1145.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "es' confidence and sense of purpose. The Ministry is about leadership and a sense of direction and, if those are lacking, morale can fall, if not collapse, in certain circumstances. The National Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee and my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) have all drawn attention to the important issue of waste and inefficiency in the Ministry of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "nt would keep an eye on the Merchant Navy. If he did that, he would see that it has declined both in size and in the contribution that it could make. The Minister who opened the debate today is more active, more of an interventionist. I look to him to make sure not just that he keeps an eye on the Merchant Navy but that he recognises the contribution that it has made, and could make in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-16", "file": "debates1995-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "4bd15f28cfb38dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I welcome his statement and I am sure that what happened will not be repeated. To be fair to him, most of the front-line study reports submitted to the Defence Select Committee were very full and had clearly been very well thought through. Naval stores were the exception not the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-16a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "al with that point in the centre of his speech. He cannot dictate to the rest of Europe, which imposes health warnings covering 4 to 6 per cent. of a packet. Under the hon. Gentleman's Bill, Britain would have warnings covering 25 per cent. That would wipe out the entire tobacco industry in Britain and cigarettes would be imported instead. How will that deal with the smoking habit in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ntleman has convinced himself. The latest voluntary agreement on poster advertising has accepted the need for larger warnings, and the need for white lettering on a black background or black lettering on a white background. That has been the case since 1 January. All I am saying—I think that I take the hon. Member for Harrogate (Mr. Banks) with me—is that the same conditions should apply to packs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1246.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1258.5", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that that is not true. For goodness sake—why should I repeat the darn things? If we look at the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1261.3", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "uted by the Tobacco Manufacturers Association to hon. Members a couple of weeks ago. Part of it reads: The requirements of the Bill would not have the consequence of reducing tobacco consumption in the United Kingdom. That statement is unequivocal. A copy of the briefing that was sent out by Conservative central office was handed to me this morning. It is from the Conservative research department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Worsley (Mr. Lewis) declared that he is a lifelong non-smoker. I am delighted to say that that is one attribute that I share with him. I have never smoked—a cigarette has never touched my lips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "preceding_text": "imported products, either the brand they were used to smoking or another one. Even given all my reservations about European legislation, I cannot see the point of our passing a Bill simply to provide manufacturers in other member states with a marketing advantage over our own industry. That would mean that the House was putting British jobs in jeopardy and transferring them to other member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why are they laughing\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Gardiner", "preceding_text": "s, either the brand they were used to smoking or another one. Even given all my reservations about European legislation, I cannot see the point of our passing a Bill simply to provide manufacturers in other member states with a marketing advantage over our own industry. That would mean that the House was putting British jobs in jeopardy and transferring them to other member states. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1277.4", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point made by the hon. Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley). Because of the devastating effect that the Bill could have on tobacco companies, they are willing to take the enormous risk and face the enormous cost of the social chapter by moving their manufacturing to other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "s since a cigarette passed my lips—I think that the last time was when I was at college; I did not care for smoking—but I occasionally take the odd small cigar. What I am fed up with—many Conservative Members are fed up with it, too—is the continuous exaggeration of the case against moderate smoking. All hon. Members have had a briefing from the very eminent Lord Harris of High Cross, who had the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-17", "file": "debates1995-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "cbf9c4deeeb8e435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "of the most successful girls' grammar schools in the country. It has become even more so since it became grant maintained. I explained to the headteacher that I felt that it was in the interests of her pupils and those who followed them that I should be present to support the Bill. I do not have any evidence that any pupil at the school would dream of going behind the bicycle shed for a quick one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-17a.1296.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Minister that, obviously, parents without care should pay for their children, but one of the problems that has arisen in the past year or so is that parents who remarry and have another family are penalised. The father is penalised in the sense that he has to pay for the children from his first family and his second family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.5.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ially when we recall the under-recording of London's population left as a legacy of the poll tax. That brings me to perhaps the most blatant example of the chaos over which the Secretary of State reigns, which directly results from the neglect, vandalism and incompetence of Ministers. When she launched the new patients charter, the Secretary of State was pleased to boast of a new trolley standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.38.7", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, but I look forward to reading the hon. Gentleman's speech in Hansard later. We are spending £3.2 million on the St. Thomas's accident and emergency department; £2 million for the Whittington; and nearly £2 million at the Royal London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.38.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t centres together in the way that I have already described is difficult, but it is a vital part of securing the long-term objective. The synergies which consolidation brings will help research thrive. Formal academic integration of pre-clinical medical education with the basic science faculties of the university of London will enhance the range of options for students, researchers and clinicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": " President of the Board of Trade reaches his judgment. What about all the other shareholders who did not turn up? What about the majority who may not have expressed an opinion? Supposing that they were against the view of the small minority who did turn up? Am I supposed to ignore them? Am I not supposed to listen to their views and to a range of other people's opinions on the matter? The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ised industry after industry after industry so that it can put trade unionists, civil servants and politicians in charge of the commanding heights of the British economy. This is the party that, for 15 years, has sat on the Opposition Benches. Labour Members have never run any serious industry in their lives, yet they now claim the right to run the whole of the British economy. I have never heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.88.6", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Now we have—I have not got the words down, but we will have them all in the morning, as they will be carefully recorded—an apparently hapless system that is so unsatisfactory. So I gather that the Labour party, if it ever had the chance, would want to change it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.88.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.88.6", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ut we will have them all in the morning, as they will be carefully recorded—an apparently hapless system that is so unsatisfactory. So I gather that the Labour party, if it ever had the chance, would want to change it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] That is very interesting. Would I be right in thinking that that would be the case not only for the electricity industry, but for a range of other industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.88.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, once that process is under way, I am in a quasi-judicial position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.93.5", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member for Copeland did not say that, I apologise straight away. I turn my attention to where the blame should lie, and that is with the Leader of the Opposition. Obviously, there is another split in the Labour party. The Leader of the Opposition says prices are going up, but the right hon. Member for Copeland does not believe they are. That is a welcome conversion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.93.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Clelland", "preceding_text": "possibly be allowed to collapse and threaten the continuity of supply. In such circumstances, however unlikely, even a Tory Government would be forced to step in. We must remember that a Tory Government nationalised Rolls-Royce to save it from extinction. The industry should never have been removed from the public sector. I for one certainly look forward to the day when it might be returned to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "The Labour party believes that the major utilities should be in public ownership or control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clelland", "preceding_text": "The Labour party believes that the major utilities should be in public ownership or control. [Interruption.] That is without question; there is no argument about that. In the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "s—Colonel Blimps and other people. It was a \"give us a job\" sort of thing. They ran a company but did not know what the hell they were doing half the time. That was the problem with nationalisation. There is nothing wrong with nationalisation if it done run properly. In the mining industry, we have always said that if we had been given the chance we would have run it properly. That is the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Energy and Industry (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Energy and Industry (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "preceding_text": "in protecting the interests of the many hundreds of thousands of pensioners, both present and future, who will have the right to make decisions based on their investment, which has been made on their behalf. He is not willing to trust the judgment of individual shareholders of Northern Electric and elsewhere. Opposition Members do not understand the free market system or how free enterprise works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Energy and Industry (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Energy and Industry (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "preceding_text": "both present and future, who will have the right to make decisions based on their investment, which has been made on their behalf. He is not willing to trust the judgment of individual shareholders of Northern Electric and elsewhere. Opposition Members do not understand the free market system or how free enterprise works. [Interruption.] Opposition Members revert instinctively to central planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "tment of Trade and Industry until July. I admire and respect the sense of community and belief which goes deep in the north-east. There is a deep-rooted belief, shared by local Members of Parliament, that whatever is local is good, and that the status quo has to be defended at any cost. If the status quo happens to be a nationalised regional distribution board for electricity, it must be defended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-20", "file": "debates1995-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "0186c04a5ecf0f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) must stop bawling and control himself. I have already told him that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-20a.121.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "The answer is a little complex. It is not true to say that grant-maintained schools may borrow formally. They can certainly look to outside interests which may be interested in making various arrangements with them, as indeed can an LEA school. Of course, an LEA can borrow significantly greater sums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The list of measures and sanctions available to anyone having difficulty with disciplining a group of people include interruption of break or lunchtime privileges, detention, withholding privileges such as participation in trips, completion of assigned or additional written work and carrying out a useful task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, who speaks with considerable knowledge of education matters, is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that noise pollution is a nuisance. I am sometimes inclined to think that it is a particular nuisance at 3.15 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is not the problem the difference between what Ministers say about the health service and people's experience of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "er visits another hon. Member's constituency. I chose not to raise a point of order because I did not want to trouble the House or take up time. However, having heard the exchanges today, I want to ask for your help. When the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) came to my constituency two weeks ago, he held a public meeting in the civic centre in Totnes which attracted 700 or 800 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Television Sport (Public Access)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it wasn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "Three-two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Television Sport (Public Access)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "Three-two. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it wasn't.\"] It was 4:3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Television Sport (Public Access)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ear in mind something that he mentioned towards the end of his remarks. There is a substantial responsibility on the part of the national sporting bodies not to go for short-term profit, but to ensure that national sporting occasions are, as he suggested, available to all. I hold no brief for the cable television channels, and I support the broad thrust of what the hon. Gentleman is seeking to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Redmond", "preceding_text": "e the Minister to do a similar calculation of the trusts' administration costs, he would find that the figure was more like 8 per cent. I am guessing, but it is an educated guess. In any event, it means that a tremendous percentage of available funds is not being spent on patient care. 4.45 pm I believe that there is more accountability and openness among the Freemasons than in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. It was remiss of me to have had such a Yorkshire-biased point of view. I ignored the building in Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "preceding_text": "ak with experience about the lack of openness in our area. Other colleagues have a similar experience in their areas. We have the Doncaster Health Care trust; the district health authority, which is being merged with the family health service authority, piloting what the Bill is about; and the Doncaster Royal and Montagu Hospital trust. Of the three, the Doncaster Royal and Montagu Hospital trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Hughes", "preceding_text": "Perhaps, when he is tabling questions, my hon. Friend ought to go back to basics and ask the question, what is a hospital?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.196.6", "colnum": "196", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.196.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Did I hear a no? Has the hon. Lady the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "fectiveness are also necessary in a national health service. A drive simply for efficiency and cost-effectiveness by a group of accountants, politicians or bureaucrats is losing sight of what the national health service is all about. Quality standards and clinical effectiveness are equally important. I am glad to see that the Secretary of State has arrived to hear my pearls of wisdom this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": " forgot that. I know that the Territorial Army is pretty hierarchical, too. We need a process that ensures much more genuine independence. The amendment suggests that independent advice should not be given by people who are holding office in the health authority, who are employed by Her Majesty's Government or who are the holders of any publicly elected office. They should not be political people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-21", "file": "debates1995-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed093273f414a1dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "s. Controversy arose because many NHS Trust chairs claimed that RHAs were attempting to exercise excessive and inappropriate control over Trust's operational activities. Perhaps they still believe in the national health service. Mr. Laing goes on: The issue of who should monitor Trusts has now been resolved by the government's decision to abolish regional health authorities. Dr. Jeremy Lee Potter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-21a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "I am sure that they will reply to that. My understanding is that their views are similar to mine. Doubtless they are in favour of banning the transportation of calves destined for veal crates. I shall not dwell on the behaviour of certain Members of Parliament on the occasion in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "tly sensible of them to do so. It behoves Opposition Members, however, if they are serious about putting themselves forward for government, to remember what it feels like when in government. The point has already been made. They will be subject to exactly the same constraints. They will be having exactly the same arguments, probably, with their own troublesome Back-Bench Members. We all have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "That is not a fair way of putting it. Ministers, of whatever party is in power, have to advise the House on what is a responsible and reasonable way to proceed. For us to introduce a law which we know will be challenged instantly and which may produce a period when the law is completely unclear because rival laws overlap would not be responsible, because it would raise expectations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "elect Committees. It is silly that hon. Members should serve on these Committees and produce reports after considerable deliberation, only for them never to be discussed on the Floor of the House. One could say it was almost time wasting. I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for this work as Chairman of the Select Committee on Agriculture. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is a Christian gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "g Europe on this issue. I give credit to the Minister for doing more than his predecessor did. When the right hon. Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mrs. Shephard) entered into the negotiations last year, she was lagging far behind the Germans, the Dutch, the Belgians and the Danes on the issues of journey times and animal welfare. Perhaps we should be grateful that we have a new Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me a question, and I shall answer him. One of the ways of solving the problem is to stop eating cheese and drinking milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Mr. Steve Norris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Mr. Steve Norris)", "preceding_text": "ecently, there has been a great deal of publicity about the Forth bridge, much of which I believe has been exaggerated. I am delighted to see the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South (Mr. Donohoe) in his place. I value his contribution to the debate. I envy him and his hon. Friends their sailing expeditions, which sound quite delightful. Personally, I do not have the time for that sort of diversion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.329.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ter. If his assurance means that housing associations will in all circumstances be better off under the order, I obviously welcome that. In my constituency, there is an old mill, which, in spite of several attempts to revive it, is on its last legs and no longer producing. All the signs are that it is likely to be acquired by a housing association and converted to use as residential accommodation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "o complicated matters. I am trying to do my best. With a continuing authority, the council that currently exists will have to undergo a new election in order to exercise its new powers. In the meantime, it is able to do preparation work for that. The old authorities—that is, those that will be reorganised—will, by dint of that reorganisation, have the powers conferred upon them to begin that work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ies are to be unitary district councils, not unitary county councils. I sometimes wonder why people ask such questions. I genuinely do not understand this question. It makes no difference in terms of local services. The only significance—I hope that this is not regarded as a mischievous statement—is that it has some bearing on to which local authority association the new councils choose to belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Ms Primarolo) will deal with the question of where local people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-22", "file": "debates1995-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e96860de839f13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Life.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "trying to persuade those on the Front Bench to commit themselves to further public expenditure. As my hon. Friend the Minister said, the various options put forward by the Labour Front-Bench team are contradictory, to say the least. There was the suggestion of a graduate tax. What happens to the poor graduate? Is it every high earner who will pay graduate tax? For how long will a graduate pay tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-22a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.479.6", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "preceding_text": "of 6,000 miles from South Africa, green beans over a distance of 4,000 miles from Kenya and parsnips over a distance of 11,000 miles from Australia. That cannot be other than damaging to the global environment and our domestic economy. Given that set-aside is now the second largest crop in the United Kingdom, when will the Minister come up with a policy that will reverse the problem of empty land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Does Minister realise that more than half the food retail market is in the hands of only 2 per cent. of retail stores, and that that results in a high percentage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Just on prices, gas prices fell in the three years before privatisation. They have risen in real terms since 1979. They rose last year in real terms, and they will rise again next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Just on prices, gas prices fell in the three years before privatisation. They have risen in real terms since 1979. They rose last year in real terms, and they will rise again next year. [Interruption.] They rose last year in real terms, and they will rise again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.8", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is that not the contrast between pay excesses at the top and pay cuts and redundancies for the rest, between vast monopoly profits and a tide of consumer complaints? Let me tell the Prime Minister and the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.8", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is that not the contrast between pay excesses at the top and pay cuts and redundancies for the rest, between vast monopoly profits and a tide of consumer complaints? Let me tell the Prime Minister and the Conservative party— [Interruption.] Yes, pay excess at the top and salary cuts for the rest. I tell them, until—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.481.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "nsibility in the United Kingdom. I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench are considering the education of those children. Education matters enormously to children who live a peripatetic and often a global life. We must ensure that they have the finest education possible. When I was a Minister in the Department of the Environment with responsibility for the poll tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": ". and a colonel's by 15.4 per cent. That would be fine if the same had happened further down the ranks, but there is a contrast. A corporal's pay in real terms has gone down by 5 per cent., a lance-corporal's by 10 per cent. and a private's by 15.4 per cent. In a debate yesterday, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces admitted that a private in today's British Army was worse off than in 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could intervene in the Minister's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.8", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "The Minister has suggested that we do not have plenty of time, and he is right. I now turn to the continuing problem of sexism in the armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-23", "file": "debates1995-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "224e83213bc9da56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.8", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "The Minister has suggested that we do not have plenty of time, and he is right. I now turn to the continuing problem of sexism in the armed forces. [ Interruption .] That always gets a laugh from the Tories, because they do not believe that women should be in the armed forces at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-23a.574.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-24", "file": "debates1995-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c527ecd75f4c7a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.611.5", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I do, frequently. That is one of the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-24", "file": "debates1995-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c527ecd75f4c7a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.628.4", "colnum": "628", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "endum. One needs to ask a question that is sufficiently complex to deal with the issue but sufficiently simple to evince a straight yes or no answer from the electorate and be easily comprehensible. I have talked about asking the right question; the next argument is about getting the wrong answer, or rather the answer to a different question. I have the honour and pleasure to represent Eastbourne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.628.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-24", "file": "debates1995-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c527ecd75f4c7a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "aggressive and authoritarian way in which the Maastricht treaty was imposed upon this House and the nation. Every time we see a new manifestation of our loss of sovereignty, the Tory party moves back a step and says, \"Not me, guy.\" As we become more assertive in the national interest, so we shall find that no member of the Tory party ever supported the Single European Act or the Maastricht treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-24a.639.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "system into disrepute. I believe that directors have a duty to consider that, and I hope that they will. As the right hon. Gentleman will know, the Greenbury committee is examining those matters. Its recommendations will be addressed, of course, to companies and to shareholders. When its recommendations are available, I shall be ready to consider any proposals that may require legislative back-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.837.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "\"I could not begin to earn half that amount, but if I was on benefit I could.\" That causes outrage among the public and must be dealt with. If any Members are in doubt about the way in which the benefits system is sometimes seen by ordinary members of the public, they could do no better than consider a letter that I have received today from a pensioner in Plympton, which is not in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " are supposed to work, take more and more for their own benefit and look for bizarre ways of spending—such as six 'helpers' taking one offender on holiday, sending criminals on safari trips—again with an adequate number of minders. Every day one can read in the papers about the squandering of money on legal aid. Politicians agree it is wrong, taxpayers are appalled but nothing is done to stop it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.894.5", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "I have made it plain that I am not going to give way. We have removed a burden from the British taxpayer. Taxpayers will not have to subsidise people who have no close ties with the United Kingdom and who have not made a recent financial contribution to the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.894.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Minister's officials have been making the fatuous point that the ring road breaks through certain parishes, but everyone regards it as an approximation of where the boundary ought to be. There is considerably more support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-02-28", "file": "debates1995-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "f14c07037ea66737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.949.8", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Statutory Instruments, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "In that case, I have ruled on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-02-28a.949.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I asked for an example and the Minister has given one. If that delay occurred, it must have had some sort of statutory basis and the GLC must have had some responsibility in that matter. Perhaps the Minister could respond to that at a later date rather than delaying our proceedings now. Speaking as a former part-time student postman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "sel-powered vehicles are the greatest polluters. It is those vehicles that we should be examining. If Labour Members are concerned about reducing congestion in London, they might like to suggest that a London borough such as Newham could institute a pilot scheme with the help of the Department of Transport to introduce road pricing so that we could see how it works and how it might benefit London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government set it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": " on. The two most important points about the government of London arc the quantity of government—we already have quite enough—and the quality of government. There is a strong link between the two. The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) talked about a \"streamlined\" authority. That is the word that the Opposition used when they set up the GLC and the LCC. What did we get? Bloated bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": "tity of government—we already have quite enough—and the quality of government. There is a strong link between the two. The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Raynsford) talked about a \"streamlined\" authority. That is the word that the Opposition used when they set up the GLC and the LCC. What did we get? Bloated bureaucracy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government set it up.\"] They were wrong—absolutely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Westminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "t that we look to the principles of promoting the role and responsibility of the individual and freedom from unnecessary regulation and over-government. The Government have a key role. We seek to empower the individual and reduce bureaucracy, particularly when the latter serves no purpose. The lesson of London during the 1980s was too much government, gerrymandering government, and too much waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "d the United Kibbutz Movement: I view the Golan Heights through the security prism, first and foremost, no matter whether settlements exist there or not … if we reach the point where we need to remove settlements for the sake of peace, I have been and will remain in favour of it … For me, peace is a higher value for Israel's future and security than this or that group of settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools (Mr. Robin Squire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools (Mr. Robin Squire)", "preceding_text": "se to the problems that he has identified within that county. He was eloquently backed by my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold), who rightly took the opportunity to demolish just about every word in early-day motion 708, and also by the presence of and the interventions by my hon. Friends the Members for Dover (Mr. Shaw), for Medway (Dame P. Fenner) and for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "he means to abate a statutory nuisance and to recover the costs from the landowner. This could include escapes of gas which may affect surface properties. A major constraint on early action is, however, the limited extent to which it is possible to predict where and when the gas may escape. Since the Coal Authority came into being, a single reporting procedure has been implemented irrespective of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "n Union, which he mentioned, about the business links that many countries are trying to establish once again with Iraq, in the light of the fact that at Geneva the Danes and other countries were very concerned about the UN rapporteur's report that Saddam Hussein continues to execute, torture and mutilate his own people. Will the Secretary of State unreservedly dissociate himself from those groups—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1038.4", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Just say yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "Did the Minister agree with the Prime Minister when he said that he was not in favour of a referendum in a parliamentary democracy and did not propose to put one before the people; or did he agree with the same Prime Minister when he said that, if the circumstances were appropriate, he would hold a referendum? With which of the Prime Minister's two opposing views does the Minister agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "I very much hope that the mission to China by His Grace will increase tolerance for Christians in China and will have an overall beneficial effect on relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "For those who do not know it, this is all set out in the Conservative research department brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I can think of no one worse to level the charge of inconsistency than the right hon. Gentleman, who took Britain into the exchange rate mechanism and the Maastricht treaty. With all due respect, he is the one who has to explain the changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I can think of no one worse to level the charge of inconsistency than the right hon. Gentleman, who took Britain into the exchange rate mechanism and the Maastricht treaty. With all due respect, he is the one who has to explain the changes— [Interruption.] I was asking whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "n, no explanation of its benefits. One can tell a lot about a party from the buttons that the politicians press for applause. There remains, of course, a group of pro-Europeans, but they are increasingly beleaguered. Indeed, Lord Tebbit, when asked whether the nine Tory rebels were not damaging the party, said, \"There are nine MPs damaging the party, but unfortunately they are all in the Cabinet.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your view?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "inister today. I will put five questions to the Prime Minister. What is more, at the conclusion of each question I shall answer it and then ask the Prime Minister to answer it. I cannot put it more fairly than that. First, does the Prime Minister agree with his Chancellor that a single currency is not a threat to the nation state? I say that his Chancellor is right; I assume that he says the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.5", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "abinet Ministers. If he is re-elected, can the Prime Minister say whether a single currency will be a possibility in the next Parliament, assuming that the economic conditions are right? It must logically follow from signing the Maastricht treaty that the answer to that question is yes. But what is the Prime Minister's answer? Is it a possibility or not? He cannot say. Let me put another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1056.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " run defence policy or that we should give up the national veto. There will, however, need to be change, primarily because of enlargement. A body of 20 members or even 15 is plainly different and requires a different form of decision making from a body of 12 or fewer. The Prime Minister said on the Frost programme that he would oppose and not countenance any extension of qualified majority voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " even 15 is plainly different and requires a different form of decision making from a body of 12 or fewer. The Prime Minister said on the Frost programme that he would oppose and not countenance any extension of qualified majority voting. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I note the cry from the troops behind him. With all due respect, such a stand is absolutely foolish and not in Britain's interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ir Leon Brittan made that very point the other day. A sensible policy would be to approach such issues, piece by piece, on their merits. Perhaps most absurd of all was the attack launched on me the other day in an early-day motion signed by 100 Tory Members. They launched it because I am in agreement, on some issues, with Mr. Santer, the European Union President. Who is responsible for Mr. Santer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1058.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ember states and major combat operations will of course remain the task of NATO, but the WEU should be able to deal with lesser crises. It should be able to engage in support operations and handle embargo or sanctions enforcement, and it should be equipped for humanitarian operations of the kind seen in Rwanda, and for rescue missions such as the evacuations that we have twice undertaken in Yemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nts, the economic conditions are absolutely crucial to the success of a single currency. If a single currency were used to bind together artificially countries which were not marching in step economically, the strains upon the economies of Europe would be immense and unsustainable. I have been making that clear since 1990, and I am glad that the Opposition have finally caught up. That is relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "which were not marching in step economically, the strains upon the economies of Europe would be immense and unsustainable. I have been making that clear since 1990, and I am glad that the Opposition have finally caught up. That is relevant. [Interruption.] I was saying that while the Leader of the Opposition was still saying that he did not want to be in Europe. Those economic points are relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". They will become clearer as we move towards the point of decision; that is beyond doubt. We shall be in a position to know more of those. However, as of this moment, the answer to those questions cannot possibly be known, except as a matter of hunch. It is for that reason that I believe that it is in our own national and economic interests to keep open the option of going into a single currency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of practice, not principle. What matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of practice, not principle. What matters— [Interruption.] . It is a serious point. The right hon. Gentleman asks a serious question and he deserves a serious answer. What is relevant is what the practice of entering would mean for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d signs things with so often? Whom does he agree with? Does he agree with himself on this issue? Do we know? If we gave up the veto we could not only be outvoted on own resources, tax harmonisation, foreign policy, immigration policy, protected areas of environmental policy and any policies which, in the words of the treaty, are deemed necessary to attain … the objectives of the Community\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As we have had one point of order, may I raise another? The Prime Minister said that our European election manifesto stated that we were against the veto. My hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain) has already mentioned that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hood", "preceding_text": "I shall help the Foreign Secretary out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "preceding_text": " will have joined the European currency unit with all that that implies of no risk of devaluation and therefore of low interest rates and low inflation and higher employment. We will join it because it will be self-evidently in our interests at that time. But it is not a decision for today. I remind the House of two dates. First, it is the 21st anniversary of my election as a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The witless?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "preceding_text": "nd believes that, but has not yet found the moment to say so. The mechanism that I would prefer would begin with a vote in Parliament. Then, if Parliament voted to join a single currency—only if it so voted—a referendum would ensue. Finally, despite the Government's self-inflicted minority voting position in the House, I hope that they will achieve a majority tonight with the help of the Whipless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "icay (Mrs. Gorman)—this is an immature Government. We have seen a divided nation—the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer—a divided Government and one unbelievably divided party. The Government cannot see any direction in which to go. They have no hope for Britain and are trying to make some arrangements, but we must remember that we joined the market. In those days, I was an anti-marketeer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "ntry's affairs with those other countries. Let them come to good sense and arrange them. When we join a club we all participate and take part in its functions, but if the club has something the matter with it, yes, we argue and debate and try to get a consensus arrangement. This Government have abandoned that. They do not want to sit at the table, they want to sh—I was going to use another phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "to avoid announcing a policy in order to reduce the area that they have for disagreement with him. I am bound to say that, compared with the Prime Minister's speech, the Euro-rebels' manifesto is a model of decisiveness, conviction and clarity. At least we know where they stand. They stand for a substantial repatriation of decision making. They stand for abolishing the elected European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ecisiveness, conviction and clarity. At least we know where they stand. They stand for a substantial repatriation of decision making. They stand for abolishing the elected European Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is not just policy of the Euro-rebels. Apparently, a large chunk of the Conservative party agrees with this. Those people stand for reducing the powers of the European Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "and for abolishing the elected European Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is not just policy of the Euro-rebels. Apparently, a large chunk of the Conservative party agrees with this. Those people stand for reducing the powers of the European Court. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, there we are. They want to see the foreign and security policy removed from the competence of the Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "oint that my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Thames (Mr. Lamont) has just made. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said that he was absolutely clear that it was right to preserve for this country the freedom, that he and my right hon. Friend had together obtained for us, with some difficulty, at Maastricht. He went on to answer the specific question put by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-01", "file": "debates1995-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "70ae4408f6530aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ouse that interest in these ideas is weakened and is not going to be effective if it appears that they come out of domestic division here at home. This I find infinitely frustrating because I am quite sure that the ideas that we are working out and putting forward are the right ideas for Europe and I do not want to see that frustrated because they appear to arise from domestic controversy at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-01a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "and the single currency yesterday? In columns 1053 and 1056 of Hansard , the leader of a political party dealt with interventions by one of my right hon. Friends, first, by saying that he would give way, but not doing so, and, secondly, by accusing him of inconsistency? Is there not a lesson in that on how to get people to vote on our side by treating them with less courtesy than the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation (England)", "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": "ds to the conclusion that the commission ought to look at the advisability of giving unitary status to Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe, given that there is clearly no local demand for a Greater Nottingham council. Finally, if Warrington is referred, the similarly densely populated district of Halton, which has been part of Cheshire only since 1974, may be a suitable candidate for reconsideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1197.5", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Just say no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "k that anyone in Lancaster could possibly not know that she speaks for the city whenever the opportunity occurs. My hon. Friend knows the terms under which I sought to produce the list, and she must understand that—following my careful study of the terms—the great city of Lancaster has neither the size nor the nature which would lead it to be in the same sector as the others to which she referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "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": "ple have come off the dole. We are leading Europe in exporting televisions and we are beating the world at producing steel. That is not a description of South Korea or Taiwan. That is Wales in 1994, and 1995 will be even better. The television programme could ask, \"How did they do that?\" We did it by changing attitudes, by attracting investors, by cutting interest rates, and by believing in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ould pity the poor people who would have not only to pay for that lot, but to obey all their rules. The hon. Member for Caerphilly has completely lost his way. Like a latter day Don Quixote, he tilts at imaginary policy windmills. In his latest joust in The House Magazine , he attacks me for wanting to privatise Snowdonia—a policy as credible as the assertion that the moon is made of green cheese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "I am not certain how much of his speech the Secretary of State has left—I am just checking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "No, but I assume that the hon. Gentleman will represent his own constituency, as he has done in interventions. When Henry Tudor pressed on from Pembroke to London, he had a kingdom to win. His dynasty showed that Wales and England united are far greater than the sum of the parts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "sequences of his actions. The Secretary of State cannot maintain that he is answerable to those elected to the House of Commons to represent the people of Wales. The decision that the Secretary of State took was a horrendous gaffe, which led to justified public outrage. If he really listens to the people who express views to him, I refer him to a report in The Independent on Sunday on 19 February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1236.5", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I fully endorse the view expressed by the hon. Gentleman that we make no personal criticism of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "rstand. The Labour party has been through its own hell, losing four elections in a row, but it is foolish to imagine that it can ride the nationalist tiger. My guess is that it will cause untold damage to the Labour party in its strongholds in the longer term, but that is a matter for right hon. and hon. Members on the Labour Benches to consider. I leave it at that. There is a major consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": " of Europe as a garden of Eden before the fall. We must weigh the advantages and disadvantages of further integration with the utmost care and secure the best deal for Britain. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Government will do that. We celebrated our patron saint yesterday, and I hope that the House will allow me a moment for an historic excursion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "t it turned out to be a major advantage. Although large in population terms, they still recognise the value of the Federal Government in Bonn and the cohesion that it provides. Some of the Länder contribute more to Bonn than they receive from it, but they do not seek on that account to break away from the federal structure. They realise all too well that unity is strength. I would not argue", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "eorganisation is a cause of celebration. By the time that we next celebrate St. David's day, the new shadow authorities will he close to taking over full control of local government. People will recognise the success of that Conservative policy. We have invested nearly £2 billion in improving the motorway and trunk road network in Wales, completing 25 miles of motorway and 154 miles of trunk road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This one is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Gwilym Jones)", "preceding_text": " Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Williams) acknowledged the efforts of all of us to encourage the process at Pendine; I thank him for that. It has been a traditional debate. Reading the report of last year's debate, I noticed that the result of an opinion poll had just been announced then as well, and that the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) trumpeted that as our worst-ever opinion poll result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-02", "file": "debates1995-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ebc8e86ae0d72a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Act 1991, which are due to be undertaken over the next two years. I am writing to the local authority to provide it with full details of that assistance. We have inevitably heard many references to the vexed question of devolution. Perhaps it should more properly he referred to as centralisation; taking powers from local authorities in Wales and giving them to a Welsh Assembly—the ultimate quango.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-02a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. I know from feedback that 80 per cent. of county councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about fox hunting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "dents, unless the people concerned were trespassing. The reason for this exemption is that, with 35 million rabbits in the countryside, it would be unreasonable to expect farmers to keep their dogs on leads to avoid the possibility of prosecution. It is a fact that almost any dog which happens to catch a rabbit or a rodent, such as a rat, can usually kill it quickly and with the minimum suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jackboots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ce and spirit of co-operation in the hills. People are not either members of a hunt or farmers; some farmers hunt, and some commoners who do not own the land also hunt. People of varying occupations saw the need for co-existence. I think that the hon. Member for Dumbarton might be beginning to understand that, by jumping in with jackboots, he may achieve exactly the opposite of the desired effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " either members of a hunt or farmers; some farmers hunt, and some commoners who do not own the land also hunt. People of varying occupations saw the need for co-existence. I think that the hon. Member for Dumbarton might be beginning to understand that, by jumping in with jackboots, he may achieve exactly the opposite of the desired effect. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Jackboots?\"] Hon. Members may laugh, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"12 votes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman allowed me to proceed because I am trying to develop a very serious argument. I was very surprised that the Bill in 1992 was defeated by 19 votes on the eve of an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. The hon. Gentleman is a great intervener but I wish that he would stay tethered for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the right hon. Gentleman's challenge. It is disingenuous ever to argue on any legislation that a particular proposal implies that later there may be support for further measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has certainly changed his line. He comes from a family that boasts a distinguished assassin, although we must exonerate the hon. Gentleman's predecessor because his action was jolly useful in that he assassinated a Tory Prime Minister in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward O'Hara", "preceding_text": " since 9.30 am being more bemused than amused by the number of non sequiturs which I have heard from Conservative Members. I shall start with the right hon. Member for Bridgwater, who is no longer in his place, who said that anybody from an urban environment, such as myself, who does not have experience of country life, does not have the right to participate in a such a debate. That interested me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "make a speech even shorter than that of the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman), but as I am a sponsor of the Bill and greatly welcome the initiative of the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) it is important that, like the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), I make clear the view of my party, as opposed to the view of some of my right hon. and hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberalism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "That is the issue, and we must always be careful about imposing the views of a majority. I understand that entirely. The minority views, such as those of my right hon. Friend the Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir David Steel) are honestly held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-03", "file": "debates1995-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9ce0aea11d686e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "t the role of a minority in our society, which the House should be concentrating upon. We are fortunate in that the view of the Labour party was made extremely clear by the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley). It is no longer in a position of neutrality. The Labour party, no doubt with a few minority interests, is significantly and overwhelmingly against the continuing of hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-03a.1364.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-06", "file": "debates1995-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2aafdbe29195e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Gordon Prentice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-06", "file": "debates1995-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2aafdbe29195e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Appeal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": " did not matter very much. I well remember that, at the height of the various scandals involving the Birmingham, Guildford and Judith Ward cases, I attended a reception at the Police Federation. A senior member of the federation executive said to me quietly in the corner, \"There is nothing wrong with perjury committed by an honest police officer in support of a good cause.\" That thinking reflects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-06", "file": "debates1995-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2aafdbe29195e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Appeal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ase, to which I have already referred. If the Bill is handled properly, it represents an opportunity to put behind us the bleak period in the history of British justice of the past few years. I hope that the opportunity will not be thrown away. The Home Office must have noticed that Labour Front-Bench Members are approaching the Bill in a generous spirit. We do so in the hope that the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-06", "file": "debates1995-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2aafdbe29195e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Appeal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gyles Brandreth", "preceding_text": "rritation caused by the continual use of \"he\" and \"him\" I endorse. Surely the language can come up with alternative ways of handling the problem. It is a long-running irritant that needs dealing with. I also find the phrase \"he embraces she\" irritating. I say that as one looking forward to attempting the new right-on green embrace widely advertised in today's papers. I have not yet had a go at it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.94.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-06", "file": "debates1995-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2aafdbe29195e4cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Appeal Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give my hon. and learned Friend a more detailed reply in due course, but that could be one of those cases in which the exercise of the royal prerogative might be appropriate. Other people have commented extensively on the laws of evidence. The laws of evidence are being considered by the Law Commission at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-06a.111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-07", "file": "debates1995-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "43cbee71d0e91484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that I am not prepared to be accused by him of tittering? It is puerile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.136.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-07", "file": "debates1995-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "43cbee71d0e91484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.142.8", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not successful.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the respect that everyone in Britain has for the generation who fought in the war. He will also know what has been done, not just in the past few years but during the past couple of generations, to ensure that their living standards are as high as can possibly be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-07", "file": "debates1995-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "43cbee71d0e91484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to raise the subject of the information super-high way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-07", "file": "debates1995-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "43cbee71d0e91484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "social security position and how to access local and central Government services. Unless the Government take the lead on the information super-highway, such things will happen more slowly .or, worse still, not at all. That is why we have set up a Labour party policy forum on the information super-highway under the auspices of my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-07a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Women's Wages", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend referred to the Labour party's determined efforts to ensure that our electoral representation in the House reflects Great Britain, where half the population is female. Does she not find the schizophrenia of Conservative Members on this issue fascinating when they attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.275.5", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Women's Wages", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "preceding_text": "rnment abolished wages councils, which set minimum rates for workers in the retail, hotel, hairdressing and other trades, hourly wage rates have decreased. According to Government theories, when wage rates go down we should naturally expect an increase in vacancies, but that has not happened. The Low Pay Unit found that, after wages councils were abolished, employment in the hotel trade decreased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.275.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Women's Wages", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "Labour Government, when real electricity prices rose by 22 per cent. between 1974 and 1979. With regard to the right hon. Gentleman's outrageous allegation towards the end of his long question, may I refer him to the article in The Guardian on Saturday, which made it very clear that he had written to the regulator asking for a reduction in prices ahead of 1 April? Did he say to the stock exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rst thing that I would advise the hon. Gentleman to do is return to his constituency and explain that unemployment has decreased by 430 in the past 12 months. Then perhaps he will move on to Electrotech Ltd., which has announced the creation of another 200 new jobs in the next three years. After that, he can go to British Steel at Llanwern, which has announced the creation of 150 jobs. After that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "Although the hon. Gentleman may not think so, democracy matters a great deal. This country belongs to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Vegetarianism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " That question ignores the fact that 2,000 people a week are becoming vegetarians, with the fastest growth among teenagers—but even that increase is simply not enough. Part of the reason why it is not greater lies in the years of accumulated prejudice against vegetarianism—for example, the image of the veggie as a spotty nerd sporting a woolly hat, an anorak and socks worn under open-toed sandals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Vegetarianism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "umulated prejudice against vegetarianism—for example, the image of the veggie as a spotty nerd sporting a woolly hat, an anorak and socks worn under open-toed sandals— [Interruption.] How unlike myself, Madam Speaker. Such a caricature is fast fading, but vegetarianism is still seen by those in authority as a mild form of eccentricity, to be pitied and patronised. The \"real men eat meat\" syndrome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Beggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Beggs", "preceding_text": "partmental agreement on the future funding of the Northern Ireland Preschool Playgroups Association yet? Can we be assured of equality of funding across Northern Ireland? Is it not disgraceful that in 1994 parents contributed £1 to £2.50 per day while health boards contributed only from 35p a day per child in the generous Eastern board area to as little as 10.4p per day in the Northern board area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-08", "file": "debates1995-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "30de5523e6971690", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wheeler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may know the answer, but I would say that jobs in Northern Ireland are welcome, whether they are called full-time or part-time, and the Government are in the business of encouraging the economy of Northern Ireland to find more jobs. I shall now press on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-08a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for that reply. Will the Home Secretary put a stop to Sky Television and nine-hole golf courses in our prisons, together with the practice of inmates sending wardens out of prison to get steak and chips? Senior citizens in my constituency of Welwyn Hatfield are concerned when criminals want to get into prison and not out of it. They also want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "le House will join me in extending my deepest sympathy to Mr. Murray's family upon his death. This is a serious case and the South Thames region has set up an urgent investigation, the outcome of which we must await. The full facts of the case are not yet in front of me, but I understand that Mr. Murray required a highly specialised form of treatment with which Leeds was particularly able to help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.456.8", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen that interest rates in France have had to be raised by 1.5 per cent. this week, notwithstanding the fact that–—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat the Treasury took independent financial and legal advice at the end of last week on whether, in the light of the possible uncertainty, the share sale prospectus was still accurate. The legal and financial advice that it received was that, even if the issue of price controls for the regional electricity companies was reopened, that was not material to the share sale of the generating companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Medium Support Helicopter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "nts on the Boeing aircraft. The hon. Gentleman asked why we have had to wait since 1987. For an Opposition defence spokesman to be unaware of what has changed since 1987 shows a lamentable grasp of the international situation. It is not only the Labour party that has changed since 1987. We have seen the end of the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the Warsaw pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Medium Support Helicopter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "e EH101? I heard this morning, on radio, the hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) suggesting that the only reason why the Canadians did not buy that helicopter was that we would not give confidence by making an order ourselves. In fact, Westland won the order completely on its own merits, and the Liberal Government coming into power in Canada cancelled the order. Will he further confirm that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.472.5", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I really must have a business question now. I have listened long enough to a preamble which is really an argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-09", "file": "debates1995-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6d7445bc5254601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Africa Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "comments on the somewhat thorny subject of South Africa in the past. As my hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Mr. Temple-Morris) said, in the spirit of \"no revenge\", I shall not try to wreak any on Opposition Members or upon my hon. Friends. In the context of the South Africa Bill, I would like to lay to rest two old chestnuts that the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) tried to revive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-09a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "EU-Canada Fishing Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Knapman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not in international waters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Knapman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend chose to make his statement while the Commonwealth day festival is proceeding. Surely the Canadians are dealing with the Spanish fleet by using the best time-honoured and traditional practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.570.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "EU-Canada Fishing Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Michael Lord", "preceding_text": "d fishing industries all over the world. Against that background is it any wonder that a nation takes a robust stance? My hon. Friend can gauge the feeling in the House. I put to him again the question that he has been asked several times. Will he give us his categorical assurance that this country will not put its hand to any measures against Canada on this issue until he comes back to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.576.5", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade used the word \"average\". Can he illuminate that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.576.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.585.8", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "he issue. That is a slight exaggeration, because some Labour Members have certainly not abandoned those beliefs. I have before me a reference to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner), who is rather keen on advising people about remuneration. I understand that he is making a killing out of advising directors in the private sector about stock options and remunerative packages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.585.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.585.8", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "munerative packages— [Interruption.] I am not complaining, but observing that a member of the Labour party is making a killing out of all that. Having done so, in another capacity he is teaching them to present themselves as well as possible, in a friendly and smiling fashion on television, to rationalise and justify to the British people the remuneration packages that he has told them how to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.585.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "They are all going now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Judith Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Judith Church", "preceding_text": " people of this country are not stupid. They know who was responsible for privatising British Gas. They know that their money is paying for these outrages. They know that the Bill will not lead to lower prices for most of them, just reductions for those who are most able to afford to pay and relatively more expensive gas for the least well off. It is called \"cherry picking\". It happened in health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the fact that a number of my constituents in Dagenham are now able to pay by direct debit and get a saving on their gas", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "mic grounds to take advantage of paying by direct debit. It is our constituents who are suffering from the changes in the pricing structure of British Gas. It is our constituents who will suffer as a result of the Gas Bill. I welcome the Minister's intervention, because I welcome the opportunity to tell the people of this country just what the Bill will mean for them. The Bill is seriously flawed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "Much of any gain that has been made has, of course, been made by the better off at the expense of the worse off. Relatively, the price of gas has fallen more for the better off than for poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "Much of any gain that has been made has, of course, been made by the better off at the expense of the worse off. Relatively, the price of gas has fallen more for the better off than for poorer people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members must believe that. It is due to the price structure that British Gas has introduced, which the Bill will perpetuate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "nstituents in Dagenham cannot pay their bills on time, because they are trying to pay for school meals, electricity and food from the local supermarket. They are living on income support—living at subsistence level—and they cannot afford to pay their bills on time. Many, indeed, have prepayment meters and find it very difficult to make the payments. So what do they do? They turn their heating off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": ", to provide such service for the most costly and least sought-after customers? The Government have dramatically increased the number of elderly people living in the so-called \"care in the community\" system; they must understand that such policies elicit certain obligations. The flaws in the Bill are too numerous to mention, but some questions need answers from the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman is being disingenuous. The figures put to us were not from Ofgas: they were from the Gas Consumers Council, based on a 20,000 sample—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "ot benefiting from direct debit; the 8 per cent. extra to pay for gas to be transported from the east coast; and differential pricing, which could be as high as 12 per cent., and which will open up between low users and rich users, people in Wales could pay 25 per cent. more than people elsewhere in Britain. Why should the people of Wales suffer simply because of their geography? I want to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether you heard that sedentary intervention, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that he did not believe me. I made a clear statement of Government policy from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "That was typical of the hon. Gentleman. He does not bother to check his facts. He mutters into his beer belly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "That was typical of the hon. Gentleman. He does not bother to check his facts. He mutters into his beer belly— [Interruption.] I am sorry. I have obviously maligned him. It was just the angle of the light. He has not got the guts to come to the Dispatch Box and to repeat his assertions because he knows that he has not done his research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-13", "file": "debates1995-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "123cd9475aebd2f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trafford Park Rail Terminal", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I thought that we were not going to reach this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-13a.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "In my hon. Friend's busy day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.686.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for looking after my interests. As I am sure he appreciates as a constituency Member with detailed knowledge of the matter, I have pursued my interests both with Ministers and with different members of the management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "ime. System X was not on stream then. It is on stream now. It has taken us into a new generation of technology and the arguments have changed dramatically. If the Minister wants to come back and use the same argument for any other industry that has a science base, I can find an equally logical argument for him. As it happens, I know a little about the technology of the telecommunications industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.737.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "She might like to.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.739.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "ould give a great deal of weight to management and staff. If he is serious about that, these are the specific points that concern the staff. I put them on the record because they set out some powerful arguments about why the Government need to think again. I offer the House a series of explanations. First, the Bill is defective because it says nothing about the existing organisation and retention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "end to impose on opportunities for cash raising, but those arguments are spurious. It is within the gift of the Treasury and the Conservative party to change the rules if they so wish. They can do that at any time. The old arguments that we used to hear about public investment crowding out private investment have proven to be worthless. International capitalism is looking for a home for its money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "preceding_text": "r or an hour. But I forgot one of the Peter principles: that work expands to fill the time available. I should like to thank all hon. Members who have made my task so much easier—it is much appreciated. I should like the House to recognise that, contrary to what many Opposition Members have said, the Bill that places AEA Technology in privatisation mode is not dogma driven, but sheer common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "tnership with British Rail and London Underground. It is helping to design stations to minimise the risk of fire and make them much safer places. It has pioneered a holistic approach to aircraft testing, designed to ensure that inspection routines pick up any structural defects before they become potential hazards. Let us take paint, or more precisely fireproof paint. Fire can be just as damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes the point that the centre has led the way in introducing uniform signs, especially on the backs of lorries, so that throughout the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "mediately supervises the decontamination of the aircraft. Yes, it is a routine enough job for the centre, but the consequences of what may have happened if that aircraft had taken off do not bear thinking about. Hon. Members have spoken about AEA Technology as a world leader in computational fluid dynamics. This is not the hour to go into computational fluid dynamics or to explain it to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Part of the point of the message from the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) and myself, which the Minister may care to address now, is the fact that we want the House to be informed about the method that has been decided upon and then to consider the aptness of that method in the circumstances. Will the Minister undertake to bring the matter back to the House before a decision is taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I will have to write to my hon. Friend, because the ownership of the land, whether the leases involved were given to local authorities or to organisations at peppercorn rents, will be an immense puzzle to unravel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-14", "file": "debates1995-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6ba2599ba73e4e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "licences in the first place, I do not believe that the situation that the hon. Gentleman is concerned about can even be contemplated. The hon. Gentleman also asked about the pressure of time, given that the 31st is the deadline. I can look him straight in the eye and say that, if some agreement has been reached and CISWO is working it out, it has not yet crossed my desk. I have had no sight of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-14a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": ", because all its findings were kept totally secret and, although the Conservative leader of the council and the Conservative group on the council asked for details of the investigation, none was given. What we do know is that that woman was also chairman of the Harambee housing association, which I dare say she looked on as another nice little earner because it lost £250,000 of ratepayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady is wrong.\"] I am most certainly not wrong to say that the Harambee housing association lost £250,000 of ratepayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "visible trace, I maintain that setting up a women's unit is a misuse of ratepayers' money. After all, why not have a men's unit as well? Otherwise, is that not in contravention of sex discrimination legislation? Birmingham women's unit is currently putting on an international women's festival, and I have the programme before me. Even the Birmingham Evening Mail, which is certainly not anti-Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But Fowler is its chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "g up a women's unit is a misuse of ratepayers' money. After all, why not have a men's unit as well? Otherwise, is that not in contravention of sex discrimination legislation? Birmingham women's unit is currently putting on an international women's festival, and I have the programme before me. Even the Birmingham Evening Mail, which is certainly not anti-Labour— [Interruption.] It is certainly not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ith tea and cakes. That will cost £2 as part of the subsidised women's festival; otherwise, it will cost double that amount. One can go sequence dancing for £1.50. There are still more goodies to come. People can join a domestic violence residents club. I do not know whether that means that one can go along and learn how to commit domestic violence; the programme does not explain what it is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Westminster?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "I will not, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind. One can imagine the outcry that would have resulted if a single Conservative association in Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "oses of political patronage in Birmingham.\"— [Official Report, 9 February 1995; Vol. 254, c. 558.] I respect the hon. Member for Perry Barr for setting out his views in that way. A couple of weeks later, on Sunday 26 February, the Observer took up the story. Whatever Opposition Members may feel about other papers, I do not believe that they would regard that as a Conservative supporting newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ll? However, it is trying hard in difficult circumstances. We have to ask, why are we having this debate? It is part of a concerted attack by the Tories on Birmingham. As I am sure the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield can confirm, there was a meeting last week, to which he was invited by the chairman of the Tory party, to discuss what the Tories could do in their campaign against Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " done better on education. That happened because the in-coming Labour authority attacked the outgoing Labour authority for not spending any money on education. In the past year and a bit, it has managed to start to make up for Birmingham city council's appalling education policy. The right hon. Gentleman knows that well. Instead of making pompous little remarks about my hon. Friend the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Edgbaston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Local Government (Birmingham)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "s statements as if a court case had been held and a decision made. The Labour party is entirely selective in the way in which it deals with these matters. I shall treat the allegations in precisely the same way as I have treated allegations against Lambeth, Westminster, Birmingham and the like. Until the district auditor's case has been proved, any Englishman is innocent until he is proved guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Land Mines", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "There is a global land mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.887.4", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady obviously does not understand that the SRB is a partnership with local authorities and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.887.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "It is about time that the hon. Gentleman visited Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's problem. He will know that the matter is for the water regulator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.936.5", "colnum": "936", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "preceding_text": "ibute to this important debate. Many people like myself do not fully understand the complexities of the new technology, especially broadband. It was, however, explained to me that optical fibres were like a man or a woman flashing down a dark hole a torch carrying millions of Morse messages per second, and that each flash had multiple purposes. I am grateful for that explanation. I now understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "hat may be necessary in areas where BT cannot readily install an alternative network. Where it can do so, I have no objection, although it may be a waste of money and cheaper to impose a common carrier obligation on the provider of the local loop. Once broadband services are available, however, it becomes immaterial, because the loop can carry any volume of traffic that one wishes to send down it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " an item of walking equipment—which they do not really use. They then have a pleasant lunch and drive back to Manchester. I can understand that that is a nice thing to do, but it is environmentally destructive. It has meant that all the walking and climbing shops have disappeared from the centre of Manchester; meanwhile, the motorways are clogged with traffic. That is environmentally unattractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "acilities competition from which the consumers can benefit. We welcome the announcement, made in response to the Select Committee's recommendations, that the Government will review PPG 6 and will also look at PPG 13. At the moment, it is only the lawyers who seem to be making most of the money out of the lack of clarity of PPG 6. I recently had lunch with the chairman of a very big retail company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "DSS Compensation Recovery Unit", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Roger Evans)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Roger Evans)", "preceding_text": " The circumstances are usually tragic, the problems of proof many years afterwards and the difficulties of medical evidence all too apparent, but they are the most difficult and hard cases, analogous to the problems of pneumoconiosis and the dangers of radiation damage and other forms of cancer. There are fundamentally difficult problems of proof that give the plaintiff considerable disadvantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-15", "file": "debates1995-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "3a74ee834b70079d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "DSS Compensation Recovery Unit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "d that they are not necessarily the only hard and difficult cases. I accept that the operation of the scheme has been seriously misunderstood, and it is painfully obvious that it has been seriously misunderstood by the hon. Gentleman. The fundamental principle—a very old one—is that there should not be double recovery by the plaintiff: in other words, the plaintiff cannot have his cake and eat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-15a.1005.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Rather unusually for the hon. Lady, as she usually manages to ask slightly more sensible questions, her last one sounded as if she was practising as a scriptwriter in a rather second-rate television comedy show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Commonwealth", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Tony Baldry)", "preceding_text": "alth Foundation, which, on a budget of only £2 million, helps to keep alive and thriving a host of Commonwealth professional and other non-governmental organisations. It will hold its second NGO conference in New Zealand in June. We have helped to finance that meeting and believe it can do good work. Well-known groups like the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Commonwealth Medical Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Commonwealth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "cracy and the democratic process, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, just and honest government, fundamental human rights, equality for women, universal access to education, sustainable development, the alleviation of poverty in member countries, protection of the environment, and the promotion of international consensus on major issues. It sounds a bit like our new clause IV—>", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Commonwealth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "d tan. All can now be revealed. As treasurer of the CPA, the hon. Gentleman, in an orgy of self-denial, has taken himself to places that are far from the bosom of his family and the mother of Parliaments, so as to advance the interests of the Commonwealth and the CPA. It seems to have done him no harm, and that may encourage others among the 536 CPA members in the House to take a more active role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Commonwealth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": "illegally held automatic arms capable of absolute devastation in the crowded marketplaces and mosques in which they are increasingly being used. There are millions of weapons in the wrong hands in Pakistan and they are now spreading throughout the country. They are in the hands of those noble warriors who used to be lauded by Sandy Gall and others on \"News at Ten\" when they were doing the bidding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-16", "file": "debates1995-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "7d86cf350910d618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Commonwealth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "ed frequently with us. We have given it careful consideration over a long time and, as I have said, our clear view is that progress in Kashmir will be made only if the Governments of India and Pakistan talk to each other, if a genuine political process is started in Kashmir, if there is full recognition of human rights there, and if there is a cessation of external support for violence in Kashmir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-16a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-17", "file": "debates1995-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "58520bb004ca3f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-17a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Home Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Wearing the hat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Yes, that too. He excels in every way. I expect to see him running in the marathon soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-17a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-17", "file": "debates1995-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "58520bb004ca3f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-17a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Home Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "preceding_text": "ouse last year—great though it was in principle—was that it was somewhat heavy in practice and application. If the hon. Lady is a member of the thermal thought police, I am sure that she holds a fairly low rank. Her right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith)—who unfortunately has slipped off, no doubt on a covert operation—is, I think, secretly the chief of the thermal police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-17a.1139.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-20", "file": "debates1995-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4eec66f4aad65b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "We are talking about couples who reached an agreement, before the agency was set up, which had no direct implications for the taxpayer. It seems to me that the agency's priority should be to deal with those who involve the taxpayer in their arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-20", "file": "debates1995-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4eec66f4aad65b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "no direct implications for the taxpayer. It seems to me that the agency's priority should be to deal with those who involve the taxpayer in their arrangements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because we have an obligation to the taxpayer. I was surprised to hear the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) referring to us saving money for the Treasury. The Treasury does not have money; it is taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-20", "file": "debates1995-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4eec66f4aad65b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "east I have always wanted to regard it as such, one in which there is informality, in which people can represent themselves, in which the documents can speak for themselves and in which commonsense arbitration—it is perhaps more analogous to that than to other systems—emerges. I fear that, two or three years down the road, if I ever find myself back in law practice, which is very unlikely, I will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-20", "file": "debates1995-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4eec66f4aad65b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "nefit should not come within the ambit of the CSA. The Social Security Select Committee has drawn up two reports on the CSA. Unlike the Select Committee on Employment, where there has been more theatrical discussion of current issues, the cross-party assessment by the Social Security Select Committee has been sensible and purposeful, and has looked into the details of the CSA during the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-20a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.133.6", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I expect that he is overjoyed that Southwark will spend an extra £8 million on schools this year. He must be delighted by the Government's generosity in making that possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.133.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree with his Education Secretary, who said this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.6", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Time is up. We now have a statement from Mr. Secretary Gummer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The independent view of Southend is pretty well known to the House. The commission also recommended that the boundary of Southend should be extended to include Southend airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.145.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Greater Bootle.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": "e me one further assurance this afternoon. When the Local Government Commission reviews the shire counties, will it take the opportunity to examine metropolitan areas where a strong desire has been expressed for change, so that my constituents can put their case to the commission and that once and for all, we can get out of Merseyside and back into Lancashire—where my constituency rightly belongs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ted 6 February, was from the Minister to my hon. Friend, and it said: You request confirmation of the rate of increase in CAP expenditure between 1991–92 and 1995–96. Expenditure at 1991 was 31.9 billion ecu\"— so let us say 32 billion ecu, to round it up— while the 1995 CAP budget has been set at 37.9 billion ecu\"— so we could say roughly 38 billion ecu, an increase of 6 billion ecu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is early days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ad several debates on agriculture. Farmers throughout the country will listen to today's debate and I am sure that they thought that they would, at last, learn about what the Opposition propose for British farming. I suspect that other hon. Members are as baffled as I am about the Opposition's intentions. The Government deserve congratulations on what they have done to turn the titanic CAP around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You want to be reselected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "umers must pay for being part of the free trade area which is what I wanted Europe and the common market—as I saw it—to be. Tonight, however, I intend to support the Government and my former party: I shall vote for the main motion, and vote against the amendment tabled by the official Opposition—a far less effective opposition than we are, I might add. I shall do that for openly political reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Well, I hope that they do so for openly political reasons. The Tory party needs to unite before the local elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Well, I hope that they do so for openly political reasons. The Tory party needs to unite before the local elections— [Laughter.] I think that my party is in some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "take advantage of new opportunities, but the Government should seek to give them opportunities, which we have done through the introduction of the Agricultural Tenancies Bill, which is now before Parliament, grants for diversification and marketing schemes. How much better and more constructive that all is than what I can only presume was the politically correct waffle from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends will be here to vote. The point I am making is that the Scottish National party is represented here, whereas not one Scottish Conservative Member is in the Chamber. It is a valid point, and I would like to have seen a Scottish Office Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I urge the Government to play the strongest possible hand in supporting our farmers, who have been the greatest supporters of the Conservative party for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " sure that the hon. Gentleman will understand that for the average dairy farmer, for example, the quota may be worth as much as £200,000. They would very much like to know whether—I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is about to say something very carefully—on taking office a Labour Government would immediately give notice that quotas were to be phased out, say, within two years without compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "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": " of hygiene and quality are of uppermost concern and when meat is being dominated by the supermarkets which seek the highest standards, some of the enormous investment that has been made to ensure the highest possible standards must be supported by those in the meat trade to safeguard an important industry for our farmers. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Northampton, North is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "isation. For example, I am about to announce an export seminar to encourage tremendous development in horticulture. My hon. Friend is entirely right. My hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale went on to discuss matters connected with retaining the security of food supply, which is also important to the food industry. His plan was a blueprint that should be listened to by hon. Members across the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Wycombe provided us with a useful background, giving us the context in which to regard the subject, which is the wider debate on Europe. I think that he is right to try to do so, to place in perspective the important agricultural matters that we are considering. My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North took us through some important parts of the discussion on the subject of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I want to comment on the speeches of several hon. Members and, in fairness, I shall comment on the arguments of the hon. Member for Angus, East in due course. It is quite nice to see the hon. Member for North Cornwall in the Chamber this evening. Your absence was noted, you are quite right, in the debate on the Agricultural Tenancies Bill, and your absence from the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-21", "file": "debates1995-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b13ef56c5d952e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.8", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Agricultural Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's absence. I appreciate that. The absence of the hon. Member for North Cornwall from the Agriculture Tenancies Bill debate and from the animal welfare debate and parliamentary questions was duly noticed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-21a.241.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Training and Enterprise Councils", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "This debate must be placed in the context of decisions made in the 1993 Budget, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced proposals to cut £500 million from the Department of Employment's programme over the next three years. The training and enterprise councils' national council immediately announced that would inevitably lead to training cuts of between 10 per cent. and 28 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Training and Enterprise Councils", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would excuse me, I intended my remarks to be brief. I have taken three or four interventions. I wanted to speak about Southern Derbyshire TEC rather than Greater Nottingham TEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that that substantial reduction in unemployment is partly due to Scotland's success in attracting new industry? Does he believe that inward investment would be encouraged by Scotland signing up to the social chapter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that that substantial reduction in unemployment is partly due to Scotland's success in attracting new industry? Does he believe that inward investment would be encouraged by Scotland signing up to the social chapter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—adopting a national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that that substantial reduction in unemployment is partly due to Scotland's success in attracting new industry? Does he believe that inward investment would be encouraged by Scotland signing up to the social chapter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—adopting a national minimum wage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.]—or having a tax-raising Scottish Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.331.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "mportant though that is, but a potential loss of skills at the forefront of technology from Scotland and the United Kingdom to Germany? If the Secretary of State is not prepared to do anything, will the Government and the bunch of pathetic Ministers who have sat idly by while Rolls-Royce has been sold down the tube in Scotland move aside and make way for those of us who will do something about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I expected the hon. Gentleman to come out with that sort of rubbish. Unfortunately, he does not spend enough time in Scotland to see the success stories. Scottish business is enjoying record exports, record output and significant inward investment. If he were only to visit the Dunfermline area and see some of the new jobs that have been created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman may be able to make a speech during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must do better than that. I know that he can convince juries at the Old Bailey with his arguments, but that was a bit threadbare. We state clearly that there should be designation in regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady now tell us when any member of the Government has suggested any of those things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-22", "file": "debates1995-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "0d93f703b0685132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Otiose, for the benefit of the hon. Gentleman, means unnecessary and repetitious. The power already exists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-22a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "There is a growing demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The Government are currently considering their priorities for the inter-governmental conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Peacock", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the massive support in the United Kingdom for the reintroduction of corporal punishment for mindless violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I asked the Prime Minister a specific factual question. Is it true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "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 cannot get away with that, or with dealing with one aspect of privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.482.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.490.6", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "May I draw the attention of the Leader of the House to a story by Anthony Bevins which appeared in last Sunday's The Observer and which was headlined \"Three-day week for idle MPs\"? I for one deeply resent that sort of comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.490.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "oung people. The point was well made by my hon. Friend. We have a dossier of Conservative Members' views on young people. On Second Reading, comments made by well-heeled, millionaire-type Tory Members of Parliament on young people who were seeking employment and could not get it were revealing. A range of views was expressed, and between now and the next election we intend to use them to the full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " made by well-heeled, millionaire-type Tory Members of Parliament on young people who were seeking employment and could not get it were revealing. A range of views was expressed, and between now and the next election we intend to use them to the full. [Interruption.] Would the Whip, the hon. Member for Langbaurgh (Mr. Bates), like me to embarrass his hon. Friends? Perhaps he would, but I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.520.8", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "sions prescribed under clause 15 of the Bill? Perhaps the Minister would answer that later. What should constitute good cause? Might something that damages the health of a young person be good cause? I believe that it should be. Might poor treatment by the employer or trainer, such as the wrong type of directions, the wrong way of issuing directions, a rude method of approaching that young person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.520.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants, he can discuss the subject with my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Dr. Spink), who was an apprentice in the 1960s and can tell the hon. Gentleman about it. I cannot expand on that subject for too long because this is a short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants, he can discuss the subject with my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Dr. Spink), who was an apprentice in the 1960s and can tell the hon. Gentleman about it. I cannot expand on that subject for too long because this is a short debate— [Interruption.] I have one or two further points that I hope to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.539.6", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " to 21 a week, at a cost of £40 million. They opposed savings of £180 million. That is the Labour party at its unreconstructed worst. Its answer to everything is, \"Spend, spend, spend.\" When we ask whether the Labour party will do the spending, suddenly it has no policies. It opposes what we are doing, but has nothing to put in its place. At least the hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms Lynne) is honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.539.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Yes, and to save money. The Opposition have talked about nothing but savage cuts, but the Bill should be considered in context as part of the Government's wider programme of job promotion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Jobseekers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "t of the Government's wider programme of job promotion. [Laughter.] Yes, the savings under the Bill when it is up and running will be £270 million a year, but the Budget package of £700 million-worth of incentives is the other side of the coin. I shall not weary the House at this hour with details of the gainers under this bundle of measures, which my hon. Friend the Minister of State has clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.587.2", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ding technology and engineering. I am interested in that scheme and I shall certainly take account of what he said. The hon. Gentleman regretted the disappearance of a serious, restrained, competent discussion—those were his words—on many issues. He cited disastrous economic policy. That was a rather unfortunate example. He may have seen the article by Wynne Godley in the Financial Times recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.587.2", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ent economic policy since 1970, he has had to admit that during the past two years Government economic policy has been virtually perfect and that it would simply be vulgar to carry on criticising the Government. Government economic policy has been virtually perfect in the past two years. That is why now, for the first time in my life, we have an export-led economy with real prospects in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.587.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-23", "file": "debates1995-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bf97bb0448434411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Indeed. A Ministry with two Ministers is infinitely more efficient and productive than a Ministry with three, four or five Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-23a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-24", "file": "debates1995-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "067b46fa0086c108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-24a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Activity Centres (Young Persons' Safety) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friend's amendment is therefore apposite. My hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle talked about combined cadet forces and schools. Traditionally, many quite young boys and some girls join their CCF while at school and undergo a form of military training. When young people join a CCF, it is always made clear to them—although the CCF existed at my school, I did not join it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-24a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-24", "file": "debates1995-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "067b46fa0086c108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-24a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Activity Centres (Young Persons' Safety) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "now that he has great concern for his constituents and that he has contact with his local education authority. He, like so many of us here, is also concerned as a parent. I know that the hon. Gentleman is a parent because I came across his two children recently in the Strangers' Cafeteria. Unfortunately, when they espied me, thinking I was an old socialist, they scurried under the table for cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-24a.624.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "New clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is correct. The Bill, which I took over from my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris), included an exemption for small firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "New clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "ould deal with frivolous complaints quickly and protect small firms or, indeed, any large firm. It would be extraordinary to argue that small firms should be excluded from employment provisions because even though they are able to deal with complaints of discrimination on the grounds of gender and race, they cannot deal with complaints of discrimination on the grounds on disability. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.730.6", "colnum": "730", "heading": "New clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley), for whom I have immense respect from our long acquaintance with each other, says from a sedentary position, sotto voce, \"What about the tax legislation?\" to which the hon. Member for Erdington also referred. There are special arrangements for tax legislation—the VAT threshold, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.730.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "New clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "at, when one starts off with a positive proposition and people do not respond to say that they do not like it, it is reasonable to assume that they are agnostic. If they felt clearly that the proposition that we were making was wrong, they would have said so. I am the first to recognise that they did not take the opportunity to say that they like it, but they did not say that they did not like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": " It can be part of the fine tuning of policy that is needed for feedback to go through to the Welsh Office and to the Secretary of State, as would happen on a general level in London. One additional dimension is covered in subsection (12) of new clause 17. In the event of a parliament or legislative assembly for Wales, which is likely to happen after the next general election within a year or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "RAF Bentwaters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a Suffolk Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "RAF Bentwaters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "preceding_text": " to live and that he had in addition to all this never found the enlightenment that he had been seeking. Another friend of ours who is an ex-Barrister and well educated from a wealthy and established background was literally reduced to a barking, growling and totally degraded wreck. We saw this with our own eyes and were extremely shocked having had no previous preconceptions about this technique.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-27", "file": "debates1995-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c4a1a2f9a60b2a46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "RAF Bentwaters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that he has not had the courtesy of a reply. He wrote to me but did not include the letters that he claimed to include. He has given me no notice of tonight's debate nor informed me of anything else that he has done. Moreover, he has not apologised to me this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-27a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.815.5", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take it from someone who worked with the defence industry before being elected that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.815.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out that it has been this Government and this Secretary of State for Defence who have announced an augmentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that the hon. Gentleman is one of the few who were not members of CND.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that the hon. Gentleman is one of the few who were not members of CND. [Interruption.] But why in this exchange did we get the organ grinder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " entirely accept that the hon. Gentleman is one of the few who were not members of CND. [Interruption.] But why in this exchange did we get the organ grinder— [Interruption.] Why did we not get the organ grinder and have to make do with the monkey instead? The hon. Gentleman is well aware that the reduction of nuclear weapons in a nuclear world should be treated with the greatest care and caution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister acknowledge that it is the first duty of a free media to report the truth irrespective of Government bullying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Fishing Rights (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend speaks for common sense and with a real understanding of the situation on behalf of everyone in the House. He is quite right. He knows far more about the details than I do, but I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Fishing Rights (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "No one in the House needs to be reminded of their sympathy for Canada. Newfoundland was discovered from my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Fishing Rights (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said the Table.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is not quite correct: the Dispatch Box at which I stand was the gift of New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-28", "file": "debates1995-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "59d0da3d1ad1037b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Discrimination Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "d succeed in progressing cases under the Bill. The problem of enforceability is exacerbated by the fact that the Government believe that most cases will be settled out of court under this part of the Bill. The new clause does not state that all information must at all times and in all places be produced in parallel in print, braille and spoken tapes. That would not be feasible, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-28a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1018.4", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": " we have reduced our nuclear weapons by some 25 per cent., to what we judge to be a minimal level. That has involved halving free-fall weapons, the complete non-deployment of surface maritime weapons, and a self-imposed restriction on the number of missile warheads used on Trident. That is a reduction of some 25 per cent. in explosive power, which is what we consider a minimum level of deterrence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1018.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "Is it not symptomatic of the antiquated nature of our consular and diplomatic services that a constituent reports to me that in the audiovisual room in Tanzania the only two videos available are one of a royal wedding and one of country pursuits in Devon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1024.6", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "You will remember that, not very long ago, we used to have 20 minutes set aside for questions on what was then the European Community and is now the European Union. The situation has changed, in that, as Delors said, the time will soon come when 80 per cent. of political issues are decided at the European level rather than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1024.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1032.4", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady speaks about so-called cuts in education. That shows no sense of reality about what is happening in the classroom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1032.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I always welcome the powerful interventions of my hon. Friend. He is backed today by 3,000 people from Derbyshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I always welcome the powerful interventions of my hon. Friend. He is backed today by 3,000 people from Derbyshire— [Interruption.] No, I said that he was backed today by 3,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "urn out to be the result of the mathematical genius that the Prime Minister obviously employs in the Cabinet Office. We know that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is geographically and historically challenged; we know that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury is ethically challenged; and we know that the Prime Minister is mathematically challenged. They cannot add up, and they cannot tell the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I was engaged at the Chair and did not hear the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside. But I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1036.7", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where is he now?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1036.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What about school rolls?", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State said that cuts are not involved, yet the figures for Durham show that its standard spending assessment this year has declined from £208 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "The best way for the hon. Gentleman to speak for the children and parents of Rotherham is for him to ask precisely the questions of that authority that are being asked by my hon. Friends, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Marland). That would be the way for the hon. Gentleman to protect the interests of his constituents. However, I have some interesting examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "The proposals for Manchester grammar school are extremely interesting and I know that my hon. Friend has does an enormous amount of work on the interface between the maintained and independent sectors. My hon. Friend has discovered and expressed many interesting viewpoints. I take this opportunity publicly to invite him to tea, to talk to me about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "e the £500,000 cut was a tightening of the rules because of the excessive amount of sick pay taken by county hall staff, which was mentioned by the Audit Commission. I was so extremely incensed by the way in which the county had cut the money for our schools that I decided to go into the question of grant-maintained status. GM status was not only a Conservative idea you know, ladies and gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "We now have a definite statement. The Liberal Democrats also want further and higher education institutes to submit to local authority control. Is that what the country really wants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greg Pope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greg Pope", "preceding_text": "I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on his speech in opening the debate, which he did extraordinarily well in the face of what appeared to be organised disruption by the yobbo tendency on the Conservative Benches. I found the Secretary of States comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to draw attention to the situation in schools in my constituency, and particularly that in the 15 primary schools which I have visited during the past year. I did so in response to an organised campaign urging parents to complain about over-sized classes, adverse comparisons between our education standard spending assessment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1096.11", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be called in the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was beginning to wonder whether there was something wrong with the annunciator, because there are only three Labour Back Benchers in the Chamber for what we are told is such an important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1096.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "d in running a school, much of which is due to Government changes. I am sure that the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State will again tell local education authorities to set sensible priorities. On 21 March the Prime Minister said that there were two administrators for every three teachers. That is utter nonsense and the right hon. Gentlemans assumption vanishes immediately under examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": " schools face budget cuts. Margaret Lally, chair of the National Campaign for Nursery Education, said: We have always doubted the Governments real commitment to increasing state nursery education. This just shows how little they have. The National Governors Council agrees, given the Prime Ministers pledge to his party conference, to provide nursery education within the lifetime of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for threats to be made against persons approaching this House with a view to lobbying their Members of Parliament? Is that not a breach of parliamentary privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1119.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1119.8", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Education Cuts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I seem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1119.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Drugs and Appliances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "There is a great deal of difference between what the hon. Gentleman says and what his right hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South said earlier. The right hon. Lady has absolutely no solution to filling the gap that would be left by the loss of the £310 million which contributes to greater patient care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Drugs and Appliances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "TIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Promise No. 1: abolish prescription charges. What happened? Labour did not abolish prescription charges. Perhaps that is why, at the most recent general election, the Labour party did not even mention prescription charges. It did not say whether it would abolish them, reduce them or have a thoroughgoing review. In the document Health 2000 there was no mention of them either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Drugs and Appliances", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-29", "file": "debates1995-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "30da12ed59891002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Drugs and Appliances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "people get free prescriptions under them than they did under Labour. But that is not because the Governments prescription exemptions are any more generous: they have not changed at all. It is because more people are now living in real poverty, more are unemployed and there are more elderly people, although I cannot blame the Government for that. Increased costs are deterring those who have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-29a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1169.5", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "My reply to the hon. Gentleman is that people and parties living in glass houses should not throw stones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sure that there is a range of opinion on these matters in Japan as there is in this country. I would be happier if the Japanese lady would wait until the single currency has been designed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1173.7", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I am happy to refresh my hon. Friend's memory. Some people were paying tax at 98p in the pound under the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1179.4", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister cannot have it both ways. Either he believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Contracting Out", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Derbyshire, South\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " the Government in 17 years, that their privatisation programme ends with the semi-contractorisation of Companies House? The President of the Board of Trade wrote a chapter about privatisation in his fantasy novel, \"Where There's a Will\". It did not read as well as that of the Conservative Member who wrote a novel recently. I forget the name of her constituency, but she is well known to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Contracting Out", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ts praises; and at the end of the day, he privatises the London search room of Companies House. Opposition Members believe that this is a fag-end order of a fag-end Government. The President wrote in his book: The Tory philosophy must build upon the individual\". We are entitled to ask, which individual supported the contractorisation of services in Companies House? Where does the desire come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Contracting Out", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ulations from the statute book and make no progress in deregulation. When the previous Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs, the hon. Member for Honiton, whom I had hoped would be here tonight because he took a strong interest in the subject, was in the post presently occupied by the Minister, he brought to a Committee of the House two bookloads of consolidated regulations, most of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "preceding_text": "d by the council has increased enormously. Some 80 per cent. of the council's income is Government grant, so the Government have a stranglehold on the council's resources. Inevitably, that affects the council's spending and how it decides between priorities. For example, the Government's failure to fund the teachers' pay increase has meant that it has had to be funded from elsewhere in the budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "councils were unable to resource their community care programmes because of bad management, did not reflect the group's views and had prompted him to consider resigning. That is the users and carers group, which says that arguments about bad management simply do not wash. It is not the issue. Is it any wonder that directors, according to the same magazine, are outraged by Bowis's attitude to cuts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-30", "file": "debates1995-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d25ebbde2b98025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Tourism", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage (Mr. Iain Sproat)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage (Mr. Iain Sproat)", "preceding_text": "South and Finsbury and for Stalybridge and Hyde (Mr. Pendry), few industries would have more cause to fear any future socialist Government. We would have a minimum wage and all the new regulations that the Labour party wants to impose. We would have statutory compulsory registration of hotels and guest houses. Has the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury any idea how much that would cost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-30a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-31", "file": "debates1995-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "432913a6480d0212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-31a.1300.2", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " like some of the more Gump-like remarks made by the people on the Opposition Front Bench. There is more to the crime than that, because bootlegging is stealing from our most important industries. It is also stealing from the people who benefit from the profits of those industries and from the consumer. Since the 1960s, popular music has probably been one of the most successful British industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-31a.1300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-03-31", "file": "debates1995-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "432913a6480d0212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-31a.1300.2", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trendy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "ant industries. It is also stealing from the people who benefit from the profits of those industries and from the consumer. Since the 1960s, popular music has probably been one of the most successful British industries— [Interruption.] One of my hon. Friends is muttering that he would not listen to all of it, but groups such as the Beatles, and now Take That, are well-known popular music artistes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-03-31a.1300.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "Railtrack has oversight of the entire rail network, rather as the Highways Agency has oversight of the trunk road and motorway network. I note the hon. Gentleman's scepticism about Thameslink—a scepticism that I do not expect to be borne out by the results of the feasibility study conducted recently by Railtrack and British Rail. The hon. Gentleman is so welded—I mean wedded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1386.4", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to find room in that £82 million of expenditure to apply for planning permission for the Terrace marquee, so that it may be open all the year round instead of only eight months a year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1386.4", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to find room in that £82 million of expenditure to apply for planning permission for the Terrace marquee, so that it may be open all the year round instead of only eight months a year? [Interruption.] Is my right hon. Friend aware, and is the House aware", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "London Airports (Transport Links)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "te that more than 37 million sq ft of offices have been given planning permission in the M25 area? What strengthening of planning policy guidance 13 does he propose to prevent an explosion of traffic generation as a result? If the right hon. Gentleman really believes in public transport, why has he made no mention of improving orbital rail links to Heathrow and around south-west London in support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Invest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stern", "preceding_text": "he extent, if any, to which the Government's plans for raising taxation from betting have been changed as a result of this announcement. When the Chancellor made his Budget statement, he will have included, in the balance of tax and expenditure, a certain yield from betting. Those of us who follow the industry's progress in the newspapers, or who, like me, invest regularly in the national lottery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-03", "file": "debates1995-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ba53abe49678b023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Clause 14", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "I hate to disappoint the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-03a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " per cent. of earnings has risen 23 per cent. above inflation since 1979. What did the Opposition do for such people? Their pay fell under the previous Labour Government. Since 1979, real pay at all levels has risen for male full-timers and women, in comparison with the late 1970s when productivity and pay stagnated. Real take-home pay for a couple with an average earner has risen by 46 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1521.10", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1521.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1523.6", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are 56,000 asylum applications awaiting decision? Are not bogus asylum applications damaging to the prospects of honest and true immigrants as well as damaging to race relations? Will my right hon. Friend do something about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1523.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1602.4", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": " their cost implications to the man on the Clapham omnibus, one will hear time and time again—especially in the speeches of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East—expensive new Labour mantras such as \"greater use of capital receipts\", which is worth some £6 billion, \"new regional assemblies and development agencies\", \"the introduction of a defence conversion agency\", \"a growth strategy for Europe\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Because everyone knew that that was an opportunist amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " Bill, as he was not present in Committee very often. The only thing that can be said about him is that he was present on slightly more occasions than the Liberal Democrats, who were hardly there at all. One was bound to wonder why they asked for places on the Standing Committee on the Finance Bill—perhaps that is something that the Committee of Selection might want to take into account next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": " by impartial professionals providing correct information, but giving advertisers the run of the health service is not the way to do it. I am certain that we shall hear from the Government that mothers are grown-up adults who can make up their own minds on whether to believe the advertiser. I am even more certain that it has been a long time since any Conservative Members were in a maternity ward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "entific evidence exists that not only is breast milk best, but the use of infant formulae is damaging to both babies' and mothers' health. Compared with breast-fed babies, bottle-fed infants are twice as likely to suffer from respiratory infections, and five to 10 times as likely to suffer gastroenteritis. Good evidence also exists to suggest that breast-fed babies turn out to be more intelligent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "ct temperature, avoiding the laborious processes involved in sterilising bottles and in infant formulae preparation. It is also enjoyable for both mother and baby, and best for the restoration of the mother's figure to its pre-pregnant state. With all those advantages, everything seems to be going for breast-feeding. Is it not strange, therefore, that so few women apparently choose to breast-feed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "m to this country as to how to regulate such matters and, of course, the Government have already made clear their support for the World Health Organisation's code, which is perhaps more stringent. I was referring to the attitudes which persist in society. I believe that they have a great deal to do with what amounts to considerable consumer resistance to breast-feeding, even though the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He is going now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ed to undermine breast-feeding rather than to promote it. If Britain is to get anywhere near achieving the Government's targets on breast-feeding in the White Paper, \"The Health of the Nation\", we shall have to learn from the experience of countries such as Norway. There is no promotion of baby milk in Norway. Since 1970, when breast-feeding rates there were similar to those in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Faber", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Faber", "preceding_text": "condemning the fact that some European companies own companies here in Britain, we have seen that they are anti-EC investment in this country. I shall not follow the hon. Member for Selly Oak down the path that she took. I found some of what she said quite incomprehensible. I am delighted to declare a constituency interest as Cow and Gate Ltd. has its headquarters in Trowbridge in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faber", "preceding_text": "made of the organisations that are opposed to advertising baby milk and of the representations that they have made to my hon. Friend the Minister. I disagree with the hon. Member for Clwyd, South-West, who questions the validity of an independent survey carried out for Bounty. He is right that Bounty may not be independent, but the company which carried out the survey—Market Trends—is independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faber", "preceding_text": ", and we will do everything possible to promote that. Bottle-feeding is not dangerous—it is a matter of the degree of goodness for the baby. While cigarettes can still be freely advertised it would be ludicrous to ban the limited advertising of a legal and healthy product such as baby milk. It would be insulting to mothers and to their intelligence to say that they cannot make a rational decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": "terest. To whom should we listen—the baby food industry or the health professionals? The answer is self-evident. My next question is rather sad: to whom is the Government more likely to listen—the health professionals or the food industry? I am afraid that the answer to that is self-evident. That is why it has become self-evident to right-thinking people that it is time for the Government to fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-04", "file": "debates1995-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "87e83df167224369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "for their generosity. Despite my reassurances to the contrary, a feeling has developed during tonight's debate that somehow the Government are anti-breast-feeding. I agree with everything that has been said about the benefits of breast-feeding. The hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) mentioned those benefits and I assure him that I do not disagree for one minute with what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-04a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Fry", "preceding_text": "d tempting offers of tickets to far-away places at very attractive prices. Unfortunately, a considerable number of those offers prove to be bogus. The excuse is that they are limited and are no longer available. However, at least one operator advertised services which never existed in the first place, let alone any fares that could operate on them. Too many of the advertised fares are unavailable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1721.2", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which space?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to be chivvied by my hon. Friend, especially in space—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1725.3", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "hborough (Mr. Dorrell), now Secretary of State for National Heritage, talked about high dividends and low investment, he was promptly denounced by Lord Hanson, who contributed £120,000 to the Conservative party and then sent a letter to the Prime Minister denouncing the right hon. Gentleman. When it comes to high dividends and low investment, we know full well where the heart of the Tory party is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1725.6", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "I am talking not about Lord Hanson but about the question, which concerned investment. The hon. Gentleman, who is more sensible than most Opposition Members about such matters, will know that if manufacturing productivity has increased two and a half times faster in the United Kingdom than in Germany, that has to reflect the quality and importance of British investment over that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1725.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1735.2", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mrs. Virginia Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "d exchange by anyone's standards. For St Bartholomew's and the Royal London, capital investment will total nearly £240 million. It is expected to deliver revenue savings of £30 million a year; the current subsidy for the trust is about £8 million a year. Let me say to my right hon. Friend that the changes that I announced yesterday, which take our strategy forward, are not primarily about finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "respect and excitement by many people in the clinical field. On the question of accident and emergency departments, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the comments of Sir Norman Browse, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Howard Baderman, a doctor and an adviser to the chief medical officer, who time and again talk about the great number of A and E departments in London, far above need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1747.4", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. Friend will bear with me, but I must quote to him something that the chairman of the neurosciences review said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1747.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-05", "file": "debates1995-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "344ddd7c56633191", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Edgware General Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "esting and doing what a Member of Parliament never has to apologise for, to any Department or Minister—defending the interests of his own constituents when a vital medical health installation is threatened with closure. If that is a matter for laughing and smirking, my hon. Friend is not fit to be a Government Whip, because most of my colleagues who are Government Whips would not behave like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-05a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.4", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": "To ask the Secretary of State for Health what safeguards exist to ensure proper standards of domiciliary care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Jane Kennedy for Question 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Jane Kennedy for Question 14. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady is not present. I call Mr. O'Hara for Question 15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Jane Kennedy for Question 14. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady is not present. I call Mr. O'Hara for Question 15. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is not present. I call Mr. Streeter for Question 16.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.12.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.16.0", "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 refer my hon. Friend—no, I do not. My right hon. Friend, the President of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "now in advance. In some cases, Members do not let me know and they do not let Ministers know. That is very bad behaviour. The Whips, perhaps through the 1922 Committee, of which the right hon. Gentleman is a respected Member, and through the parliamentary Labour party, should call to the attention of Members the fact that Ministers and the Chair need an apology when Members are not in their place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": ", I recently chaired a meeting attended by representatives of angling bodies. They discussed the state of the Bill when it left another place and identified the subjects on which it would be important to focus in this debate and in Committee. Some of the points that I shall make would no doubt be more appropriate to the Committee stage but I shall mention two general issues. The job of the agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Tipping) mentioned, the plans for dealing with contaminated mine water refer only to those 32 pits remaining in operation. About 1,000 pits have been closed in the past 50 years, and their legacy is appalling. By their own admission, the Government still want to give advantage in that area to the polluters and to protect the profits of privatisation. The removal of exemption from prosecution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "It is true. Most alarming of all, the number of people with asthma triggered and aggravated by air pollution has doubled in a decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-18", "file": "debates1995-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "c0ad3bb8532b2097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment Bill [Lords]", "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": "velopment involves reconciling the needs of achieving economic development and effective environmental protection. Regulators should not therefore be able to proceed without taking into account the likely costs and benefits of their actions wherever it is reasonable for them to do so. However, despite suggestions from Opposition Members, that will not be at the expense of environmental protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-18a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-19", "file": "debates1995-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "50d2c705984855b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "ave tackled the issue of milk quotas which is a real barrier for young farmers entering the industry. Often in the past, people entered that type of farming because of the regular milk cheque. We have tackled the issue of the way in which county council holdings have ceased to provide a stepping stone into the industry. There are many reasons for that, for which I not blame the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-19", "file": "debates1995-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "50d2c705984855b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.256.6", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "e intervention. Of course, any Labour Government reserve the right to enact new legislation in this area. It may well be that, in 10 years' time—from the Opposition Benches—the hon. Gentleman will appeal to a Labour Government to introduce new legislation. The point is that legislation such as this will relate only to the new tenancies. It may apply to tenancies that commence in 2010, or whenever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.256.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-19", "file": "debates1995-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "50d2c705984855b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "ourable Agricola for Hemsworth on his restraint during the past few minutes, for using only six Latin words during his entire speech. In Committee, I think that he spoke Latin on a number of occasions. On Second Reading, he may also have used Latin as well. It is a great pleasure to see someone who descends from the great Latin scholars and who farms so heavily the gooseberry patches of Hemsworth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-19", "file": "debates1995-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "50d2c705984855b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Queen Mary and Westfield College Bill(By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that. We have received representations from the universities in Arizona, California, Detroit, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Miami, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Florida, Southern California, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia Washington, North Carolina and St. Louis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-19a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.336.6", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is repeating yet more unsubstantiated and inaccurate Labour smears, as I will now demonstrate. The grant is determined by an objective formula which takes into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to make sure that we do not allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.342.8", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I hope that I shall not be thought ungenerous if I harbour the suspicion that that question may be a frustrated supplementary from Home Office questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "pect from its Members\", and that a formal reprimand and suspension must follow. I know that concern exists among some of my hon. Friends, who believe that the sanctions to be imposed are not adequate in the circumstances. They will be able to make their own case, if, Madam Speaker, they are able to catch your eye later. I must admit that I have some sympathy for those who want equity of treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "lotted will be two hours\".—[ Official Report, 18 April 1995; Vol. 258, c. 28.] I have not come here to be adversarial. However, we have ahead of us the Nolan and Scott reports, which will go to the very heart of what are proper relationships and conduct in this House of Commons. Whatever is agreed by the usual channels is not necessarily appropriate for what is a genuine House of Commons interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member would have wished to ask each and every one of the members of Committee that, from the Leader of the House down. I cannot go outside the matter before us; it would be wrong so to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "one of the members of Committee that, from the Leader of the House down. I cannot go outside the matter before us; it would be wrong so to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Simply because the Committee did not sit in public. Had the Committee sat in public, perhaps the answer sought by the hon. Gentleman would have been clear and apparent. I for one fought hard to ensure that the Committee sat in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "preceding_text": "table. The Committee did not find that in its verdict, which was based on the clear impression which my hon. Friend received and conveyed in his exchanges with the Committee: that he was being offered something much less crude, draconian, immediate and limited than £1,000 to ask the question. Under those circumstances, how much more reasonable is it that colleagues might make an error of judgment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "preceding_text": "technically adroit conspiracy to deceive my hon. Friend, had to establish that he was prepared to take £1,000 for asking a question. It could not, under any circumstances, allow the proposition to be dressed up in so crude a form because it knew that, had my hon. Friend been placed in that position, he would almost immediately have said, \"You can't be serious. A thousand quid to ask one question?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "iminal—outside the House, where someone has been put on remand against the suspicion that a crime may have been committed, when a sentence is passed, consideration is given to the lapse of time that the individual has already suffered as a penalty in prison. I believe that it is right that the House should take into consideration the fact that my two hon. Friends have had to wait nearly 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the right hon. Gentleman's argument. Is he saying that, if his hon. Friends had been offered what he calls an ongoing consultancy, under the terms of which they would have been able, or required, to ask a series of parliamentary questions at £1,000 a time, it would have been perfectly satisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "nt out of my way to ring up the Clerk of the Committee to ask whether, in view of my position in relation to The Guardian newspaper—which we are not debating today—I should declare my interest. The advice that I received was that it was not necessary to declare my interest in a newspaper as such. I went out of my way to put that entry in the register and I believe that I was justified in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "ver bids before my election to the House, I would begin my investigations at that point. My hon. Friend agreed to table a question—that is the only point at which I disagree with his actions. I would not have tabled a question if I had a consultancy arrangement with a company—as many other hon. Members who have consultancy arrangements with businesses or trade unions have agreed to do in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "oving towards a decision. My hon. Friend the Member for Tatton has a right to know the decision of the Committee at the earliest possible moment. The result of the two interventions by the hon. Member for Workington has been simply that the Committee has not been able to sit. It has not been able to listen to the comments of his hon. Friends who, on occasion, have had my support in that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Not just yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.396.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.402.11", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "mmittee. I noticed that, the first or second time that matter was raised, the complaints were confined strictly to the fact that the hon. Gentleman concerned was a Whip. When I pointed out that I was a Whip also, matters developed somewhat, and they have developed considerably further this evening. It was pointed out that the Conservative Whip would have a power of patronage that was denied to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.402.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-20", "file": "debates1995-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a32e05b60a8e2d09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " on reforming the Members' Interests Select Committee. As has already been said, Ministers sit on Select Committees. For example, a Treasury Minister is a member of the Public Accounts Select Committee. By convention, Ministers attend only once on appointment, but they receive all the papers. None the less, it is open to them to attend. The Attorney-General is a member of the Privileges Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-20a.405.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ach year of deferral. In future, we shall extend that period of flexibility indefinitely and boost the increment to 10 per cent. for each year of deferral. The decision about equalising the state pension age is of enormous importance; in terms of expenditure, it is almost certainly the biggest single decision taken during this Parliament, so it is reasonable to ask the Opposition where they stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.529.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lord Mackay.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State shakes his head. I am quoting the Lord of Ardbrecknish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": " provide pensions. Those members are not encouraged by a Bill that offers them less protection in the future. After Maxwell, the Government promised that more effective regulation would be introduced. Goode recommended an independent, state-funded regulator with adequate powers. Instead, we have been offered the occupational pensions regulatory authority, OPRA, with a meagre budget of £10 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Forman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Forman", "preceding_text": "concession made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on war widows in clause 117. That can only do good in the broadest sense. I would advise him and his Front-Bench colleagues to consider carefully the question of the splitting of rights to pension assets on divorce. I think the best way forward would be to take the advice of the Institute of Actuaries, with which I had lunch last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "issuing debt and to start balancing their accounts. The fact is that the bond markets show no great enthusiasm for taking up Government debt these days. We should therefore not be issuing large amounts of it. I am delighted that the Government have accepted the point about war widows. It is a great tribute to them that they are paying for something that no previous Government have managed to fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.591.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-24", "file": "debates1995-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "270c0582d8c8472b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "what it is doing, we also find that, on the state pension age, where the arguments are obvious to the Governments of Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and the United States—all of whom have moved or are moving to a common retirement age of at least 65—only the Labour party remains unaware of the arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-24a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister had a chance to see the extraordinary spectacle of the victory parade by his Euro-rebels over the Government on the lunchtime news? Can the Prime Minister therefore tell us whether he has even secured the minimal guarantee from those rebels that, on a future vote of confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.655.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member obviously wants some explanation. Access to the House is a matter for the Speaker. There is an anomaly between the Standing Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical (Professional Performance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "d, that promise was made to him during the Queen's Speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett). The hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) got his teeth into the briefing notes so ably prepared by the House of Commons Library, although he diverted from them to accuse some patients of unreasonably becoming ill, thereby placing pressure on the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical (Professional Performance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "ith elegance and enthusiasm. Attending parts of today's debate was not like watching paint dry but like listening to it. Even the Minister's parliamentary private secretary fell to reading Scallywag —as far as I could see from here, it was the latest edition. Presumably he was checking to see if the Minister for Health appeared in it. I do not know whether that is part of his parliamentary duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.754.4", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I was rather hoping that the hon. Gentleman would come back within the confines of the money resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.754.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman obviously did not hear me clearly enough. It is no good him just carrying on reading the notes about the American Act that he prepared beforehand. He cannot refer to the American Act on this particular occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-25", "file": "debates1995-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "0332355c7d468bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Local Government (Leicestershire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "It is local government in Leicestershire, Mr. Deputy Speaker, which includes the city of Leicester. It is relevant because the Local Government Commission's recommendation, which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is minded to accept, is to give unitary status to the city. I suggest that that is unwise for the reasons that I have advanced and am in the process of advancing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-25a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-26", "file": "debates1995-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "756029f204dcc7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Rugby League", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Channel 5?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "Time spent in the south of England has taught me that rugby league is indeed a civilising influence and I concur with my hon. Friend's comments. Let us consider—this issue is being discussed in Australia—the wider implications, for example, for news management because of the way in which Mr. Murdoch has moved into rugby league. Indeed, he is moving into other areas too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-26", "file": "debates1995-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "756029f204dcc7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State now answer the question? Is he personally in favour, as press reports suggest, of a merger of Scottish Nuclear and Nuclear Electric before privatisation? If so, is he aware that no one outside the Scottish Office shares that opinion? Opposition to it ranges from nuclear enthusiasts such as James Hann and Donald Miller to nuclear sceptics such as myself and Friends of the Earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-26", "file": "debates1995-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "756029f204dcc7c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not understand the shock wave that has gone through Scottish public opinion with the news that plans are afoot to merge Scottish Nuclear with other nuclear facilities in order that they be privatised? Does he not understand that that ultimate privatisation madness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-26a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-27", "file": "debates1995-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "89c4bbcead65fc79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-27a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on the decision to acquire the Churchill papers? I support all who called for such a debate with a view to congratulating those who made the great decision to acquire the papers of the greatest man in the century, perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-27a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-04-27", "file": "debates1995-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "89c4bbcead65fc79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-27a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "China and Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "orward amendments taking those slightly further forward. He obviously had the support of a majority on LegCo, but the Government withdrew their own legislation. I shall return to that matter in a moment. Given Governor Patten's regular forays to Europe, the United States and all over the world to make theme speeches, albeit of great interest and learning, it is strange that he is not here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-27a.1037.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-04-28", "file": "debates1995-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cc735222b972d51b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-04-28a.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Remaining 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/1995-04-28a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that there are few things that anger the British people more than the activities of rip-off merchants who fraudulently take the money of the British taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.4.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": ", I shall examine the point about the district courts not having been included. If there is merit in the point, we can insert it later in the passage of the Bill. As the hon. Gentleman knows very well—his wife has played a leading role as a social worker—the role of reporter is different from that of a social worker. He, of course, is independent and has to make an independent report to the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "rt, I leave my challenge on the table, as it were—I will go anywhere in Scotland that he suggests to ascertain public opinion. In Committee, we debated a similar new clause. New clause 18 was voted down in Committee. No one voted in support of it. That was the right decision at the time. I ask my hon. Friend the Minister to take account of that decision when he responds to the debate. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman will contribute to the debate by making his own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "preceding_text": "I support this modest measure, which I believe is supported by public opinion. It is regrettable that the hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie) has not read the Scottish Law Commission report; if he had, he would have had second thoughts about many of the points that he made in his alarming and extreme speech. It concerns me that only four of his hon. Friends are present—five; another has just entered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Devlin", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, there is no age divide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-01", "file": "debates1995-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "fb84c163929a919f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-01a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Old soldiers never fade away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.165.9", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "Does not the letter from my constituent, Mr. W. D. Knight, express the opinions of millions of people in this country when he says that he will never again buy a national lottery ticket? How, he asks, can the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.165.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ck this morning, the chairman of the Tory party said that there was no such policy; at 11 o'clock this morning, Downing street said that there was a policy but they were reviewing it; at 12.3 pm, the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) described the policy as lunacy; and at 12.42 pm the Chancellor issued a statement, saying that he had now completed the review and was ditching the policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Forensic Testing (Road Deaths)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Accommodation in the House of Commons may not be used for commercial purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-02", "file": "debates1995-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "b1d8641b56276ba5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Atomic Energy Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " is comparable when the provisions of the scheme are taken as a whole. They would effectively require each benefit to be as good as the present one. As I have said, the new employer would be hamstrung into providing a pension scheme whose benefits, as a minimum, mirror the authority scheme. That would be unduly restrictive and could work against the interests of employees. Let us take one example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-02a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "I would not personally be willing to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. David Davis)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. David Davis)", "preceding_text": " for his constituency in doing so. I also welcome the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Lloyd), who made his first speech as spokesman on this subject. I thought that it was a good outing. However, from listening to the hon. Member for Stretford after listening to Labour Back Benchers, it became clear that, between them, they revealed the tortured soul of the Labour party on nuclear deterrent issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Broadmoor Farm Business Park", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": "stered a strong interest with the Highways Agency in maintaining the integrity of the Broadmoor Farm site following the earlier public consultations on the preferred route. As my hon. Friend is aware, my hon. Friend the Minister for Railways and Roads agreed to adjust the preferred route to avoid bisecting the Broadmoor Farm site after full discussion with local authorities and landowners' agents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "? I do not ask my first question of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell) personally, because I know him well and he knows what he is talking about. I am not absolutely convinced, however, that all those who have been placed over him—wrongfully, in my judgment—know as much as he does. I would not even contemplate bothering the House with the curriculum vitae of members of the shadow Cabinet", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Gentleman mean by appalling poverty wages in this country? What evidence has he for that? Let me give him an example from an industry of which I have personal experience—the shirt industry in Northern Ireland. Many of the ladies working in that industry have for generations been the breadwinners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " Question Time performance by my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). We looked into the question of the shirt workers in Derry and the relationship between the national minimum wage and family credit at the time. It was part of the process of debate and dialogue within the party, which will see a national minimum wage emerge properly and to the satisfaction of those who work with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "On exchange rates rather than exchange rate—in relation to the yen, the dollar and those currencies currently within the European exchange rate mechanism—we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "On exchange rates rather than exchange rate—in relation to the yen, the dollar and those currencies currently within the European exchange rate mechanism—we believe—[ interruption. ] I want to get on with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ur shores in 30 or 40 years, we will need to be sure that we have established our expertise in that technology. That will enable us to go anywhere in the world and have the foundation of an export business in hi-tech, which will be the long-term yield of Britain's offshore industry. My second point is that we need a recognition of the importance of the whisky industry, both nationally and locally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "nese companies pay considerably above what any of us would regard as an acceptable minimum wage and the conditions and quality of employment are often extremely high. It gives a lie to the idea that this country can prosper only with a low-wage economy. Wynne Godley has written for The Guardian, which might disqualify him in the Minister's eyes. The Government chose him as one of the six wise men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "A difference exists between the Labour party and the Conservative party, or at least the Thatcher Conservative party—as an election draws near, I am not sure what the new Conservative party is doing. You are becoming interventionist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-03", "file": "debates1995-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b85532ad645e4efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ant point that she might have made. Indeed, the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South (Mrs. Currie), who often graces debates such as these, might have made it for her. Toyota is to invest a further £200 million to double production at its Burnaston plant in Derbyshire. By the time the plant is in full production in 1999, it is expected to create 1,000 jobs directly and a further 3,000 with suppliers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-03a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.426.8", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that there is sufficient information on labels at present? On the sugar content of drinks and other foodstuffs and the link with dental caries, does she agree that the best way forward is to have more parental discipline, with children cleaning their teeth thoroughly morning, noon and night, and less interference by the nanny state?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.426.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He was not here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "As for the debate on the national health service in London next week, can my right hon. Friend confirm that it will be in order to draw the House's attention to the excellent Teddington memorial hospital, which is the smallest national health service trust hospital in the whole country, has 49 general practitioner beds and is a tremendous success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.446.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Polaris and will have them in greater strength in Trident. How many more times does the hon. Gentleman want to multiply them at a time when we are supposed to be actively involved in extending a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Where is the logic in that? I have not even begun to discuss what I came here to discuss. I cannot put a theme together in such a short time, because I must conclude soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "al. Will Labour really stand up for Britain's interests far and wide? Even if it wanted to, I very much doubt that it would have the capability. I found it hard to take to hear the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) weeping crocodile tears about the capability of the Royal Air Force. Would his party make a commitment to support the Eurofighter 2000? Would it update the Sea Harrier, the Nimrod?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not hear that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-04", "file": "debates1995-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "88c354d042a41b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Water Charges (South-West)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": "-East (Mr. Hicks), for Torridge and Devon, West (Miss Nicholson), for Exeter (Sir J. Hannam), for South Hams (Mr. Steen), for St. Ives (Mr. Harris), for Plymouth, Drake (Dame J. Fookes), for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Streeter), for Taunton (Mr. Nicholson), for Tiverton (Mrs. Browning), for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Coe) and for Torbay (Mr. Allason), just to mention the key players. They have striven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-04a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.548.8", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "t? The effect is that most of the jobs have been taken up by women, and women's work has been undervalued and underpaid with no access to promotions or pensions. Increasingly, men are being squeezed out of employment or forced to take temporary part-time work. Does the Minister not understand that it is in the interests of the British economy that we change that, introduce a national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.548.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "What does my right hon. Friend make of rumours that the Labour party is planning to set a minimum wage of £180 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.557.5", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House have any sympathy for a perplexed and lonely young man, Mr. John Richards, the last remaining Tory councillor in Cardiff, who only eight years ago was part of a ruling group with more than 30 colleagues? While Mr. Richards looks around and tries to find out what has happened to his colleagues, how does the Leader of the House explain that calamity? Does he think that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.557.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating the French people, who on Sunday rejected socialism and elected a right-wing President? Does not that show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "As the Leader of the House's job includes presentation of Government policy to the people of Swindon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Nuclear Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept my strong support for that policy of privatisation of the nuclear industry? I speak as someone many hundreds of whose constituents are employed in that industry, and no doubt that contributed to the fact that the Conservatives retained control of the local authority in Macclesfield, in anticipation of the excellent announcement that was made today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Nuclear Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "state of affairs, when the Government who privatised rain are now privatising radiation? What guarantee have we that the President of the Board of Trade will not do the same trick as he pulled with the coal industry and organise a shabby deal with one of his Tory friends, as he did when he sold the coal industry to R. J. Budge? Will he guarantee that this time he will not engage in a crooked deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-09", "file": "debates1995-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "c20f1e52a86311fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Former Yugoslavia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Corporal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "le if it developed as some people predict. The House has acknowledged the great gallantry of British troops in Bosnia. I thank the hon. Member for South Shields (Dr. Clark) for the justified remarks that he made about several of the individual soldiers serving in Bosnia, especially the gallant colonel who has been the first recipient of the conspicuous gallantry cross, a new recognition of a very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-09a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour gain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend join me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.738.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.738.6", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I am disturbed to note that my hon. Friend did not mention Basildon in his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.738.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Drugs (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "of their family. In the east end of London, abuse of drugs, particularly crack cocaine, is rampant. Is the Minister prepared to come to the Newham drug awareness project to find out for himself just how extensive the problem is? I know that this is unacceptable to those on both Front Benches but, unless this country is prepared seriously to consider the legalisation of certain categories of drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Drugs (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "As far as resources in Scotland are concerned, the hon. Lady must obviously direct her questions to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.758.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.774.4", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has now said two things in an attack on me. The first I find extraordinary. She says that I do not welcome investment in my constituency; of course I do. But why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "We can clarify the figures further at a later time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "We can clarify the figures further at a later time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Sixty hospitals closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way quite enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Activity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for those remarks, which I appreciate. It is important to set the record right about beds. We need the right balance. The number of beds closed in recent years does not match that quoted by the right hon. Member for Derby, South. In the past three years, we have seen a 30 per cent. increase in activity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "or the St. Bartholomew's-Smithfield site in keeping with its proud past. In addition, a working group led by the Corporation of London has been developing plans for the alternative provision of community services at St. Bartholomew's to meet local needs. Others have suggested that the name of St. Bartholomew's should live on in the title of the trust—I accept that—in practice as well as in spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "rucial opportunity to prepare for the 21st century. The price of doing nothing—the price of Labour—would be to let our hospitals and our health service slip into decline and to fail London and Londoners. We are not prepared to pay that price. We want a health service in which people can take pride. We shall succeed by holding firm and by being prepared to lead and not surrender. Edmund Burke said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "iderations; we must examine what happens when A and E departments are concentrated in one area. The results of a survey carried out in Orange county in the United States indicated a severe reduction in the number of deaths judged preventable. Labour Members may read about it in the \"Archives of Surgery\"—which I think is rather more authentic than Labour party briefing notes read by Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "n London, whereas the Government should have provided that money. The hon. Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall) talked about the £2 million for Edgware that has bought his vote tonight. A couple of million will come out of patient care in Edgware and in Hendon to pay for the London ambulance service. The money with which the hon. Gentleman has been bought off has been swallowed up very quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "resented in the Chamber at the moment, except by the Government Whip, the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns), who has to remain silent. We listen to the Government's argument that the closures will provide additional resources for counties outside London, but that is not the experience of my constituents and those who live in areas surrounding London. Frankly, we do not believe the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "nd I hope that hon. Members in the area will be able to reassure their constituents about service provision. If my hon. Friend were to visit some minor units that have been established already—for example, the St. Charles's hospital minor injuries unit that was referred to in the debate—he would find that they are first-class facilities that could meet the needs of his constituents extremely well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-10", "file": "debates1995-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77ca7cd7231496d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.847.3", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "bout resources and said that we would have to be extremely careful not to take away care provision before we had provided other facilities. That is right, and it was one of the pledges that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave the House; I am pleased to reiterate it in my winding-up speech. My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, South (Mr. Marshall) welcomed the primary care initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-10a.847.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor answer the question put to him just a minute ago? The Bank of England said this morning that under the present policies, the Government's last remaining target—an inflation target of 2.5 per cent. by the end of the Parliament—will not be met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.869.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.875.9", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree with the European Monetary Institute that continuous efforts towards reducing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I am quoting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.875.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to a statement by the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ee that the Royal Mail provides a very high quality of service. The standards have improved, and the returns that the Exchequer is achieving have improved. I take the view—this is where I disagree with some hon. Members—that I should build on a success where I see it and give it a wider opportunity. The Labour party, by and large, takes the view that it should be constrained and limited to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bad job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's remarks in relation to the Trade and Industry Select Committee, but I would not want him to think that some of us who are members of that Committee believe that what we proposed was the ultimate objective. I think that he has made that clear. Nevertheless I would like him to reiterate that we are making the best of a job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I think that I was asked that question last week. I can only repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Church of England Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "y the Select Committee and by the remarks of the right hon. Member for Selby. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not take it amiss if I take the Select Committee's report and the right hon. Gentleman's remarks rather more seriously than his own intervention. The right hon. Member for Selby has outlined the issues, including the question of what form of Measure should come before the House. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-11", "file": "debates1995-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "f6324dae551f76a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Church of England Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "lined the issues, including the question of what form of Measure should come before the House. It is—[ Interruption. ] I said earlier, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that it would not be appropriate to respond to the issues before us by conducting a party political debate. It is regrettable that one or two Conservative Members seem to want to indulge in a bit of knockabout. The issues are serious. How do we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-11a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.15.6", "colnum": "15", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to come and see me about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.15.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Janet Fookes)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not need my leave; he needs that of the House. Is it the House's pleasure that the new clause be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to do so, Madam Deputy Speaker. Your intervention was welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "by arguing that the discount reflects the lower average cost of serving direct debit customers as against other customers. The hon. Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill) said that the regulator had not responded to several letters on that issue. It is my understanding that it is her provisional view that the discount does not involve undue discrimination. That is obviously what she has to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.109.5", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I will come back to that matter, but I can say that an uplift of 100 per cent. is exactly what has been allowed since 1992 under the Scottish speculative fee scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.109.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-15", "file": "debates1995-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b91e6480c021cb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, from his experience as a high street solicitor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-15a.117.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.134.7", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware of public alarm at the number of casualty departments being temporarily closed—including at least five in London? Is she further aware of concern that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.134.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "I am aware of a continuing attempt by the hon. Gentleman to make his political name by undermining the blood service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.145.8", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.145.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.145.8", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—[Interruption.] My right hon. Friend is entirely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.145.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Given the latest pay and perks scandal in the utilities at the weekend and today's massive rise in electricity profits, does the Prime Minister recognise that the utilities have degenerated into an unseemly racket and that the sooner he orders a thorough overhaul of their system of regulation the better?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister confirm the following? Electricity prices in real terms for domestic households have risen since privatisation, as the House of Commons Library confirmed this morning; water charges have risen by more than 40 per cent. since privatisation; gas complaints are up by 150 per cent. in the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.4", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ised industries now yield £50 million a week. The average price of domestic electricity to households has fallen by 8.5 per cent. in real terms over the past two years; the price of gas has fallen by more than 20 per cent. in real terms since privatisation; BT's main prices have fallen by more than 35 per cent. in real terms since privatisation; Britain's water is now among the cleanest in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " not think that anyone who has studied the membership of the Nolan committee or knows any of its members would remotely recognise the right hon. Gentleman's description of it. As he knows, there are only two ways of funding political parties in a free democracy. One is by subscription or donation freely given, and it is right in an open society that donors, if they wish, should preserve anonymity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tion or donation freely given, and it is right in an open society that donors, if they wish, should preserve anonymity. [Interruption.] The other way is to fund political parties out of taxpayers' money. I do not favour that way and I hope that we shall not go in that direction. What is wrong about funding of political parties is when the funding of a party actually buys influence over its policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-16", "file": "debates1995-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "f50d3d0d4f725879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "olsover, for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan), for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn), for Preston (Mrs. Wise), for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) and for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) and the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) to vote against Second Reading. In Committee, new Labour prevailed, except the hon. Member for Neath when he bothered to turn up and make speeches for the benefit of his local papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-16a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Housing Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "preceding_text": "eir employment? They feel threatened by the constant references to there being no secure jobs, as if that were a virtue. They are considerably concerned by the Government withdrawing cover in the event of their becoming unemployed. Other major purchases result in a long-term commitment on payments, for example, in the automobile sector, which as we know is also in recession in the domestic market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Housing Market", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Lady speaks with great personal experience of outside dunnies. An outside WC is one of the qualifying factors for a grant as is the absence of an inside bathroom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Maritime Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "I certainly will, Mr. Deputy Speaker—and you will be delighted to learn that I am approaching the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.275.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Maritime Industries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "I certainly will, Mr. Deputy Speaker—and you will be delighted to learn that I am approaching the end of my speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"] The ferry companies will be disappointed that Opposition Members do not consider them to be maritime industries; they employ a great many people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.275.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.319.7", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "There is an old adage that, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. We are in the business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.319.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.319.7", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stop digging!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "There is an old adage that, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. We are in the business— [Interruption.] We are in the business of ensuring that we get very large monkeys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.319.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The first thing is that no Conservative Member is complacent about that, but equally, no one who suffers from that problem will be comforted by a political rant on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The first thing is that no Conservative Member is complacent about that, but equally, no one who suffers from that problem will be comforted by a political rant on the subject. [Interruption.] We are conscious of the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "leased to set them out mathematically for him if he wishes—perhaps he can now tell us what his figure is for the extra public subsidy that will be required as a result of his policy, announced on Monday, for a rail fares cap. I would be pleased to give way to him. He asked me what my figures were and how they were calculated. I have told him. Perhaps he can now tell the House what his figures are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "nt out. My goodness, it feels like a very threatened privatisation. To help the public deal with their confusion, the hon. Gentleman told \"Today\" on Monday that if we capped the revenue of operators and therefore their profits, frankly I think this is the last straw, so the Government will be forced to provide a huge subsidy paid for by the taxpayer\". That is a large last straw. It is interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "nership. But in January 1995 he said: I'm not going to get into a situation where I am declaiming that the Labour Government is going to commit sums of money to renationalisation. But also in January 1995, through his spokesman Alastair Campbell, he said: If the railways are privatised … we have plans that under a Labour Government the railways will be publicly owned, publicly run railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"A lot\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "ctors. The most important of those is the real terms reduction in fares that can now be expected as a result of the Government's excellent strategy to hold fares at the level of inflation for three years and then to reduce fares below the retail prices index by 1 per cent. during the following four years, which should lead to a 4 per cent. overall reduction in fares in real terms by the year 2003.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "lcomed the fact that there will be a real terms benefit to my constituents who use the railway as well as to other rail users, including their constituents. I did not hear a single word of welcome for that. Instead, what we saw clearly was disappointment etched on the faces of the spokesmen for both the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats about the good news that rail fares are to be held down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "n real terms over the past 10 years. I must admit that that is right. If Opposition Members look a little further back, they will find that over the past 16 years of Conservative Government fares have increased in real terms by 29 per cent. As we have said, we want to change that. However, I warn Opposition Members, particularly the hon. Member for Oldham, West, not to go back any further because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "ent. Let us forget the politics; there is a huge moral issue at stake here. Can we let people travel on our railways in certain parts of the country when we are not employing proper safety procedures because the Government, like a drunken sailor, want to squander money on privatisation and politics rather than on people and safety? That is the issue that the Minister should deal with this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "r money on privatisation and politics rather than on people and safety? That is the issue that the Minister should deal with this evening. [Interruption.] I heard the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) say, from a sedentary position, \"Humbug.\" I want it to be recorded in Hansard that the people who sit on the Conservative Front Bench think that the issue of safety is simply humbug—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "nsard as a dismal failure. Apart from safety, the main issue that the Secretary of State dwelt on today was fares. I am pleased to see that the right hon. Gentleman has now returned to the Chamber. When the Government announced fare capping this week they thought that they would get a good press. But in every editorial in the quality newspapers the Secretary of State was hung, drawn and quartered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ll someone in the Government have the courage to dump this whole exercise? How much taxpayers' money has to be squandered? How many jobs—such as those at ABB—will have to go? How many services do we have to lose? How much manipulation of British Rail accounts will be needed to soften and sweeten parts of the industry? What are the Government doing about Railtrack behind the scenes to fatten it up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-17", "file": "debates1995-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b4c70911a98ae583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point will be aware that the passenger service requirement announced yesterday provides improved safeguards for first and last trains on every route and full frequency services to Limehouse, which will provide an interchange with the docklands light railway. The PSR provides a new obligation on the Ockenden to Tilbury service to connect with the Tilbury ferry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-17a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Home Secretary about two very active citizens—the Fayed brothers? Why has their application for British citizenship been turned down, with no reasons being given? Has it not been rejected for crude and base political reasons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No, Madam Speaker, I did not tell the Police Federation any of those things, because most of them are not true. I told the Police Federation the truth—that crime in this country has more than doubled under this Government, but that the number of convictions and cautions has dropped in absolute terms by 7 per cent. That is a scandal. I also told them that the number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "those things, because most of them are not true. I told the Police Federation the truth—that crime in this country has more than doubled under this Government, but that the number of convictions and cautions has dropped in absolute terms by 7 per cent. That is a scandal. I also told them that the number—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I also told them that the number of cases discontinued and dropped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " is a scandal. I also told them that the number—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I also told them that the number of cases discontinued and dropped— [Interruption.] That is scarcely a laughing matter for constituents. I said that the number of cases discontinued and dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service has risen by nearly 50 per cent. in eight years, and that the acquittal rate in the Crown courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I can confirm that a minimum wage would destroy jobs. The House has that on the excellent authority of the deputy leader of the Labour party, who said on one memorable occasion, \"Any silly fool knows that.\" There is no doubt about it, so of course I can confirm that. For the Labour party these days, a quango a day keeps policy away, because it has announced three so far this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.468.8", "colnum": "468", "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 refers again to the minimum wage, with good reason. There is no doubt that the minimum wage costs jobs. I now see that the Labour party proposes to keep the minimum wage, but not set the level of the minimum wage until after the general election. That will be devolved to someone else. The House might recall the deputy leader of the Labour party saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.468.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.484.6", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Just one moment. Opposition Members do a grave injustice to the Nolan committee if they seek to make this a party political issue. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.484.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.484.7", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Ms Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Eagle", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I have just looked down the list of recommendations that the right hon. Gentleman said were all classified C—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.484.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "My interest is declared in the Register of Members' Interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "My interest is declared in the Register of Members' Interests—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"]—as a partner in a firm of solicitors and as an underwriting member of Lloyd's. That is widely known, but it has no direct relevance to what we are debating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.4", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.500.7", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "e certain that the resolutions that are put to the House are clear not only to Members but to the public, would the hon. Lady think it helpful if the matter, rather than being referred to the Members' Interests Select Committee—which, she is right, is the obvious place—were considered by a committee of senior Members who have already announced their intention to leave the House in this Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.500.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "If a recommendation from the ethics officer, or whatever he is called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "be sensible about the matter. There is such a thing as the privacy of the individual. I have always understood that that was one of the important tenets of the philosophy of the Labour party. It believes in the privacy of the individual: very well, then—let it support that in this House. What shall we gain by setting out all that information? It will be a serious blow to democracy in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is trivialising the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ly possible. There are so many cases to consider. If I have lunch with a friend in business and that friend is then made chairman of a firm, what am I to do about it? Do I have to stop lunching with him? What happens if an Evening Standard correspondent sees us lunching together in some restaurant and then writes that I will do what the chairman of that company wants? It is an impossible position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ensure that it was recognised that Ministers and civil servants are not in the same position. The situation is not the same for a senior civil servant retiring at 60 on a full pension, who has anticipated his retirement and knows when he is going, as it is for a Minister who may be about 40 with three or four children, who finds himself, perhaps to his surprise, no longer in such demand as he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "at they have done but because the House failed to take seriously its responsibility to lay down what our standards should be. So the Prime Minister used, of all things, the royal prerogative to set up a royal commission to examine the conduct of the House of Commons—clean contrary to article 9 of the Bill of Rights, which stipulates that no one from outside may presume to regulate what we do here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": "First, I must declare my interests—although they are all in the register. I am sponsored by the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union; I am an unpaid consultant to the Prison Officers Association; and I am an unpaid adviser to the National Association of Licensed House Managers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-18", "file": "debates1995-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "51b8352544476ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.541.7", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Committee on Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "oney, while another was prepared to take it and then give it to charity. That is not a good record—and what would have been revealed had the investigation gone further? Moreover, it was alleged that other Members, who were not named, had been taking money for quite a while. We should be concerned about all this. There is a gravy train in the House—and, amazingly, Conservative Members are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-18a.541.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.586.7", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "First, that has nothing to do with the question before the House. Secondly, as I should have thought the hon. Gentleman understood, all those documents are commercial in confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The speech was very unwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.610.7", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It will cause no worry unless the Labour party indulge in their scare techniques to frighten people when it is not justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.610.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ns for an alternative to the Child Support Agency. In a few minutes, the hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms Lynne) will have her last chance to sketch for us what I am sure must be well-advanced plans for the replacement of the current system. She has been pressed on those plans on more than one occasion, but presumably she has been waiting for the right moment. I hope that Third Reading is that moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that I am grateful for the Minister's intervention. He should have listened to what I have said in the past. We have talked of a unified family court system—that was even mentioned during the passage of the Children Act 1989—and of bringing family law under one court. Surely most people cannot object to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "As the spokesman on social security for the Liberal Democrats, my predecessor made it clear in that debate, as the Minister will see if he looks at Hansard , that he would like to see the Act amended. Instead of discussing what was or was not said in the past, we should look at the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-22", "file": "debates1995-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "6a45eb04bd138606", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": "e. We need a proper process of consultation so that all these arguments can be discussed at great length. We are not in the business of introducing something like the Government have brought forward without proper thought. We want a proper unified family court system that will work and will benefit children above all. Opposition to the Act will not go away. Ultimately, it will have to be scrapped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-22a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "have enabled children who qualify academically in Stamford to go to the Stamford school and the high school—both excellent schools—irrespective of their parents' means, have been a priceless educational asset to generations of Stamford children? Is he further aware that the only reasons why the county council is planning to abolish the scholarship scheme are ideological prejudice and sheer malice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend consider it a quite extraordinary act of vandalism that the school budgets in Kent should have been shortchanged by £3.8 million by the Liberal county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the overwhelming majority of the nation's parents want greater freedom of choice and diversity in education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.703.7", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nday Times this week, the Government will bid for a net retrieval of power from the European institutions? Is not our resolve in this matter an increasingly defining issue between the Government and the Opposition? Does he agree that our determination to secure the powers of the nation state contrast utterly with the Leader of the Opposition, who has nothing but a soundbite and a submissive smile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.703.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that, at 6 o'clock last night, the House rejected a Labour-inspired amendment that would have cost the taxpayer £250 million. Is he also aware that, at 6 o'clock last night, the Leader of the Opposition was addressing an audience of City fat cats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.6", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister had time today to read the latest edition of the \"Socialist Economic Bulletin\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be less surprised than others to know that I have, in fact, read the \"Socialist Economic Bulletin\"—not least because he invited me to do so before answering his question this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "VSEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman's concern about his constituency and the wider region. I hope that he will understand when I say that I have tried, to the limits of my endeavour, to find a buyer or to find work for Cammell. I have done the same thing for Swan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "That is no more than I would expect from Opposition Members. My hon. and learned Friend's assessment of the situation is entirely accurate. He will be perfectly aware that 10 judges considered this matter and five held in my favour while the other five held against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is of course right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "It will certainly be my intention to liaise very closely with the victim support group in Plymouth. It does excellent work in supporting victims, and I know that it holds strong opinions about the way in which the Government can improve the lot of victims, which is what we all wish to do. I shall consider the measure carefully if I am fortunate enough to be selected, although I broadly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "eme in the world, and that the Government are providing more money than the United States and the rest of the European Union. So what? Victims of crime who are knocked about and who have their lives threatened live here. Those violent crimes are carried out against our citizens here, and not in the United States or in other countries in the European Union. Those comparisons are totally irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " attempts to rewrite history are based on fantasy. Before he pursues that path, he ought to have a word with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition because the line that he is taking strays radically from that taken by his right hon. Friend. The centrepiece of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was the 27 points that I announced in my speech to the Conservative party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "rty in calling for more money for practically every good cause and at the same time saying that it will not increase expenditure. My hon. Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Mr. Ainsworth) and other hon. Friends were right to point out that the tariff scheme is the most generous in the world, and more generous than the schemes of all the countries in Europe put together. We are proud of that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Those who are responsible will know what I mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-23", "file": "debates1995-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "78314287795a06b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age Discrimination", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "ecially if they are trying to find work after a period of unemployment. After several unsuccessful interviews, omitting information or even lying about their age on a curriculum vitae or application form became an accepted practice in an attempt to overcome age prejudice. My constituent Mr. Todd has been unable to get back into the job market, having been made redundant at just over the age of 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-23a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-24", "file": "debates1995-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "39bc72d7d20d60e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Adjournment of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Amess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-24", "file": "debates1995-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "39bc72d7d20d60e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Adjournment of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "is will not cause a problem and I hope that he does not fall over, but I should tell him that I am predisposed towards the concept of identity cards and I am not alone on the Opposition Benches. It is not an issue on which there is a narrow party divide. One of the biggest tragedies facing us is that we have a Home Secretary who seeks to make a party issue out of every serious home affairs matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-24", "file": "debates1995-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "39bc72d7d20d60e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Adjournment of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "the proceedings have speeded up considerably. My main feeling is one of envy for the freedom with which the hon. Member for Perry Bar felt able to speak from the Dispatch Box. I detected only a rather tenuous connection between what he said and the policies that he is supposed to advocate. Indeed, there must be some risk of a headline in tomorrow's newspapers, \"Opposition denounce channel tunnel\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-24a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " have been for a long time. If the hon. Lady and the deputy leader of the Labour party wish to change the position, are they saying that they want to make transfers of property between husband and wife taxable? Are they saying that the independent taxation of men and women should be abolished? Are they saying that widows should no longer be able to inherit property from their husbands free of tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "To return to National Grid, is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Lady should glance at the list of new taxes to which Opposition Front Benchers have committed themselves if they come to government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Either the hon. Gentleman or someone else—I apologise for my memory not being clearer—has put this point to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A dash for cash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "e thought of all those who were above sleeping, and how they could safely bloom. What does a former miner who is unemployed see as he looks around him at those who run the energy industry—and even at their wives? Not only are they taking home lavish pay packets and enjoying wonderful share option schemes, but their wives are dipping in, too. What we saw was not a dash for gas but a dash for greed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "s of approaching these matters. I come now to the eulogy of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell) in respect of BCE, which was echoed by other Members of Parliament. I commend its valuable work. It might be churlish of me to remind hon. Members that when BCE was first created Opposition Members were rather hostile to it. However, I am quite prepared to be churlish when the occasion demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-25", "file": "debates1995-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a5f4804d3af3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Pneumoconiosis", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall disregard that intervention because it was a sedentary one. The one point on which I shall write further is the one raised by the hon. Member for Barnsley, Central, who has somewhere to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-25a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister emphasised the protection that we also provided and stated that additional British forces are going to Bosnia to strengthen that protection. That is also justifiable, provided it can be properly undertaken and achieves the results that we require. When 300 soldiers from different countries were taken hostage, I had to ask myself what was the organisation that allowed that to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " was the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup, who talked about decades—indeed, centuries—of conflict. The Turks controlled the area. The Austro-Hungarian empire was there. The Germans established a fascist Croatia during the war. Later, the German Government recognised Croatia. The British Government went along with that decision, it is said because of a concession over the social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He didn't say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ing funerals, I would find it extremely hard to explain why lives had been lost in Bosnia. If that begins to happen in other parts of the United Kingdom, those hon. Members who are so keen to see the situation develop in one way or another may be given pause for thought. The leader of the Liberal Democrats, for example, said that we should take sides. In the United Kingdom, that means more deaths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Yes, Bosnia is at the heart of Europe, but I suspect that many people throughout the world will say that what is so very different about Bosnia is that its people are white—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "ut I suspect that many people throughout the world will say that what is so very different about Bosnia is that its people are white— [Interruption.] That is what they will say. There is another reason, apart from being in Europe, that makes Bosnia so different—it is that, admirable and brave a woman though she is, it is less than satisfactory to have our foreign policy directed by Miss Kate Adie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ants of converts, is a little more acceptable, and, secondly, that after four years of discussions with the Serbs, we should sit down with them again because they will suddenly be reasonable. My hon. Friend usually has contact with reality, but tonight I think that he has lost it. The liaison with that and the speech of the hon. Member for East Lindsay (Sir P. Tapsell), who unfortunately has left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "l by my hon. Friends the Members for Gosport (Mr. Viggers) and for East Lindsey (Sir P. Tapsell). Three arguments have been advanced as our involvement has become ever greater. The first has been the humanitarian argument. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport that it seems that action under that head has failed, and it is certainly highly likely that much of the food and aid has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "ed as our involvement has become ever greater. The first has been the humanitarian argument. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport that it seems that action under that head has failed, and it is certainly highly likely that much of the food and aid has not—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"] At any rate, it was hoped that humanitarian aid would end the fighting and the tension and it has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-05-31", "file": "debates1995-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "3fa57f666e7d53de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and Question put, That this House do now adjourn.—[ Mr. Kirkhope. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-05-31a.1102.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.13.9", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to remember that the war ended —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.13.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may wish to draw conclusions from a partial report not yet —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have made it perfectly clear that I am making no judgments on what may be in the report until the report is complete. What we have seen thus far is a malicious leak of a part of the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.10", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who leaked it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has clearly finally flipped if he believes what he is shouting out at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.15.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Film Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for National Heritage (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many have you seen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for National Heritage (Mr. Stephen Dorrell)", "preceding_text": "rnment are not simply concerned to attract foreign film-makers to Britain —we are also concerned to reinforce the strength of our own film industry. Despite reports to the contrary, the sector is doing well. Out of 24 feature films selected for the Cannes film competition this year, four were British, and three of them —\"The Madness of King George\", \"Carrington\", and \"Land and Freedom\" won awards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Corporal Punishment (Re-introduction)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "preceding_text": "are discussing today. The European Court of Human Rights opposes corporal punishment and it has taken a strong stand against the Isle of Man in that regard. This country would be a laughing stock if we gave the hon. Gentleman leave to introduce a Bill to reintroduce corporal punishment. The hon. Gentleman should examine the causes of crime and the issues of poverty and lawlessness in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has slightly misunderstood my argument. Privatisation is not the same thing as encouraging the private sector in certain areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "Agents will not count against the public sector borrowing requirement. Secondly, Crown Agents will no longer be limited to serving aid agencies and other public bodies in the developing world. That is another of my concerns. In effect, Crown Agents' services will become available to a much wider range of organisations, including health authorities and local government bodies in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " of Lords, 5 June 1995; Vol. 564, c. 1226.] During the debate, Baroness Chalker completely rejected the suggestion that the CDC could be privatised at some future date. That is the same argument, but a completely different conclusion. If the Government believe that such freedom would work for CDC, why not for Crown Agents? Why have they gone totally for privatisation? We oppose this privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "It is important to correct that completely misleading impression right at the start. The Crown Agents and its board were opposed to the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "id policy. Priority has been given to human development, environmental protection, health and population activities, open and accountable government and economic policy reform. The British Council operates on essentially a non-commercial basis with grant in aid from the Government. The week before last, I was in Barcelona as a member of the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs. I am delighted to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.76.6", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Done by Crown Agents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall leave the subject of Malawi, but I felt that it was important to give a specific example of a country of which I have some experience, where I have seen the work that is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.76.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "in the Caribbean has been mentioned. Following the hurricane in Jamaica, which caused so much devastation, the Crown Agents supplied roofing materials, corrugated sheeting, nails and ridge-capping, together with logistics support. In the Sudan it supplied antibiotics, bladder tanks, blankets, cutlery, cups, tents, trucks, polybags, feeding kits, fast tanks and solar lamps as part of famine relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Exactly that could be done irrespective of whether the industry were in private or public ownership, so long as the constraints were changed. The Government have an almost Marxist view of life. They limit the power and scope of public enterprise and then say, \"Look at this. They cannot do it. Is it not disgraceful? It shows the failure of public enterprise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.105.2", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "he subject of party politics. That contention was admirable and one which the Labour party would support in regard to an organisation which has all-party backing. However, one cannot request such support when an organisation has been used to resolve ideological problems in the Tory party. The Bill is going to bring in privatisation for the Crown Agents unless we introduce the necessary safeguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-06", "file": "debates1995-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "c07f71251862d2e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.110.4", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crown Agents Bill (Lords)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-06a.110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-07", "file": "debates1995-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "df92ae1c3d98de1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Secretary see the discussion paper from the Fresh Start group, which claims a membership of 50 Tory Members? Did he note its recommendation that his objective at the forthcoming IGC should be to create a crisis with the other members? Would the Foreign Secretary like to express his personal opinion on those of his colleagues who want a crisis with those nations to whom we sell most of our exports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-07", "file": "debates1995-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "df92ae1c3d98de1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.224.8", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "No. I do not have the statistics, but no doubt the Minister will be able to advise the House on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.224.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-07", "file": "debates1995-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "df92ae1c3d98de1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his reply, but a deficiency remains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-07a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Not only is our employment pretty much the lowest in Europe, with the exception of Holland among the larger nations, on any basis that one cares to calculate, but the number of people in employment is growing. For example, if I look at the constituencies of hon. Members whose names are down to ask questions today I see that, from the peak, unemployment in Warwickshire, North is down 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first point, if the deputy leader of the Labour party would care to stop shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "preceding_text": "I appreciate your guidance, Madam Speaker. Thank you very much. There are further signs that house building is decreasing again, compared with the previous quarter. Does the Leader of the House recognize—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "preceding_text": "I appreciate your guidance, Madam Speaker. Thank you very much. There are further signs that house building is decreasing again, compared with the previous quarter. Does the Leader of the House recognize— [Interruption.] I am coming to the end. Does the Leader of the House recognise that his answer to my hon. Friend the shadow Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "English Football Supporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "er. Obviously, they had cross-checked. It was an inadequate response. May I make some positive proposals to the Minister? I realise that he is a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister and that many of my proposals affect the responsibilities of his colleagues in the Department of National Heritage and the Home Office. As in the debate I had 10 years ago, I want to be as constructive as I can he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-08", "file": "debates1995-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "35cccc2e2db7cf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "English Football Supporters", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "ccept without question that the vast majority of the football-watching public are innocent fans showing support for their chosen team. Of course I have sympathy with the resentment that they must feel about being regarded in the same light as thugs who are intent on causing trouble. Of course I deplore the inevitable occasions when any innocent fan is caught up in efforts to control troublemakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-08a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It is precisely because of worries of that type that we have sought to place so much emphasis on that strategy and, I may say, to make it absolutely clear, as I am glad has also been made clear from the Opposition Front Bench during the response to my statement, that we have no plans whatever to legalise any drugs that are currently not legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend read my mind. I was making the point that they are personal views. I do not agree, and the Opposition do not agree, but hon. Members are entitled to hold them. To round up the balance of what I was saying, I come to the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's comments about alcohol abuse are undoubtedly true but no one in his right mind would suggest criminalising the use of alcohol. We could not ban alcohol or make its consumption illegal. Why should cannabis, which does less damage to health than alcohol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Ms Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "cial Report, 15 February 1995; Vol. 254, c. 922.] That was the resolution that was passed at the Liberal Democrat conference. I invite the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed to tell us what he believes the opinions of the Liberal Democrat candidate in Littleborough and Saddleworth are about that issue. I understand, for example, that he is on record as favouring the legalisation of cannabis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Ms Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": " for Dewsbury (Mrs. Taylor) said: The effects of drug-related crime and a drug culture are undermining the potential of our young people, pervading every community and devastating some.\"—[ Official Report, 10 May 1995; Vol. 259, c. 749.] That is why the Labour party opposes the legalisation of cannabis. Debate about the legalisation of cannabis can only serve as a distraction from the real issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.428.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-06-09", "file": "debates1995-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f49bc3a5db751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Quentin Davies, Mr. Lain Duncan-Smith, Mr. John Evans, Sir Archibald Hamilton, Sir Terence Higgins, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr. Robert Maclennan, Mr. John Morris, Mr. Tony Newton, Mr. Stanley Orme and Mrs. Ann Taylor be members of the Select Committee on Standards in Public Life.— [Mr. Wells.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-09a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " England that we are not already undertaking in Wales, we would want to adopt them in Wales as well. I give him that assurance again, as I have in the past to the House. My officials are keeping in close contact with the work in England. Of course, we had already set out a policy in Wales some time before the English initiative; but if there are good new ideas, I want Wales to be included in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Morphology?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not accept that in the south Wales valleys in particular the general morphology militates against effective communications?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to a civilised response. I have tried to show in my arguments this afternoon that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to a civilised response. I have tried to show in my arguments this afternoon that— [Interruption.] Labour's response is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "preceding_text": "rest of us—and I include myself. I shall give another piece of advice that will not be listened to—it concerns dealing with the realities, not theories, of my life, the lives of people who live around me and the lives of all the young people in prison. The Government should not build up decommissioning as something that they can deliver, because they cannot and would not. It is a climb-down issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical (Professional Performance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": " read the Committee reports and the full effect of clause 1, and the phrase \"seriously deficient\" is not entirely clear. I am not certain from the Committee report precisely what triggers the new procedure. I believe that the Bill improves the law and I strongly support that improvement. I am sure that careful scrutiny in another place where there are more distinguished doctors than in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical (Professional Performance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "use 1, and the phrase \"seriously deficient\" is not entirely clear. I am not certain from the Committee report precisely what triggers the new procedure. I believe that the Bill improves the law and I strongly support that improvement. I am sure that careful scrutiny in another place where there are more distinguished doctors than in this place— [Interruption.] With certain most notable exceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-12", "file": "debates1995-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "aaa3b0e786f60678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — City Hospital, Birmingham", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "e were deeply worried—my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) was involved in the campaign to save general hospital—because it was the big hospital that served the city centre. There was terrible concern that if it closed and if there were big accidents in the city centre, there would be no way in which the people of Birmingham could be cared for. We were told repeatedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-12a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ials are fully maintained, so that most of the money that is spent on a minimum wage will not be spent on helping people at the bottom but on remunerating people at every wage level. We know that, according to the sums that have been advocated by the unions, 800,000 jobs would be lost, even if only half the differentials were restored. The hon. Lady is not straightforward or honest with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.591.4", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me when the matter will come for a decision? He cannot. I just said perfectly clearly that when the matter comes for a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will know that I have been a strong supporter of the national lottery from the beginning, but does he realise that there is now growing concern about the way in which it operates, especially the huge profits that Camelot is making? Will he set up a small independent inquiry to examine those profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.592.5", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Hoey", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister set up a small independent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the position set out by the hon. Gentleman in the case of Oxbridge or more generally. The reality for all people on low incomes across the country is that the average income of all family types has risen over recent years. Pensioner incomes have increased by more than 50 per cent. and average incomes have risen for those who are unemployed and others not in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to disagree, but if they cared to study some of the independent research, they would see that it shows that the least well-off have shared in the increase in prosperity. The Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that the standard of living measured by expenditure for the lowest tenth has increased by 14 per cent. As the hon. Gentleman mentioned poverty, he might be aware that the bottom income decile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "BMARC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "sons why the licences increased on such a scale. It was not the result of the issues that we are discussing today, but because of the technological advances that took place in such things as laptop computers, which meant a huge increase in the number of pieces of equipment for which business people had to apply for licences. That was one reason for the large increase in the number of applications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I think that I have given the hon. Gentleman a very good reason to retract—an objective, anonymous survey, covering 75 per cent. of lenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "According to the report that I received—not from my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon or any other political source, but from a non-political source—the hon. Member for Greenwich clearly did what I said that he had done, but if he says that he did not I entirely accept his word. I believe that in the House we should accept an hon. Member's word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": " reduce the cost of such insurance … There are likely to be very few people who will meet a mortgage lender's eligibility criteria but who will not be eligible for Mortgage Payment Protection insurance. That is the voice of the organisation that represents the firms that would be responsible for providing the insurance. It believes that the firms can do it, and do it in a comprehensive way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "he continental countries that he cited in his remarks, he will find that they manage to combine incentives for home ownership, which are significantly greater than ours in the United Kingdom—in Holland, for example, the whole cost of a mortgage and of more than one mortgage can be written off against tax—with a much more vigorous private rented sector. I want to move towards the continental model.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "council taxes would have to go up. Labour Members talk of phased receipts. We never know what the phases are, how big the amounts are, or how long it will last. It is one of those easy phrases. Nobody ever gets any detail. In fact, like the rest of Labour party policy, it is rhetoric without substance. Labour has nothing to offer the housing market. The Conservative Government have set the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-13", "file": "debates1995-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a33962934af30c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "ogramme of over-regulation. When we ask about controls, we hear that, yes, the Labour party is back to controls. We stand for the diversification of social housing, whereas the Labour party wishes to go back to the old municipal monoliths of the state. Above all, we have delivered sensible and sane economic management, which is bringing low inflation, sustainable growth and belief in the policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-13a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Remploy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "r his undertaking to consider the proposals that I have put to him. Forgive me, Madam Speaker, if I have taken more time than I had intended, but I should like to welcome today's fall in unemployment. The fall in Bolton, to a figure of 8,665, is welcome. We should not forget that, when the Labour party was in power, unemployment in Bolton trebled from 2,102 to 6,521. The figure is now coming down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Remploy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Both Government lawyers and the European Commission advised us that it was illegal. I have no information that other European countries have not had to take the same action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Remploy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ift their pens and write to me about issues that concern them. I receive a huge volume of correspondence but I did not receive a single letter from constituents before the factory closure, and I received only one letter from someone who was at the union meeting that I attended. The hon. Gentleman's description of a mass rally in protest of Alfreton's closure does not comply with newspaper reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Cyprus", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cox", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made allegations in relation to East Timor which are not upheld in United Nations policies. Although the United Kingdom has not recognised the annexation of East Timor, we are relying on dialogue which is continuing at the moment under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "resting that in this case he wants to see a takeover go ahead when his colleagues are so often against takeovers. The real question that he should address is whether the balance of British manufacturing is becoming more world competitive and improving the opportunities for Britain. In 1979, for example, machinery and transport equipment accounted for 34 per cent. of exports. Now it is 41 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.782.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "If the Labour party wanted lessons in bullying, it could certainly take them from the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend makes a serious point and reproaches the rest of us for introducing an element of humour into the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " of any council. Already, Birmingham has more than 100 councillors, and I do not believe that there is much scope for increasing the total number of councillors. Instead of having three councillors for each ward, we could have one or two. I happen to think—this is not a party view—that there are other advantages in doing that, as it produces a closer connection between the councillor and his ward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Well, there we are. I have referred to Waveney and Waverley, and the hon. Member for Lancaster was right to refer to Wyre. I might add that it took the people of Accrington a long time to understand that they lived in a borough of Hyndburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-14", "file": "debates1995-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4e98f324511f447b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "gger. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn and the Home Secretary that this whole subject should be discussed—but not now, I acknowledge. I will not pursue what the hon. Gentleman had to say, except to give the view that some of the consequences will entail devolved government. That is one reason why I favour regional government so strongly. I would be happy to pursue that subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-14a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.883.7", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Is not it true that, on interest rates, the Chancellor pays more attention to the representations of Tory Back Benchers in marginal seats than to the Governor of the Bank of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.883.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.886.9", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman believes that—against the background of the account of our successful economic policies which I have just given—he will believe anything. He might also explain why his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition took the risk of letting him ask questions from the Dispatch Box today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.886.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "at the weekend? In condemning without reservation those who commit serious criminal damage, does the Leader of the House share my deep concern about the large number of very young people who are so deeply angry, disaffected and alienated, not only in Bradford but in many other inner cities throughout the country? Will he support an independent public inquiry to establish what happened in Bradford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Madel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Special pleading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Madel", "preceding_text": "y he reached his conclusions. On Lord Nolan's view that outside earnings from consultancies should be declared in full—my interest in the matter is properly declared in the Register of Members' Interests—would my right hon. Friend draw Lord Nolan's attention to the Data Protection Act 1984, which imposes a general duty of confidentiality between employer and employee and to the Companies Act 1985?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "If one looks at what Newcastle did to the council tax last year, one sees precisely that the council took from the people of Newcastle more than it should have. Am I supposed to say to the people of Newcastle that we shall protect everybody else but them in these circumstances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I had always assumed that the Minister was in his right mind, but if he seeks to compare Tower Hamlets and the other boroughs that he mentioned to Westminster, he has clearly taken leave of his senses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "cause that is his favourite method—the increase was 6 per cent. It was 8.5 per cent. in Huntingdon, represented by the Prime Minister. It was 7.4 per cent. in the area represented by the Secretary of State for Education and, in the area represented by the chairman of the Conservative party, the right hon. Member for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley), it was actually 15 per cent. If we then compare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) was a Minister of the Crown in the most recent Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "rwickshire, yet Oxfordshire gets area cost adjustment and Warwickshire does not. The area cost adjustment should be abolished. Secondly, the standard spending assessment is unduly complex and certainly not understood. It leads to difficulties, for example, in the fire service and education, and it undoubtedly needs major simplification. I shall confine myself to capping. We should abolish the cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "He was decapitated. He was guillotined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-15", "file": "debates1995-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "670be8771dc5f07a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was capped.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman forgets what he did before all that happened. That is what counts in politics, is it not? There is a second issue which we must address", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-15a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "sary are put in place? I also welcome the increased emphasis on co-operation over banking regulation in the wake of Barings, but is not the central issue the revolution in the globalisation of the financial and currency markets, which now wield massive speculative power over the Governments of all countries and have the capacity seriously to disrupt economic progress? Apart from the general words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The question of French nuclear testing was not discussed bilaterally or in the discussions among the G7 or G8 at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend about the wisdom of maintaining the opt-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hly, is the best practicable environmental option available to us. The hon. Gentleman would be wise to consider that. In the context of the Government's general position on the environment, this country is, in many ways, far from fitting the hon. Gentleman's categorisation, which I do not recognise and which I think he should be ashamed of having uttered. He should be ashamed of having uttered it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I repeat that Brent Spar was not a subject of the conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must say that the hon. Gentleman never ceases to amaze me with the nonsense that he talks. That is absolute rubbish from top to bottom. The reality is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Halifax Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "never ceases to amaze me with the nonsense that he talks. That is absolute rubbish from top to bottom. The reality is— [Interruption.] I am sorry that he does not like the reality. We have to live in the real world. He can live in his fantasy world if he likes. The reality is that this country has reduced unemployment by more than any other country in Europe. If he cares to look at the particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "omenon of a Labour Government. It is common for Ministers to change the drafts of parliamentary answers. That is what Ministers are supposed to be in a position to do. The thrust of the questions of the right hon. Member for Copeland is that we should have done that earlier, as opposed to not doing it at all. Perhaps the Labour party will try to understand the normal workings of government. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " of government. It is— [Interruption.] I never said that they were dishonest. I merely said that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State and I were not satisfied that the responses answered the questions to our full satisfaction. Looking back, without the drafts in front of me—this is if I remember correctly—I thought that we could give fuller answers. I thought that, in giving fuller answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.48.4", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the President for giving way again. He just told the House, Sir Geoffrey, and I take this opportunity to congratulate you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.48.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.48.7", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "No. I am not giving way. I am trying to take the House through difficult issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.48.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The two hon. Members have had a fair crack of the whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.49.7", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The President of the Board of Trade is straying a little. The debate is not about local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.49.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The Chair will indeed decide, but the House, in witnessing the decision, will not lose sight of the fact that all those eight inquiries are being conducted in private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.51.5", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the precise point that the right hon. Gentleman has made. There is, however, an alternative, and I am surprised that he did not raise it: Sir Richard could have been asked to continue his inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.51.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "the opportunity when the remaining Swiss employees were out of the company offices for their national holiday to check their papers. He could find no evidence that the guns were going anywhere other than Singapore. I submit that, at the relevant time, no one in BMARC—certainly not the staff or my constituents, or the non-executive directors—had any clue that the goods were going anywhere but Iran—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes his own point well. The thrust of what I am saying is that the information was there. It was in the possession of the Government if they had wished to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade is having discussions with the hon. Member for Sheffield, Central (Mr. Caborn)—the Chairman of the Trade and Industry Select Committee—about the documentation that is required. The hon. Gentleman, as a responsible Opposition Front-Bench spokesman, will know that certain documents must be handled with caution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.73.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.83.5", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Overseas Aid", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Lady, who is not as appealing as the hon. Member for City of Chester (Mr. Brandreth)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.83.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Overseas Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": " absurd allegations that the World Development Movement still seeks to make about alleged linkages between aid and arms sales to a small number of foreign countries. Aid has not been used to promote arms sales, and it will not be so used. Those who complain about tied aid should look carefully at the facts. Half our aid programme goes through multilateral channels and is thus automatically untied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Overseas Aid", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bananas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "preceding_text": "ves a unique input. We cannot do any other, because we are unique in having the Commonwealth, with 51 nations at all levels of development. At any Commonwealth gathering, we learn directly from people we know and trust precisely what the individual problems are. I have just been to Jamaica, Barbados and St. Lucia, three islands in the West Indies which are at quite different stages of development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-19", "file": "debates1995-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eacc63fa3d5f302a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Gipsies (Essex)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "avellers are so undisciplined and inconsiderate of everyone but themselves that they simply will not use the site. We therefore do not want to see another site established at Gammon field. I believe that the argument that travellers should not be moved to those sites is redundant. The travellers are simply not acceptable—not even to Thurrock council, which I believe is over-friendly to itinerants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-19a.127.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "What I was asking the right hon. Gentleman to do was to state the Government's position, not to anticipate the findings of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we have a clear case of how Labour in office runs its own affairs. I have seen the reports on how the council apparently targeted spending for political reasons, on jobs for the boys and jobs for their families. It is no good the Labour party trying to get off the hook; this council is run by Labour councillors. It is not an isolated example: Lambeth council, Birmingham council, Monklands council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.149.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall the words of an illustrious predecessor, who was a great patriot and a good European, who said that the dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on? Does he take those words to heart?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that discrimination against disabled people is wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that discrimination against disabled people is wrong? [Interruption.] The House and the country will note that the Conservative party does not seem interested in the concerns of 10,000 of my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] Mr. Shaw. Order now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rnment, is the greatest single advance in disability legislation that we have seen for a long time—perhaps the greatest single advance on any occasion. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that that is the case, for he knows it to be so. If he is concerned about discrimination, he might also be concerned that people ought not to discriminate in favour of their relatives on his local council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the patient's case needed to be reassessed, would not that process happen anyway? Why is the power to convey necessary to act as a trigger? Is not it likely that somebody who has been compulsorily conveyed will not be very willing to take part in whatever is intended at the other end of the journey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A pacemaker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) was asking about absent friends. We are all, not least the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood), grateful that it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-20", "file": "debates1995-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "28b2b27a0a9fe0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Town and Country Planning (Costs of Enquiries etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": " a long time, certainly in Sheffield—although most of the public are happy with the way in which the inquiry there has been conducted. Nevertheless the cost is astronomical. The ground rules on planning and inquiries are set by the Government and they should foot the bill. I hope that there is some agreement in the House on that. Many people think that planning is boring but I find it fascinating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-20a.219.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Job Creation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, but I understand why Opposition Members are afraid to turn up for this debate. We have, rather, the spectre of an Opposition whose shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.329.8", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Lady is wrong. We consulted 10,000 people in London, and very few of them put a strategic authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.329.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "If that were so, it would be much easier. The Labour party is really campaigning for five levels of government. It wants Britain to become the most over-governed nation in Europe. It is very deeply concerned. It wants parishes, districts, counties, regions and the national Government. It wants all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have clearly caught review mania. It is amazing that they do not demand a review of whether today is Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.350.10", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "The fact is that 100 Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.350.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Would you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "plain that there was clear blue water between his position and that of the Labour Front Bench. I do not suggest that the Foreign Secretary should intervene at this moment, but the reality is that he knows in his heart that, if he had the freedom of speaking from the Back Benches, he would make speeches very similar to those from which he quoted by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"They would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " I said before that that would be the last time that I gave way. The fundamental difference between the Front-Bench teams of both parties is that we fully reject the idea that one can achieve competitiveness in the new global economy by lowering wages and lowering conditions. People in China will work for 10p an hour. Not even Conservative Members would advocate that we pay 10p an hour in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": " Britain opts out of it, every minute of every day the George Soros's and the international markets will test the strength of the pound against the next European currency. Every minute of every day, British citizens will have to pay more in terms of interest rates in order to fend off those attacks. The exchange rate mechanism failed because we were stupid enough to go in at an unsustainable rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.397.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-21", "file": "debates1995-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "2e8c9b2fa25d38b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "te. We heard wise and thoughtful speeches by my right hon. Friends the Members for Guildford, for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Renton) and for Horsham (Sir P. Hordern), by my hon. Friends the Members for Leominster (Mr. Temple-Morris), for Derbyshire, South and for Milton Keynes, South-West and even—I shall exercise my characteristic charity here—by my right hon. namesake the Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-21a.446.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-22", "file": "debates1995-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "57b5d3c5ff5b1b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.517.6", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not taking any more points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.517.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-22", "file": "debates1995-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "57b5d3c5ff5b1b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.518.14", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "ll less the people of this country—be properly represented at that conference? The agenda at the Cannes conference is of prime constitutional importance. Yesterday there was a six-hour debate in the House about many of the issues to be raised at Cannes. The matters to be discussed are not dissociated from the divisions in the ranks of Government supporters—if they are indeed Government supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.518.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-22", "file": "debates1995-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "57b5d3c5ff5b1b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "No—I am worried about the future of the House. I will leave the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-22", "file": "debates1995-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "57b5d3c5ff5b1b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I do not actually expect that there will be a contest. The hon. Gentleman is using the example of Harold Wilson, who stood down as Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-22a.528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.549.10", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " has been said from the Opposition Front Bench, there may be some thin ice around. As the work of Government has to go on, will the Minister confirm that, given that the proposal for a national skating centre in Derby has fallen through, the Government would have no objection to the proposal being worked up for a combined dance and skating centre, neither of which we have, in the London docklands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.549.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "nate the working week. The British Medical Association has proposed the establishment of a small special health authority to oversee the training of junior doctors and other doctors undergoing training for one reason or another. The establishment of such health authorities on a regional basis for that purpose would ensure a clear line of accountability, a clearly identifiable purchaser of medical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "he contributory benefit from 12 to six months, the introduction of means-tested benefits at six months, and the reduction in benefit for people under 25 will go ahead in April 1996. I should be grateful if the Minister would clarify that point. We must know how the delay in introducing the benefit will be dealt with in practice to ensure that people who become unemployed either side of April 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "stem will work in practice because of the annual performance agreement with the Employment Service and the target set for officials to challenge a certain proportion of claims to benefit. As my hon. Friend the Minister knows well, I dislike the substance of the Bill. The little that it will do to promote employment or to save money does not redeem it. It sets aside the national insurance contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Clause 6", "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/1995-06-26a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "not say that that group is corrupt, as you would pull me up, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall pull back from saying that, and we must see what the district auditor says in the report on the homes-for-votes scandal. The ruling group on Westminster council wants to deal with Waitrose, Tesco and other supermarkets, and with Howard de Walden Estates, so that those involved can make a bloody great profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-26", "file": "debates1995-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd094bb4145d4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I was not in the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-26a.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "I am confident that the Prime Minister will be Prime Minister in two weeks', two months' and two years' time. On the substance of the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Well, it certainly seems to be in touch with the lot of people in Monklands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ruption.] I shall not regret it. The people of Monklands may regret it and I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman may regret the thrust of his question because, if and when he gets the chance, he will have to stop fudging and come clean on his spending and taxing policies, on his minimum wage and creating unemployment policies, and on his European policies, not for an opt-out, but for a sell-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that this Government's policies of choice and diversity, of testing and reporting to parents, have driven up standards in education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.12", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. I refer the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.683.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "t yesterday's celebration of 50 years of achievement by the United Nations was wholly appropriate? Does he also agree, however, that it is unacceptable that this country is expected to bear a disproportionate burden of United Nations military activities when many countries are not even paying their dues? Will my right hon. Friend put pressure on those countries to remedy an unacceptable situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.686.4", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, like me, was present at the excellent ceremony held in Westminster Hall yesterday, which undermined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "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": "ed to look for yet more ways to increase investment through partnership with the private sector, to extend choice and to improve further the service provided to tenants. We propose to legislate to allow commercial providers to compete alongside housing associations for grants to provide social housing at below market rents, increasing competition so that we can get more homes for taxpayers' money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "n taxpayers. Where there are costs, we shall support transfers that offer the best return on the resources that we have available. We shall encourage transfer to a wider range of private landlords. That could include local housing companies, as well as commercial landlords. Local authority companies will need to be clearly in the private sector. By 2005, we intend to transform the remaining large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "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": "ld half of all new homes on previously developed land, reducing building on green-field sites, protecting the environment and safeguarding the green belt. We need to ensure that social housing is allocated fairly to those with the best claim to it. In July 1994, we announced that we would proceed with plans to reform homelessness legislation and make the system of allocating social housing fairer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Gentleman does not mention that properties in the northern region have been allowed to run down and need considerable renovation precisely because of the rent policies of previous Labour administrations and Labour councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.728.7", "colnum": "728", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "the new clause. I wish to repeat only a couple of the questions posed by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Will the Minister assure us that environmental protection and enhancement will be at the heart of all the Environment Agency's functions? Will he assure the House that costs and benefits will not be the sole criteria by which the standards and targets to be achieved by the agencies will be set?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.728.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": ", for allowing me the chance to draw to the attention of the House the important issue of the burning of secondary liquid fuel. In Ketton in my constituency, Castle Cement has been conducting trials of the burning of secondary liquid fuel. There is a lot of confusion about the issue, and the House should be aware that the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mrs. Campbell) has come to the issue rather late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "New clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": " of connections between secondary liquid fuels, the oil industry and energy matters and I thought that it was reasonable to ask him to clarify that for the House. We all have access to the Register of Members' Interests, and the matter is important. The hon. Gentleman made some unpleasant remarks about my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge and it is reasonable that we should redress the balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "ies were. Of course I have a clear responsibility to the people and communities I represent to find out what the authority's responsibilities are. I should point out to the Minister that, during my discussion with him, Mr. Washington made it clear to me that commitments given by Ministers during the passage of the Coal Industry Act 1994 would not now be given by Ministers in similar circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Bishop Auckland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "stituencies feel strongly about that issue. I assure them that I and other Ministers and Conservative Members—as expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Sir K. Carlisle)—feel just as strongly, and have the same worries. I have also been impressed on several occasions by the Coalfield Communities Campaign. The Opposition Chief Whip, the name of whose constituency temporarily escapes me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the time and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.775.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-27", "file": "debates1995-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "10f441489f02e552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I must invite the Minister to respond again, as I failed to intervene during his speech. He has not explained to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-27a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Transatlantic Free Trade Area", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "States vis-a-vis Japan at the moment, and that process comes to fruition this week because of the apparent intent of the US to restrict trade with Japan. I accept that we have a cross-Atlantic protectionist problem and it has a growing body of theory behind it. The hon. Member for Rotherham used Sir James Goldsmith as an example of somebody who is interested in free trade, but the reverse is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Transatlantic Free Trade Area", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "Precisely. I shall dwell on some of Sir James Goldsmith's views about protectionism later, if I may. There is a great requirement for a restatement of the case for free trade. Perhaps I ought to declare an interest, as I have just received the manuscript for my book on this exact subject which is to come out in the next few months. It is called \"The Challenge of the East\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Roofing Contract (Plymouth Dockyard)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": " for the works granted by the Secretary of State, there could not be a guarantee that its product would be used. Having subsequently examined the products available from other potential contractors who had submitted tenders, as well as sample panels and further information provided by Camborne Natural Slate, English Heritage concluded that it could only recommend the use of slates of Welsh origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.884.6", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "on, the anniversary of which is this week, I met the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) who was then the Minister with responsibility for local government. That was before he fell on his pickaxe. He pointedly refused to institute an inquiry into the activities of Monklands district council. My constituents would expect nothing less from the Secretary of State for Scotland than his resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.884.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are many requests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.888.7", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. In fact, the figure is even more substantial. Spending is 33 per cent. higher per capita in Scotland than south of the border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.888.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "European Summit (Cannes)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "ffecting this nation must be taken here in this House. My guiding principle is to do what I believe is in our national interest—to argue for Britain's interests in Europe, and to build a Europe which carries the trust of the British people. That I will continue to do. I should like to add one further point. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has devoted 43 years to unbroken public service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "European Summit (Cannes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where will the money come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s made on tackling racism across Europe, and on crime and fraud. On jobs, we welcome the clear emphasis on measures to help the long-term unemployed. But how can the Prime Minister agree with his European partners that more needs to he done, when his Government and Cabinet are initiating a massive 30 per cent. cut in spending on the long-term unemployed and their programmes? Is not that a serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "European Summit (Cannes)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "May I suggest to my right hon. Friend that many people outside this House will commend his firm stand, leading to a universal acceptance by Ministers from the European Community that Britain could not, would not, shall not and cannot ever give over the jurisdiction of our courts to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "European Summit (Cannes)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to see an impact on the single market, which was separately agreed, as a result of the decisions they took in the Maastricht treaty on a single currency. I agree with my right hon. Friend about that. A large number of member states across the European Union will do so as well. There was, at one stage in the summit, a suggestion that some wise men should gather together—a small number of wise men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "European Summit (Cannes)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many hon. Members on both sides of the House feel very relieved that the Heads of Government have recognised that 1997 at last is not going to go ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "im on the discharge of its functions in Wales. We shall ensure that Welsh Office Ministers will have an input into the policy and corporate planning process of the agency, and the arrangements for those will be defined in a memorandum of understanding between the agency and the Welsh Office. The Secretary of State for Wales will be responsible for the appointment of one member to the agency board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "rn to Amendment No. 258. As has been said, the Welsh region consists of the whole of Wales and we are considering a number of proposals made by the Environment Agency advisory committee last week. Under those proposals, the regional environment protection agency advisory committee for Wales would include the whole of the geopolitical area of Wales. I agree that Wales should have a strong identity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "SCHEDULE 2C", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say that that is one of the worst responses that I have ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "te\", which is what most people are concerned about. A primary duty of national parks should be encouraging the development of quiet enjoyment rather than being concerned with banning this or that. I do not believe that banning activities will work; we must achieve our aim through persuasion. I believe that many people who are involved in noisy sports should look at ways of doing them more quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Clause 60", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Pembrokeshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "eriod. That was not the case. I said in Committee that we would like to be able to accept the principle of quiet enjoyment if it could be defined acceptably. The problem all along has been that we have not been able to define it acceptably. The chief difference between the Government and the Opposition is that my right hon. and hon. Friends represent the people who live and work in national parks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.997.5", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Clause 79", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady represents an inner-London constituency, and I know that her colleagues, and hon. Friends representing similar constituencies in London and other cities, share her concern about the state of air quality and the public's perception of it. I must also tell her, however, that the Conservative party and this Government have done most, historically, to improve air quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Clause 79", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "he attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary. The hon. Lady spoke about the power to stop vehicles. I am not a lawyer, and I do not pretend to be an expert on the legal powers of the police, but a constable can certainly stop vehicles, and I imagine that a special constable would have the same power. I am not sure about traffic wardens, and I shall try to find out precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Clause 79", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would allow me to finish the point that I am on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Clause 123", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "mmittee consulted widely and looked at all of the various issues, and yet we now have new amendments rushed through following limited consultation. There has been no consultation at all with the countryside bodies that are involved in national parks. Why have the Government done this? How does the measure improve the representation of local people? Are these proposals wanted in the national parks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-28", "file": "debates1995-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6a4b726f7dd0f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Clause 123", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "support him. Another one said: There are a lot of good ideas forwarded by the Minister but I am glad to see that people have realised that people also have to work and make a living in the National Parks. A further one, which I shall read out, although modesty should perhaps have prevented me doing so, said: Our local M.P. has come up with some good ideas which we should support in any way we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-28a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1075.7", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1075.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1075.8", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the Minister answers, may I ask that conversations be a little less noisy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1075.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.4", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.6", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "I am reluctant to interrupt the conversations to which you referred earlier, Madam Speaker, but perhaps I have your permission to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.9", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "That would be well deserved indeed, but it must be done on the basis that the right hon. Gentleman and the other parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1076.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1077.10", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " service is successful, and that it can continually provide a better service and treat more patients. I do not believe that the proposals introduced by the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett), the Opposition spokesman on health, will achieve that. There have been enormous changes in the NHS reorganisations and Labour should be wary of threatening more wholesale organisational change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1077.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "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 certainly has a cheek, since 40 per cent. of his party voted against him when he was elected leader recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-29", "file": "debates1995-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "281b4c63a2a2ee99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1078.10", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-29a.1078.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend referred to political correctness. Does he agree that that is a feature of loony left councils that are run by Labour and Liberal Democrats, which the population finds most offensive? Is he aware, for example, that a registration certificate was refused to a child minder because she owned a golliwog? Is he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "ss. Does he agree that that is a feature of loony left councils that are run by Labour and Liberal Democrats, which the population finds most offensive? Is he aware, for example, that a registration certificate was refused to a child minder because she owned a golliwog? Is he—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Is he aware that the \"Ugly Duckling\" has been banned because it has racist overtones? Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1155.8", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "You did and I withdraw, but the Minister was not telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1155.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I shall give way if the hon. Gentleman tells me exactly what it is that I have said that he believes so strongly has misled the House, because I certainly disagree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I was referring to a report in The Times, no less, the journal of record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.9", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "No, although I may do so later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.11", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "Not at this moment. I want to give a few more examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1156.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will agree that discussing the policy of the Ministry of Defence is hardly in tune with this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": " Ministry of Defence or any other issue that he might care to name, but not on this occasion. I have so much more to tell him about Labour local authorities. How about Southwark, Harlow and Hillingdon? What about Liverpool and Wakefield? I do not know whether my hon. Friends are aware, but all \"Men at work\" signs in Wakefield have been replaced, at vast public expense, with \"People at work\" signs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": ", but not on this occasion. I have so much more to tell him about Labour local authorities. How about Southwark, Harlow and Hillingdon? What about Liverpool and Wakefield? I do not know whether my hon. Friends are aware, but all \"Men at work\" signs in Wakefield have been replaced, at vast public expense, with \"People at work\" signs— [Interruption.] —according to a newspaper report on 2 March 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must settle down. This debate is rapidly becoming a farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. I want all hon. Members to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate, so I shall not accept any further interventions from either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Ms Hodge) is here, and will no doubt deal with the matter herself. We in the Labour party have made it clear that it is wrong to molest children and wrong to permit children to be molested. However, our system is most unsatisfactory, and that is not all the fault of Islington council. Under the present system, with which the Government are apparently satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I can see that you wish to defend the reputation of other clowns, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"That is no excuse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "Of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My remark was made merely to bring a certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "st year; that is what the court cases show. Yet we do not criticise the Secretary of State for Social Security for what is going on in the offices, so it is not appropriate for him or anyone else to criticise local authority benefit offices that deal with the same sort of fraud. These sectors should be all of a piece. I notice that the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) has gone now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " These sectors should be all of a piece. I notice that the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) has gone now— [Interruption.] Oh, he is here; I apologise. He is moving around to confuse the enemy—but the enemies are mainly on his own side of the House. The hon. Gentleman comes up with constant complaints against Derbyshire and the Derbyshire police authority, or at any rate he used to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1176.11", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If I have accused anybody of fraud in Monklands, I have had the guts to name them. Let the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1176.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ider only the evidence that they have, before they can make a decision on whether there is adequate evidence? Was it not the absent evidence, especially the evidence collected by the Labour party, that could have brought forward this inquiry if it had been made available?\"—[ Official Report, 28 June 1995; Vol. 262, c. 885.] The hon. Gentleman is telling me and the House that there was no evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ime. When I stood for election there, I could not believe what I heard. Labour councillors were standing outside the polling stations saying, \"Vote for me today and I will make sure that I do something about that council flat you have wanted.\" That was not an isolated incident—it was the naked use of power. Anyone who doubts that does not understand what was going on in Tower Hamlets at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e of the history of local government in London, because it was a Labour Secretary of State who, during the time of a Conservative Greater London council, stepped in and abolished the housing committee in Tower Hamlets. Did he do that for fun or because he thought that it was a good idea? He knew that he had to do it because the whole thing was corrupt, and was being used as an instrument of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ive controlled, unloved when it was Labour controlled and unloved when no party controlled it. I and many others rejoice that it is to be abolished. I have a long list. However, I note that one or two hon. Members are making frantic eyes at me and I get the message. Nevertheless, I am not quite sure whether it would do me any good to sit down right now, so I shall just make one or two more points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Dobson) said earlier that those matters should have been stopped. We all agree that they should have been stopped. The question we have to raise is whether Labour has the methods to stop them. My argument is that the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, who refers to clowns, should stop chucking around the invective and should concentrate on the hard work involved in stopping wrongdoing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I can answer it very precisely. The hon. Gentleman is someone of considerable experience of the world, politics and the environment outside the House, and he and I both know—certainly I, as a chartered accountant, know—that securing prosecutions requires a high level of evidence. That is the sad thing about Monklands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "It is also suggested that various people in the magistrates structure are jockeying for position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1211.4", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"You cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I shall not correct everything that is wrong in the hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1219.5", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hers. They are no longer here, including the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes), who made a speech and immediately left. I hope that the Chair has taken note of that. I put to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that it is disgraceful to hold to ourselves a procedure and privilege that entitles us to throw the people out of their own Parliament. There is something very wrong with any Standing Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-06-30", "file": "debates1995-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e6677197eded6da2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " general, prior to the early 1980s there was little concern about the way in which it conducted its business. That is not true in every case, of course. I remember corruption in Durham, Newcastle and south Wales authorities and, of course, in Wandsworth under the late Alderman Sporle. There was also widespread acceptance of the role of local government. Local authorities concerned themselves with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-06-30a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.5.5", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "or switch from road to rail when last year, for the first time since the war, there were no orders for new rolling stock, because of privatisation? Investment in the rail network as a whole plummeted by a third in one year to its lowest level for the past 50 years. When will the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is fast becoming the eunuch of the transport world—all talk and no follow through?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.5.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. The Table Office had erroneously tried to transfer that question to the Secretary of State for Education, as it did with the later question from my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding (Mr. Davies), which I think explains what happened there. I thank my right hon. Friend for his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "If I can correct the hon. Gentleman, who is interrupting from a sedentary position—I am sorry but I have forgotten his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "gly—their greatest item of cost: pay. The Labour party claims with every passing soundbite that it does not want to turn the clock back, yet it would strip trusts of those powers. Trust freedoms are not simply abstract concepts: they work for patients. Since we liberated trusts from the straitjacket of central control, the number of patients treated every year has increased by well over 1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.31.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " detail of that particular case. There is no health service anywhere in the world where from time to time individual cases are not treated less well than one would have hoped. Nearly always, behind the headlines so sought by the Labour party—food and drink to its debates—there are far more complex and detailed aspects, very often involving confidential information about patients or clinical staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I have a short amount of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "he plan of the right hon. Member for Derby, South is much more sinister than that. She has already told the House that she thinks that trusts are an abomination. The truth behind her document is that NHS trusts would go. The right hon. Lady wants to take away their assets and freedoms. She aches to get back to the old regional health authorities with their web of committees, bureaucracy and grind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.34.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t came to the Department, six years ago. Now, no one waits more than nine months in the west midlands. I believe that the hon. Gentleman should commend the fact that the west midlands has gone from 7,000 two-year waiters to a guarantee of nine months, albeit that, with the complexity of delivering the service that we are entrusted to deliver, there will always be aspects where there is more to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "fact that the west midlands has gone from 7,000 two-year waiters to a guarantee of nine months, albeit that, with the complexity of delivering the service that we are entrusted to deliver, there will always be aspects where there is more to do. [Interruption.] I apologise to the hon. Member with whom I momentarily confused the hon. Member for York. Be that as it may, I could offer him the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's facility for expressing what he means may not always work in tandem with his mind. However, we understood that he made the absurd suggestion that young people should be shunted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": " great assurance, that the number has doubled. She is clearly talking off the top of her head. I can inform her—she may wish to make a note of this, and no doubt her hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East (Mr. Brown) will refer to it in his winding-up speech—that just 2.6 per cent. of total NHS spend is devoted to administration. That gives the lie to the claim that it is additional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "stening to the right hon. Lady. Among all her incoherence, she gave me the feeling that she had to alter the NHS just for the sake of it. I maintain, \"If it ain't broke, don't mend it.\" Indeed, what is remarkable is that the NHS is providing a better service than ever before. The greatest evidence of that is that people are now living healthier lives and for much longer because of preventive care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Yes, but does the hon. and learned Gentleman accept that the NHS helps everybody in the community, irrespective of income? With better preventive care than ever before, everyone in the community is leading a healthier life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.99.5", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ilable diversity and choice, which Labour Members are coming around to accepting. If Labour Members believe in diversity and choice, let them tonight withdraw their ill-founded and spiteful opposition to the assisted places scheme. The scheme positively helps children who may be socially disadvantaged; it helps children from single-parent families; it helps children who come from the inner cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.99.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.99.5", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "en more to the point, 40 per cent. of parents have incomes below the scheme's school's threshold of £9,352 per year, which will be uprated to £9,570 in the coming year. Children from those families qualify for free places at APS schools. I need hardly remind Opposition Members that many of those parents voted Labour in the past, as my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Hawkins) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.99.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "hat. I say to her gently that I need no lectures from her on what she believes the working class requires. I want the maximum choice and diversity. It might be argued that grammar schools, for example, cost more. Is that why the hon. Lady would like to see them abolished? Is that why Labour Members would like to see grant-maintained schools abolished? Are we bringing everything down to mere money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-03", "file": "debates1995-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9b64f8e10ddab3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly listened to the first part of my remarks. Had he concentrated with equal intensity on their latter part, he would have heard me say that I am anxious to see the scheme reach down—for example, into the ethnic communities. I want more young people to attend those schools from all strata of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-03a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.135.9", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The Government have not expressed an opinion; it is a matter for the French. My right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.135.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.136.11", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The sentiments of the whole House are probably with the hon. Gentlemen. However, the plain fact is that a complete ban on the production, stockpiling and use of anti-personnel land mines would be ineffective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.136.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.137.7", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at that and I regret it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.137.10", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister share the anger and disgust of South West Water consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.137.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in the City of Chester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hendron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hendron", "preceding_text": "ncy of Belfast, West was in flames yesterday evening. I am sure that he is aware that Mrs. Briege Gadd, the head of the life sentence review board, has resigned. In that regard, and in regard especially to the release of Lee Clegg yesterday, does the Prime Minister accept that the Northern Ireland Office has sacrificed the stability of the peace process for short-term political gains? Furthermore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ents. They are far from the only violent demonstrations organised by Sinn Fein in recent months. I think that everyone in Northern Ireland is aware of that fact. If I may say one other thing about Private Clegg in the light of what has been said, I say to the House and the country as a whole that it is patently absurd to equate Private Clegg's case with deliberate acts of murder by paramilitaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he country as a whole that it is patently absurd to equate Private Clegg's case with deliberate acts of murder by paramilitaries— [Interruption.] The Lord Chief Justice, at Private Clegg's appeal, stressed that when he, Private Clegg, commenced the patrol he had no intention of unlawfully killing or wounding anyone. One other further point may be of some comfort to many people in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "ment, and it does not help the House when Ministers and Opposition spokesmen get together in that way. Hundreds of hon. Members have signed early-day motions about frozen pensioners and war widows' pensions but now find that, because of collusion between the occupants of the two Front Benches, the amendments and new clauses dealing with them may not be reached until the early hours of the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-04", "file": "debates1995-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d54febc1367afbd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "New clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "ave been expressed tonight with a great deal of feeling by many right hon. and hon. Members. My right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris), for example, has an especially long and distinguished record in this sphere. He is a persistent man, and I have no doubt that he will continue to be persistent and put his case forcibly to a Labour Government after the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-04a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Grant-Maintained Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "In 1993, 41 per cent. of 15-year-olds in grant-maintained comprehensive schools achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A to C compared with 36 per cent. in LEA-controlled schools. So schools in the grant-maintained sector are producing better grades for pupils than were achieved under LEAs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opencast Mining", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": "uld certainly be interested to look at some of the sites. Indeed, I have already agreed to visit some areas. We had one small interlude with a bit of dramatics—pantomime, perhaps—from the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), who reminds me of the three ugly sisters in one go. In general, though, there was a balanced debate in some areas with some Members, and there was acceptance on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opencast Mining", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": "he industry is somewhat concerned, and is conscious of the restrictions, but I recognise that there are difficulties on the other side, too. We intend to enforce the restrictions. Green belt policy has been mentioned. It is true that there is no bar on making planning applications for development in the green belt. Nor do we intend to introduce a presumption against mineral working in green belts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.359.2", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Catherine Laylle", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "As one who practised as a family lawyer for many years, I have to tell my hon. Friend that hardly any two cases are the same. I have no reason to doubt that the German judicial authorities were able sensitively to seek the views of the boys whose ages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.364.9", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Weariness\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is trying to excite me. I have always found my hon. Friend a most courteous and constructive critic and I am grateful to him for that. I cannot add very much to what the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have said on this subject. The Prime Minister has shown over and again his wariness— that is the phrase that he rightly uses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.364.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "n and, in reality, probably a million more, the Government are proposing to scrap the Department of Employment. Is it in order for any Government to take such a step without first consulting the House or at least having the courtesy to make a statement to the House? Have you received any request for such a statement? Secondly, I have honour to be the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "Well, some of us are more humble than others. This evening, the Government propose to extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-05", "file": "debates1995-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "fb659d6bddd47a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "Ireland. I should like to say something finally about the declared policy of new Labour, which is said to be unity by consent. I pose the Opposition this question: would they be equally dedicated to union by widespread consensus if that can be patently demonstrated? For my part, I believe that new Labour could be so persuaded, because I believe it to be a party of principle rather than expedience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-05a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Minister will not be surprised to learn that I will not be congratulating him on his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Minister will not be surprised to learn that I will not be congratulating him on his— [Interruption.] —sideways move. I do not think that his father would have been all that impressed. In the Earl of Warwick's Government, the lion king—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "he provision of nursery education and care for children under five? Does the right hon. Lady agree that her right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has redefined nursery education so that it no longer has to include education? This afternoon, the right hon. Lady announced that the voucher would be available for everyone, whether in a nursery class, a reception class or voluntary or private provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Teachers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises the important question of qualifications. We shall not impose new rules at this stage, because a wide range of qualifications are currently held by those who work with the under-fives—nursery nurse qualifications, accreditation through playgroups and, importantly, a growing number of national vocational qualifications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What achievement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "May I join in the congratulations to my right hon. Friend on that admirable achievement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McWilliam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McWilliam", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that there is now some confusion over her figures? She said that the cost will be about 1.5 per cent. Is that a percentage of the £730 million, which works out at about £100 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—I gave the right answer to the wrong date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "described as being built by a gentleman for gentlemen at that time. It was the first town to have its own electric light company, police force and water company, and it had the first municipal bus company in the whole country. It has always been a town that knows where it is going. A more modern example is the £500 million Sovereign harbour development. The town has a tradition of self-governance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Stevenson", "preceding_text": "Someone said—the name escapes me for the moment—that a week is a long time in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-06", "file": "debates1995-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "069f65d3889e751a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment and Countryside (Mr. Robert B. Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment and Countryside (Mr. Robert B. Jones)", "preceding_text": "he merits of the case that it makes. That will relate to things such as software, hardware and offices as well as other issues. On SSAs, hon. Members have made two sets of arguments, one relating to the SSA system in general and the other relating to the way in which SSAs would be affected by reorganisation. On SSAs in general, we try to ride the two horses, which have two ends, like most animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-06a.592.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.623.7", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Usually I do not take further points of order on a matter that I have dealt with, but hon. Members are clearly in high spirits today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.623.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might like to put that suggestion to the Procedure Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.625.5", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ion was tabled when the then Secretary of State for Wales was doubling up as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The question related explicitly to how he split his duties and was schizophrenic. Is it not time that we considered the framework of Question Time? We spent 15 minutes today on the Church of England, which I put to you, Madam Speaker, is nothing to do with a modern-day Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.628.4", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "hen asked: Does he\"— she was referring to me— agree that it is a problem not so much of people living on a set income, but of how they manage their budgets? A person in one flat may manage perfectly adequately while someone else may not. Surely we need to teach people the art of household management.\"—[ Official Report , 8 July 1994; Vol. 246, c. 607.] There is a certain unreality about that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.628.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "No doubt that would require complex analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long speeches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Member for Billericay—pushed up her spectacles in dismay at such an awful suggestion. My right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) talked of hardship and homelessness—and his views were echoed by the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon. The hon. Gentleman was right. What is the biggest category of complaint that hon. Members on both sides of the House hear in their surgeries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "rt is less socially divisive than encouraging dependency and the politics of envy. The opportunity will come only when the country has the opportunity to vote for a new Government. The reward will come when my right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) is in No. 10 Downing street. Conservative Members will be those experiencing the dependency culture because of their politics of envy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.686.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " the difference between the two sides of this House was that she—and that means the Conservative party—liked to lift people up to their full potential, while the socialists wished to level them down. No debate on aspects of social security is complete without a proper exchange between the hon. Member for Garscadden and me, but I regret that he was not prepared to give way to me at any stage today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " potential, while the socialists wished to level them down. No debate on aspects of social security is complete without a proper exchange between the hon. Member for Garscadden and me, but I regret that he was not prepared to give way to me at any stage today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"] He did not give way to me. The hon. Gentleman usually makes supremely confident speeches, but for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": " we live is not the non-application of old or new Labour party or socialist ideas, but the betrayal of the idea that we live in one nation and even a betrayal of the Conservative philosophy which, until the past 15 years, accepted a sense of responsibility for social community. Every week at my surgery, since I was elected a year ago, I have confronted someone whose life prospects would be helped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "the Conservative philosophy which, until the past 15 years, accepted a sense of responsibility for social community. Every week at my surgery, since I was elected a year ago, I have confronted someone whose life prospects would be helped— [Interruption.] My cough is caused by the filthy smog in which we have to live under the Tory Administration but that is another debate. At each of my surgeries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "note that the proportion of working married women with children under five has risen from 27 per cent. in 1977 to 47 per cent. four years ago, according to the latest census. That has not happened through choice. The social attitudes survey shows that 76 per cent. of mothers thought that they should stay at home full time with their children. The figure rose to 80 per cent. in lower-income groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "volved in petty thieving of one sort of another, taking away the value that is created by people who go to work. Nationally, white-collar crime is rising inexorably. Scams are reported day and night in our local and national newspapers. At board room level, directors over-reward themselves in an immoral way. People are sitting on each other's remuneration committees, determining who will get what.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I will get to that point in my speech, if the hon. Gentleman will give me a break. It is true that people are concerned about losing their job—15 years of Tory rule have certainly made sure of that—but a minimum wage, where it is sensibly introduced, does not cost jobs and we shall introduce it sensibly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "h, if the hon. Gentleman will give me a break. It is true that people are concerned about losing their job—15 years of Tory rule have certainly made sure of that—but a minimum wage, where it is sensibly introduced, does not cost jobs and we shall introduce it sensibly. [Interruption.] Around the world there are many different examples of different methods of minimum wage fixing, but they all have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "where it is sensibly introduced, does not cost jobs and we shall introduce it sensibly. [Interruption.] Around the world there are many different examples of different methods of minimum wage fixing, but they all have— [Interruption.] Conservative Members are not listening. They have asked all afternoon what our approach is to the minimum wage. I am about to tell them if they will just keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "world there are many different examples of different methods of minimum wage fixing, but they all have— [Interruption.] Conservative Members are not listening. They have asked all afternoon what our approach is to the minimum wage. I am about to tell them if they will just keep quiet. [Interruption.] All around the world, many different methods are used by different countries to fix a minimum wage", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will have no more barracking from sedentary positions. The hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) has asked his question. He might now listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.5", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "All around the world, there are difficult examples of how different countries, with Governments of the left and of the right, fix a minimum wage, and they all have one thing in common: they involve both sides of industry—employers and unions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.6", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-10", "file": "debates1995-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "00a13b6f18c6b83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Social and Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "has welcomed it. Howard Davies said: The CBI welcomes the changes announced today by the Government. We have long argued that responsibilities for these two vital areas should be brought closer together. The proposed structure will help to provide a clearer focus and more coherent policy formation. It welcomes it because it can see the opportunities that it will bring. It sees that in our schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.729.11", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong. The pay of the least well-off has increased substantially. The pay of a single man in the bottom 10 per cent. of earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.729.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "In congratulating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "hould be, but I am glad that he has bothered to turn up for questions today. The only sustainable way to improve people's earning power is to improve their education and training so that they are more productive and can earn more on a sustainable basis. The Labour party's policies are misguided. Even Sir Gordon Borrie, chairman of Labour's Social Justice Commission, wrote in The Guardian recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Mr. Jamieson) spoke up for water consumers. Why do he and his colleagues not speak up for rail passengers? Why are Opposition Members happy to support strikes on British Rail while they parade around claiming to be in favour of the consumer? The reality is that the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers' call for a strike on the underground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "The point is that either party may propose a change. That does not mean that the franchising director will accept the change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with the railways?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "rvative party will not accept that policy, not personalities, lies at the heart of their deep unpopularity. The Prime Minister involved himself in a vote of confidence and started off by saying that there were a few nutters in his party of whom he had to take care. After 12 days, he had managed to firm them up to 30 per cent. of the parliamentary Conservative party opposing him—a real achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "is not about building on an industry which is doing spectacularly well—it would be wrong to suggest that—but about working on an industry that has potential. What did the Government do? They created an artificial internal market and turned the rail freight industry into three companies. When will Ministers appreciate that the battle for freight is not within the railways but between rail and road?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "tle for freight is not within the railways but between rail and road? [Interruption .] I hear an hon. Gentleman say, \"Of course it is,\" from a sedentary position. I should like that constructive comment to be passed on to Ministers. The capacity of Ministers to pursue dogma through internal market competition is nothing to do with the real battle. They should think again about the three companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ng to do with it.\"] It has everything to do with it. The situation is clear. The Government, like us, are surely committed to creating a better environment beyond the year 2000. One small way in which they can contribute to that is to shift road freight on to the railways. The key issue should be the competition that we should be generating between rail and road. The Government are not doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.774.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "It is invigorating from our point of view to be put in the position of a Government—we have the Liberals on the one hand and the Minister on the other. To be fair, the Minister should be congratulated because he survived a remarkable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were an endorsement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "e have the Liberals on the one hand and the Minister on the other. To be fair, the Minister should be congratulated because he survived a remarkable—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"] I think that the Minister would like to hear what I have to say. I speak to him outside the Chamber, although I do not know whether that helps his career. However, despite his remarkable comments about the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "What my constituents want out of privatisation is an improvement in their rail services. I am interested in the lot of the passenger. Many of the hon. Gentleman's Front-Bench colleagues were claiming that privatisation would not benefit the passenger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "There they go again. Two trains are guaranteed, the existing trains will still run and the Great Western managing director has said that he plans to run more services, not fewer. I will quote from the press release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "er general practitioner without unnecessary interference by the Family Health Service Authority; supports the need for substantial, ongoing patient education campaigns on the appropriate use of the out of hours emergency service; and calls on the Government to take all reasonable steps to avoid industrial action by general practitioners. It is a matter for regret that I have neither the attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": "for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood), had not been present, the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile) would not have realised that the words of the motion that we are debating this evening were those of our parliamentary colleague, the right hon. Member for Peterborough (Dr. Mawhinney). That was clear from the exchange that took place when the matter was referred to earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": " (Mrs. Beckett), if I may say so, to the possibility of GP fundholding ending under any future Labour Government. I detected something of a discrepancy between what he said and what his right hon. Friend said, when she made it clear not long ago that GP fundholding as it currently stands is unacceptable, to use her word, and that she would put a stop to it in the first year of a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I do not have time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-11", "file": "debates1995-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "bec4c2ade6183893", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "often highlighted as a particular area of difficulty. The last figures I can give the House show that, for the year ending 30 September 1994, the figure was 19. A number of points were raised by my hon. Friends, who sustained the debate. It is astonishing that, in a debate in the Liberal party's time on what they clearly consider to be an important subject, that party chose to put up two speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-11a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "I have already made it clear that Shell has agreed to commission a completely independent audit of the Brent Spar situation and I am sure that it will ensure that the results of that independent investigation are made public. I am also intending, subject to the necessary commercial confidentialities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.972.8", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "erity that I have seen in my career in politics. Partly due to the policy measures that I have put in place, growth has slowed to a more sustainable rate this year. That is deliberate and desirable. The British people want greater economic security and they want to be sure that this time growth will last. The Government are working hard to deliver an economic recovery on which the public can rely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.972.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way to him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "last week in the Conservative party and 89 of his colleagues signified their support for a platform of no single currency. Does not that mean that there is no possibility in the near future that a Conservative Government could ever seek to put a single currency before the British people? If so, would not it be wise to advise the Europeans that there is not going to be a single currency in Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " longer term, I know that the Prime Minister believes that it should be reasonable to get rid of capital gains tax and inheritance tax as well. Inheritance tax is extremely uneven in the way that it falls. Capital gains tax in this country bears quite heavily on some forms of investment, but the Prime Minister has given no sort of commitment about when we might achieve such an ambitious objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "For a shadow spokesman who has not got a tax policy and cannot even say whether he thinks that taxes are too high or too low, the hon. Gentleman really must not mess about with his press cuttings in that way, trying to find interventions to make in a debate such as this. On share options, he must wait for the Greenbury committee report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.976.9", "colnum": "976", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "prospects for the economy and for our people, who expect to benefit from it. But of course forecasting is difficult, and the Government do not claim a monopoly of wisdom in that activity. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, East used to come to the House with different forecasts of his own. Hon. Members will remember the unemployment forecast that he made in the House following the March 1963 Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.976.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.976.9", "colnum": "976", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman and the present leader of the Labour party were first elected to the House. New Labour language is all platitudes and gobbledegook, and it is no longer I alone who says that. On the Order Paper there is an alternative amendment, tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) and 15 other Labour Members. They have set out an alternative Labour party economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.976.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can read the Governor's advice for himself. Thanks to the changes that I have made, the Governor's opinions on this matter will appear at monthly intervals, but the hon. Gentleman will say nothing in response. He can read the minutes that I have published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.985.7", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What I said was that, under existing policies, the Chancellor would not meet his target. The reason that I said that he would not make his target—and the Chancellor should not try to misrepresent what I said—is that the Government have not tackled the underlying weaknesses of the economy, which are the barrier to long-term sustainable growth. If the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.985.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "The last time that the Chancellor debated economic matters before the House was 13 December 1994. It is quite disgraceful that we have just two economic debates a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hoon", "preceding_text": " has been quoted since we had our debate to change Labour's constitution, but we set it out for all to see. It states that we believe in a dynamic economy, serving the public interest, in which the enterprise of the market and the rigour of competition are joined with the forces of partnership and cooperation to produce the wealth the nation needs and the opportunities for all to work and prosper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hoon", "preceding_text": "ion and training. We want to develop a system of training and education for 16 to 19-year-olds, which will combine academic and vocational qualifications. We have talked about specific training schemes for women and the ethnic minorities. We have talked about introducing a national skills audit, to identify skill shortages and to target resources to provide training, which will lead to employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " Government when redundancies are down to half the level that they were a year ago. It is also hard to attack the Government when, over the three months to May, the number of people out of work for a year or more fell by 40,000 and the number of people employed in manufacturing industry is on the rise. When I listen to some Opposition Members, I really think that we are living in different worlds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "mbers, I really think that we are living in different worlds. [Interruption.] We have heard the theme of the tale of two cities from the Opposition this evening, but with such improvements in the economy, it is hardly surprising that the Opposition made so little headway yesterday. It is in part due to the success of our economic policies that the Conservative party is now recovering in the polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "covery, although, judging by the speech made by the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Cunningham), he may not have noticed it. However, the key factor in boosting the stock market, which is an illustration of people's confidence, is the fact that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been re-elected with a greater majority than the leader of the Labour party achieved in his election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s response to the dilemma is to go for greater short-term flexibility by loosening the targets that he has set himself on inflation and the public finances. In that way, he hopes to gain extra room for manoeuvre on both the monetary and the fiscal sides in the run-up to the general election. The Chancellor now says that inflation will be between 1 and 4 per cent. most of the time, when previously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "sses a commitment to market economics which must be anathema to him and to his colleagues who signed the amendment. Are they trying to tell us something? Are we to assume that Labour Members have become pink Conservatives after all? My right hon. Friend—I beg his pardon: he should be right hon.—the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West said that we should not allow the country to be fooled by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "t African\" equals \"illegal immigrant\" equals \"fraudster\". That equation has buzzed around in his mind until he has blown it, because the equation is not true, and he has not been able to make it stack up. Now, hardly any decent people I know support him—apart from a poisonous little fat boy called Keith Vaness, who is out of his depth, and a few oddballs who have backed Mr. Crofton down the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-12", "file": "debates1995-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a0fc6eed5a47f06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Nicholas Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Nicholas Baker)", "preceding_text": " her leave to enter the United Kingdom since 23 October 1992. She had no permission to live or work in this country. On 1 December 1994, a 33-year-old male was detained by the immigration service for working in breach of his conditions of entry. He had been employed on a full-time basis by the London borough of Hackney since June 1990, most recently as an estate manager for the housing department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-12a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend estimated the number of jobs that would be lost if the minimum wage were pitched at the level suggested by the Transport and General Workers Union? Does he not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1081.5", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Rewards in this area are extremely important. The hon. Lady touches on a subject which as she knows full well, will be dealt with when Sir Richard Greenbury reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1081.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We have no intention of re-entering the exchange rate mechanism, at least for the duration of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) has been dancing around with all sorts of fraudulent and distorted quotations. I will make it quite clear to the right hon. Gentleman—as I have done, both publicly and privately, for some time—that when it is appropriate and we can afford to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1108.6", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "rs) was dying to answer the point about holidays. I think that I will leave Bolsover to Workington for that purpose. On the other points, the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) will be well aware that those matters are for the Catering Committee, but I draw his attention to the fact that large-scale proposals exist for improving the catering facilities, not least in the interests of the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1108.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1108.7", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "When can we have a full debate on a subject raised this afternoon in a telephone call to my office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "ages or have been forced out of work. What we have seen is the rise of the inactive society in Britain. Because of the failure to move back towards full employment, simply too many of our citizens are economically inactive. That is bad news for them and for their families—most do not want it—but it is also bad news for the economy and the social security budget. I bring my remarks to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "at are the trends in our society that make for social insecurity and what is the role of Government in promoting social security. The great failure to develop a family policy in Britain is a classic example. The rise of the single, unmarried mother is consuming more and more of the social security budget. Who in Government is taking hold of that issue and asking what are the preventative policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": ", and that in Newcastle it is 12 per cent. lower. It suggested that the Secretary of State was considering whether that differential should be reflected in the rate of unemployment and other benefits. I understood that that was not on the Secretary of State's agenda, but it would be worth hearing that from him again. It is unusual for a story such as that to appear without at least some prompting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quarantine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "preceding_text": "mple, the Danes use coloured ear tags on imported pigs, and if the Danes can do it, I see no reason why we should not do so. As the Chairman of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Sir J. Wiggin), said, a great deal of the Committee's time was spent examining the rabies question. I began the investigation absolutely convinced that rabies was right, that we ought to keep it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-13", "file": "debates1995-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "568ae32ed7ae2d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "vered that one carrot in thousands might have too high an accumulation of something unpleasant. The whole system had to be changed, and the British population was warned to top and tail its carrots before eating them raw. The margin of safety had been reduced from 100 to 93— a minuscule change, but apparently we must not take risks with carrots. On the other hand, it seems that we can with rabies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-13a.1165.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-17", "file": "debates1995-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a9d08f04a893d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-17a.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "It is a particular honour and a pleasure to answer in this place for my right hon. and noble Friend Baroness Chalker. I look forward to working with her on this portfolio for many months to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-17a.1307.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-17", "file": "debates1995-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "0b4a9d08f04a893d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-17a.1397.5", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any of us noticed on 13 June that Scotland was excepted from the general gloom propounded by the hon. Gentleman about the housing market. If we are talking about general gloom, I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman also saw the report in the Financial Times by Mr. Kaletsky on the question of how the \"myth of negative equity\" has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-17a.1397.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Barings", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "as assisted in this inquiry by a team of accountants, lawyers and derivatives experts, all drawn from outside the Bank of England. The board does not consider that the events leading up to the collapse point to the need for any fundamental change to the framework of regulation in the United Kingdom; but there is, it concludes, a need for improvements in the implementation of existing arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Barings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "nd our regulatory authorities, and to meet the Government's obligations to the House and let the House know as much as we knew, so that it can in due course reach a considered conclusion. As for Mr. Leeson's possible trials, he was a resident of Singapore, and therefore made himself subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Singapore. If he goes back to Singapore, he will no doubt have a fair trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Barings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And Maxwell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Has it ever crossed the Chancellor's mind that, in the whole series of crashes in the financial world that have extended over many years—in fact, throughout the 16 years that the Tory Government have been in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "fit. If a gift that is given personally to a Minister, which is inscribed or given specifically to an individual, has a value in excess of £125, the Minister may not retain it. If it exceeds that value, he or she can pay for it and there is a prompt valuation by outside experts. The gift will be either retained or handled in a discreet fashion in order not to cause offence to a foreign Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "tain it. If it exceeds that value, he or she can pay for it and there is a prompt valuation by outside experts. The gift will be either retained or handled in a discreet fashion in order not to cause offence to a foreign Government. [Interruption.] Discreet in the sense that offence should not be caused to the donor, not discreet in the sense of trying to cover something up. Those rules are clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "to cause offence to a foreign Government. [Interruption.] Discreet in the sense that offence should not be caused to the donor, not discreet in the sense of trying to cover something up. Those rules are clear. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman can pursue his general question. I shall be happy to respond when I have researched the facts. If the hon. Gentleman cares to write to me, I shall respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "House of Commons (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "that is not a holiday for Members of Parliament, but it is a rest cure for Ministers because they will not have to come to the House and account for their actions. It makes a manifest nonsense of the claim that the legislature controls the Executive. During that long summer recess, government will continue, but without the inconvenience of Ministers coming here to expose themselves to examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "House of Commons (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "de on issues of national and international importance. That is why Members are forced to raise what are in effect spurious points of order. Before the debate on this Bill, we had one of the most genuine exchanges on points of order that I have heard for many a year in this place, but normally it is not like that. We are forced to use Standing Order No. 20 applications and spurious points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "House of Commons (Abolition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "r heed us, as they please. The decision as to whether our troops should become involved in military activity or withdraw will be taken using the royal prerogative powers rather than following a decision taken by the House. In effect, a raft of decisions affecting every single man, woman and child does not even have to be discussed in the House. The House of Commons is not asked for its permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Sea Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Invite them over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": "nd could perhaps be changed. I therefore join those who welcome the new decommissioning scheme, as far as it goes. It is clear that there are problems with the way in which the scheme is formulated. Anyone who speaks to those working in the fishing industry will know that individual sectors have different problems. This is beginning to sound like a tea party at which we all congratulate Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-18", "file": "debates1995-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "db243c36638dda1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman has the Adjournment debate. Hon. Members will probably stay and listen to him as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-18a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " do not apply to Marks and Spencer, to any grocer or to any other firm in a competitive industry. It is completely and utterly different. The language of the marketplace, which, in my opinion, justifies to the hilt salaries of, in some cases, £200,000—or £2 million, for that matter—cannot possibly apply to the monopoly utility. I shall say in a few moments, when I have given way to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I am afraid not. I do not have much time to conclude my remarks. Importantly, President Chirac confirmed France's commitment to the conclusion of a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty by the autumn of 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1656.2", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is privatisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "en a document is leaked, the Labour party cannot understand the leaked version. We have significant proposals for the development of the role of housing associations; we have proposals that will help the development of the private rented sector; we have proposals for the diversification of tenure; and we have proposals to bring new money into the social rented sector and the private rented sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1659.10", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "If I were the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), I would be concerned about taking advice from the hon. Members sitting behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1659.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Sir Alan Urwick", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "n Amman and in Cairo, and as high commissioner in Ottawa. Sir Alan took up his appointment as Serjeant at Arms when he left the diplomatic service in 1989. He rapidly found out what life is like in this place during the summer recess: the Serjeant's usual quarters were uninhabitable, because the builders had taken them over, so he had to set up his office in a corner of one of the Committee Rooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1682.3", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is trying too hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1682.3", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hen I gave evidence to the Nolan committee. Hon. Members should read the record. No, I do not regret anything that I have done. I am perfectly willing to comply with any of the new rules, and disclose any fees I earn outside the House. I hope that the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) will be equally willing to declare everything that he earns in relation to parliamentary activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1712.5", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Fry", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Fry", "preceding_text": "ay different from a Member of Parliament who is a lawyer, whose law firm advises clients, or an accountant, whose accountancy firm advises clients, or a company director, who advises his fellow directors. That is the type of problem that we must solve in the present discussion, and I hope that the Select Committee will do it. I am sick and tired of the hypocrisy that comes from Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman anticipates me; I am coming to that point in the immediate paragraphs that follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1745.7", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for that reconsideration. Very courteous. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1745.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-07-19", "file": "debates1995-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5d7bdf640acf934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bosnia", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": " has not been reported in our media, the Bosnian Serbs reacted immediately as follows: The UN should deliver the proposal to us and we will respond to it officially. Following the events in Srebrenica the leadership of the Serb Republic would like to negotiate on Zepa with the aim of transforming it into a real demilitarised zone and to resolve all the contentious issues which caused the conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-07-19a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "Yes, I agree entirely with the first part of the hon. Lady's question. In fact, her suggestion is one of the prime moving dynamics behind the consultation paper. I want more young people to have better access to sporting facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Stratford?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman checked where the lottery money was falling, he would find that far more goes to socialist authorities than to Conservative authorities, for the very reason that the money is going towards regeneration projects which are totally improving the face of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"And Stratford East\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "tery money was falling, he would find that far more goes to socialist authorities than to Conservative authorities, for the very reason that the money is going towards regeneration projects which are totally improving the face of the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Stratford?\"] There are no special cases. However, perhaps I could give the hon. Gentleman a list of projects in the Stratford area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.13.8", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "With permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.13.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply to Question 31 as the Minister responsible for deregulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Deputy Prime Minister can answer for himself, and he will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I offer my congratulations to the right hon. Gentleman on his new jobs. I hope that he will forgive me if I do not mention all his new titles, as I have only 20 minutes. I should like to take a few seconds to welcome the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Howarth).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Prison Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The covering letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " a wholly artificial distinction—though one very convenient to him—between policy and operational matters. He did it again in his statement to the House just a moment ago when he said: Sir John has not found that any policy decision of mine, directly or indirectly, caused the escape. I cannot find any quotation in the report which, directly or indirectly, backs up what the Secretary of State said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.52.8", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": ". No other organisation can provide an effective security guarantee backed by the political and military structures to put it into effect. NATO has made it plain that its forces are available to support United Nations missions and it provides the vital link between Europe and North America. For NATO to work well, European countries must show their ability to work together and to pull their weight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.52.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "re to hear. I was simply appalled to learn that his speech had not only been approved by the Prime Minister, but had his full and enthusiastic support. The Prime Minister must take the blame for the damage caused by that speech, both at home and abroad. That speech did do damage. At home, it attracted criticism from Lord Howe, Sir Leon Brittan and the former Chief of the Defence Staff, Lord Carver", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Rab Butler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Very cosy.\" I find that the letter has been written with circumspection. It does not contain the guarantee that I and the House would want on the matter. Has the gentleman signed the Official Secrets Act? Is he bound by it? Does the Secretary of State guarantee that this man uses information only for the purposes of the Department? We have a right to ask that question and to have the answer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "When British soldiers are fighting alongside our NATO counterparts, they are doing so on the authority of the sovereignty of this House of Commons. That is the way in which we intend to keep things, for so long as there is a Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.83.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "That speech of the hon. Member for Wyre (Mr. Mans) was perhaps the most devastating that we have heard. A loyal Back Bencher read out a letter from a constituent—probably a Conservative: I know that there are many Conservatives in his constituency—which said what many of us felt. It said that the Secretary of State is not fit to hold his current position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "ountry, so we had to listen to what he said. His point was that the British Government's commitment to British forces in Bosnia seemed to be on the wane, and that our soldiers out there were not playing the active part that many expected them to play. The hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) attacked the Government from beginning to end. I agree with much of what he said about the Bett report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "ung, the Government simply do not appeal to them at all. We must remember that, if we do not get good—quality recruits today, there will be poor armed forces tomorrow. I mentioned earlier that people may perceive the armed forces as racist. There is no doubt that young black and Asian Britons think that, because only 1.4 per cent. of those serving in the British forces come from ethnic minorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "Indeed, he would be very grateful if I were to continue until 10 o'clock—and if he does not he quiet I might do that. His Government have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-16", "file": "debates1995-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4314c6ccece7c5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lack of ignorance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "eason for a shortfall in recruitment is that young men and young women wishing to join the services are not prepared to accept service discipline and service life and find it to be and regard it as a racist and sexist organisation is fatuous and idiotic, calculated to harm and fool. It shows the total lack of ignorance and the total lack of understanding that the hon. Member for South Shields has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-16a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I have been to many constituencies up and down the country and said exactly that to many people, and I will continue to do so whenever I have the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pportunity to consider the document that has been published today but I am certainly aware that one was scheduled to be published today and I am aware of the policies of the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party on the subject of devolution in Scotland. There is no doubt whatsoever that those policies, if carried out as at present intended, would have a very damaging effect on the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Rural White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "id not find it used in rural areas. What an amazing statement about the privatisation of the Post Office. Most, if not all, rural post offices are privatised. The hon. Gentleman has never been in a rural post office if he thinks that they are nationalised. Rural post offices are run by rural postmasters and postmistresses. They were overwhelmingly in favour of Post Office privatisation because it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Rural White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "During my time as Secretary of State, I have sometimes felt it necessary to say that a development phase comes to an end, and that is what has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman took up more than his fair share of the debate last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman took up more than his fair share of the debate last night. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman made a perfect nuisance of himself at a time when we were extremely busily engaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " to inject joint working from the cradle to the grave in military doctrine, in training and exercises, in operations, in the way in which we approach decisions on the projects on which we spend money, and in administration. In short, we think that we have to think and act jointly. I want to conclude by saying a few general words about the services and again I apologise for speaking at some length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "Oh come on. If the Minister would listen to the answer he might be able to make a more sensible contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " in the press that I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to dismiss later, suggesting that Gurkhas are to take over the role of British troops. I mean no criticism of Gurkhas, who are excellent soldiers in their own way, and have a history of loyalty and service to the British Crown, when I say that it is not a happy state of affairs to have non-British soldiers, indeed mercenaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " have a history of loyalty and service to the British Crown, when I say that it is not a happy state of affairs to have non-British soldiers, indeed mercenaries—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I do not denigrate the Gurkhas in any way when I say that they are troops paid to fight for us. As I have already said, they are excellent troops. I pay tribute to them, but they are not as flexible as British troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go and have a cold shower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "lavatory, a trench or a bed, with somebody who might be interested in them. Women have separate facilities, and it is not so unreasonable to say that men, too, should have their privacy respected in different facilities. There are quite enough difficulties with women when sex rears its ugly head, as has been well reported in the press, and I do not think that one needs to exacerbate the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "They never attempted to use a nuclear capability against nuclear powers. I drew attention to Spitfires and Hurricanes because, had we had a deterrent capability in the south Atlantic—had we had the aircraft carrier squadron that Dennis Healey withdrew—we would probably have had a deterrent capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardy", "preceding_text": "e Yorkshire Post told us the other day, in a full and interesting report, about the closure of the RAF depot at Harrogate and the fact that the jobs had gone to Wyton in the Prime Minister's constituency. Also, the Army school at Harrogate is to be transferred to a southern coastal county. Many of us suspect that there is now a retreat of defence expenditure into Conservative political fastnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "s high time that we had, if not a White Paper at least a separate chapter in the annual defence estimates to instruct us what our plans are and how much they will cost. I have a nasty feeling that we are extremely vulnerable in that area, and I have yet to hear a peep from the MOD that it is aware of such matters. I do not have the pleasure of serving on the Select Committee on Defence these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": ". I had the opportunity to spend some time in jungle training with them in Belize some years ago through the armed forces parliamentary scheme, which I again recommend to anyone who would like to undertake it to give them some idea of the ethos and spirit of the armed forces. I am sure that if the Secretary of State for Defence were to put in a late application he would be welcomed with open arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I made the naive assumption that the warrior king who dares would have the guts to come along tonight for his first defence debate and oppose me face to face while I raised the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ndeed some things can be excused on that ground. After all, the Secretary of State for Defence is under 50, which I suppose qualifies him as a young Conservative. There can be no excuse, however, for the right hon. Gentleman's degradation of the concept of patriotism, which has been mentioned by almost every Member who has spoken in the debate, including the Minister of State for the Armed Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": " excuse, however, for the right hon. Gentleman's degradation of the concept of patriotism, which has been mentioned by almost every Member who has spoken in the debate, including the Minister of State for the Armed Forces. [Interruption.] I am now honoured to be in the presence of such a man as the Secretary of State for Defence. I was just coming to the end of my speech and discussing patriotism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-17", "file": "debates1995-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "803c23a309a004cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-17a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "s if the whole continent was some kind of ex-British colony. In fact, the United States has the dominant hand throughout the continent. In the past two years—particularly since the introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico—we have seen the true face of the United States and what it wants to do. The US wants to make Mexico a cheap labour pool for the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.334.5", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Labour-led East Renfrewshire shadow authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": ". A Scottish Parliament would put all that at risk, not least the generous funding that we enjoy, which the Scottish Constitutional Convention tells us will now be decided by a block grant to a Scottish Parliament—a block grant determined here in Westminster, where the number of Members of Parliament would have to be reduced, as the Liberals admit, at least privately, if not inside the convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is ill informed about the cracks, which were largely cosmetic. Attention has been paid to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "not wish to spoil his chances by announcing that I am backing him. As, however, this is the first time in the current chicken run that two Ministers in the same Department have scurried for the same seat, all that I say is, \"May the best chicken win!\" On 24 November last year, the previous Secretary of State for Transport announced that the Government intended to privatise Railtrack by April 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. Leaked documents are particularly welcome; I am not encouraging them, but if I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heppell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackpool, South.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heppell", "preceding_text": "I have been a little surprised by the tone of this debate. I do not know the seat of the last speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "urther debacle involving the west coast main line would be funny, if people, industries and routes were not being harmed by the Government's incompetence. The line is desperate for finance. The Secretary of State announced today that £7 million had been gathered in from Europe. What is it for? It is simply to finance more feasibility studies. It seems that a £1 billion project is lying in tatters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the work will be done early or late in 1996; nevertheless, progress has been made, and I will not challenge the Minister further. The simple fact is that Ministers will not say how much money they have. They must say where the money is coming from. From what we have heard, it seems that not one penny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have just heard why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "Why, then, was British Airways not broken up into 25 internal United Kingdom sections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend said earlier that businesses with a turnover of about £4 billion are now on the market, some of them sold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman sneers, but the business ranks third in this country's catering industry in terms of the number of pre-prepared meals that it serves every day—so it is not chickenfeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "ing his decision about the future organisation of the blood service. It is appropriate to begin on the point that is not held in contention between ourselves and the Government. I pay tribute to the 2 million people, our fellow citizens, who every year give blood voluntarily and generously, often at their own expense and inconvenience. They do so because they care about the health of other people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.415.7", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "be threatened. Above all, we believe that the review has underestimated the future growth in demand for blood and overestimated the excess capacity in the service. There is a real risk that future supplies of blood to national health service hospitals may be inadequate. What the review calls an excess the service calls a safety margin, to deal with events such as war, or the purchase of Tuta bags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "th the survey of clinical opinion that was taken on Merseyside. Given the failure of the NBA to reiterate assurances previously given, will the Minister now offer them to us? Will he say that so long as clinical opinion remains deeply unhappy about the proposals he will not force through a closure that his own professional staff have told him they do not believe to be in the interests of patients?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "ituated 70 or so miles from Liverpool, and all points in between, will be affected by what happens to processing and testing in Liverpool. Very little regard has been paid to issues relating to transport, cost of transport, and the consequences of delays in transport. I can only presume that Sir Colin Walker was so confused by his geography that he mixed up Taunton and Wigan—or possibly Welshpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-18", "file": "debates1995-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "47d7376c9058327a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am happy to clarify what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said on a number of occasions from a sedentary position. He said, \"Let us give it.\" As the present arrangements are to cover the costs—exactly what he suggests—perhaps it might be sensible if he withdrew his objections and supported factor 8 which has no international boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-18a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.466.6", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not here in 1991.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is so concerned that young people should not be held in adult prisons, why did he vote against the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which provided more local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.466.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ence examined which shows conclusively that the decision to move the governor of Parkhurst prison was the director general's. My right hon. and learned Friend will be releasing that evidence later today. I hope, therefore, that before the Leader of the Opposition repeats unjust allegations, before he states new unjust allegations, he will withdraw the old unjust allegations and apologise for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ood during the debate. What is more, I note that the Prime Minister did not answer either of the two points that I put to him. Let me make this clear to Conservative Members. This is not just Mr. Lewis's word against that of the Home Secretary, although let me point out that he was the senior civil servant. The Government appointed Mr. Lewis and renewed his contract. May I tell the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.5", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "May I remind the Prime Minister that those now lined up against the Home Secretary on this issue are the chairman of the board of visitors of Parkhurst, the chairman of the Association of Members of Boards of Visitors, the chief inspector of prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall the occasion on which a man was found in the Queen's bedroom? Does he also recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As the—[ Interruption. ] I am about to answer the question. As Madam Speaker made clear, perhaps before the hon. Gentleman came into the House, the issue before the House is not whether Mr. Derek Lewis should have been dismissed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As the—[ Interruption. ] I am about to answer the question. As Madam Speaker made clear, perhaps before the hon. Gentleman came into the House, the issue before the House is not whether Mr. Derek Lewis should have been dismissed— [Interruption.] That is the subject of Mr. Lewis's legal action against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "lfed the Prison Service—I understand Conservative Members' unwillingness to consider the fact of the crisis over which the Secretary of State has presided, but that is the reality and it is known outside the House to everybody associated with the Prison Service—the Secretary of State continues blithely to refuse to acknowledge any responsibility for this crisis. He did so when the Woodcock report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "If that was what The Guardian said, it was wrong because I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.508.5", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "whether Mr. Lewis was responsible for seeking to suspend Mr. Marriott, which attempt was made by the Secretary of State and not Mr. Lewis. It is also common ground that, at 4.10 pm on the next afternoon, 10 January, the Secretary of State told the House: The present governor\"— of Parkhurst— is today being removed from his duties at Parkhurst.\"—[ Official Report , 10 January 1995; Vol. 252, c. 33.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.508.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " to be made by the defendant to the House of Commons later that day concerning the position of the said governor of Parkhurst Prison would include the word 'today' in reference to the steps to be taken (as indeed it subsequently did)\". I have spoken with Mr. Lewis at some length and he has confirmed to me the accuracy of the allegations in his statement of claim. He has also said that he is ready—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " the move, within a framework of a few days, was a matter for his operational director, Philippa Drew, to determine at a meeting with Mr. Marriott at Parkhurst to which Miss Drew had travelled that morning. Mr. Lewis says that the Secretary of State, in response to his objections, simply indicated that he would make his statement as drafted, including the word \"today\". The allegation is therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.7", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In a moment, when I have read these minutes out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way, you coward.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In a moment, when I have read these minutes out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] It is too late. I gave the Secretary of State three occasions on which to answer the question earlier, but he was not interested in answering it. What the minutes first show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In a moment, when I have read these minutes out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] It is too late. I gave the Secretary of State three occasions on which to answer the question earlier, but he was not interested in answering it. What the minutes first show—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way, you coward.\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.512.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not know who said the word \"coward\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "me Secretary said that these were serious charges at any time, but following the extra emphasis which Governors had been instructed to give to security post-Whitemoor they could scarcely be over-stated. The Home Secretary said that he entirely agreed with your analysis that Mr. Marriott could not stay as Governor of Parkhurst\". The note goes on to show, in my judgment, that the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "lable to advise the incoming governor (when he was appointed) and to give assistance to the Learmont Inquiry, pending his being allocated to non-operational duties. The Home Secretary pointed out that this would almost inevitably be seen as a fudge, designed to enable Mr. Marriott not to be suspended. The tasks you had mentioned could scarcely be described as another post. What those minutes show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " the point that he is making—which is entirely without substance—in the course of my speech, but I want to put a question to him on an allegation that he made just a few moments ago. It is necessary for me to remind the House of what he was saying because I want to make it quite clear that I am now specifically accusing the hon. Gentleman of misleading the House this afternoon. The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have not received the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have not received the letter—[ Interruption. ]—and I do not intend to look at a copy now. I certainly do not withdraw the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.515.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That includes you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Michael Howard)", "preceding_text": "lustrated the need to address urgently shortcomings in leadership, operations and security\". I said on Monday that I had to he able to assure the House, and through it the people of this country, that the grave weaknesses in the service that have been disclosed would be put right. General Sir John Learmont said that responsibilities reached prisons board level and that the criticism stopped there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.516.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.517.9", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.517.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "in charge. The former director general was asked by the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin), who is a member of the Select Committee, whether I had forced the director general to remove Marriott that day. When asked by the hon. Gentleman: Did the Home Secretary tell you to make sure Mr. Marriott was off the premises by the afternoon? the former director general replied, \"No he did not.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I have no idea, at this distance in time, why he left the meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.522.10", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.522.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "threatened to instruct Mr. Lewis. That is clear from the adjournment of the meeting, when he was asked, as has been admitted, to come back and answer. The third is that it was the Home Secretary who said that it had to be done immediately. The Home Secretary has totally failed on every occasion to answer that. Let me put two questions to him: first, was the idea that he should be removed that day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.550.10", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Secretary (Prison Service)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "In many ways we have seen the House at its worst, and I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.550.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He came back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "What we have witnessed is an absolute disgrace. The hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie), who intervened and who cannot now be seen, at least by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-19", "file": "debates1995-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "cbfae52bcb5cf378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.561.5", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with some of the battles that have been won. If I remember correctly what I heard with my own ears, I venture to suggest that anyone who reads the debate and the hon. Gentleman's speech could be forgiven for believing that he was trying to portray a situation in which, by and large, the balance of good lay almost exclusively with the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-19a.561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-20", "file": "debates1995-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "5261d23c11df01ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "or the 1992 election. The science and engineering base is the engine house for new ideas, trains the next generation of highly qualified engineers and scientists, and provides a dynamic source of advice and expertise to enable us to exploit new ideas wherever they may originate. It is one of the cornerstones of our approach to enhancing national competitiveness. Basic science permeates all places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-20", "file": "debates1995-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "5261d23c11df01ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.643.4", "colnum": "643", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " if ever we heard one. For the past 43 years I have listened on and off, with pleasure and amusement, to the hon. Member for Pudsey (Sir G. Shaw), and he will correct me if I decode his speech thus: it was crazy ever to get rid of the OST; it was done for short-term political reasons; now that it is done, I shall not complain too much, but why, in heaven's name, do they not have a chief scientist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.643.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-20", "file": "debates1995-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "5261d23c11df01ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "t to begin by saying how pleased I am to see the hon. Member for Bedfordshire, North (Sir T. Skeet) in such good spirits and good voice after his recent hospital treatment. I am sure that all hon. Members are pleased about that. In view of the tenor of his speech, perhaps I should ask him whether he wishes to join the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Howarth) and cross to the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-20", "file": "debates1995-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "5261d23c11df01ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "preceding_text": "ade and Industry opened a Friday debate. That is not a common event and is worthy of note. I am also pleased that he has sent a firm signal to the effect that the future of the Science and Technology Committee is assured. That in itself is an important signal to the scientific community. I also welcome the Minister for Science and Technology to his post. We have known each other for some 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-20a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-23", "file": "debates1995-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "bbf7c7ca49d9a37b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Oral Contraceptives", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Martin", "preceding_text": "Is this not a classic case, in which my right hon. Friend is damned if he does something and damned if he does not? On balance, would he not prefer to be damned by the men and women of straw on the Opposition Benches, whose fitness", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-23", "file": "debates1995-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "bbf7c7ca49d9a37b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Contraceptives", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I do not have the answer to the first of the hon. Lady's questions, but if she puts down a written question and the information is available at acceptable cost, I will be glad to provide it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-23", "file": "debates1995-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "bbf7c7ca49d9a37b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ct Committee system, based on shadowing individual Departments, is probably one of the most important innovations of the past quarter of a century. They have done a great deal of good work, but the problem for Parliament and members of the Committee is shown by today's debate. Here we are, with a massed audience in the House and an even fuller Gallery—I am talking of course about the Press Gallery", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-23", "file": "debates1995-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "bbf7c7ca49d9a37b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "ut the debates to which I referred, it was clear that the treaty of accession contained very specific references to fishing, to Spain and to the fact that Spain would not have access to the North sea. The fact that no hon. Member raised the matter of Spanish accession and its impact on the CFP should be taken into account. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows the answer to his point about 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-23a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thanks to the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "The situation is generally much quieter following the ceasefire which came into effect on 12 October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not agree—I suspect that he does—that it has been a scandal that so many houses were empty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not agree—I suspect that he does—that it has been a scandal that so many houses were empty— [Interruption.] Does he not agree that it has been a scandal that so many houses were left empty in the village of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I reciprocate in welcoming him to the position he holds. But I cannot help but notice that, while my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has trusted me to come alone, the right hon. Gentleman has had a minder appointed to look after him. The curious point about the minder is that he has not even had the courage to turn up to help with the minding process. The right hon. Gentleman knows full well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uption.] Do I gather that the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) has crossed the Floor and is now sitting on this side of the House, or is he scouring away in the basement somewhere relaying what is going on in the House to the leader of the Labour party, who, of course, will never be able to get a first-hand account from the deputy leader because they do not talk? It really is ridiculous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. I refer my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "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. I want to hear the answers to the questions, whether the House does or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.7", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does the Deputy Prime Minister not realise that all this knockabout opposite will be taken very badly by starving millions in the third world who are already fearful of the proposed cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.823.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Environment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "the activities at Dounreay. When we have a first-class Scottish industry, why it should be in anyone's interest to run it down I honestly do not know. The heads on the Conservative Front Bench will stop nodding at this point. The threat to this nuclear industry of ours, which has a fantastically safe reputation, comes not from Dounreay but from privatisation. That is what will run down the skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Environment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "he negative rather than at the positive. I shall start by dealing with some of the questions asked by Opposition Members. I noticed that the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross (Ms Cunningham) press-released her speech on Monday, obviously fearful that the representatives of the media would not be interested enough to attend the debate. Looking up at the Press Gallery, I conclude that she was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ncome figures are £71.51 for a single pensioner and £114.21 for a couple where the main source of income is state pension, and £185.49 and £224.41 respectively where it is not. I remind the House that the average income of pensioners in Wales is 12 per cent. lower than that for the whole of the United Kingdom. I will now give way to the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan, if he wishes to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about that. I am trying to concentrate on the plight of pensioners in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.895.7", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "d be received by a pensioner couple on income support, with no private or occupational pensions, is just over £100 per week, excluding the cost of renting their homes. The difference is substantial. The Government's achievement has been to encourage private provision and occupational pensions: as a result, pensioners have improved their position. Meanwhile, their savings have retained their value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.895.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "l with it in that way. The Government's objective will always be to target help in the most effective way on the people who need it most. There has been much speculation in recent weeks. All I can say is that the matter is being reviewed. I have no announcement to make and no hints to drop. I suspect that if I had any hints, I would not be giving them to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Law and order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "ssue of law and order. He ignored the fact that the Government have increased the number of police officers by 16,000. He also ignored the measures that we introduced in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, for example, increased penalties and further measures on DNA testing, to make it more difficult for criminals to get away with it. They will help in the battle against law and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Roderick Richards)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Roderick Richards)", "preceding_text": " the generation that was tricked by the Attlee Government in 1945 into believing that socialism would deliver prosperity. It did not and it never will, so they will not be tricked today by Plaid Cymru or by new Labour: Conservative Members will see to that. The motion that we are debating, and I notice that the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) is already shaking his head—I am fascinated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-24", "file": "debates1995-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fe9ceb592f50ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Pensioners (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for signifying on behalf of his party that he is for the motion and, therefore, that he is for the spending implications that go with it, which amount to some tens of billions of pounds. Conservative Members will return to that issue time and again. The motion suggests that pensioners' interests are marginalized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-24a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "see the detailed figures for Cornwall. I shall want to look at that. Cornwall has always been lucky in that it has been able to attract GPs because it is an attractive part of the country. If there are difficulties in attracting GPs to such an area, it would be extremely serious. Nobody has come to me and said, \"Mr. Harris, are you aware that Cornwall is facing a crisis in the recruitment of MPs?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "finding a just, comprehensive and internationally acceptable settlement to the question of East Timor. The next meeting will be held in London in January 1996. I hope that the discussions will deal with substantive issues such as a reduction in the military presence and devolution. We also welcome the intra-East Timorese talks in Austria. I hope that those talks will continue and lead to progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ent gave a seven-year contract with no breaks for reconsideration, but the regulator apparently has the powers to act to end those excessive profits. Part I, section 4 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 places overriding duties on the Secretary of State and on the regulator. Section 4(2) says: the Secretary of State and the Director General shall each in exercising those functions do his best\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " her departmental budget is safe, and that there will be no cuts in her spending programmes in next month's Budget? Can the Secretary of State give us that assurance? I am pretty sure she cannot. Perhaps the Secretary of State can answer an easier question. I refer her to a statement by her hon. Friend the Member for Bridlington (Mr. Townend), who is chair of the Tory Back-Bench finance committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1030.7", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "munities are unlikely to benefit in future, even though many of them buy tickets regularly. There is a case for much greater public involvement and scrutiny of what is happening. Not everyone, however, can afford to pay £400 to go to a seminar to learn what is going on with the national lottery proceeds and how to make applications for them. We propose a lottery consumer council to involve people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1030.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "is the age of the nimby. The visionary therefore does not have much of a part to play, but it would be nice to use some of the substantial resources in the national heritage memorial fund to create buildings that people will look at in a couple of centuries' time with the same awe and wonder that they contemplate this place, Westminster abbey or some of the other great buildings around the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "me because I should have thought that to be invited to speak on heritage matters is to have won the first prize in the lottery of life. I certainly know that that is how my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State feels. She must be feeling good, not only because she is now in harness with the Minister of State, one of the finest members of any Government in the history of parliamentary democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": ". \"Who wants to be millionaire?\" I do. Candidly, I believe that I could cope. When I win the big prize, I shall send you a post card from Hawaii, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to inform you of how well I am coping. You may come out and give me counselling to ease me through the difficult transition from my current position. The approach of the Liberal Democrats was wonderfully patronising and sanctimonious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": " needed in particular areas and do so on a structured basis. It cannot be left to a system under which the regular winners continue to win and the losers continue to lose. The lottery has been going for several months and we must try to look at it as it proceeds. When concerns are highlighted, we must do something about them and not merely review matters in seven years, at the end of the contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The answer to that, as the hon. Gentleman must know, is yes, of course, one would use professional fund raisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": " be done; I am merely suggesting that it might improve the overall allocation of money in regions. Many people and organisations have been disappointed in the present round. Let us hope that many of them will be satisfied in the rounds to come. We need clear guidelines to ensure that the chance of success is maximised and applicants need a prompt explanation if their application has been rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "oblem. We shall try to find a way round the problem and we have already said that certain capital projects can have a revenue tail to them. That is a start. I promise the hon. Member for Cathcart and the House that we are trying to find a way to solve this important matter in a manner that is financially prudent. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel) made his usual incisive speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Mersey Docks and Harbour Company", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "one would expect to give such support. Religious leaders have condemned the company; the Liverpool Echo —which I have never known to praise or support any striker, let alone dockers, at any time in its history—has made rousing comments about the way in which the company has handled the situation. Further support has been provided by the local community. Recently, even the head of Radio Merseyside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-25", "file": "debates1995-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "27dc8dad1b8d2aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Mersey Docks and Harbour Company", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "of legal action for inducing breaches of contract. The law protects strikers against discrimination when their strike is official, which means that it is authorised or endorsed by a trade union. Dismissed strikers may be able to claim unfair dismissal if their employer has sacked only some of those who are on strike or if he has reinstated or offered new contracts to some of those who were sacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-25a.1123.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-27", "file": "debates1995-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "4d92487d79181de5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-27a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Janet Fookes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Janet Fookes)", "preceding_text": "How is it possible to turn an intervention into a speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-27a.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-30", "file": "debates1995-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "75d735ec1a8a56b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-30a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ebank and Milngavie made three suggestions. First, he asked whether paragraphs (a) and (b) in clause 1(4) should be reversed. There is a technical reason for them to be in that order—or, at least, it is highly desirable for them to be. A change would be possible, but the provisions are set out in this way to shorten the drafting, and I do not believe that there will be any substantial consequence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-30a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": " have the numbers of those waiting come down but the time that they wait—the important figure—has also come down. In his district, the figure for those waiting more than six months for non-emergency treatment has come down by a full 40 per cent. I would certainly say that his constituents enjoy a high-quality health service that is matched only by the quality of their parliamentary representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.94.10", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "t that goes into financing and resourcing the hospice movement, both in his St. Mary's hospice, Ulverston—a subject which he and my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) have raised with me—and in Trinity hospice in south London in my constituency. It is the combination of voluntary effort and the health service that enables those excellent facilities to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.94.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ssed to us—indeed, given the nature of our weapons, it would not be of use to us. There is no deal; I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that and withdraw his allegation. At least the hon. Gentleman is consistent in his views. He has been a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and he is, and he saluted the courage and determination of anti-nuclear demonstrators at Greenham Common.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.5", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.9", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " pounds of City fees are involved? Is it not also true that investment in the railways today is half what it was two years ago and that, as a result of privatisation, 5,000 manufacturing industry jobs have been lost and the unified railway network has been broken up into 70, 80 or 90 companies? When will the Prime Minister, just for once, stop pandering to the right wing of the Conservative party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.96.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has just demonstrated a skill shortage in answering questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "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 has just demonstrated a skill shortage in answering questions. [ Laughter. ] It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.104.6", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman was not present in the House yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.104.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "Once again, I am extremely pleased to welcome a Government climbdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-10-31", "file": "debates1995-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e29a7dc84249e4cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.189.4", "colnum": "189", "heading": "PREMISES OCCUPIED UNDER LEASES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "r require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom\". It seems to me that any amendment to the Regency Act, no matter how small, is subject to that part of the Statute of Westminster that says that it cannot be altered—there is an impediment to its alteration or repeal—unless it is done with the assent of the Parliaments of the dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-10-31a.189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I shall try to keep my remarks brief, as I am looking forward to the winding-up speeches—particularly that of my old friend, the Under-Secretary. While preparing my thoughts on my short speech, I looked for some coherent policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is walking out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I shall try to keep my remarks brief, as I am looking forward to the winding-up speeches—particularly that of my old friend, the Under-Secretary. While preparing my thoughts on my short speech, I looked for some coherent policy— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "What is most worrying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "What is most worrying—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am looking forward to the Minister's speech, because he should give a clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.250.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "xpects to receive less than £3 billion from the proceeds of the nuclear privatisation deal, and that it cost the Government more than £3 billion to build Sizewell B power station alone? Does that mean that the Conservative Government are prepared to give away seven power stations for nothing? On those terms, will not that prove to be a shabby, short-changing deal for taxpayers and consumers alike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.291.10", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.291.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I was— [Interruption.] I was taken aback by the fact that the Minister was not prepared to give any kind of estimate. Is not our manufacturing production only just about where it was before the recession began? It is no wonder, then, now that the competitive advantage of the devalued pound has faded away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": "prepared to give any kind of estimate. Is not our manufacturing production only just about where it was before the recession began? It is no wonder, then, now that the competitive advantage of the devalued pound has faded away—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—that we are back in the red with our balance of payments in manufacturing, which never occurred before the Conservative Government came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jones", "preceding_text": ". Is not our manufacturing production only just about where it was before the recession began? It is no wonder, then, now that the competitive advantage of the devalued pound has faded away—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"]—that we are back in the red with our balance of payments in manufacturing, which never occurred before the Conservative Government came to power. [Interruption.] What mark out of 10—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ey invest more than companies in any other countries—in the United States, and vice versa? Is he also aware that the United States is our second largest trading partner? Does he not think that that is partly due not only to our historical connections, but to a common language, a common culture and a common legal system? Does he agree that talk from the Labour party that we should concentrate only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.306.7", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "o come to their constituency Member to raise matters on their own behalf. Could you therefore do something about the fact that the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson), who has just made that very point, came to my constituency without advising me in advance, in order to take a petition from constituents on a matter that they had not had the courtesy to raise with me in the first place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.306.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.306.8", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that we could probably take up many afternoons with such matters. I have given many rulings on the subject, and I expect Members of the House to behave as adults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.306.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": " general will include a special section in his report about the impact, not of this Bill, as the Minister chided me earlier, but of other decisions that will lead to discriminatory regional pricing. We shall need to know the consequence of those decisions—the amount of the differential in gas prices. The Minister has spent most of his parliamentary lifetime since I have known him, all those years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-01", "file": "debates1995-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "66bccbe04e12538f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman was sleeping during the journey. No one is suggesting that the quality of service provided by the British staff is lower than that given by the French. I am merely saying that the train travels a great deal more slowly on the British side. That is fact. I am not berating anyone. If the hon. Gentleman did not notice the difference in speed, his sensitivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-01a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ong. That is what I propose to do. The Select Committee is right in banning paid advocacy. If it is wrong, it should not be done. If it is right, it should not be impeded for party political reasons, as the right hon. Gentleman wishes to do. Lord Nolan considered whether hon. Members' assets and income should be disclosed and that would, of course, include not only matters such as directors' fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to touch upon the important issue of unemployment. However, he might more usefully have mentioned that unemployment in his constituency has fallen by 21 per cent. from its peak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House state the business for next week?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "he House. Reference was made to the length of speeches, and the Lord President made a joke about Front-Bench speeches. That is one matter on which we have not succeeded as we could or should have done. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) has been keeping a close watch on speeches and has produced a table showing the length of all Front-Bench speeches in the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At 3 o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The people of Warwick and Leamington are not deprived of the hon. Gentleman's presence because of what occurs in the House of Commons on a Friday. If he wishes to return to his constituency, he is able to do so under the old system that we are abolishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I stand corrected. One of the main thrusts of his speech was the idea that the Prime Minister had not displayed courage or conviction as regards Nolan. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the Prime Minister who condemned the actions of some hon. Members, who set up the Nolan committee, and who then accepted its recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-02", "file": "debates1995-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fdb00605b87fd89f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.486.5", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " for informal advice because the system is not yet formally in place. However, Lord Carlisle, who chairs the committee, offered his judgment that the actions of my right hon. Friends were entirely consistent with what the committee would have advised. The word \"lucrative\" is often used in relation to jobs. It is a pejorative term which is not worthy of proper, rational discussion about the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-02a.486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "If GPs wished to become fundholders, I would very much welcome it. But it will not be compulsory. The Government's policy has not changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": " only do the doctors like it, the patients like it as well. I see the process rolling forward, not by compulsion, but in an entirely voluntary way. The Government are not forcing them. It is peer group pressure. When one doctor sees what is happening in a fundholder's surgery and the improvements that the fundholding practice is able to bring to bear on patient care, there is a \"me too\" principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ment there. GPs' role in that process is, of course, vital, but it is also important that we register our support for and applaud the work of every person who works in the NHS. Far too often in the House we have a knockabout over issues, principles or structures, but we in Britain are fortunate in having some of the most dedicated and skilled personnel working in all aspects of the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why are we here, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ives are now 40 points behind in The Daily Telegraph poll. I am quite happy for the Conservatives to plummet to historical new depths of unpopularity, but there must be a link between the unpopular policies for which the Government are famed, and electoral support. It is instructive that Tory party strategists in Smith square want to bury the issue of health. It is a weak issue for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.4", "colnum": "510", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": " being discussed in their presence—for example, the two-tier health service that they have dismissed in relation to fundholding. In The Independent on 19 October, the new Secretary of State for Health said: fundholding certainly empowers the GPs in a way that makes it easier for them to improve services available to their patients. If that is not a comment about a two-tier health service, what is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.510.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "With commissioning goes a number of other considerations that the Government sometimes ignore. First, we need collaboration among health authorities. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "g detailed concerns about specific developments in my constituency in debates on the health service. When I was at the Dispatch Box, the last thing Back Benchers wanted to hear was detailed concerns from a Front-Bench spokesman about his own constituency. As the Minister is well aware, I want to spend some time today on the detailed implications of GP fundholding for my constituents in Wakefield.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "spital stipulating that any of its patients who had to wait more than 20 minutes to be seen by a consultant had to be given a cup of tea. That is precisely what happened. I do not know exactly how it happened, but I imagine a lady going down the line of people waiting to see the consultant and asking, \"Are you from Dr. Smith's practice?\" Those who were, got the tea, and those who were not did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "We are not concerned if money is spent on proper and systematic research into the effect of the huge changes that were introduced in one fell swoop throughout England without pilot studies being undertaken. Of course there should have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Church", "preceding_text": "We are not concerned if money is spent on proper and systematic research into the effect of the huge changes that were introduced in one fell swoop throughout England without pilot studies being undertaken. Of course there should have been— [Interruption.] I would ask the Minister and other Conservative Members to allow me to continue. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-03", "file": "debates1995-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a4a2b7a5bbe40350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "I shall try to answer some of the questions that the hon. Lady posed. First, as I understand it, there were pilot studies of GP fundholding. Secondly, as I understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-03a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.605.13", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "int of order, Madam Speaker. According to column 522 of Hansard, on Friday the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge) mentioned my constituency without giving me notice. A notice about the issue was put on the Notice Board today, rather than on Friday. The hon. Member for Barking has a reputation for aiding and abetting child abuse; will you, Madam Speaker, stop her from abusing Members of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.605.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. May I return to the subject of this afternoon's debate? I entirely understand your point about not being able to give guidance at this stage, but, as you know, we are to have a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.607.6", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There was an apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House explain what my situation would be? I receive support from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in respect of which I employ an additional member of staff. If I continue to do so, would I be prevented by the amendment to the 1947 resolution from initiating debates, asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "one towards the end of this Parliament for implementation in the next. Given the interest in the debate today and the general atmosphere at the present time this may well be our last chance to get the matter sorted out. If we go on the same way in the next 10 years as we have in the past 30, I fear that in 10 years' time a large number of Members in the House will either be placemen or paranoiacs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.636.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is already happening.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "I shall be very brief. Those of us who advocate complete transparency accept what the right hon. Gentleman says, but does he agree that it would be a good idea to extend that transparency to payments to constituencies by trade unions'?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Of course they can become public. The hon. Lady cannot simply think that, when the commissioner starts investigating, the chap who put the allegations will not give them to the press. It will all come out and be published. If the allegations are irresponsible, there is no reason why they should be thrown to the public, and that is the problem that the commissioner will face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ight to know about our public salaries, but we have a right to privacy. Why should people have a right to know about the financial rewards for our individual private activities? That does not stand up to any examination. It has just become a cry, \"They have a right to know about us.\" The public have a right to know about our public position and public rewards, but not about our private activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-06", "file": "debates1995-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "27ce52c4a0e01c21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "trust from, and are held in very low esteem by, our fellow citizens. We must win back that trust as quickly as possible, for the House, our institution of Parliament, is on trial. I do not speak from the Opposition Dispatch Box for the Labour party, any more than the Leader of the House spoke earlier for the Conservative party. If we make the vote a party battle, we demean the House and ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-06a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. Most reasonable people agree that the wages of people who are learning should be commensurate to their status, but that, as they develop and improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "marily on the subject areas within the responsibility of individual government departments, or groups of departments . I stress the word \"primarily\". None of us would dispute the fact that that is the normal system, but we have fled from normality with the Government's abnormal abolition of the Department of Employment and the spreading of its work, not between two Departments, which is the usual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.754.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ve the TECs with the Department for Education; we have the CSO with the Treasury. Strangely enough, workfare, to which I shall return—this is a subject which is vastly important to the Committee and on which we have done a huge amount of work—is with the Department of Employment. Then we have all the issues concerning wages and trade unions, which have gone to the Department of Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "s when they would much prefer to be working and earning and paying taxes, when they are doing nothing with their time but rotting in unemployment—which is a hateful disgrace in modern society—is unacceptable. We are considering ways in which that can be made better. We cannot guarantee that we shall all agree with the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, but at least let us consider the ideas properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "nd other changes included. I hope that that will help the hon. Gentleman—although it may not be so helpful to the Labour Deputy Chief Whip, the hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Dixon), whom I am delighted to see in the Chamber. I noticed earlier that he was clutching a dog-eared copy of the Standing Orders. No doubt he uses them as his bible whenever he wants to stir up trouble and create difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-07", "file": "debates1995-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9ddc51b77aef56ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "review of the area cost adjustment. We would ask it to seek a basis for the area cost adjustment that is conceptually sound, achieves the widest possible acceptance among local authorities in all parts of the country, and is practical to apply—there is nothing like hoping. We have suggested to the associations that the review be steered by a group of three, chaired by a leading academic economist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-07a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.2.5", "colnum": "2", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Harris", "preceding_text": "der, Madam Speaker. I do not know whether this has been the experience of other hon. Members, but I have noticed, particularly during the past year, that various demonstrations of one sort or another have been allowed in the immediate precincts of the House of Commons. Just a few weeks ago, there was a demonstration—I do not quarrel with demonstrations as such—against nuclear tests in the Pacific.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.2.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "e the position of grant-maintained schools. I am a strong supporter of the assisted places scheme. The abolition of direct grant schools was an act of particular vandalism in Oxfordshire, because of the excellent schools that were in the city and in Abingdon. The assisted places scheme does something to redress that. I know that the quality of teaching is more important than the size of the class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": " my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to strike a difficult balance. They will certainly listen with one ear—one eager ear—for news about taxes, but they will also want to be sure that he gives full and practical effect to what the Prime Minister has said about priority for spending on education. I congratulate the Prime Minister not only on his return from New Zealand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandreth", "preceding_text": "ion version of \"Pride and Prejudice\" to \"Hollyoaks\". My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister may be gratified to learn that she likened him to Mr. Darcy. This is the bit that I did not check with him. \"Tough but tender,\" was how she put it. He may be less happy to learn that she also took a fancy to Mr. Bingley, whom she said was a dead ringer for the Leader of the Opposition—a poppet with a grin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " money is there to be spent on our children's education, and the Prime Minister chooses to spend it on subsidising private education for 30,000 children while the educational needs of millions go neglected in our country. Resources mean choices—assisted places for the few, or smaller class sizes for the many. I know the choice that the Labour party makes; it is the choice that British people make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " children's education, and the Prime Minister chooses to spend it on subsidising private education for 30,000 children while the educational needs of millions go neglected in our country. Resources mean choices—assisted places for the few, or smaller class sizes for the many. I know the choice that the Labour party makes; it is the choice that British people make. [Interruption.] It is the choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ected in our country. Resources mean choices—assisted places for the few, or smaller class sizes for the many. I know the choice that the Labour party makes; it is the choice that British people make. [Interruption.] It is the choice— [Interruption.] Before Conservative Members tell us that class sizes do not matter, why do so many of them send their children to private schools with small classes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent. The rowdier Conservative Members get, the more beaten they show themselves to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "w's papers? What can keep the two wings of the Conservative party together? As a Minister said to a newspaper the other day, it is government by tacking. It is a tawdry, low-life, demeaning exercise in political tactics. It is everything about using government as a propaganda machine and it is nothing about the interests of Britain as a country. Consider the year since the previous Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " minute, behave like a Government instead of a rabble? What is wrong? Do they not dare to stand up today? Is there a problem? It is a little game with the Whips. To think that those people can keep themselves in government for another 18 months—it is a tragedy for this country. I shall take advantage of the fact that Conservative Members are not going to interrupt me. Let us look at the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "First, in that case, Conservative Members broke the convention at least 10 times last year. Secondly, I think that the hon. Lady means the Budget speech, not this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I have heard it all now. Twelve months ago, the right hon. Gentleman sat in the Cabinet and agreed with the Government's policy. He is the man—I shall be corrected if I am wrong—who served in the Government at the time of the Maastricht decision and supported the Government all the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ncipient inflation problem. The Leader of the Opposition may choose to forget, but I do not think that the nation will have forgotten the shambles that emanated from Labour policies. Whenever the Opposition talk about this country, they try to talk it down, and refuse to recognise what has happened. Inflation is no longer a serious issue: it is under lock and key. The number of people out of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ernment for three years, and shows no sign of getting out of control. What help have we had from the Opposition to bring down inflation? The number of people out of work has fallen by almost three quarters of a million. It is now below Germany, and well below France. A higher proportion of British people are in work than ever before in our history, and more than in any comparable European country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have moved, over the last few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Lady directly that Britain is now the fastest-growing economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man on his special pleading—a special pleading with which I am familiar from my visits to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland enjoys a number of other advantages not enjoyed in the south or elsewhere. One must consider the position in the round. Not only would the hon. Gentleman be surprised, but the House would be astonished beyond belief, if I were to deal with such tax measures on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ple will be entering a world of rapid change. One of the key areas of change is broadcasting. Digital technology will revolutionise broadcasting, just as much as the switch from black and white to colour television. Britain will be right at the forefront of those changes, and the broadcasting Bill will ensure that we stay there. The Conservative party has a long tradition of helping those in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. Only a small number are likely to succeed, and they deserve to be determined speedily. The asylum and immigration Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have borne that in mind in the manner in which I have approached this issue, but I have to say that it is those who raise the question of race when we are dealing with the question of asylum abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat in mind in the manner in which I have approached this issue, but I have to say that it is those who raise the question of race when we are dealing with the question of asylum abuse— [Interruption.] It is those who do that who raise the problem. I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that it is his hon. Friends who have been behaving in that fashion, not this Government. What we are seeking to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "gh. While we set out important long-term policies, Labour demonstrates time and again why it is unfit to govern. We will pursue our objectives for the economy, for choice, for opportunity and for a safe and secure United Kingdom. That is what lies at the heart of our programme. I commend it to the House. No other party can put the interests of this country first as this Conservative Government do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I indicated earlier to the right hon. Gentleman that I grew up in a multiracial area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "irling and the former Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Mr. Lang) in the forefront—forced it on the people of Scotland. That is causing great resentment. What Scotland wants is real devolution of power to its people—and that is what a Labour Government will bring. That is what ought to be, and will be, in the first Queen's Speech under a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "s is real devolution of power to its people—and that is what a Labour Government will bring. That is what ought to be, and will be, in the first Queen's Speech under a Labour Government. [Interruption.] But we do not just want devolution of power to Scotland. Power must devolve to Wales, Northern Ireland and, ultimately, to the rest of the United Kingdom. It must take place within England as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett (Erich and Crayford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evennett (Erich and Crayford)", "preceding_text": "ood); he was an excellent Secretary of State for Wales, and worked extremely hard for the Principality. Let me also say—following the speech of the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes)—that most Opposition speakers seem to forget the many achievements of the Government over the past 16 years, including the improvement in living standards for all sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.79.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "was given greater consideration than public safety. My hon. Friends who went to the meeting with British Gas will recall that the chief executive of Premier TransCo, Mr. McConnachie, revealed that British Gas was behind schedule with the pipe laying. British Gas is worried about its profits going down because of the hot summer and the warm winter, and there are commercial pressures on the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-15", "file": "debates1995-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "481aec12c78b4ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e commercial pressures on the company. [Interruption.] The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland understands as well as I do the importance of speaking with one's hands as well as with one's voice. The commercial pressures that were on British Gas could have been one of the major factors in the lifting of the prohibition notice. I want to raise the question of the current marine laboratory survey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-15a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to my hon. Friend in a way that he will find appropriate. Of course I acknowledge his last point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "that is reflected in many aspects of our foreign policy. Towards the end of my remarks this afternoon, I shall draw attention to what I believe are differences in that matter in three important respects: the extent to which, on all the great and fundamental issues that have divided the country on foreign policy, the Labour party, since the days of Ernest Bevin, has been wrong—by its own admission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Although I am sure that the hon. Gentleman feels better for having got that off his chest, it bears very little relevance to the issues before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "he Opposition to convince the Confederation of British Industry that the social chapter would be safe in Labour hands beggar belief. The Leader of the Opposition went to the CBI and sought to reassure its members. Let me conclude my remarks by quoting the Leader of the Opposition's words. He said to the CBI: The social chapter is not detailed legislation. It is a set of principles. The real fear\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "n a Government who say that they are committed to a comprehensive test ban treaty. Will he tell us, if he were faced with that choice, what decision he would take? Is he telling us that they would rather carry out a test programme than go ahead with a comprehensive test ban treaty? If so, is that the view of his Foreign Secretary? That is something to which the House is entitled to have an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman not acknowledge that the Prime Minister stood alone in Europe at Maastricht when he secured the opt-outs on the social chapter and European Union? That was before the so-called rebels had had any effect on the Conservative Benches. Surely it demonstrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "That is illuminating. My hon. Friend is talking about a commercial project. I do not associate Marchwood or the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with anything that is commercial. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "lluminating. My hon. Friend is talking about a commercial project. I do not associate Marchwood or the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with anything that is commercial. It is— [Interruption.] My hon. Friend has outlined a battle that must be fought between the various local councils. As he says, the port of Southampton is doing extremely well. It can handle the largest container ships in the world. We know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": ". It can handle the largest container ships in the world. We know— [Interruption.] Of course, dredging must take place if those vessels are to reach container ports. Without being fanciful, I believe that the area could become a mini-Hong Kong in handling container traffic. I am talking about Marchwood and not the port of Southampton. We know that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary has grown and must grow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "He worked there 30 years ago in a bank for eight months. I am not aware that he has been back in the intervening period. If so, he would have discovered that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am very interested in what the hon. and learned Gentleman is saying, but I seek your guidance because my understanding—I hope to be corrected—is that he is the parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the hon. Member for Boothferry (Mr. Davis).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-16", "file": "debates1995-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "108bdc5ee24ca354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Portillo)", "preceding_text": "ch lashes from his countrymen. Eventually, he paid the price of his peacemaking with his life. There are not so many outstanding statesmen in the world today, and Yitzhak Rabin was characterised by his vision and leadership. Not only do I feel great sorrow at his loss, but I send to the people of Israel the wish that their wounds may be healed and that reconciliation may spread through their land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-16a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The Government's approach has avowedly been to welcome the principle, but not to introduce it for all beneficiaries of community care at the first stage. Instead, we want to focus on specific groups so that we can test the system and ensure that it is well proven before it is implemented generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "Excellent. The hon. Lady is at least on to the key point. Of course it is true that if one separates purchase from provision and gives purchasers a choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "decisions than you sitting up in Whitehall. The hon. Lady responded: Well, let's be quite clear about this, Andrew. GP fundholding was not an idea of doctors; it was imposed on doctors. That was said not in 1990, but within the last few weeks. Andrew Rawnsley—not me—said: Well, the majority have now applied for it. It seems to be appealing to them. I think that, in that exchange, Mr. Rawnsley won.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "terruption .] I shall go on, although I do not think that the House will want to hear the whole interview. Let me just finish my sentence\", said the hon. Lady. They've warmed to it\", said Mr. Rawnsley, quite rightly. The hon. Lady then said: Let me finish. They have not warmed to it; they were wholly opposed to it. Perhaps the hon. Lady would like to explain why, if they were wholly opposed to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " hon. Lady would like to explain why, if they were wholly opposed to it— [Interruption.] How much more does the hon. Lady want me to read out? I assure her that I shall return to that interview: there is plenty more in it. The hon. Lady argued that GP fundholders do not like fundholding. In fact, 50 per cent. of GPs have voluntarily applied to become fundholders. The hon. Lady has some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.257.5", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "reases them. In the United States, where all health care is privately delivered and there is a well-developed private health care market, total expenditure on health is equivalent to nearly 16 per cent. of gross domestic product. In this country, with the NHS, total spending on health is under 7 per cent. of GDP. No doubt, the Government will label our complaints about rationing as scaremongering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "d and as honourable as people in Blackpool. I cannot say more than that, because I cannot give a greater compliment. If I wake up in the next world and a green tram passes, I shall know that I am in heaven. If it does not, that will not be heaven. The Blackpool trams will be up there with the tower. Several things concerning London worry me. I voted for the abolition of the Greater London council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-17", "file": "debates1995-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "54c4339e5aa5773f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "rld and a green tram passes, I shall know that I am in heaven. If it does not, that will not be heaven. The Blackpool trams will be up there with the tower. Several things concerning London worry me. I voted for the abolition of the Greater London council. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] At that time I was right, but we now have probably the only capital in the world without an elected body to speak for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-17a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "pectation, establish that he or she has a well founded fear of persecution, he or she could be admitted? It seems that my right hon. and learned Friend has listened carefully to points of view put to him in the past and has shown in the procedure which he has described a willingness to listen in future on particular issues which he outlined. We have heard the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.341.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Steel", "preceding_text": "overseas is not just left to occasional statements from Lady Chalker but is applied across the board with greater diligence so that those despotic regimes, particularly on the continent of Africa, are disposed of, in concert with our allies in France and Belgium, and replaced by regimes that have a sense of democracy and accountability, and put pressure on those Governments instead of individuals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the family origins and background of himself or anyone else have no intrinsic connection with this matter anyway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tarn Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tarn Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.348.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "honestly, unprecedented in the procedure of the House. Whenever before, during debates on the Queen's Speech, has a Secretary of State made what he must have known would be a highly controversial statement on a subject that is not being debated that day? Has it been done for presentational reasons? If so, should the Queen's Speech and the House of Commons be used—some might say abused—in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The average increase in real living wages in Britain since 1979 is 40 per cent. The wages of a single production worker in Britain are higher than anywhere else in the EU, and the wages of a married man in the same capacity are higher than in Italy or France. Britain's advantage lies not in having low wages, because we do not have them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "I am coming to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does it have only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "t goes back years. That reveals to my right hon. Friend the Minister and to me precisely where the heart of the Labour party lies. Derbyshire county council did not have anything better to do with its time than to take that poor man to court: how ridiculous. As to the effect of a minimum wage on tourism, the Isle of Wight has a low gross domestic product. My right hon. Friend the Member for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "understanding is that the refurbishment programme includes essential maintenance and renewals plus the development of a signalling system that would pave the way, eventually, we hope, for higher speeds. It does not provide for new trains or for track improvements to allow them to run at higher speed. I have, over the years, been guilty of boring the House with stories of my own railway experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "s plus the development of a signalling system that would pave the way, eventually, we hope, for higher speeds. It does not provide for new trains or for track improvements to allow them to run at higher speed. I have, over the years, been guilty of boring the House with stories of my own railway experience— [Interruption.] I had not realised that I had bored the Whip on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "nce 1979 records only a part of the Government's success in the transport sector. Massive private investment has also been possible in transport industries, especially in those that have been privatised in the past 16 years. Hon. Members with long memories may recall that British Airways used to be a nationalised industry, dependent for its investment plans on the availability of Government funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "he past 16 years. Hon. Members with long memories may recall that British Airways used to be a nationalised industry, dependent for its investment plans on the availability of Government funds. [Interruption.] The successes achieved by British Airways in recent years show vividly how businesses can flourish in the private sector, meeting their passengers' needs and investing to attract new custom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-20", "file": "debates1995-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "8d7d9c0f20e1ccd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Investment", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "alling system will take place while Railtrack is in the public sector and will form part of the private finance initiative. The project has generated considerable interest, and Railtrack received a good response to its tender invitation. It expects to award the contract early next year. It is hard to overestimate the economic importance of the channel tunnel rail link and the west coast main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-20a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.443.9", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is odd that, with very similar numbers in 1979, there was no complaint from the Opposition. Why are they complaining now? Because they want to smear the privatisation that works immensely well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.443.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The funds that are attributable to the sale of council houses, which is a proportion, but nowhere near the entire amount of the money, are not used for building new homes, because we do not believe that local authorities are the best providers of housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "I agree completely with my hon. Friend, but I would not limit it to rural businesses. We can look back to another example from 1988, 1989 and 1990 to an area which includes Holborn and St. Pancras. We can compare Camden and Westminster. There were filthy streets in Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, for I have said it in the House before, we increased taxes in the recession and we did so to protect people who were vulnerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "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 may try very hard, but he will never convince the people of this country that his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have widened the band dramatically, and people start at 20p. Many people in this country pay tax only at 20p in the pound. But Britain needs successful people in business who can become rich by their success through the money they earn\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.462.9", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "eir people the opportunity of being at the cutting edge of economic and industrial change; of taking on the challenge of new technology; of offering their young people the prospect of jobs; of having a high-wage, high-added-value, high-tech economy. Instead of taking on that challenge, the Government, as spelt out in the Queen's Speech, are aiming for a low-wage, low-tech, low-added-value economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.462.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "May I seek your guidance, Madam Speaker? Is the term \"prat\" unparliamentary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "It will, of course, be funded. We will fund it not only with the money that already exists in the system, but with the money that the Government have laid on the table. We will do so not simply with the £150 million that is directly available but with all the administrative costs— the additional £20 million-plus that is available to operate and supervise the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "The figure has been calculated according to the average of costs across local education authorities, so I can reassure the hon. Gentleman on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "Those are two things that the hon. Gentleman and I have in common: we both believe in choice and we both sent our children to local education authority schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": "to use a national scheme on a local education authority that is providing good education. Why are a Conservative Government forcing an excellent Conservative-controlled local authority, which is doing a good job, which parents, teachers and governors want, to accept such a scheme? I cannot support the education legislation. I will do everything possible to oppose it, both in the House and outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Durant", "preceding_text": "ursery schools in my constituency and, therefore, I welcome the idea of vouchers that can be used in private sector schools. There are some good private sector nursery schools where people could put their children if the vouchers existed. Berkshire has refused to be part of the experiment and I regret that because, until now, it has been go-ahead on education. I condemn the county for that action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.507.5", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "ubversion of the great miners' strike of 1984–85—a legal industrial action taken by hundreds of thousands of workers to defend their jobs? The strike was subverted by provocations and by the placing of agents in the miners union, all of which has been outlined in the brilliant work, \"The Enemy Within: MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill affair\", by Seumas Milne, the labour editor of The Guardian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e problem before reading a single word of those proposals. Of course persuading witnesses to give evidence is a major problem; that is why we have built on the way in which Labour-controlled Coventry city council handled that problem. Rather than relying on individual neighbours who have suffered or been intimidated in silence, we make use of professional witnesses employed by the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "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": " and clear just how little prominence Labour gives to law and order. Three Home Office Bills are included in the Gracious Speech. They are at the forefront of our programme. We know how important the issues are to the everyday life of our citizens, but the Opposition have tried to hide them and have put them at the end of the debate. They have shown the country what they do not want to talk about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The proposals that I make will not, in any way, increase the risk of miscarriages of justice. I was delighted to hear from the hon. Member for Blackburn— although there had been a certain amount of confusion up to his speech this evening—that the Labour party apparently intended to support these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "This is the fourth time of asking over two days and the Home Secretary must now answer the question. The entire country wants to know the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Labour's proposals�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-21", "file": "debates1995-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5d4ffe756a2c310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "2; [Interruption.] I can see that Labour Members do not want to hear about the statutory minimum wage. That is the last thing that they want to hear about, but I shall remind them of it. Labour's amendment refers to access to jobs, but there can be no access to jobs if one destroys those jobs with a minimum wage. That is what the Labour party intends to do. The minimum wage and the social chapter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-21a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what we are saying.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "about that in respect of withdrawal, but the repercussions of unilateral withdrawal would be immense. I wish the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood and others who advocate unilateral withdrawal would be honest and open and say what they really believes: that we should withdraw and that if we do not get our way, we should withdraw from the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "s for economic activity. The common fisheries policy should be much more oriented towards sustaining fishing communities, which provide important employment; not just offshore in the catching fleet, but onshore in processing and, ultimately, in marketing. Proposals to abandon the common fisheries policy are politically dangerous and naive, but much more needs to be done to reform it substantially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Water Supply (West Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "r was running to waste. Action has to be taken on four fronts. The first is for Yorkshire Water. It is urgent that the company addresses itself to the problems of the distribution grid within Yorkshire. It inherited an extremely old, unmodernised and out-of-date grid and serious problems are caused by, for example, subsidence from mining, which makes it difficult to improve and replace the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Water Supply (West Yorkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "That is a responsibility that should fall on the companies. That is why there is a statutory undertaking. Although the Labour party is deeply in love with the Armageddon strategy, and would love Yorkshire to run out of water, which would give it political satisfaction, I do not intend to give it that satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Skye bridge?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "re receive something like £2 in value? Does he agree that local government in Scotland, as well as historic houses and the building of new bridges, depends on the maintenance of the Union with the rest of the British Isles and that those strident Opposition Members who continually demand the separation of Scotland are likely to cause a great deal of loss to the people of Scotland on such projects?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"A Labour party researcher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " has attempted today. I would have thought that he and Forte itself would be more concerned about the takeover bid that has been mounted. He asked about the minimum wage. Is he not interested in the fact that, of the 17 countries ahead of Britain in the world prosperity league, 15 of them have minimum wages? Where do I get the information about how we have slipped down the world prosperity league?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tional income per head is not a measure worth using. I thought that he would throw up that subject—he has to create a smokescreen, because at no point has he denied my central figure. I looked back over the Chancellor's publications and was surprised to find one entitled \"Britain in Europe\", which spoke of new hope for the regions. Its authors are given as Kenneth Clarke and Elaine Kellett-Bowman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman protests too much about the position of the chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.680.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "We employ a higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " a higher— [Interruption.] There have been huge changes in our labour market and those of our international competitors since 1979, and this country has prospered from these changes when compared with the rest of the western world. There are far more people in our work force now than in 1979. We have a higher proportion of our work force in employment than any other major western European economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From 1979.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall give the hon. Gentleman some comparative figures on investment. Let us look at investment in the whole economy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Let me give the hon. Gentleman just one more figure from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on increased investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "annualised rate for the United Kingdom, which was 1.8 per cent. but in France it was 1.2 per cent., in Germany it was 1.1 per cent. and in Italy, 0.7 per cent. We have outstripped those countries, although they all did a great deal better than Britain ever did under a Labour Government. We are top of the table; we are not bottom any more. The prospects for future investment, which is what matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "in polite company. He is shadow Chancellor and he has no opinions on any of those matters. At the last election, Labour stood on a policy. The party had a policy of increasing taxation and public expenditure. It was set out with clarity. There was a shadow Budget and there were no excuses then. Labour was a tax-and-spend party. We stood on a platform of aiming for lower taxation and cutting taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " this key issue, a week before a Budget, what the policy of the Labour party on this issue and what the basic rate of tax should be? Are interest rates too high or are they too low? What inflation target should be set? Is there any member of the Labour movement, from the left, right or middle or from the shadow Treasury team, who has the slightest view on that simple matter? This is a total farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that that is probably right. The hon. Member for Hartlepool came up with what he thought was a remedy for the Labour party: \"Let's stop having these policies, leave the rest to me, shouting over the telephone to BBC producers.\" That is no basis on which any political party should ever aspire to government in a modern state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "bove 4 per cent. we will be relaxed about it. That does not show the same degree of determination as when he first set the target. The need to reduce interest rates is more important to virtually everyone involved in the British economy than immediate short-term and unsustainable tax cuts. A 1 per cent. reduction in interest rates would save the Government £2.5 billion a year in interest payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Molyneaux", "preceding_text": " states, where tens of thousands of national, regional and local officials are involved. Improved financial management and control are clearly required at all levels, but essentially responsibility for policing and disbursement of public moneys lies with national Governments—a point emphasised in the long-running saga of a certain beef scandal concerning one of Northern Ireland's close neighbours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Legg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Legg", "preceding_text": "rowth and fixed investment than was forecast in last year's Budget. Significantly, we will also see a much lower GDP deflator—the measure of public sector inflation will be much lower than was forecast this time last year. That is the key reason why the spending totals for next year should be reduced and the reduction should be of the order of £7 billion to £8 billion. That is the degree of scope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donohoe", "preceding_text": "sify the housing stock. They do not want the same as the public. The tenants living in those houses want to be transferred to the local authority. That was proved by clear experience in other new towns in Scotland. A ballot revealed that 97 per cent. of people in East Kilbride believed that the only useful alternative to their continuing in the rented sector was to transfer to the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.744.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": " those elderly people will have a died because they did not have enough to heat their homes or to eat. They are forgotten individuals. That is the winter that those old people are facing. The Queen's Speech did not talk about the young, the elderly or the future of Britain because the Government have abandoned them all in favour of the pathetic policies of a dyed-in-the-wool, heartless Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.748.14", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not provide any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "n's Speech with a debate on economic policy. At times today we might have been forgiven for thinking that we were in the middle of a Budget debate already—although clearly, judging by the questions that my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) was asked, it would have been a Budget introduced by a Labour Chancellor. It was my hon. Friend who was asked to provide all the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.748.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "d not improve, he might have to consider setting leakage targets. There are 600 tankers trundling through Yorkshire, but one in three is wasting its time, because, as soon as the water gets into the system, it starts leaking out. All the Minister could say was that if the situation did not get any better he might have to consider what to do. The Minister wanted to wash his hands of that situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-22", "file": "debates1995-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3336010d9ebae27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ncellor of the Exchequer said this afternoon, when he quoted the striking words of the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott): Gordon can say anything he likes if he thinks it is going to win the Election. But ordinary Labour party supporters in this country, particularly the poor and the unemployed when Labour is in power will be looking for other priorities from tax cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-22a.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.780.7", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady had better look at her figures again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.780.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Why does not the Chancellor of the Exchequer start explaining to the British people the real effects of unemployment? When the Tories got into power in 1979, 1.25 million people were out of work. After 31 fiddles of the job figures, more than 4 million people do not have a job now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.795.7", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has his own suggestions and I am sure that he will not mind if I offer him some alternatives. When I became Prime Minister, inflation was 9.5 per cent., but we now have underlying inflation of 2.9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.795.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.795.7", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has his own suggestions and I am sure that he will not mind if I offer him some alternatives. When I became Prime Minister, inflation was 9.5 per cent., but we now have underlying inflation of 2.9 per cent. [Interruption.] Base rates were 14 per cent., they are now 6 per cent. and output is 6 per cent. higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.795.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.796.9", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister join me in condemning those people who made a violent attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.796.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-23", "file": "debates1995-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "375dae0cc91a24b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tolerate the Minister of State for the Armed Forces continuing to act as the Prince of Wales's butler? Can we have an assurance that the Minister of State will not act on behalf of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-23a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-27", "file": "debates1995-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0bf9518fe1d65cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "National Blood Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "As a regular donor of A Rh-positive blood, I welcome this statement, which is more than any Opposition Member has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-27", "file": "debates1995-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0bf9518fe1d65cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) is muttering across the Dispatch Box. Perhaps he would ask his hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, Central and Royton (Mr. Davies) to say, when he speaks, whether Labour Members are prepared to answer those questions themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-27", "file": "debates1995-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0bf9518fe1d65cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gunnell", "preceding_text": "proportion of students deferring was 43 per cent. in the first year, 54 per cent. in the second year and 60 per cent. in the third year for which they should be making payments. Deferments will be considerable, and banks will be reluctant to take on such a scale of debt. In returning to the issue, why have the Government not noted the fact—made clear in his memoirs—that if Kenneth Baker had known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-27", "file": "debates1995-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0bf9518fe1d65cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers Superannuation (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " step further. Those working for the TPA have made it absolutely clear that, if the Department were to give them the financial support to enable them to introduce the level of information technology equipment that undoubtedly will be used by the private contractors, they, too, could make or better the savings that are envisaged by the private sector. I believe that this is a privatisation too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-27", "file": "debates1995-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "0bf9518fe1d65cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teachers Superannuation (Contracting Out)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Squire", "preceding_text": "have to save time—Opposition Members will get a little agitated if I go over them—so I confirm them all, as indeed I did in my opening speech. I shall try in the time available to answer each of the questions asked, beginning with that asked by the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong). She asked whether complaints to the pensions ombudsman would be published. The answer is no, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-27a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1048.7", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The closing date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1048.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1050.2", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the hon. Gentleman that we remain committed to fares rising in line with inflation over the next three years, then falling by 1 per cent. below inflation for the next four years. That is capping of fares. The right hon. Gentleman will recall that, when Labour was last in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man is wrong all the way down the line. I assume that he is getting advice from the deputy leader of the Labour party, but he is clearly wrong with all his facts. I made the point about fares rising in line with inflation and then falling. I have again made that perfectly clear to the Leader of the Opposition. As for the sale of Railtrack, there is no question of its assets being sold off cheaply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "join the workers at BSkyB in Dunfermline, all of whom have benefited as a result of that sort of investment, and that sort of investment would not have taken place but for the success of this Government's economic policy and this Government's other policies. The reality is that signing up to the social chapter will add unnecessary cost to employers and put our record for inward investment at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "I have already said publicly that I have been looking forward to this year's Budget. I am enjoying each Budget a little more as I get nearer to my aims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "n course to be the enterprise centre of Europe: a Britain that creates more jobs and generates the greater wealth and personal prosperity in which all can share; a Britain in which everyone can keep more of what they earn or save to spend as they choose, not as the state chooses; and a Britain where more money is spent on the things that everyone cares about—our schools, our hospitals, our police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "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": "e in the policies of low taxation, which all countries must follow if they want to be world-class economic powers. These are the people of Britain who are hard working and take responsibility for themselves and their families. They are the people who want to get on in life, who run their own businesses and who create jobs. And they are the people with that great British virtue—a social conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "amilies before they need to. My right hon. Friend will announce measures to restrict the amount of housing benefit paid to single people under the age of 25 to a maximum that more sensibly reflects their circumstances. The benefit system should offer a real incentive to young people to rent within their means, improving their incentives to work rather than dependency on the social security system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Under the private finance initiative, the public sector does not simply sign a contract to buy a prison, a train or a computer system. It pays to have specific services supplied at guaranteed levels of performance—available prison places, trains running reliably on the Northern line, national insurance records kept up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1061.5", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The initiative means that better public services will be provided by better private means. The service remains a public service and the taxpayers get a better deal. No wonder some of our critics have decided to copy our innovative policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Having carefully reviewed the latest projections for public borrowing in the light of those decisions, I have concluded that we can now return to the task of starting to cut taxes again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1064.5", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We expect emissions of most pollutants from vehicles to fall over the next few years, but emissions of some pollutants may remain at high levels, so the Government now intend to look into ways of using vehicle excise duty to encourage low-emission vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1064.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1064.7", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "enforce the collection of vehicle excise duty, but we shall not be requiring licences for vehicles when they are kept off the road. To make sure that the new system does not penalise vintage and classic car enthusiasts, many of whom run their cars on the road only occasionally, we shall be exempting from duty all cars and motor cycles over 25 years old, taking 150,000 historic vehicles out of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1064.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1065.8", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "High rates of duty at home have made it difficult for the Scotch whisky industry to press its excellent case for lower duty rates in other countries. Scotch is one of our most important exports. Spirits duty will therefore be reduced by 4 per cent. from 6 pm today. That is equivalent to 27p off a bottle of whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1065.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "OTHER TAXES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ould damage investment and threaten the quality of customer service. It is an illusion that a windfall tax is paid by the company. It is paid by its shareholders, including many small shareholders and pension funds, and it would mean higher future prices for customers. The whole point of privatisation is to benefit consumers, not simply the Exchequer. I have no intention of introducing such a tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1069.6", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "OTHER TAXES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have said several times in this speech that the Government's aim is to turn Britain into the enterprise centre of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1069.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "OTHER TAXES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That will reward the success of more of those who own and manage their own business. It will increase incentives for those who are going to work in their own business in the future. It is the mark of a Government who back enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "OTHER TAXES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I propose to reduce the small companies rate of corporation tax to 24 per cent. The reason I am able to reduce the small companies rate of corporation tax is that the small companies rate has for many years been pegged to the basic rate of income tax. My final proposal in this Budget is therefore to reduce the basic rate of income tax by one penny to 24p in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "OTHER TAXES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] It is no good laughing. That was the shortest smile, on the face of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), that I have seen even from him in a very long time, because these three steps—widening the 20p band, a 20p tax rate for savings income and a penny off the basic rate—move us much closer to a 20 per cent. base rate of tax for all income. We have a clear commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ven with one hand is taken away with the other. One hand may hold open the public purse, but the other is usually in the citizen's pocket. The Tories say that income taxes have been cut over the years. But then came the other taxes, charges, costs and fees: dentists; prescriptions; rail, bus and tube fares; school books; repairs to school buildings; rent rises; water bills; and insurance premiums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "t. That is a fact, and the Tories cannot deny it. They won power promising to cut tax year on year. They swore blind that they would never raise it, and they have. Mortgage tax relief has been cut; national insurance contributions are up; the married man's allowance has been cut; new taxes have been imposed on insurance policies, households and holidays; and VAT has been imposed on fuel and power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " fundamental point is that, in the end, tax and spending depend upon economic strength. The real reason why taxes have gone up, living standards have fallen and we have slipped down the prosperity league from 13th to 18th is the deep-rooted nature of our economic problems. The Budget, after we have taken account of some of the bits and pieces here and there, does nothing for investment and skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "attention to some of them. As I understand it, the community programme, which is designed for the long-term unemployed, is to be phased out this year. There it is :40,000 places for those in most need are to be phased out. One very big spending rise has been forecast in the Budget—the amount of money to go to the common agricultural policy is set to rise to more than £3 billion for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the PFI?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "CAP. When people examine the Budget, they will start to ask what are the Government's priorities. The Chancellor told us about the increase in health spending, but if we look at the figures, as we have just done, we see that those figures forecast that almost 17 per cent. is to be cut from the capital budget of the health service programme. The health service programme is to be cut by 17 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-28", "file": "debates1995-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab9bf681d0a9379e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "could take up our proposals and phase the release of the capital receipts in local authority accounts to get some houses built for the people. The PFI may save a capital sum this year if that capital money is removed from the Government's account, but in future years the taxpayer will face a recurring liability. That is why it is a classic example of giving with one hand and taking with the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-28a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t to all-party talks. The problem is a practical one. Unless there is some partial decommissioning there is unlikely to be confidence among the other political parties that Sinn Fein is committed permanently to peace, and we cannot have all-party negotiations unless all parties are prepared to sit down and talk together. The reality of life is that, without something that will engender confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the Red Book.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "There must be but, that being a tax matter, it is not a figure that I carry in my head and no Treasury Minister is within earshot, so I shall have to write to tell the hon. Gentleman what the number is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": "s of detailed consideration and amendment. The technical processes will be essentially similar to those already in place for Second Reading. Making greater use of the Scottish Grand Committee in that way will mean that we can expand the Scottish legislative programme. As an example of the potential that that provides. it has been possible this year to add the Licensing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": " is actively pursuing the possibility of establishing a new procedure in another place, to allow evidence to be taken in Scotland for Scottish Bills that are introduced in the House of Lords. It is our hope that that approach may be followed in the first instance for the Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill, which was published last week. I turn now to the way in which Ministers are called to account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": "e for approval. It will provide for the Scottish Grand Committee to meet much more frequently in Scotland, and I intend that that should involve more places in Scotland. I am delighted to tell the House that, provided that the relevant changes to Standing Orders are approved, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor will take part in the Grand Committee debates in Scotland in the new year. To sum up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "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/1995-11-29a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "That is a point of view, but it is not a point of view with which I agree. If the hon. Gentleman's position is that the Scottish vote should prevail in determining what happens in Scotland, what would he say to those of my hon. Friends who would say that, in that case, the English vote should prevail in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I said no such thing. Legislation is a matter for this House and this Parliament. The proposals which I put forward allow for scrutiny and debate on matters affecting Scotland in Scotland and involving Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State really understand the length and depth of commitment behind the case for the devolution of power? It is not just a matter of the past 17 years: it was included in Keir Hardie's first manifesto, as well as the first manifesto of the Labour party in Scotland and, incidentally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am not a federalist and I am not a Unionist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Scotland (Government)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am not a federalist and I am not a Unionist—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am a Unionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to comment on ministerial statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1243.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bogus!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. This is not a bogus point of order. I am sure that the whole House will appreciate the apology offered by the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Simpson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1252.2", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. I have given way a dozen times to Conservative Members and none of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1253.3", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " What should the Government have done? They should have introduced our employment programme, and they should have paid for it with the windfall tax on the utilities. If anyone has any doubt about the case for such a tax, they should look at the profit made by Yorkshire Water. It has increased its profit by 50 per cent.—not by supplying the people of Yorkshire with water, but by not supplying them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ter all, what the political argument has been about for 200 years or so. Now, however, things are alleged to be different. As The Independent recently put it, elegantly, The British Left have at last returned, snout-first, to the politics of the pork barrel\". That was the view of Niall Ferguson. New Labour claims to want even lower taxes than we do, but with no theory and philosophy to explain it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1258.2", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "s are demonstrating good results. We will have about £5 billion-worth of deals signed by the end of this financial year. The scepticism—as exhibited by Opposition Front-Bench Members—that accompanied its growth has been just like that in the early 1980s on privatisation. Opposition Front-Bench Members will find that the programme will work and, in due course, they will probably come to support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I will send the quotation to the hon. Lady. The Government have a clear strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Janet Fookes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Janet Fookes)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ade the point that he has felt let down by the Government putting up taxes. The 7p figure did not originate with us. We do not claim authorship of it. It came from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself. The public know that since the election taxes have risen by the equivalent of 7p in the pound, so the Conservatives cannot really expect gratitude for giving back 1p in the pound in the meantime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-29", "file": "debates1995-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "03942c316f696513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "o not claim authorship of it. It came from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself. The public know that since the election taxes have risen by the equivalent of 7p in the pound, so the Conservatives cannot really expect gratitude for giving back 1p in the pound in the meantime. [Interruption.] I want to reply to the many points that were made in the short time available. One point, in respect of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-29a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1322.7", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "apes? Will he look specifically at the bizarre and worrying case involving one of my constituents who bought, at a car boot sale, 20 police interview tapes marked \"Essex and Cambridgeshire Constabulary\", which contained highly confidential information, including an interview with a schoolmaster who was alleged to have interfered with a choirboy? That could have been highly damaging to individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1325.7", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "preceding_text": "There is no excuse for committing a crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1325.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1328.6", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "swer on this point. The claim was made that people are £9 a week better off as a result of the Budget, but £7 of it comes from earnings rises next year as projected by the Conservative party. The true Budget figure is just over £2, and that is confirmed by the Treasury press release. Is that right or wrong? If it is right, does not it show how the Tories give with one hand and take with the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1328.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the Prime Minister what people will recall at the next election. He went into the election saying that he would never raise VAT, and he raised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.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": "heir resources, and compare it with the Government's settlement, which, of course, excludes much of their resources. As a result, even though the Government provide for them to spend £1.4 billion more, they claim it as a cut. I dwelt on that, because the confusion reaches even as far as the House of Commons. It is very important that at least we start by getting the facts straight. I am comparing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "n—in this House, but not outside. We share with the local authority associations all the detailed data and analyses that might form the basis of changing the SSA formulae. The system is as open and objective as we can make it. Those who claim otherwise simply do not understand the SSA system. The formulae we use are not applied selectively to achieve a particular result for a particular authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Westminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. John Gummer)", "preceding_text": "d the SSA system. The formulae we use are not applied selectively to achieve a particular result for a particular authority— [Laughter.] If Opposition Members wish to press me, I will give them figures that will be very embarrassing to them. I shall be happy to show that the authorities about which they complain got more proportionately under Labour Governments than under Conservative Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Today's statement shows that the Government are determined to force local councils to increase council tax and reduce the services that they provide for local people. Next year, as this year, local people will have to pay more and get less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is an independent assessment and has nothing to do with me. According to that assessment, Westminster is the fourth most deprived borough in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Welsh Grand Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Surely the announcement is a panic reaction to the overwhelming support for Labour's policy for an elected assembly in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "or Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Forman) check his facts. Let me repeat a point that I am happy to repeat—a point that I intend to repeat at every opportunity that I get between now and the next general election. As the Secretary of State did, and as they all do, the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington compared the record of the last Labour Government, who were hit by an oil price increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) may be in a position at the end of the Budget debate to say how we shall vote on the different resolutions. I have not studied them myself. We shall vote against the overall impact of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) may be in a position at the end of the Budget debate to say how we shall vote on the different resolutions. I have not studied them myself. We shall vote against the overall impact of the Budget. [Interruption.] The Chancellor knows that decisions have to be taken on individual resolutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cran", "preceding_text": "c, says: The Chancellor is on the right track and the measures he has put in place provide the best prospects for the UK building industry. The right hon. Lady should have balanced her remarks by telling us about that. What does the City say? He's taken the prudent path says the head of bond research from Yamaichi international bank. I could go on, but I know that other hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-11-30", "file": "debates1995-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "426c768c6b83cd92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "king for other priorities apart from tax cuts. There we have it. Labour smuggles through public expenditure, but does not tell anyone about it. In reality, Labour Back Benchers know what they want, and that is more spending, which means more taxation. While the hon. Member for North Warwickshire (Mr. O'Brien) was studying for his law degree and lecturing in universities, I was working in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-11-30a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "xactly what I have just said to the House, whereupon she turned to the hon. Lady and said: You heard Stephen Dorrell say this is a new way of building hospitals—it's not a new way of providing health care. You can't object to that, can you?\"— to which the hon. Lady replied: We certainly do, because, under this Government, this is a new trick to privatise the health service. That was the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "B list. The priorities are dictated not by the Government in the public interest, but by the private finance panel according to where it can most quickly find private sector money. The hon. Gentleman can save himself asking the civil servants in the Box about the Government; he should go to the private finance panel and ask it. That panel is, of course, not here. Without clear national guidelines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your generous protection, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thought that my joke might amuse the hon. Member for Newport, East (Mr. Hughes). The riddle is this—what is the difference between 0 J Simpson, Rosemary West and the Leader of the Opposition? The answer is that only Rosemary West has convictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "n the debate, which has been dominated by the national health service—but not one that I recognise. I was a health authority chairman before entering the House, and the vision of today's health service offered by Opposition Members is very much that of the NHS as it was before 1991, when it was inefficient and incapable of making decisions. Patients were treated as lumps of meat and not as people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "at have never ceased to proclaim their commitment to low taxes, the overall tax burden is as great today as it was 16 or 17 years ago. Even with the benefit of North sea oil and the massive one-off revenues from the sale of public assets, this Government of so-called tax cutters still cannot get taxation down to the level that they inherited from the wicked socialist Government that preceded them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Jack)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Jack)", "preceding_text": " That proposal is supposed to be a great one for work incentives. Does any Opposition Member who cares to break the Trappist vows that the Opposition have all had to take agree with the likely cost of that tax? Do they have any figures of their own? Do they agree with anything that we have said about taxation? I am prepared to give way, but no answer will be forthcoming, because Tribune this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-04", "file": "debates1995-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "2aebf830a9e3783e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lancashire", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Sir Paul Beresford)", "preceding_text": " the metropolitan reviews to cover all Greater Manchester and Merseyside in the near future, particularly tomorrow, as has been requested. However, as we have always said, it is possible that, in due course, we shall direct the commission to review certain metropolitan areas where there is pressure for change. Southport, in the Merseyside borough of Sefton, is an area where we are aware of strong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-04a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.134.2", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do, of course, have a number of very distinguished Scots in my Cabinet and in my Government, but I certainly agree with the thrust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.134.4", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Islington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, we have produced a whole series of plans to raise educational standards over recent years, many of which, alas, have been strongly opposed by the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends. If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to know where in the education sector there is failure, he might look at Hackney for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ainly welcome the priority given to today's operation, which involves some 40 police forces and has occasioned more than 2,000 arrests. There is no doubt that, over the past couple of years, innovative policing methods have made a distinct impact on the crime level, and we are now beginning to see the crime statistics fall. It is policing of that sort that can give people considerable reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "arty. The most interesting thing about sitting on the Conservative Benches is to note that the only thing that ever excites the Labour party is yesterday's slogans. The more the leadership of the Labour party talks about new Labour, the quieter the Labour party becomes. The more it lapses into yesterday's jargon, the more hysterically reminiscent it becomes of the old Labour party I know and love.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ur party is yesterday's slogans. The more the leadership of the Labour party talks about new Labour, the quieter the Labour party becomes. The more it lapses into yesterday's jargon, the more hysterically reminiscent it becomes of the old Labour party I know and love. [Interruption.] I should have thought that with so much self-evident success, benefiting the Labour constituencies of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had read my book, he would not have made such inane observations. If the BT deal announced by the Leader of the Opposition in his bravura performance was real and of value, why is he now telling the cable industry, to quote the Financial Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "kesman. What possible interest has a shadow Treasury spokesman of the parliamentary Labour party in asking the Treasury to calculate the product of a 60 per cent. upper rate tax band? Is it idle curiosity, or is it to help with the arithmetic? If it is the latter, it would help the shadow Chancellor to answer the questions, but at least we should know that this side of a general election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the parliamentary Labour party in asking the Treasury to calculate the product of a 60 per cent. upper rate tax band? Is it idle curiosity, or is it to help with the arithmetic? If it is the latter, it would help the shadow Chancellor to answer the questions, but at least we should know that this side of a general election campaign. [Interruption.] I read out the question. I did not get it wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "late the product of a 60 per cent. upper rate tax band? Is it idle curiosity, or is it to help with the arithmetic? If it is the latter, it would help the shadow Chancellor to answer the questions, but at least we should know that this side of a general election campaign. [Interruption.] I read out the question. I did not get it wrong. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is a Front Bench spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "x cuts\". I have to say, of course, that the hon. Lady is a young and enthusiastic Member of the Labour Back Benches, so perhaps again we can dismiss it as an isolated occasion, but I have always been interested in the old hands who have been around a little longer, one of whom is our old friend the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), who was on the \"Clive Anderson Talks Back\" programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "old friend the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), who was on the \"Clive Anderson Talks Back\" programme. [Interruption.] I understand that Labour Members do not want to hear it, but hear it they will, not just from me but from their right hon. Friend. Let me quote what he said: The Labour Party doesn't want to cause trouble because we want to get this bunch of crooks out of Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "sagreed with the Government and supported us on that matter. We will undoubtedly approach taxation in a fair way. The Government do not. For the past 16 years, they have followed an unfair and regressive tax system. That is why we shall be fundamentally different. In the context of spending, we shall operate much more fairly the private finance initiative, which I was one of the first to advocate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "nment constantly told us that we could not have them. The Chancellor will certainly confirm that. We disagree with the strategy, and we have made it clear that we disagree with the Government's taxation principles. We shall vote accordingly. The Budget hides multitudinous unfairnesses. Some 5 million people on benefits will not share in the 1p in the pound tax cuts or the widening of the 20p band.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "CD figures and the levels of taxation, whether corporation or personal, one sees that no common criteria produce a successful result. In some countries, conditions are very different. From the evidence, one can see that even those countries with high corporation tax have done better in getting more people back to work and attracting more investment. In some cases, low taxation has had that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "avy—which, as many hon. Members know, has a substantial base in my constituency. Two big programmes are coming up, for the replacement of submarines that the Navy needs in the future and for new assault landing ships. I do not want either programme to be delayed. I do not believe that there is any military argument for delay, and I hope that whoever winds up the debate will be able to reassure me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " billion Tory borrowing plan between now and the millennium. To put it in perspective, even if the Chancellor's forecasts are accurate, Britain will, over the 1990s, have taken on an extra £200 billion of borrowing as compared with £ 31 billion in the 1980s. Central Government debt interest payments alone will add an extra £33 billion in interest payments on to the shoulders of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The increase of 5,000 officers is spread over a number of years. The hon. Gentleman is talking about the first year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-05", "file": "debates1995-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f03f1ea0bde2d7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " lop will be the bottom rate, if they cannot say what rate they would contemplate for the higher-paid? We all know perfectly well that they are the only Front Benchers in history to have a split when they have no policy. But the right hon. Gentleman want to puts up the tax on the higher-paid. I have known him for 25 years. His idea of the higher-paid is not very high at all in the opinion of many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-05a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Agriculture (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "As I have tried to explain before to the hon. Gentleman, when making spending decisions, one must make choices about priorities. I was going to acknowledge later that his party is the exception in that it is committed to increasing taxation on the people of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " me not to start by thanking the hon. Gentleman for his heartfelt tribute, which I know was meant warmly. As for corruption in local councils, the hon. Gentleman may have thrown me a boomerang by mentioning that. Just down the road from his constituency is Derbyshire county council, which has been indicted for corruption many times. We do not have only to consider Derbyshire; we also have Lambeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.372.5", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Earlier today, I raised with you in writing what occurred last night. Opposition Whips were standing shoulder to shoulder at the No Lobby, stopping Members of Parliament from exercising their right to vote in that Lobby. This bully-boy tactic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "This bully-boy tactic is not in keeping with the House of Commons, or with page 399 of \"Erskine May\". Speaking as a former Whip, although I have been intimidated by some of the former Opposition Whips—not the present crop—I have never known Whips, including a lady Whip, to stand shoulder to shoulder to stop Members of Parliament from exercising their proper duty of voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will tell hon. Members how I know—because no complaint was made to me. As Members of Parliament complain to me if the air in this Chamber is not fresh enough for them, they would have certainly have complained to me if they could not vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " have complained to me if they could not vote— [Interruption.] Order. I have not finished yet. I stood here last night, and I saw the Opposition Whip standing by the Door. He was by no means intimidating. As a former Whip, I can tell the House that, when I wanted to keep Members out of a Division Lobby, it was a single Nelson; when I wanted them to go into a Division Lobby, it was a double Nelson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.374.14", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham (St. Helens, South)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham (St. Helens, South)", "preceding_text": "of order, Madam Speaker. This may be a mundane point, but it affects every Member of the House. It concerns the continuing use of a corner of Palace Yard by those who are tunnelling underneath the river and God knows what else. The result is that taxis cannot see when the taxi light is on, and therefore are not coming into the Yard. All those who frequently wish to leave the Palace of Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.374.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Audit (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "uest, and it is one to which the Minister, if there is a genuine commitment on the part of Government to nursery education, should be willing to accede. Many months ago at the start of this crisis, I asked the Conservative chairman of social services in Brent, Councillor Irwin Van Colle, to join a deputation to Ministers. He refused. I made that request in a totally non-partisan spirit to explore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chemical Weapons Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "f the House on Second Reading, during a debate which I thought was extremely useful. I understand the concerns that the work of the national authority should be subject to proper scrutiny, and I told the House at Second Reading that the national authority would issue an annual report. Clearly my assurance on that occasion was not enough for hon. Members, although I do not take any offence at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chemical Weapons Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "It was a huge honour to be a member of the Medical Research Council and I did not enjoy the day when I had to leave it because I was invited to form—to join—the Government of Margaret Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ffected by the most horrendous crimes feel very personally the hurt that has been done to them—to be generous in dealing with this anomaly. Surely, if there are individuals who would have been the recipients of compensation, as a result of a relative being murdered, under the interim scheme, which was found to be illegal, and who would receive compensation again after 1 April under the new scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-06", "file": "debates1995-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "5b2dd9d67a9d5951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Injuries Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "narth asked, of course we want the scheme to be as clear as possible. I assure the House that it is in the interests of the Government and of the civil servants administering the scheme, as well as in the interests of victims, that there is as much clarity as possible in the scheme and in the guidance. We do not want obfuscation any more than the next man does; it simply fouls up the whole system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-06a.460.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nised by parents throughout the country. On this matter, the Opposition's actions have frequently spoken a great deal louder than their words. During the past few years, they have opposed every measure that we have introduced to raise standards. They have described school league tables as political propaganda, test results as virtually useless, teaching children the basics as a fanatical doctrine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.490.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is that it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on all the hard work that he has put in with the leader of his party since that person committed the Labour party to membership of the single European currency earlier this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.523.2", "colnum": "523", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I personally would have some doubt whether, if I were a Frenchman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I really must make progress. If the hon. Gentleman is patient I may reward him later, but I must make some progress with my speech or I shall be in trouble with the Chair. The Foreign Secretary said, very properly, that the Labour party has produced a white paper setting out our views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I shall answer the Foreign Secretary now. With respect to the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Fabricant), he has not yet quite arrived at the seniority of his right hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman consults the speech that I made in March, he will see that I said that of course there are occasions when one must opt for isolation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ument was that we should have accepted qualified majority voting when there were only 12 members of the EU. We now face a situation where there may be over 20. The least convincing part of the Foreign Secretary's speech was that where he claimed to be on the side of enlargement. It is dishonest to argue for enlargement of the EU while arguing against changing any of its institutions to allow that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "nsure that I cover the remarks of the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mrs. Currie) before I conclude. The other point that the Secretary of State is fond of making is that we can proceed by a trade arrangement with other countries that will provide us with an alternative to Europe. Indeed, the right hon. and learned Gentleman is fond of parading a commitment to the transatlantic free trade area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Soundbite politics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "foolish to boast that we must be successful if we are isolated. Those Conservative Members know that we cannot make a success of our membership of the European Union if we constantly talk as though we wanted it to be a failure. They know that if we have pride and a sense of national identity we need not express it in hostility to the ambitions of other countries and contempt for their politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-07", "file": "debates1995-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "decbfeed5ad42e3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ceeded in stemming the flow. Business and industry in the United Kingdom want a single currency. I know that some of my hon. Friends have issued a statement in which they claim to want to re-educate business. I sometimes feel that we might do better to take more notice of what business people think and want, instead of believing that we can do everything on our own and re-educate business leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-07a.533.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-08", "file": "debates1995-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "7245110194e76831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Banks", "preceding_text": "al commission or whatever—the fact is that the party conference voted to liberalise the drugs regime. I deplore that policy, and the fact that the party leadership took no action whatsoever in 1995 to rectify the decision made in 1994. It is disappointing to look across the Chamber this afternoon. We see that there is little evidence of support for the subject of law and order from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-08", "file": "debates1995-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "7245110194e76831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "sult of the great partnership and co-ordination in our area—and this is happening in more and more parts of the country as a result of Government initiatives—we have made sure that crime prevention has been stepped up. The perpetrators of the crime against our neighbour have been taken into custody and, we hope, will be put in prison. Constable Maggie Peare will. I hope. be commended for her work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-08", "file": "debates1995-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "7245110194e76831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "We heard enough from the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael) earlier. There was plenty of quantity but little in the way of quality or policies. The Government have a packed agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-08a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Where he has responsibility, my right hon. Friend the First Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues shall continue to drive down the number of quangos. I am pleased to inform the House that we have reduced the number of quangos by about 100 in this calendar year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "The House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's view about the recent reductions in the price of Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I will take it at the end: I take points of order after questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall turn to the benefit provisions in a moment. They are important and, if the hon. Gentleman will contain himself, I shall deal with them at the appropriate point in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall turn to the benefit provisions in a moment. They are important and, if the hon. Gentleman will contain himself, I shall deal with them at the appropriate point in my speech. [Interruption.] I shall now make some progress, as I think that the hon. Gentleman will be interested in the criteria that I intend to apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There is no need for this measure to be controversial. There is agreement across the Floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I am asking you a question so that you understand what you are doing wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman took a very long time to get to the point. Given the length of that intervention, he was wise not to intervene on my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State to proceed with this appallingly wide provision? The new and derogatory definition of an immigrant is so wide that it provides the power to remove child benefit from anyone who has been here for more than 10 or 20 years, made Britain his home and paid his taxes like anyone else, but who does not have an EU or UK passport. Such people can only be \"unsettled\" by this provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "s. During the count, which I attended, there was a large group of Labour supporters, all wearing large red rosettes and all members of the ethnic community. I talked to them as they went by and they said, \"John, don't worry about what has happened tonight. Although we have won, you will definitely get back because we admire you for how you stand up for our rights.\" I say that in absolute honesty]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Corston", "preceding_text": " Minister said that in terms this morning, and I note that she has just affirmed it in a seated intervention. Why, then, has she—a Home Office Minister—ignored Home Office research paper 141 of 1995, entitled \"The Settlement of Refugees in Britain\", which concluded that the majority of refugees have left behind far more in terms of jobs, homes and future than they have gained by coming to Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Corston", "preceding_text": "d Home Office research paper 141 of 1995, entitled \"The Settlement of Refugees in Britain\", which concluded that the majority of refugees have left behind far more in terms of jobs, homes and future than they have gained by coming to Britain? [Interruption.] Conservative Members are all beginning to shout, but that evidence comes from the Minister's own Department. She must tell us if it is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Corston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Corston", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. We understand that applications come overwhelmingly from countries where human rights abuses take place. Poorer countries such as Bangladesh do not feature. The argument that this is just economic migration will not wash. Those are all reasons why we need a Special Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "my preamble I shall not give way, but when I begin to amble, I will. All communities, of whatever ethnic origin, benefit from the sensible and responsible use of public funds—a lesson that the Opposition either cannot or will not learn. Immigration and asylum issues must not become a no-go area of public debate, as the Opposition appear to think they should. It is an affront to democracy to claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.793.6", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.793.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": ", they are covered. I come now to a point that was raised consistently throughout the debate: the alleged 20 million missing national insurance numbers. The Opposition are enjoying their usual hyperbole, because the Select Committee's report shows that it is not in fact the case. There are some 65 million national insurance numbers: 9 million relate to people who are dead, but the records are kept", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ebate: the alleged 20 million missing national insurance numbers. The Opposition are enjoying their usual hyperbole, because the Select Committee's report shows that it is not in fact the case. There are some 65 million national insurance numbers: 9 million relate to people who are dead, but the records are kept [Interruption.] Yes, the records are kept because widows' entitlement may be affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-11", "file": "debates1995-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "67bd6ff84fedc5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "As if that was not enough, we then had a false picture about the Home Office causing delays in the system and failing to address that. The hon. Gentleman completely overlooked the fact that, against 15,000 applicants", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-11a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.829.8", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.829.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.829.10", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.829.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not see why, as Prime Minister, the right hon. Gentleman cannot answer a straight question about privatisation. If he will not answer it, we shall continue to expose the costs and the chaos of the system. The railway network should not be used as a plaything for bankers and speculators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Now we know the soundbite that we were working up to; it was not worth waiting for. If the right hon. Gentleman is as keen as we are on a modern railway service, he had better explain from where, under his plans, the finance to produce it would come. Will he spend more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that my constituents are outraged that they are still threatened with the possibility of water cuts by Yorkshire Water in the new year? The problem is that some of the managers of Yorkshire Water still think that they are running a nationalised industry in which customers do not count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, let me thank the hon. Gentleman for a very enjoyable occasion with some guests last evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-12", "file": "debates1995-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "893c7480cc7f408f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": ". I have little doubt that the two reforms will bring great changes, both to the work load and to the office of the health service commissioner. The reforms will improve the NHS, because complaints are \"jewels to be treasured\", as one witness said when examined by the Select Committee. I suspect that those two measures will uncover, if not a king's ransom in jewellery, certainly that of a duchess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-12a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is barking up the wrong tree. This is a consultation process and we have received many responses. Responses to the paper were requested by 24 November. To show that my right hon. Friend is a listening Secretary of State, she listened to the request to extend the consultation period, and did so by one week to 1 December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "nts itself. The right hon. Gentleman's fifth and sixth points go to the heart of the matter: why are we proposing the privatisation of HMSO, given the inevitable adverse effect on the morale of those who work for the organisation? We are a conservative country and whenever change is proposed, people fear the worst. I firmly believe that, if I do nothing with HMSO, its market will contract further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "tracts, jobs are lost. The prime purpose of the privatisation, therefore, is to enable HMSO, when no longer owned by the taxpayer, to compete for private sector work. The right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Foster) asks why a state-owned company cannot compete for private sector work. It is not this Administration's philosophy to allow a taxpayer-owned state corporation to compete unfairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "f and the way in which the business is structured and organised. Therefore, Parliament will be able to control the nature of the business that supplies the products. As to TUPE, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing my attention to what he considers to be a residual problem. I shall ensure that I am properly briefed in good time for the debate, when we shall examine the matter in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "ment will be able to control the nature of the business that supplies the products. As to TUPE, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing my attention to what he considers to be a residual problem. I shall ensure that I am properly briefed in good time for the debate, when we shall examine the matter in detail. [Laughter.] I am trying to give a serious response to the hon. Gentleman's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": " the ebb and flow of work produced by the House and the other place? Woe betide any Minister who gets rid of that service and then has to explain to the House why the Votes and Proceedings, Committee Hansard and the Order Paper are not available. It is not possible to fit in jobbing contracts on a commercial basis between bits of parliamentary work. As the Leader of the House has left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "HMSO (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is referring to intellectual property rights that are possessed by HMSO as a printing and publishing house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-13", "file": "debates1995-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1588f0f30ea87e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "On a day when job vacancies have reached a record level, unemployment has fallen again and interest rates have been reduced, only the hon. Gentleman could describe the economy as weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-13a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1083.11", "colnum": "1083", "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 any previous Session.—[ The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1083.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor is presiding over one of the most exciting periods of British economic potential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "Has the Deputy Prime Minister noted the good news from south Wales that Tower colliery in my constituency, which was bought by the workers a year ago, has made a pre-tax profit of £3.5 million in the first year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Privatisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "inister noted the good news from south Wales that Tower colliery in my constituency, which was bought by the workers a year ago, has made a pre-tax profit of £3.5 million in the first year? [Interruption.] That has been achieved despite the fact that the right hon. Gentleman told those workers that there was no market for their coal. Is not the lesson to be learnt that if the conditions are right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.4", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "Is not the lesson to be learnt that if the conditions are right, and if workers are given control of the means of production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.5", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hear the hon. Lady out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-14", "file": "debates1995-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "67f07f6eabc6cf7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 1996-97", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I start by acknowledging the work of the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee, which has been praised by every hon. Member who has spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-14a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ith the French, his triumphal visit to Italy, and his constant claims that the rest of Europe was coming round to his way of thinking? Why was he driven to concealing his impotence with the fig leaf of some study into the effect of the single currency, which was so threadbare as to be an embarrassment to behold? May I tell him why? It is because no one knows what his position on monetary union is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "est of Europe was coming round to his way of thinking? Why was he driven to concealing his impotence with the fig leaf of some study into the effect of the single currency, which was so threadbare as to be an embarrassment to behold? May I tell him why? It is because no one knows what his position on monetary union is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Conservative Members criticise us for our positionhouses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "believes in monetary union, as he used to say he did? Does he want to delay it or does he in fact want to abandon it? Are his hesitations about a single currency those of economic practicality or are they those of constitutional principles? We do not know what the Government's position is. We do not know because one half of his party believes, as we do, that it depends on Britain's nationalhouses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "tting the British people decide, but as a way of letting the Conservatives avoid deciding the issue of principle? If that is what he is going for, as the papers have been briefed, is it credible that the Cabinethouses—with one half siding with the Chancellor and the other half with the Defence Secretaryhouses—could ever put a united proposition on joining the single currency to the British people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is clearly moving in the right direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Madrid Summit", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Andrew Faulds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "st make a decision. We have made a decision, and we have laid the regulations before the House. I am delighted that the matter was chosen for debate on the Floor of the House. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for South Derbyshire for her encouragement and for the compliments that she paid on behalf of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, of which she is an esteemed and honourable member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. It is a matter for the House and not for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "as unkind to thieves. I really do feel sorry for him, as he only just escaped responsibility for carrying through the privatisation of the railways—the poll tax on wheels, in the words of the late Robert Adlee when he was Chairman of the Transport Select Committee. It was out of the frying pan and into the fire. There he is in the Cabinet Office, privatising everything that moves or is stationery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and that may happen if the Chancellor of the Duchy decides to deny the House a vote. The right hon. Gentleman believed—but I have covered that bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " security documents. Perhaps the Chancellor will tell the House whether it is true that the royal military college at Sandhurst has already stopped using HMSO for some of its security documents, because it could not be confident about the security of a privatised HMSO. Perhaps he could also confirm that the Ministry of Defence is already radically reviewing its relationship with a privatised HMSO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "xample, the thrust of the Chancellor of the Duchy's argument is that HMSO's public sector market is declining and that privatisation will enable HMSO to sell in wider markets and borrow for investment in the private sector. When challenged as to why the Government will not arrange for HMSO to operate with full commercial freedom in the public sector, he responds that that is not Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "We are one party, unlike the Conservative party. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The whole scheme is being driven by the dogma that HMSO must be put into the private sector if it is to succeed in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-18", "file": "debates1995-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0acdb7c27a58eaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1319.13", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HMSO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) must control himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-18a.1319.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that tomorrow—I am sorry, on Friday—on Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has always been a stickler for terminological exactitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1337.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "In the next few days I shall be visiting the hospitals, the homes for the elderly and the retired and the nursing homes in my constituency. I shall visit many businesses and voluntary organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "y constituency. I shall visit many businesses and voluntary organisations. [Interruption.] All those people have benefited from additional resources as a result of the recent Budget. Can my right hon. Friend also give me some words to tell our customs officers in Dover, who are thoroughly against the policies that the Labour party would introduce in terms of the legalisation of cannabis and drugs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "iend also give me some words to tell our customs officers in Dover, who are thoroughly against the policies that the Labour party would introduce in terms of the legalisation of cannabis and drugs? [Interruption.] Our customs officers have provided a valuable service in keeping Britain free from drugs. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he supports the customs officers in Dover in that action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note that the right hon. Gentleman had no response whatever to the £10 billion worth of investment. He talks about £1 billion, but £10 billion is promised. As for future services, he can see what is already beginning to happen. The passenger service requirements provide a guaranteed level of service. That has never existed in the past. Services to the passenger are already improving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ice. That has never existed in the past. Services to the passenger are already improving—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I will tell Opposition Members where. The operating companies are offering a range of new services. They are responding to their customers more quickly. There are new information services. To give Opposition Members a practical example, completely new train services are being provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "We shall realise it when the Prime Minister guarantees that service levels will remain the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "We shall realise it when the Prime Minister guarantees that service levels will remain the same— [Interruption.] Yes, when he guarantees it. What is more, have we not just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "We shall realise it when the Prime Minister guarantees that service levels will remain the same— [Interruption.] Yes, when he guarantees it. What is more, have we not just— [Interruption.] We shall listen to the Government when they guarantee that the service will remain the same, but they are not prepared to do that. Is it not right that at the end of the week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1351.11", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "He is not. The Spanish have been increasing the number of their fisheries officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1351.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1351.11", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "He is not. The Spanish have been increasing the number of their fisheries officers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there?\"] However, I certainly share the hon. Gentleman's concern that that should be done, and my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1351.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1352.4", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "he Community, and which cut across the principle of equal access. Those who argue that we could deal with these threats to the rights of our fishermen by abandoning the CFP need to consider carefully the practicalities and the costs of that course. I am sure that my hon. Friends who advocate this do not want the UK to act in breach of treaty obligations entered into with the approval of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "lfway through the Secretary of State's remarks. We shall assume that he had another engagement. The Secretary of State referred to the 1992 Labour party manifesto. My hon. Friend the Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), who will wind up for the Opposition, may refer to the fisheries document we issued, but I do not think that we should spend much time arguing about the 1992 manifestos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "to the 1992 Labour party manifesto. My hon. Friend the Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), who will wind up for the Opposition, may refer to the fisheries document we issued, but I do not think that we should spend much time arguing about the 1992 manifestos. [Interruption.] There is a difference between a Government who win on their manifesto, and a party that loses on its manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "tiate the Irish box by the end of 1995, but we did not have to make arrangements for additional Spanish access to other waters around the UK by that deadline. Under the accession treaty, those arrangements did not have to be in place until 2002. Ministers have still not adequately explained why the Government accepted that additional Spanish access should be effective from 1996 as opposed to 2002—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be unkind, because I like the hon. Gentleman very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "e House. Mr. Booker refers to fishermen now openly accusing me of treason. I take that assertion with a grain of salt. I was born by a fishing port. On my way to school, I would watch the fishermen coming into port, and I would stop to talk to them. There were no fishermen after the war; that had all finished. I then spent 15 years ocean racing, and for most of that time I captained British teams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I never cease to be amazed at how ungrateful some Members can be. Here I am, the week before Christmas, restoring marketing, processing and harbour grants, and such an ingrate individual quibbles about it. The only person who is more ingrate than the hon. Gentleman is the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell), who comes to the House complaining that not enough is done for fishing ports", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. That is just not good enough. The House of Commons has taken an historic decision. It has passed a motion rejecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. That is just not good enough. The House of Commons has taken an historic decision. It has passed a motion rejecting— [Interruption.] It has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "The Government have been defeated. That is the important point. It is all very well for the right hon. and learned Gentleman to say that Ministers will pay due attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The debate has taken place and the House has made its views known in a Division. It is now up to the Government to determine their position. I now propose to move to other business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "mediately after the normal Question Time. That would usefully extend the \"flexibility\", to use that word again, of the ways in which the Committee can operate. We propose to amend Standing Order No. 94H to make it clear that the half-hour Adjournment debate, which normally starts at 1 o'clock, can begin earlier than that if the other business to be taken at that sitting has already been completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1425.2", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jaw, jaw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "ed to change the fundamental flaw in the United Kingdom's democratic system, which is that the majority of Scottish people reject the Government's policies, but they will be put through through either the present ritual in the Scottish Grand Committee or the extended ritual set down in the Standing Orders. A former Prime Minister talked about his preference for \"talk, talk\" rather than \"war, war\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "My argument is that any process of democratic arrangement should be one where the majority of the people, in a position where there is subsidiarity and devolved government, make the decision on those items that relate to the Scottish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "I begin by asking a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1428.6", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "ed. In that regard, I offer my compliments to the councils of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow for the fine hospitality that they extended to us. It was interesting to see my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) finally making it to the lord provost's chair. I do not believe that he ever sat in that chair when he was a councillor in Glasgow, although he deserved to sit in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Scottish Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "ment in all its stark hypocrisy. In Northern Ireland and for Northern Ireland, the Government say in the framework document that what is required is not to beef up clause 99 of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons or to beef up the Northern Ireland Grand Committee, but a full-scale, legislative Assembly for Northern Ireland. Some 90 members are to be suggested for that legislative Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Caribbean (Voluntary Resettlement)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Timothy Kirkhope)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Timothy Kirkhope)", "preceding_text": "right to live in this country should be under any pressure to leave. The Government are not in the business of advocating that our own citizens emigrate to the country where their parents, grandparents or ancestors were born. I deeply resent the remarks of the hon. Member for Tottenham about my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, who has done so much work to improve race relations.**", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-19", "file": "debates1995-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f981d45a09cb21c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Caribbean (Voluntary Resettlement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "t can see no good purpose in pursuing such ideas further. Another of the hon. Member's ideas is that young unemployed people of Afro-Caribbean descent but who were born in the United Kingdom should be encouraged to emigrate to Africa and the Caribbean. He appears seriously to think that the Government should pay for such young people to leave our country. We value our young people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-19a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. I was just coming to my substantive question. We have put a number of questions on education to the Minister and have failed to get replies. Why are we not getting a response to our request for an independent assessment board in relation to nursery vouchers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1527.6", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Violent Crimes", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I wish my hon. Friend every success with her knives Bill for England. The Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie) to control knife assaults has been remarkably successful. As my hon. Friend says, there have been a great many arrests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1527.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1536.2", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Director General of Oflot", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Are not the Opposition making themselves look trivial and foolish by taking this stand against Oflot's director general? Can there be any justification in attacking the integrity of that decent, honourable and successful man, who was trying only to save the taxpayer money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1536.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1539.4", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Director General of Oflot", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "McCarthyism.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady say whether the friendship of 20 years ago was continued, and whether it was known about at the time of the appointment of Camelot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1541.5", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Director General of Oflot", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "est. I would not say that he is dishonest, but he is very stupid. It is also very stupid for the Secretary of State to say that it was all right for him to take those matters on board after the licence was awarded. How would she feel if chairmen of licensing boards accepted hospitality from public houses for which they had granted licences? She would be the first to condemn local authority people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Director General of Oflot", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Secretary of State realise that the answer that she gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain) transformed the nature of these exchanges? It is not just the regulator but she herself who should go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Director General of Oflot", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " was the beneficiary, rather than Mr. Davis personally. I said that he took the flights for operational reasons in order to be able to complete his visits to a great number of lottery centres and return to the UK at the earliest opportunity. Officials, in general terms, advised the director general to be responsible for his travel and hospitality costs, because of the normal rules on such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Humber Bridge (Debts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not make such disparaging remarks about the Macmillan Government in 1959 and the Heath Government of 1971, who initially approved the bridge's construction and then approved the moneys to create the bridge. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman seeks to attack distinguished former Conservative Prime Ministers in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1995-12-20", "file": "debates1995-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "299b56bd7b20deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1559.5", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Humber Bridge (Debts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": " of users would have a right to object; and the third is full deregulation, with undertakings setting their own charges. How has that consultation gone, and how will it affect the bridge and the other river crossings in the United Kingdom? I am sure that my suspicions about privatisation will be quickly allayed by the Minister. Is there any connection whatever between the Bill examining the debts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1995-12-20a.1559.5"}