{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.3.8", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member is pursuing a canard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.3.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.14.6", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has just had an extremely interesting trip to Japan. While he was there, he might have been better occupied if he had travelled on the privatised Japanese railway—a policy which he and his colleagues also oppose for this country. What the right hon. Gentleman, despite his rhetoric, does not in his heart understand is that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.14.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Holloway Prison", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Ann Widdecombe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Ann Widdecombe)", "preceding_text": "cal staff. However, it is the policy of the Prison Service not to keep women handcuffed while in labour and childbirth. It has never been Prison Service policy to keep women handcuffed during labour and childbirth. Although I am explaining this now for the benefit of hon. Members, the policy was also explained by the Director General of the Prison Service on a number of occasions over the weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Holloway Prison", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "For accurate information, we rely on the experts, who are the medical staff. There is a clear procedure for establishing when a woman is in labour. That is established not by the prison staff, but by the medical staff. A form is filled in, which establishes that fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "House of Commons (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we would not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "preceding_text": "til 1 o'clock in the early hours of the following morning. It is absurd that Members of this House should spend their time going through the Division Lobbies time and again, spending 20 minutes on each Division, three or four times an hour, for four hours on the trot. If we were setting up a new Parliament today, can anyone believe that we would not introduce some form of electronic voting system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "includes the words declines to give a Second Reading to the Bill. That is strange, because Labour's Front-Bench spokesman has told the House, \"Well, we do not mind at all giving the Bill a Second Reading and we are relying on our reasoned amendment being defeated so that we can abstain on the substantive vote.\" The hon. Lady shakes her head, but that is the impression that she has given the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.99.4", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "I am now running out of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.99.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-09", "file": "debates1996-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d65052314a6151a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Sir John Wheeler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Sir John Wheeler)", "preceding_text": "In matters of this kind, it behoves any Government to listen with great care to points of concern about the issues that we have considered today, especially as they relate to the criminal justice system and the concept of liberty. I shall respond to as many points as possible in the time available. First, I shall take up the remarks of the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Mr. Worthington).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-09a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-10", "file": "debates1996-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "c19654d5a475dfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Waste Disposal", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " Faversham (Sir R. Moate) for raising this subject. It is not particularly romantic, as we know, but it is crucial. The debate also gives me an opportunity for a five-minute rant on a subject I feel strongly about—the fact that our country, and especially my borough of Newham, is litter strewn. Litter is a big problem in Newham. I seem to represent some of the dirtiest constituents in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-10", "file": "debates1996-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "c19654d5a475dfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "ervice was extremely important. However, the World Service's decision to cut that service has nothing to do with the recent budgetary measures. The decision was taken by the BBC purely on its own merits, and was announced last September. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to fund nostalgia, that is up to him, but the World Service is efficient and effective. I recognise the £10 million funding gap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-10", "file": "debates1996-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "c19654d5a475dfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "etitor. The World Service has benefited from an investment of £166 million since 1991, which has greatly improved audibility and efficiency. For example, a new £29 million relay station is nearing completion in Thailand. The World Service is now broadcast in 42 languages, including the 24-hour English output, and it is rebroadcast by more than 900 local radio stations. That is a record of success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-10", "file": "debates1996-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "c19654d5a475dfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " police in the pursuit of organised crime and a member of the public was affected because it went wrong, would they complain to the Police Complaints Authority, or to the Security Commission? We also have a problem about the definition of organised crime. Some adverse comment was made about the use of \"organised\" in the definition. I have forgotten which Government Member was complaining about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-10", "file": "debates1996-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "c19654d5a475dfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "preceding_text": "and at a meeting with Lord Mountbatten and the Government's chief scientific adviser, Solly Zuckerman, he urged Mountbatten to become the leader of a Government of national salvation. Lucky old Britain. Zuckerman pointed out that that was treason, and left the meeting. The idea came to nothing because of Mountbatten's reluctance to act. All that might seem quite eccentric in the cold light of day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-10a.284.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.313.7", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall make such Amendments thereto as were made by him in the last Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during any previous Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.313.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.320.6", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.328.5", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The whole House will know that after leaving Baroness Thatcher's Government I did all in my power to secure her re-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.328.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.330.4", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to underline the success and importance of inward investment into the United Kingdom, especially into Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Asylum Seekers (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "of Home Office investigations and the subsequent reviews carried out by judicial adjudicators. We grant exceptional leave to remain, but that does not mean that the people involved are refugees; such leave may be given for humanitarian reasons—because someone is ill, or has suffered a mishap since entering the country. A person may be allowed to remain here temporarily, although the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Asylum Seekers (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "olved are refugees; such leave may be given for humanitarian reasons—because someone is ill, or has suffered a mishap since entering the country. A person may be allowed to remain here temporarily, although the circumstances— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) would do well to listen to my answer, rather than nattering on about matters that he manifestly does not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Asylum Seekers (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ry. A person may be allowed to remain here temporarily, although the circumstances— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) would do well to listen to my answer, rather than nattering on about matters that he manifestly does not understand. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman clearly does not understand the difference between exceptional leave to remain, granted by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Business Links", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Cope", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-11", "file": "debates1996-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "cef8b513e39e1f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Business Links", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "vernment and the official Opposition debating not whether the business links is a good idea, but who thought of it first. It is vastly entertaining. I am always tempted to scurry out of the Chamber and fetch the famous Liberal yellow book of the early years of the present century and demonstrate that all the good ideas emanated from my party, but that might test the patience of the House too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-11a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "It will not astonish my hon. Friend to know that I happen to have the figures in front of me and they do indeed make embarrassing listening for the Opposition. Purely by coincidence I have the figures for 1997, 1998 and 1999, which show for those three years the investment was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "at she had called for more spending on health, which I did at once—although the idea that she is not in favour of more health spending strikes those of us in Bristol who have heard her on such matters as odd. The hon. Member for Bristol, South has had something else to say, this time about education. She has written round Bristol saying that another £16 million is needed for education in the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have answered his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do remember it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that at least half the contents of the Bills over the past 10 or 15 years have constituted social engineering by the Government. I have a confession to make: a long time ago I was the Minister responsible for probably the most complex and complicated tax legislation introduced in the House. I should not think that anyone much remembers it, thank goodness—it was legislation on developing land tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ure that some of my colleagues would say the same. We will never regenerate inner cities unless there is some flexibility on business tax. If Treasury Ministers visit the Hillfields area of Coventry, we can show them the effects of the business tax. It is no good Ministers trying to blame local authorities, because what they can do is limited. Another issue that will cause concern is rent capping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sked that question on a recent visit. Singapore starts to apply capital gains tax when individual gains reach several million Singapore dollars, at a rate of 3 per cent. Next time the Leader of the Opposition visits Singapore, perhaps he should examine its taxation system. That system is something to emulate—as well as the enormous corporate control that exists there, to which I shall refer later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "to improve incentives and the operation of the economy. It is not possible for increased Government expenditure and increased taxation to accelerate the wealth-creating process. Examples from all around the world prove that the less the Government suck out of the wealth-creating economy and put into non-wealth-creating activities, the more that can be left to fructify in the pockets of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "be left to fructify in the pockets of the people, the more active and dynamic the economy will be. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the conduct of the Government's economic policy over the past 17 years—I accept the mild admonition of the hon. Member for York—is our failure more effectively to reduce the share of national income taken up by Government spending. The reason why we increased it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mutual?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "at this country has to deal with a damaging legacy—the damage done to our economic capacity, especially in the 1980s. Unless we expand and enhance the quality of our economic capacity, we shall not be able to compete in the global economy. In the context of the Bill, the whole concept of stakeholding must be to recognise that there is a mutual purpose for which we all work together as individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "oint the hon. Gentleman. Nothing would please him more than if he were able to claim with any justification a whole battery of new rules and regulations. I suggest—I believe the service is available from the House of Commons Library—that he gets the transcript of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition's interview with David Frost yesterday in which he made the position absolutely clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "chester, North (Mr. Jenkin). He had to wait for some time to be called, but what he had to say was important. In particular, he pointed out that we have started on a downward trend in taxation. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor has not been prepared to play fast and loose with Britain's economy; instead, he waited until we gained control over public spending to begin to reduce taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "hon. and hon. Friends have asked important questions earlier, so let us ask them again. Do you have a target for inflation? No; you do not. Do you have a target for interest rates? No; you do not. Will you ensure that public spending is reduced to zero by the end of the decade, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor said in the Red Book? I expect that you do not have an answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.503.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Not to you. I will certainly give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-15", "file": "debates1996-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c5440792ba99a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Soft Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "The Minister will not be surprised to learn that I will concentrate on exposing the dangers of Ecstasy. I know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-15a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looks, he will see that house prices have risen throughout the past five months. That is a very welcome trend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.538.9", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "We are always on the look-out for fresh ideas from the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.538.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have already answered the thrust of the hon. Gentleman's question several times today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "uld reconsider the matter if essential programmes were threatened. Secondly, he made what I understand to be an important concession, allowing capital to be transferred to revenue if that should prove necessary. It is odd that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State did not say that on \"Today\" this morning, because everyone knows that \"Today\" is the real Parliament in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "t's money, not private money, would come back into the Supply sector. That must he beneficial. There is much business sense in the way in which that approach could be carried forward. I have had discussions with the World Service. I have often broadcast on the service, way back from the 1960s. It was fearing a 10 or 15 per cent. cut in Supply expenditure, but that has not happened. It is important", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "portant [Interruption.] —to understand that the minimum action has been taken. As my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary said, it should not affect any aspect of the World Service's broadcasting. We must have that assurance. Indeed, I thought that that assurance had been given a long time before the debate. The assurance was not dragged out as a result of the debate. The assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " taken. As my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary said, it should not affect any aspect of the World Service's broadcasting. We must have that assurance. Indeed, I thought that that assurance had been given a long time before the debate. The assurance was not dragged out as a result of the debate. The assurance— [Interruption.] —goes a long way to overcoming any objection that can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": " how the hon. Lady described the BBC in her printed speech. Perhaps her courage deserted her—or perhaps that was another example of a Liberal Democrat speech in which an hon. Member says one thing in the House and leaves the real meat for distribution to the constituencies. She left out another paragraph, and I am sure that hon. Members would love to read it. I was saddened by what she had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "aining qualifications, people become equipped people only for further unemployment and short-term relief. They end up being placed in a short-term, low-paid job only to find themselves back in the dole queue through a revolving door. That is obviously short-sighted and extremely unproductive for our needs as a nation. Our emphasis on providing a stakeholder economy in a nation that pulls together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "They are direct quotations from a document that briefs Ministers, and they show clearly the thinking behind what was going on. The advice was not terribly wise, but nevertheless it was given to Ministers, which is why the Government are gradually grinding to a standstill after 17 years. I shall not quote the rest of the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " is not 8 per cent. but probably nearer 11 per cent., and certainly one of the highest in Europe. We were treated to a selective list of the worst black spots of unemployment abroad—while of course ignoring our own—amnesia, a re-writing of recent economic history in Britain and a cavalier dismissal of the central fact that, despite tiny falls in unemployment in recent months, unemployment remains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "o come into line with the European average. In many ways, the picture is even more stark. More than one in two workers in Germany hold vocational qualifications at craft level, whereas in Britain only one in five do. Two thirds of foremen in German manufacturing industry hold higher intermediary qualifications, whereas in the UK the figure is just 3 per cent.—one twentieth of the level in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-16", "file": "debates1996-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "50f3ba629e3fc593", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. James Paice)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have been cut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. James Paice)", "preceding_text": " and real policies to help the unemployed and promote training with the dearth of policy suggestions from the Labour party. I shall start by examining the central issue of cuts in training in the Labour motion. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment said, in real terms there will he more money in the budgets for TEC programmes next year than there is this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-16a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Severe Weather (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would have been 17.5 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "ugh letter boxes throughout Scotland, creating serious financial difficulty for many of the people who receive them. Every one of those bills will include 8 per cent. value added tax. I hope that people in Scotland will remember that if Ministers had had their way, and had not been stopped in the House by a Labour-initiated campaign, 15.5 per cent. VAT would have been added to their heating bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Severe Weather (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "enied the help that was to be available. Building industry installers who planned according to Government promises have discovered yet again that a Tory promise is virtually worthless. That was a mean cut, especially in the circumstances in which people find themselves today. It was scandalous. What can the Government do to help? How can the Minister redeem himself and the Government's reputation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And officials.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "That was an interesting and revealing answer. I offer no conspiracy theory—I just asked a clear question. It was interesting to note that the Minister referred to the \"harmonious relationship\" between Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.5", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I accept in good faith what the Minister said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.5", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I accept in good faith what the Minister said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So apologise.\"] I will apologise for nothing. I raised a pertinent point, which the Minister has clarified to my satisfaction. Let us hope that the matter will rest there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was present when I asked the Minister how one could prove whether people were available for work. There is a simple way, because if we had a full system of workfare, which I would fully support, people would either work in return for their benefits or have an ordinary job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "welfare. There is no purpose in going to work apart from improving the condition of all the people of this country through the distribution of welfare, in the widest sense of that word. The hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) talked about the earnings from windfall profits. That was a contradiction in terms. If they are a windfall, they have come, by definition, accidentally or fortuitously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "r all. Half the audience was unemployed and the other half consisted of floating voters. When I said, \"It is you people who deserve benefit if you are eligible for it, not every millionaire in the country,\" they fully agreed with me. I think that the country will agree with that approach. We should target the huge amount of benefit we pay to those who genuinely need it, not to millionaires. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " £20 billion. The two taxes raise about the sum that we spend on social security. Without the present system, we would not need income tax or corporation tax. That demonstrates the scale of our expenditure on social security. We are not advocating, of course, the abolition of the social security system, but we want to ensure that what we spend on it is directed to those who really need it. Surely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.801.6", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, just before our meeting at Lancaster university, the Labour party research department issued a document which said that the Labour party would abolish all grants? I know that the Labour party wriggled and wriggled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.801.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "ge all political parties as he has done. The sadness is that the Bill does not address that challenge, which must be addressed. It is a desperate measure which has been hastily prepared and introduced. The Bill's passage through the House, as the hon. Member for Hyndburn (Mr. Pope) was keen for me to point out to the House, is a further example of the chaos and confusion created by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.841.5", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Golding", "preceding_text": "ndoubtedly face. Unfortunately, they have also blighted the lives of so many others who deserve better, including the blameless potato growers. In abolishing the very successful potato marketing scheme while neglecting to meet the legitimate needs of growers in other respects, the Government have once again put ideology before the welfare of people who want only to do a useful job for the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.841.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Golding", "preceding_text": "It is nice to listen to the hon. Gentleman and to know that, in addition to Opposition Members, a Conservative Member wishes to support potato growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.843.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not to him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with precisely that point. We want a level playing field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with precisely that point. We want a level playing field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Labour Members moan and groan, but their Front-Bench spokesman made a plea for state subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with precisely that point. We want a level playing field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Labour Members moan and groan, but their Front-Bench spokesman made a plea for state subsidy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. The hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mrs. Golding) said that other countries were subsidising plant and crops and pleaded for some of that for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Potato Marketing Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "y that point. We want a level playing field. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Labour Members moan and groan, but their Front-Bench spokesman made a plea for state subsidy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. The hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mrs. Golding) said that other countries were subsidising plant and crops and pleaded for some of that for Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, she did. I want none of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-17", "file": "debates1996-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5f2e5cb38eb594d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Campions Wood", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "normous pit that is opening just behind their garden fences. It is an accident waiting to happen\", as my constituent says in his letter. The mud must be seen to be believed. The aspect to the village from the south has been ruined. The whole village has been blighted. Residents believe, and I understand why, that only an end to the quarrying and subsequent landscaping can make the site acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-17a.861.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.865.7", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall make such Amendments thereto as were made by him in the last Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during any previous Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " on the views expressed by Lord Howe, the former Deputy Prime Minister, who said in an interview on London Radio earlier this week that he thought that the abolition of the Greater London council was a mistake, and that a voice for London should be restored? May we have a debate on the governance of London? Among other things, we could discuss the possibility of having an elected mayor for London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Prisoners in Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "These detailed matters of security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Reid", "preceding_text": " day, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Nicholas Hill-Norton—who I believe is known to the Secretary of State and to Ministers—warned that the Government have left this country a nation unable to defend itself\". I have no knowledge about Admiral Hill-Norton's judgment; I do not know whether he would know a creep if he saw one. However, he certainly recognises a walking disaster of a policy when he sees it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had made it clear that the last thing anyone would do now would be to sell property at the bottom of the market and then put it out on the basis of market rents, as they increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had made it clear that the last thing anyone would do now would be to sell property at the bottom of the market and then put it out on the basis of market rents, as they increased— [Interruption.] The Minister is trying to shout me down. It seems that he is desperate to sell now and pay later. He is not even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-18", "file": "debates1996-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8122fda5ca0158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Mineworkers (Bronchitis and Emphysema)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clapham", "preceding_text": "This debate concerns compensation for mineworkers suffering from chronic bronchitis and emphysema.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-18a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Too early.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I have great pleasure in introducing this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.995.8", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": " in the' European Community. They start a hour before we do, they go to lunch a hour before we do, we then go to lunch, and they pack up a hour before we do. British business is disadvantaged for four hours a day. In addition, we have many opportunities to trade with the far east, which is a growing area of trade. The Bill would allow us the opportunity of one hour's trading with the Tokyo market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.995.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1008.8", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has been on his feet for about half an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1008.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce).", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "guments in support of either side. If in doubt, one should look at the friends of an argument, as one can learn a great deal from them. Those hon. Members who favour reform might like to take note that the hon. Members for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman), for Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor), for Chingford (Mr. Smith) and for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) and the right hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He's not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "parently, a free vote is not a free vote when it is a neutral vote. I understand that Ministers will abstain—except Scottish Ministers, who have been given been given a licence to vote against the Bill. It might be thought that people who live in glasshouses should not throw stones. I am not sure whether I am in an enviable or unenviable position, as a party spokesperson without a specific policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "nt this change, because it will affect their standard of living and their income, and I am in favour of keeping that as high as possible. I want to talk about builders. Everybody talks about the matter from the perspective of the worker. I shall speak from the perspective of the employer. I remember that, during the previous experiment, as I am wont to do, I was in the middle of restoring a house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-19", "file": "debates1996-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ec9cc969fef017b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "We set off a syndrome called seasonal, affective disorder by way of unhelpful response. I do not speak for the north; I do not speak for the south. This should not be that type of debate. I speak for the middle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-19a.1055.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I apologise for my late arrival, which was due to train failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I understand the hon. Gentleman's point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.19.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It may be a point of order for me, but I should like to see the document to which the hon. Gentleman refers before I make a ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I must make some progress. I have taken about 15 interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "Mainly because my right hon. Friend did not make it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "Mainly because my right hon. Friend did not make it— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman did not listen to my answer. I said that six options were put to VA schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nisters. Twenty minutes ago, the Secretary of State accused me of inventing something that I claimed the Prime Minister had said, which was that Church schools could convert to being grant-maintained without consulting parents. I now have the extract from the Prime Minister's speech. I do not wish to weary the House with it; I simply want to give the Secretary of State an opportunity to apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He already has it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will give the extract to the Opposition Front Bench so that it can be incorporated in that speech. It might then clear the air a little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.33.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ry of State in her belief that the Prime Minister did not commit the Government to a massive extension of grant-maintained status in his speech on 12 September 1995. If the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) will forgive me, I shall read parts of the Prime Minister's speech. The Prime Minister said: All state schools should gain the benefits of becoming self-governing independent schools\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.37.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillian Shephard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentioned choice and diversity in approving tones, as coming from his party. Will he say what choice and diversity the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) wants, and whether the hon. Gentleman proposes to provide them for her?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.40.12", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to say that we are in total unity on this side of the House. We are all preaching one simple fact—to lift the standard of education for every child in this country, rather than to have an obsession with the few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.40.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "If today's debate were a boxing match and you were the referee, Mr. Deputy Speaker, you would have the Opposition well ahead on points at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-22", "file": "debates1996-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fecdfb30aec91771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "ate value for special needs during Committee and outside it. I hope that my right hon. Friend will accept that as a sincere commitment. On his other point, he wants the Bill to be extended to three-year-olds. The Bill has been deliberately drafted so that it may be extended at some time to three-year-olds. A brief word for my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mr. Mills), who was present earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-22a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.129.7", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Government on slowly trying to get to grips with the major issue of social security fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.129.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for his kind words of concern about pressure. The difference between us is that I will not buckle under it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michie", "preceding_text": "I want to ask a simple but serious question. The Prime Minister continually describes Britain as the enterprise centre of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "lear that we are concerned not only about the tax's impact on local authorities but about its impact on business and the possible effect of distorting waste management away from the laudable objectives that the Government initially put before us. It is incredible that the sugar beet industry, for instance, will have to pay to put topsoil that has been removed from sugar beet back on to the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "say in Hansard and get the wrong impression. 8.30 pm The set of words repeats the definition used in the old executive share option scheme which the hon. Gentleman, as a lawyer, may have studied carefully. The phrase \"manifestly less\" has become well known in law since 1984. It means: not less by any amount that can be measured—in practice, not less at all. I hope that that clarifies the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "We believe in choice by persuasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Morris.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Sir Michael, let it be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.229.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "upper limit of the scheme—a change advocated by a broad range of outside interests and companies that have made representations to us. We listened carefully to what they said, and I have announced that I recommend that the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Dover be accepted. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central asked me two questions. First, he asked about the cost of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.229.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with the question of exceptional leave to remain in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "It has emerged that the man had friends and relatives to support him, and that he convinced the immigration officer that that was so. That is satisfactory for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Lynne", "preceding_text": " Disabled people will suffer along with the elderly and children. Many of those children will be taken into care because they have to be under the Children Act 1989. What will be the cost? How much more money will the Government give local councils to help them with the bill for taking those children into care? If they are not taken into care, what will happen to them? They will be on the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-23", "file": "debates1996-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "1991c50ddebcdc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I have heard that from the hon. Lady before, and it has not been true. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-23a.248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "ROM-Data Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "r for Falmouth and Camborne also helped the company obtain the loan guarantee. I question whether that was entirely wise. I notice that, in July 1995, the hon. Gentleman was quoted in the Daily Mail. He said that he had not investigated Mr. Dawson's background because I am only an MP and cannot be expected to rush off to Companies House to check out track records every time a business wants help\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "ROM-Data Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "g News, which, as early as 3 June 1992, published an article entitled \"£2m debts that haunt high flier\". If the hon. Gentleman had read that, he would have known that that man was extremely dubious. Was not the hon. Gentleman slightly suspicious that Mr. Dawson was not paying his constituents' wages? He nevertheless helped him to obtain further assistance. I called the debate with some reluctance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "ROM-Data Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "have known that that man was extremely dubious. Was not the hon. Gentleman slightly suspicious that Mr. Dawson was not paying his constituents' wages? He nevertheless helped him to obtain further assistance. I called the debate with some reluctance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I had to call it, because we are not receiving satisfactory answers from the President of the Board of Trade to questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "ROM-Data Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ng his constituents' wages? He nevertheless helped him to obtain further assistance. I called the debate with some reluctance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I had to call it, because we are not receiving satisfactory answers from the President of the Board of Trade to questions. [Interruption.] I believe that the previous President of the Board of Trade has seriously misled the House in that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "Our policy is well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Mitchell Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hume", "preceding_text": "rceived its objectives? Although its members come from three different countries, it has spent Christmas and the new year urgently dealing with its track. I invite the Prime Minister to read paragraph 18, which points out that similar urgency is needed on the political track. Will he accept that advice and now fix a date for all-party talks, rather than waste time as he has for the past 17 months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.359.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Registration of Immigration Advice Practitioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am extremely concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Registration of Immigration Advice Practitioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hendry", "preceding_text": "I am extremely concerned that, on an Opposition Supply day, some 220 Labour Members are missing. Will you check, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the annunciator screens are working, so that all the Labour Members who might want to support their health spokesman know that the debate has started?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.8", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Registration of Immigration Advice Practitioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.373.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not rise to complain to the Secretary of State about the fact that, in his health region, 7,546 hospital beds have been closed. That is what his constituents want him to be speaking up about in the House rather than making cheap points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "rprised that the hon. Gentleman did not rise to complain to the Secretary of State about the fact that, in his health region, 7,546 hospital beds have been closed. That is what his constituents want him to be speaking up about in the House rather than making cheap points. [Interruption.] Today's debate is important because the NHS is at a crossroads. The importance of the NHS cannot be overstated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.9", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Given the hon. Lady's commitment to the Conservative principle of choice in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.14", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Gentleman deaf?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.375.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "What is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "No, I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.384.8", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "f the hon. Lady. That brings me to another element of the choice and diversity for which the hon. Lady has made herself famous this week—the application of that principle within the NHS. Many of my hon. Friends have raised the issue of GP fundholding, and they are right to do so. The Government have made it clear that we are determined to develop the primary health care service of the NHS because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.384.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "d have to go. NHS trust hospitals and the internal market would also have to go. It is all very different now, however. We just do not know precisely what Labour's policy on health is, and there is tremendous confusion. About 41 per cent. of the population are now covered by GP fundholding, and more than 10,000 GPs have voted with their feet because they know that the scheme provides good service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "oquence of Satan denouncing sin. What does Labour want to do? It wants another tier of regional health authorities, which some of us have been trying to get rid of for years. That would cost £100 million, money that would be removed from patient care. The hon. Gentleman would have to get that £100 million from the Treasury if Labour were in government. The hon. Gentleman also wants a minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "een treated, and the House will have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Whitney) give the figures. Some £4l billion is being spent—66 per cent. above the rate of inflation. We have the lowest waiting lists ever, and we have the citizens charter. Did one hear anything about a citizens charter under the previous Labour Government? It was derided by the Opposition as a rather sick joke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e of the longest waiting times in the country and the three accident and emergency departments did not operate terribly efficiently. The service was a catastrophe because we were constantly in debt. I am not saying that health care in Harlow is perfect—it never will be anywhere because people's expectations are, rightly, so high. Errors will always be made. It is no use hon. Members shroud waving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " the Redbridge Guardian and West Essex Gazette of 16 November 1995 reported: We're full up, says hospital. Even some 999 patients are refused admission. Patients were turned away from Whipps Cross Hospital this week when management admitted hospital resources were stretched to their limits. The hospital was closed to admissions and victims of major accidents on Tuesday 'to ensure patient safety'\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "the House and I congratulate my hon. Friend. I also congratulate the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mrs. Roe) on her contribution. She is Chairman of the Select Committee on Health, which has produced an excellent report on continuing care, and we await with interest its evaluation of the Government's response. That said, the Government have a real problem. I recall the famous John Maples memorandum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "that are missing from the NHS. True to form, the Government have ensured that, in the most recent year for which figures are available, nearly £500 million has been spent on non-NHS providers. That is a leakage from the NHS. At the same time as children are touring the Pennines looking for a bed in a hospital, £500 million is being spent on non-NHS provision. That is a challenge to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "sted. The experiment, in Stonehaven, is about clinical services and every other service being simply passed over to the private sector. In an interesting article in The Sunday Times about the Secretary of State for Health, unfortunately headed: Misfit with a mission against meddling\", the Secretary of State said: What I'm not in favour of is privatising clinical care\". We need to find out tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "l to find the information that the health service executive should have had immediately available. Again, that speaks volumes for what is going on. If there is one single issue on which morale reels in the health service, it is staffing. If one reads submissions from the Royal College of Nursing, the British Medical Association or GPs' committees, on every occasion, one finds a situation in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "? How do they feel when they see a Government who deliberately ignore their needs and patients' needs and push the growth of a burgeoning bureaucracy on every possible occasion? If the Government were serious about the national health service, they would stop acting on the basis of hearing no evil, seeing no evil and speaking no evil, and start to get to grips with the problems that surround them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-24", "file": "debates1996-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a1f90797fd9af88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "at we have travelled and see what landmarks paved the way to that sorry pass. The most corrupting turn was when we opened the door to the Aladdin's cave of the Al Yamamah arms deal and gorged ourselves in a trough of larceny and backhanders. We have to face the fact as a country that that contract was landed by British Aerospace as a result of corruption on an unprecedented scale. Enormous bribes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-24a.455.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.463.7", "colnum": "463", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall make such Amendments thereto as were made by him in the last Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during any previous Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.463.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d to class sizes. I will tell him about class sizes. The Office of Standards in Education has itself recognised that the quality of teaching is the important issue. The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but parents agree. I shall give him an illustration. For example, for children up to the age of 16, the average class size in secondary schools in Islington is lower than at the London Oratory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "There it is. The Government do not want to answer questions about the test results, and now we see the reason why they want to focus attention on one 11-year-old child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware, which I am sure he is, that today is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns who lived the latter part of his short and remarkable life in Dumfries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "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/1996-01-25a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "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 there is now overwhelming evidence that fundholders are able to get a better deal for their patients from hospitals. It makes sense to build on what has been achieved and induce more and more GPs to join the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-25", "file": "debates1996-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa0202c8e18141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons. One is that I have not hitherto been asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-25a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-26", "file": "debates1996-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9820bce339ec1877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-26a.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "tain rights for hundreds of years or even from time immemorial. If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that, when dealing with the rights of those minorities, we should proceed by coercion, that would be a dangerous principle, and the House should not countenance it. I may be wrong, but I cannot recall Lady Thatcher introducing legislation that affected the deeply held views and rights of minorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-26a.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.627.10", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "How many of those statutory instruments and other regulations affecting business have been brought on us through EU directives? Is my right hon. Friend confident that he has the powers to deregulate those regulators or the mechanisms and proposals to put before the intergovernmental conference later this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.627.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that matter because I understand that it is to be the subject of a major speech by the leader of the Labour party tonight, in which he will advocate something called accelerated learning—which, in any other language, is streaming. The leader of the Labour party gave his views, or at least what were his views, in June last year. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.634.7", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House must know that the views of the leader of the Labour party on streaming are of major interest to the House. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.634.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.634.8", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister was asked a question and he is attempting to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.634.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "eople in desperate need of housing would not receive permanent accommodation, but would be stuck in temporary accommodation. I say quite clearly that, as soon as that need is discovered, the local authority will provide permanent accommodation if it is available. That is precisely what is occurring. The hon. Gentleman does not understand the situation, and he has not read the legislation properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "t they need when they need it; old people feel insecure about their pensions; and millions of people of all ages feel insecure on the streets where they live. The Government are doing nothing to combat the insecurity that they have inflicted on the people. Instead, they revel in it. Cabinet Ministers clearly welcome it. The Government preach insecurity. They are not hypocritical; they practise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.663.5", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The main thing that is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Government have not built them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.667.10", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.667.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "escribe just one family who have been forced by the Tory Government and the Tory council to live in such squalor. The family consists of a father, a mother, a son aged four and a daughter aged three. Those of us who have children should remember the circumstances in which we were living when our children were toddlers of four and three years old. The father has had a serious operation on his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Sykes", "preceding_text": "curity. We consulted leisure companies whose interests lay in tourism. After several months' work, we were able to present the report to the Prime Minister, at the end of January 1994. It makes distressing reading, for in it is a catalogue of drunkenness, assault, drug dealing, drug abuse, muggings, social security fraud, thieving, organised crime, appalling language, fighting, damage to property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ian Twinn", "preceding_text": "he is a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter. She has been on Enfield borough council's housing list for 17 years. She lives opposite a tower block where vacancies frequently arise, but she has always been denied a place in two-bedroom accommodation. The mother has been told by the now Labour-controlled authority that it is acceptable for her to share a bedroom with her 11-year-old daughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-29", "file": "debates1996-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "a99197d3fc0fe785", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "m of strategic context. It might help the House if I outline that context. We have to face a background in which new social patterns are emerging. It does not matter whether we like it or not, it is a fact and policy must address itself to it. The multiplication of households and the changes in families are matters that we must note. There is pressure everywhere, in all advanced industrial states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-29a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With reference to his earlier remarks, the right hon. Gentleman might also remember that under this Government crime is falling for the first time in 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n might also remember that under this Government crime is falling for the first time in 40 years. [Interruption.] Statistics show that quite clearly, across a whole range of crime, and that is something that no previous Government have been able to say. When he refers to the privatised water industry, the right hon. Gentleman would do well to remember, too, that \"Governments cannot run companies\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t in the water industry or in other public utilities. Of course, there is investment in them now, not least by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers as a shareholder. That union sponsors the deputy leader of the Labour party; it is one of the stakeholders in the Labour party, and also one of the shareholders in the water industry and in most of the other privatised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "htside (Mr. Blunkett), Labour's education spokesman, is shouting from a sedentary position. It is a novel relief for him to do so, rather than be undermined by the Labour leader in every single thing that he says about education. On higher education, the hon. Gentleman would do better to refer to his party's policy document, which says that Labour is looking to raise funds from individuals using\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.787.5", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman withdraw half of what he said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I simply do not know the details of the case", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.789.6", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am a butcher, but the hon. Gentleman has the tripe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.789.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "uld not be able to replace pipes or stop leaks. It would not be able to offer higher standards, or do any of the other things that the hon. Gentleman knows must be done. The industry would be in real trouble because the hon. Gentleman would not he able to read the balance sheet to understand what was going on. When he explains how the finances work, it is clear that he cannot read a balance sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.799.7", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "use we want the quality. In fact, the scheme will not just reach the quality asked of us by the European Union—although we enthusiastically accept that—but that which we need to cater for holiday makers in our area. We are also pleased that privatisation has been a success story abroad. Britain is now earning considerable wealth throughout the world because of the expertise of our water companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "s not difficult to argue that we should have clean beaches and clean water if it adds £15 to people's bills across the nation. It is more difficult to say the same thing to consumers in the south-west while adding £150 to their water bills. I would find it easier to argue the case for a £15 increase in Yorkshire than the hon. Gentleman would to argue the case for a £150 increase in the south-west.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "This has been an exceedingly interesting debate. I have learnt a lot about Labour policy on water. I have learnt a lot that confirms that the Labour party does not understand the slightest thing about running business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": " understand them, have been brought about by the extremely severe drought in the summer. It would be unreasonable of any hon. Member not to accept that there was exceedingly severe weather and that lessons must be learnt from the experience. I know that my right hon. and hon. Friends have taken steps to obtain independent reports to confirm that the actions of Yorkshire Water are indeed all there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "We think that charging by volume is important to ensure sustainable use of water in the long term. The Government—certainly south of the border—encourage companies and customers to switch to meters, but are not forcing them to do so. Since I was able to obtain a press release issued by the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) before he stood up, his speech was nothing short of what I expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the press release on the speech of the hon. Member for Hamilton which I managed to obtain. In it, he persisted with scare stories and distortion, which he is more than capable of, as he has shown throughout the discussion of the future of water in Scotland. Unfortunately, like his hon. Friend the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "d the world's children will suffer as a result. I understand that in my absence yesterday—I was speaking at a conference in Dunblane organised by the excellent Scottish Education and Action for Development organisation—the Minister made some interesting claims during parliamentary questions, which were so ably handled by my hon. Friend the Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "There is nothing amazing about it. A Labour Government will start to reverse that decline in their first year of office.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "preceding_text": " many years before that as a supporter of the Project Trust and of GAP activity projects, which introduced hundreds of young people to the developing world. In multilateral aid we have a new weapon that we can use to our advantage and to that of others. I must say a few words on the importance of the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and how that is relevant to overseas aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. The argument of rural forces, that there are particular costs involved in policing their areas, is persuasive. Clearly there are much greater distances to travel, fuel consumption is greater, tyre costs are higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. The argument of rural forces, that there are particular costs involved in policing their areas, is persuasive. Clearly there are much greater distances to travel, fuel consumption is greater, tyre costs are higher— [Interruption.] Hon. Members may laugh, but they show their ignorance of police operating practices if they scoff at such ideas, considering that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "r of police officers; and, secondly, that they have given £20 million in new money to assist with the recruitment and employment of new officers. At the time of the Budget, the Home Secretary claimed that he had increased the revenue cash by £20 million, but he had cut by almost £24 million the capital cash projected within the Home Office's plans—a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Peter less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "I shall repeat the number for the benefit of my hon. Friend. The number has fallen by 860. When one considers that the Government promised an increase of 1,000, one realises what Conservative promises are worth. The Home Secretary boasted of handing over the cash and giving freedom to chief constables to choose how to spend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "h year. Will the Government provide the additional finance to retain those trained officers, so that there is stability in the police forces, or will they simply say that it is a matter for police constables to decide? Last year, the Minister gave police constables and local police authorities the freedom to juggle the figures that they must work with this year. That is causing a dilemma for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-30", "file": "debates1996-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "062f8677e4834a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "-term solution to the problem. It cannot be right that some 12 per cent. of police revenue budgets is spent not on officers who are actively in service but on officers who have hung up their truncheons, whistles and radios and gone to a pasture which, perhaps, is more profitable. It was a long time ago that I did that. As the House knows, my eldest son who, I hope, will be married later this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-30a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Medical Misconduct", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": " consultant. Of course, serious offences may be involved. No one is arguing that there is no case for the safeguard of suspension—but often it should be exercised as the course of last resort. Trusts may be opting for suspension rather than another course, which may not be best. I agree with the hon. Member for Edgbaston that cases should be resolved more quickly. Obviously the issues are complex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's local enterprise company makes a sterling effort in that regard. That fact was repeated to me this morning when I attended the celebrations for the bicentenary of Robert Burns's death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether this is correct, but I am told that even the people who work in Labour's research department in Scotland would not have to pay the tartan tax because they are paid from Walworth road. My hon. Friend has pointed out an anomaly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.996.5", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Squire", "preceding_text": " the Minister agree that the Government's market approach has led to rock bottom morale among NHS staff and a two-tier service for patients? Will he condemn the approaches made to consultants at Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS trust to give preferential treatment to patients of GP fundholders? Will the Government, for once, stop telling fibs and admit that the NHS is certainly not safe in their hands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.996.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "s can be treated in accordance with medical need, and only in accordance with medical need? If he will not do that, both he and the Secretary of State for Scotland should do what one of the Secretary of State's constituents—Mrs. Bowie—called on him to do today in the press and resign, because neither of them, nor any of the other chancers on the Government Front Bench, can be trusted with our NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.4", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Guidelines have been issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.4", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Guidelines have been issued— [Interruption.] The position is absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.997.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Regulation of Funding of Political Parties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hypocrisy\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "thing and doing another. There are no disclosures of what the Lionel Cooke Memorial Fund is, of the details, of donors and of the size of donations. There are no disclosures of the details of the National Trade Union and Labour Party Committee funds, of the donors and of the size of donations. That is an example of the Labour party saying one thing about openness and disclosure, but doing another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that, but, on a list of councils, one is bound to be lower than others. I try to apply these objective criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": ", because they do better out of it. District councils would like another shift, whereas metropolitan councils or the London boroughs would like a different one. That is perfectly reasonable. The only people who disagree are Opposition Front Benchers, and I think that only one of them does so. That Opposition spokesman does not understand the system, which is why he finds it so difficult to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ers, and I think that only one of them does so. That Opposition spokesman does not understand the system, which is why he finds it so difficult to accept— [Interruption.] I shall just have a word with the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong), who has not been responsible for this subject for very long. I remind her that the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr Dobson) is always—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "volved in moving at such speed. This is not a matter on which the Government should act unilaterally. Like previous Governments—I claim no particular credit for it—we have acted after lengthy negotiations with local authorities. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) should address his question to other local authorities, and, if they support the methodology, we can make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No council can escape the need to make savings and run itself efficiently. The money that has been provided for Buckinghamshire, as for the rest of the country, is consonant both with its needs and with what the country can afford. There is no other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "takeholder: it is not the people's money, it is local authorities' money. They say \"our money\" like they say \"our schools\". They mean that they are longing to get their fingers on what they think is their money. That money is earned by men and women, who want to make sure that every penny is spent properly. If we can get an extra pound from the private sector, we can provide something much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State took one hour and two minutes to try to tell us his settlement is. We are now going to question it—that is what we are here for today. The settlement that I am talking about is part of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I do not endorse anyone's numbers but my own, and the hon. Gentleman is not getting one from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "emes and to provide those central responsibilities that the Government assume Westminster bears. If the authority was efficient, I would not mind so much. During a debate in the House a few years ago, I mentioned an old-age pensioner in my constituency who had not set foot in London since 1955. He received 14 parking tickets and a summons in Westminster for parking a car that had never been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "th immediately. In 1979, Graham Page, the former Minister with responsibility for local government finance, described his task as flying around England in a helicopter dropping bags of money on town halls. That may have been an inefficient system, but it did not matter so much then because, in those days, the rates provided a much smaller share of local government income than does council tax now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "hould be increased. When Labour consults, it will no doubt be told by business men, \"We remember a time when people took roofs off factories, to avoid paying exorbitant business rate.\" The hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) will no doubt remember, because that occurred in his own metropolitan district council. The hon. Lady is not on a winner. If this is the only denationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "s opting for grant-maintained status. Every secondary school in my constituency is already grant-maintained. They offer enhanced choice and diversity in education, whether in language or technology. I would, however, like to take a leaf out of the book of my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby and make a special plea to my hon. Friend the Minister, because we have worries in the Brentwood area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": " Democrat stories in my time, but I have never yet heard them put out a policy for the sole purpose of arousing Conservative comment, which they can then dismiss. That is remarkable. To turn to the subject of West Sussex, it is true that the Liberal Democrats have not held office before, and that they have had to play the part of opposition for more than 100 years, which can be a baleful exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "Why will the hon. Lady not answer one simple question? Everyone who intends to vote at the next election wants to know how much it will cost. Labour Members exhibit an unusual degree of Trappism when it comes to finance: they will not say a word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "If the Government had taken action against councils that were defrauding their council tax payers, the country would be in a better state and there would be more money for the settlement. For a kick-off, the Minister could have recovered the £29 million from Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-01-31", "file": "debates1996-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "0270a5549eef9898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1092.8", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "r next year's settlement. I hope that local authorities will agree on it, but that is perhaps somewhat optimistic. It is important to be satisfied that it is the best possible intellectual basis for allocating money. The second area of investigation, which is also important, is the sparsity factor. Here again, many rural areas are concerned about the cost of supplying services in wide open spaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-01-31a.1092.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1105.7", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall make such Amendments thereto as were made by him in the last Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during any previous Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1105.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Undermanaged?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks why. I shall give him several reasons. First, because that is precisely what the Socialist Health Association told him not to do. Secondly, I don't think it's really in question any more that the NHS has been under-managed in the past\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.2", "colnum": "1119", "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, because that is precisely what the Socialist Health Association told him not to do. Secondly, I don't think it's really in question any more that the NHS has been under-managed in the past\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Undermanaged?] I am sorry that Opposition Members scoff—those are not my words but those of the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) when she was Labour's health spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to tell the Secretary of State to do as I ask?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to tell the Secretary of State to do as I ask? [Interruption.] \"No,\" say Conservative Members, but I was quoting the words of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to tell the right hon. Gentleman that he is mistaken on almost every point that he puts to me, but let me deal directly with his point about management costs. It is fair to raise the important issue of management costs. If the right hon. Gentleman is worried about management costs, and I am sure that he is sincere in what he says about them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l not put taxes up; but what did the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) say some time ago? Well, I would say is this: that if the Chancellor, to raise money to do things, did raise the tax level on the top rate from 40 to 50 per cent., we would not oppose it\". That is not what the Leader of the Opposition says. Of course, the deputy leader of the Labour party, who is temporarily absent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I will of course bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scuds were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "hem and, perhaps more important, to deliver them. Deterrence does work: we have seen that in Israel over the Gulf war. The fact that it was known that Israel had nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them was the sole reason why Scuds, which could have been armed with the means of mass annihilation, were not aimed at the state of Israel. That is a good example of how nuclear deterrence works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not listening to what I was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "all must still have its proper uses. I went down the Thames during the summer last year as a guest of my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath). He was conducting a concert in the chapel at Greenwich. Rostropovich was playing. It was a marvellous evening. We sat in the chapel and had dinner in the painted hall afterwards. We all had an enormous sense of pride. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "de, as usual, an extremely well-informed and powerful speech, and raised a number of important issues concerning his constituency. I shall ensure that they are reported to my hon. Friend the Minister and dealt with. The hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Smith) did not tell me that he would not be here for the wind-up, and therefore I am somewhat constrained in what I may say about him and to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": ". Smith) did not tell me that he would not be here for the wind-up, and therefore I am somewhat constrained in what I may say about him and to him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because he is such a dear man—he is also completely barking and represents, as we all know, the true voice of the Labour party on defence. He is living evidence of the fact that one simply cannot trust the Labour party on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "lude homosexuals from the armed forces—not in connection with a moral judgment, but purely because of the special nature of service life, which, as the hon. Gentleman now knows very well, is completely different from civilian life. As a Minister, I am constrained by what I may or may not say, and it is impossible for me to agree in public with what the hon. Gentleman said about the European Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has also left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "pt that his argument is at the core of Labour party thinking. He represents a substantial majority of party members, and it was important for us to hear the true voice of the Labour party tonight rather than the sham circus on the Opposition Front Bench. The hon. Member for Greenwich has just left. I hope that he heard the speech of the hon. Member for Devonport, or he will get a frightful rocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-01", "file": "debates1996-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0d600d93ca714194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Downham Fire Station", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Before I begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-01a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-02", "file": "debates1996-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8fbfd5dd7cb3e62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1226.5", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "The publication that I was sent had no subtlety about it at all. Not even a one-eyed Albanian, as the late Robert Maxwell once said, would have difficulty understanding it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-02", "file": "debates1996-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8fbfd5dd7cb3e62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Unlike my hon. Friend, I am not a lawyer. As I understand it from the lawyers, one cannot be prosecuted in the United Kingdom as a result of a video that shows one having under-age sex outside the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-02", "file": "debates1996-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8fbfd5dd7cb3e62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Gender Identity (Registration and Civil Status) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Horam)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Horam)", "preceding_text": "of the other. Transsexuals may undergo hormone treatment and, in many cases, gender reassignment surgery. The Government are sympathetic to the distress felt by transsexuals, and we have tried to smooth the transition from one gender identity to the other. Gender reassignment operations are permitted without any kind of legal formalities. The surgery and treatment may be carried out under the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-02", "file": "debates1996-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8fbfd5dd7cb3e62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1290.5", "colnum": "1290", "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/1996-02-02a.1290.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-02", "file": "debates1996-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "8fbfd5dd7cb3e62a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1290.9", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question — [26 January] —That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-02a.1290.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I am indeed, Madam Speaker, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.13.9", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the answer, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I shall answer this question and question 14 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.13.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should know that I had a long record prior to my coming to this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "LTS Rail", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Secretary of State to understand how serious this matter is, and that deliberate fraud in the public services— franchised or not—is a terribly serious matter for the country? Will he give us an undertaking that the offer to the LTS management team to allow it to run that service will be withdrawn, because it has shown itself to be a corrupt management team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "LTS Rail", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU must have been mad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "Having got up at 4.30 yesterday morning to join my right hon. Friend on the first privatised South West train, the 5.10 from Twickenham to Waterloo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-05", "file": "debates1996-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "0ce90442675c6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Policing of London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Yes, she did. That was how she began this part of her remarks. She made that serious charge, which I am slightly surprised that she was allowed to make, with reference to figures that I had cited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-05a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.131.10", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the considerable strength of the economy throughout the country, including Scotland, is based in large measure on reduced burdens on business? During his busy day yesterday, did he have the opportunity to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.131.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Do we take it from that answer that the Prime Minister recognises no responsibility at all on the part of Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.132.6", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ical sense. One of his hon. Friends said: We believe that people should be rewarded for a performance, whether in the form of salary or the granting of share options\". That person, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Darling)—a shadow Treasury spokesman— continued: It is not for me to spell out the benchmarks of success\". The right hon. Gentleman is once again playing the politics of envy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "their patients but of their commitment to the health service as a whole to opt for fundholding. It is interesting to examine what the right hon. Lady said when she was face to face with an audience of fundholders: We want genuinely to pay tribute to the role that you as fundholders ) … have played in kick-starting and developing innovative practice in both primary care and the acute sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is simply wrong, as I said in replying to the hon. Member for Fife, Central.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ow responsible citizens to choose which professionals best meet their needs. We know that the hon. Member for Peckham is opposed to the imposition of a single unchanging formula, regardless of local preferences and choices. We know all that because she has opted her own family out of the politically correct formula for education and has exercised her right to choose the best education for her son.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "-tier service in action. The first column reveals that cardiology patients of non-fundholders wait 26 weeks for an out-patient appointment, and the second column sets out the waiting time for patients of fundholders. Instead of waiting 26 weeks, patients of fundholders wait only 12 weeks. Dermatology patients of non-fundholders wait 26 weeks, while patients of fundholding GPs wait only nine weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "ing on the best practice of all GPs to create a primary care service fit for the millennium. The Tory party is not interested in patients, the state of the NHS or the condition of Britain. It is interested only in clinging on to power. The Tory party has, as evidenced today, shut down the business of government and is simply trying to act like a propaganda machine, and is using the House to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Dicks", "preceding_text": "It was another word, but if the context is offending you, of course I withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "er, but I have not had an opportunity to read it. I was going to make the point that in Hertfordshire there is no two-tier system. If the hon. Gentleman visits my constituency, I will demonstrate to him that the system there is operating very effectively for the benefit of patients. I shall, of course, look at the document, and I am sure that my colleagues on the Select Committee will do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Good—that will mean many thousands more votes for us. What a good idea that is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": "I have torn up the speech that I had intended to give because there has not been a debate in the House recently in which the Government have conceded so much to the Opposition in so short a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "reported in the article of 30 July 1995. The Secretary of State said that there would be no preconceptions, no closed minds, no rejections of ideas because they weren't invented here\". He said those words far from the House, but some day he must be brought to account for suggesting one thing at a Conservative party summer school and then using completely opposite words in the House this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have faced many challenges in my life, but managing to persuade the hon. Gentleman may be a bridge too far. He demeans the ability of employers and employees to arrive at a system of election that will be fair. Nothing is more English or more culturally part of our inheritance than fairness. An industrial tribunal, which is after all a judicial body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "he is a lawyer, and in this place he also dealt with the law. He responded to my hon. Friend's arguments much in the manner of a lawyer—a lawyer who simply wanted to understand what the judgment was, rather than finding out what its consequences might be. I timed the Minister's speech: it took 36 minutes. That is not bad for a lawyer, I suppose, especially one who is not being paid the going rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": " to the case thought that the Act could perfectly reasonably be interpreted in another way. In my respectful submission, where regulations or an Act of Parliament can be interpreted either way, it is the duty of the judges to give Ministers the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise, they are interfering in the political process, taking sides on political issues and bringing the judiciary into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-06", "file": "debates1996-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "16221e6f4d46c2a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "This debate has been valuable, and I hope that it will be widely reported because it lifts the veil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-06a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members seem to read handouts from central office rather than listen to the debate. I have already dealt with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.342.4", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I do not want to give way to the hon. Gentleman. Will he please resume his seat? I must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.342.4", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I do not want to give way to the hon. Gentleman. Will he please resume his seat? I must get on. [Interruption.] I am simply referring the hon. Gentleman to the rules of the House. If I do not wish to give way, he must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Castle Point (Dr. Spink) raised that matter on a point of order yesterday, and it was dealt with fully by Madam Speaker. The hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold) misquoted Hansard. It is out of order to raise the point again in such a misleading way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.348.7", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "That is the answer that I give to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.348.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.353.12", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "I have every sympathy for the constituents of the hon. Member for Castle Point (Dr. Spink)—I know that they have been forced to travel on the \"misery\" line. However, I should point out to him that it is his party and his Government who have failed, during the past 16 years, to find the necessary investment to improve that line. Far from doing nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.353.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "I am confident you will see a nice balance between continuity and innovation. That is precisely the point of privatisation. He goes on: As far as the Worcester area is concerned we aim to heighten our profile, including the use of local advertising. In order to spearhead this, I am appointing a Cotswolds Business Manager with special responsibility for Worcester, Hereford and the Cotswold Lines.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "rd and the Cotswold Lines.\"— [Interruption.] Is that not interesting? Labour Front Benchers laugh at attempts to increase rail travel. I thought that that was what they wanted. It is certainly what I want. Their laughter speaks volumes for what they are really up to in this debate. This morning I received another fax from Mr. Scott. I had asked him about the early experience of rail privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "o conduct that undertaking in the top-heavy fashion of British Railways as organised at present\". That top-heavy organisation endured for 40 years, and only now are we beginning to see the end of that ridiculous situation. Perhaps most tellingly of all, Mr. Powell quoted a letter from an engine driver living in Wolverhampton, which still rings true 44 years later: Railway employees prior to 1948\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "l terminology. In the same way as there is the Beazer Homes League, we had visits earlier from the Hill Samuel right hon. Member for Norfolk, South (Mr. MacGregor), the S. G. Warburg hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Atkinson) and, of course, the Lowe Bell hon. Member for Worcester. The idea that vested interests in the House lie among Members on this side of the Chamber, rather than the Tory side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ession. The Government should never forget that. Privatisation is a rotten deal for the taxpayer, who has been forced to pay private operators more than British Rail would have required for the same level of service in order to satisfy Ministers' ideological spite. It is also a tragedy for the people who work for the railways, thousands of whom will pay for the franchising process with their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend the Member for Ladywood said, it is pathetic for the Minister to be asking questions instead of spelling out a policy for the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes the point very well. The Labour party says one thing and does another. It claims that it would give the Post Office commercial freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "My constituents will support a single European currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " Post Office Counters would be able to compete, and build itself up by establishing local financial centres in towns and villages where it could deliver the services that it liked. As long as the Post Office is shackled to the public sector it will be used as a milch cow and will not grow. We face a political problem, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup rightly underlined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": " it make sense for the type of fabric of society, not just the type of commercial enterprise that we want to see? That is the difference between Conservative Members and Labour Members. We believe that we should be concerned about the social results of the things that we do, not just the results in terms of profit and share price. We care for the many. They care for the few, and everyone knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": ", and such people are now restricted to the political Jurassic Park. The hon. Gentleman wanders around in a field. He is let out occasionally to graze; he is then returned to the field and the gate is closed. The hon. Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle suffers from the political equivalent of mad cow disease: he believes that we should adopt the principles of privatisation and the free market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wyre Forest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker— [Interruption.] I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was so intrigued by the speech of the hon. Member for Wyre Valley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.435.9", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.435.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-07", "file": "debates1996-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ecb1a434643dd9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the Minister said that the hon. Gentleman received a cheque for his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-07a.436.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.451.7", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall make such Amendments thereto as were made by him in the last Session, and shall report the Bill as amended to the House forthwith, and the Bill, so amended, shall be ordered to lie upon the Table; That no further Fees shall be charged in respect of any proceedings on the Bill in respect of which Fees have already been incurred during any previous Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. We are reducing our fiscal deficit faster than any other major European country and today Germany has unfortunately announced that its unemployment has gone above 4 billion—I mean 4 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "This question seems to have become extraordinarily wide. If the hon. Lady had ever run her own business, she would have found that there are both good times and bad times, and sometimes it is harder to pay the bills than others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Thornton", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the recent newspaper article about education by the Labour transport spokesman, which I shall quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "bout the recess announcement and about her response to the usual channels' representations about the local government order, which is now to be taken on Wednesday. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister indicated a few minutes ago that the intention would be, in line with comparable reports in the past, that Opposition spokesmen would be able to see the Scott Report some hours before publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "It is worth repeating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.509.6", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.509.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.510.4", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " Members who believe in the principle of an assembly ought to ask why a Scottish assembly will be allowed to raise tax, while the Welsh will not be trusted to do so. Having seen the way in which Labour local authorities operate in Wales, I can fully understand why the Labour party is scared of allowing a Labour-run assembly—as Opposition Members would probably see it—to raise taxes. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.510.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-08", "file": "debates1996-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb855c7fb9893220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ruth about Tory rule in Wales during the past few years is a story of cuts all the way. Ministers' parliamentary answers also provide that information. In 1993–94, revenue support grant was 64 per cent. of local government spending. In 1995–96, it has decreased to 58 per cent. The truth was revealed in a letter to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Aberavon (Mr. Morris)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-08a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam (Dalyell Linlithgow)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam (Dalyell Linlithgow)", "preceding_text": "legrams were sent out in 1994. Clearly there has been a major change in work and life expectancy. There is a widespread feeling that people can and should be used far beyond the time when their chronological age might dictate otherwise. In any case, I am not a great believer in chronological age. I know some Members of Parliament who are scarcely over 30 but whose real age appears to be nearer 70.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been here a long time, and he is a wise politician. He knows that there are other ways in which he can deal with the matter. I shall take no more points of order on this issue. I have dealt with it. I have said that I know that commitments were given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Start again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am somewhat surprised to see that Labour Members have suddenly appeared in force to try to talk out this interesting Bill. I hope that I have not lost track of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I hope that my comments will not be taken the wrong way, but clearly capitalism was at least employing and utilising those people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": " assure the hon. Gentleman that plenty of time will be left for others to speak. Interventions make me lose track of what I am saying, which is likely to increase, not decrease, the length of my speech. I have no particular time in mind. I had only 24 hours to prepare my speech, so I am obviously limited in what I can say. I want to return to the point about the European Parliament and Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "it a fair wind today and see how it goes. I am not going very well myself, in that I am not making much progress in what I wanted to say, but I hope that what I have said in answer to interventions has been helpful. What distresses me most about age discrimination in employment is the appalling waste of older workers' talent and experience that it represents. I was recently on a fact-finding trip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "rogress in what I wanted to say, but I hope that what I have said in answer to interventions has been helpful. What distresses me most about age discrimination in employment is the appalling waste of older workers' talent and experience that it represents. I was recently on a fact-finding trip— [Interruption.] —it was a genuine fact-finding trip on that occasion. I was in the company of Lord King—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.602.5", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I was thinking of Tom Lehrer, but I am reminded that I am quoting from Shakespeare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " labour market created by this Conservative Government's policies. At the same time as there is such high job insecurity, there is merger mania—with thousands of highly skilled, highly paid and profitable workers being put on the dole to meet the short-term costs of acquisition. The Government allow low pay and job insecurity to drive their economic policies. They back people such as Cedric Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "as absurd. It is a pity that he was too frit to give way to me, so that I could question him on that point. The arguments supporting my hon. Friend the Minister make it absolutely clear that the Bill would result in more legislation, which would not create jobs for people over 50 but would destroy jobs for everybody. The Government have a proud record of job creation, and it is the best in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.622.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-09", "file": "debates1996-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c4ed3035f6044013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.624.23", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [26 January] , That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-09a.624.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Ministerial Responsibility", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "e exposed to Liberal Democrat proposals for the extension of qualified majority voting in Europe, they would be overruled time and again on vital British interests. They would then have to come to the House and say that, because of Liberal Democrat policy, they could not answer to the House for decisions with which they may well have disagreed, so Liberal Democrat policies are hardly the solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Ministerial Responsibility", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": " of the debate. First, many claims were made about membership of quangos and appointments to them. I have done some research on such appointments, and I discovered that, in 1979, the last year of the previous Labour Government, there were 39 members of the Trades Union Congress general council. I invite hon. Members to consider how many appointments to public bodies those 39 members may have held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Ministerial Responsibility", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A hundred.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "hip of quangos and appointments to them. I have done some research on such appointments, and I discovered that, in 1979, the last year of the previous Labour Government, there were 39 members of the Trades Union Congress general council. I invite hon. Members to consider how many appointments to public bodies those 39 members may have held. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty.\"] I hear 20, but no, not even 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Ministerial Responsibility", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One hundred and fifty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "arch on such appointments, and I discovered that, in 1979, the last year of the previous Labour Government, there were 39 members of the Trades Union Congress general council. I invite hon. Members to consider how many appointments to public bodies those 39 members may have held. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty.\"] I hear 20, but no, not even 50. [HON. MEMBERS: \"A hundred.\"] No, the answer is more than 100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "tial increases in public expenditure. He proposes a substantial increase in revenue-raising powers. He has said that local income tax would substantially increase the revenue available to local government and that he would remove capping. That would lead to an increase in public expenditure and, as he knows, if substantial capital receipts are released, that would also increase public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": " only two places: in the form of more grant from central Government, or from the local taxpayer. Ultimately, the money will come from the taxpayer; it must come from the taxpayer wherever it comes from. The right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) has more sense than most people in his party, because he has acknowledged that simple truth. There are three components to local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "al authorities' point of view, I can quite understand people there who say, \"We would like to get rid of capping. We want to be able to take the decisions\". That is a natural and understandable reaction. However, there is the wider view, which has caused the hon. Member for North-West Durham, who has left the Chamber to find some crucial piece of evidence—for reasons which I completely understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "There is no contradiction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend seen the internal research document \"Towards 1996\", produced by the Liberal Democrats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Local Government Services", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "able, but I begin with some general comments about next year's local government financial settlement, north and south of the border. The impression given, certainly by the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) and other Opposition Members, is that local government has been singled out for attack by the Government. The motion refers to an assault on local authorities, which continues year after year\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.749.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-12", "file": "debates1996-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa360eb39956f217", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Act", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-12a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "ther which, as anyone with any common sense will agree, puts them at risk. That is especially true of the type of patients to whom I referred. Is it not a fact that the Minister and the Government do not know what is going on in the national health service? They have abrogated responsibility for accountability. When will they tell us why the chief executive would not answer a very simple question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.795.5", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "The people who fought through the war then lived through a Labour Government, and it was the Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.795.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.800.7", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware, from The Mail on Sunday , that the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion) was persuaded to vote against the new clause IV relationship on the ground that it was only a change of words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.800.9", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the change in words with which the hon. Member for Dundee, East disagreed was typical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.800.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me explain what has been agreed, so that I can remove the misunderstanding from the right hon. Gentleman's mind. At present, the report has been made available only to Ministers or civil servants who need to see it in order to help to prepare the Government's response to questions in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.816.10", "colnum": "816", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman may have misunderstood. If I understood correctly, the hon. Lady referred to the hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr Arnold), who tried to intervene. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.816.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend cast his mind back to the question raised by the hon. Member for Peckham? During a recent debate, a member of her staff, presumably paid for by Unison, rang the Dartford and Gravesham health authority to ask how many beds had been cut in the past six to 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks about bed cuts, but the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) asked whether it was ideal for a man to be treated on an obstetrics and gynaecology ward. The answer is no, that is not ideal—but if I were a man in need of emergency medical care, I would prefer to be in one of those beds than in no bed at all. That response is one that the health service has always provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ctors were on call for an average of more than 83 hours a week. Now there are no such posts. There used to be 14,000 hard-pressed posts in which doctors were on call for more than 72 hours a week. Now there are virtually none—295, to be precise. By the end of this year, we are on course to have eliminated every junior doctor post with an on-call requirement of more than an average 72 hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " Gentleman is simply wrong. Opposition Members claim to be supporters of the NHS, but when there is a clear improvement in the quality of service available to NHS patients, one might have hoped that Opposition Members would welcome it. It is simply untrue to say that patients on waiting lists do not wait a shorter time than a few years ago. In-patients are waiting a shorter time for admission, and", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "longer. That is because we have the best NHS we have ever had. Of course it is not perfect. An organisation that employs 1 million people will, of course, occasionally make a mistake. The central fact, however, is that NHS patients living in this country receive care that is better than it has ever been, and it is improving year by year. The attempts by the Opposition to paint the NHS as a system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I welcome the debate, although, like last week's, it has not added greatly so far to the sum of human knowledge. Although the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) was right to identify the lack of morale, I join others who have identified her huge flaw in not mentioning what the Labour party would do about the biggest issue connected with morale: pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " developments have produced better qualified people. There is, however, some difficulty. I confirm that there is low morale in many parts of the health service, which the Secretary of State has not yet addressed. I hope that the Minister will address it. It is no secret to aficionados of health service debates that across the country Liberal Democrats are surveying morale, among many other issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "fficulty. I confirm that there is low morale in many parts of the health service, which the Secretary of State has not yet addressed. I hope that the Minister will address it. It is no secret to aficionados of health service debates that across the country Liberal Democrats are surveying morale, among many other issues. [Interruption.] I shall add factual evidence that confirms that morale is low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "The Minister says from a sedentary position that it is habit-forming. We would love to have a debate on the health service every week in Government time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "hat he should have private health care as a safety net. What does that do for the morale of doctors and nurses? It is not good enough. In recent interviews, he said, \"We should try to make it as good as possible, but I still have private health care insurance.\" His predecessor, now the Secretary of State for National Heritage, may not have many qualities, but she does not have private health care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "amount of money. It goes hand in hand with the creation of the specialist registrar grade which came into effect on 1 January, enabling junior doctors, when they get to the more senior posts, to spend more time in training than in providing service commitment. Labour Members' solution was a five-point plan. Conservative Members agreed with four of the points—they were all apple pie and motherhood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.862.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "hey asked to debate law and order issues. This is the first Opposition day debate on law and order that they have requested and what have they selected—the private security industry. No wonder Opposition Members have been asking me: what on earth is going on and what is our Front-Bench team up to? I have been defending the hon. Gentleman and have asked his colleagues to appreciate his predicament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that. \"Right,\" says the hon. Gentleman, \"what about drugs? That is better surely.\" \"Oh, keep off drugs too,\" say the advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Not the way I heard it. The deregulation unit has a point of view; so has the Select Committee; so has the BSIA; so have the police. In that sense, they are all legitimate pressure groups with a legitimate point of view. There is no question of Francis Maude's having pretended that he spoke for the Government. The Government will make their views clear in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.882.5", "colnum": "882", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rushed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "sue. The security industry has expanded enormously in the past 25 years. It has had 25 years of success and achievement, which has been brought about because Governments did not interfere with it. The Select Committee report is receiving careful attention and, while I hope to make a decision fairly soon on its proposals for regulation, I reject the accusation that we should have rushed a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "st and expertise in the subject, which we greatly respect. He warned us about the position of airline employees, the probity that is needed and the respect for the security industry. My hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mr. Merchant) made an interesting point when he said that we cannot be too prescriptive about training, because there are many different sorts of jobs in the security industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-13", "file": "debates1996-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a04e2fd6e7ff626f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sackville", "preceding_text": "Mr. Merchant) made an interesting point when he said that we cannot be too prescriptive about training, because there are many different sorts of jobs in the security industry. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton) warned us against red tape. His was a timely warning. We may need to ensure that there is access to records for employers, but without unnecessary burdens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-13a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "European Funding (South-West)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady had better sit tight. She asked for figures and answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.994.7", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I do not know how many of those questions the hon. Gentleman expects me to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.994.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.994.7", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hose questions the hon. Gentleman expects me to answer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"] I shall make a portmanteau of all the hon. Gentleman's generalisations about funding. I especially draw his attention to the fact that the Government grant for NACAB, one of the organisations that he mentioned, has gone up this year by £600,000. Those arrangements have enabled us to have the privatised utilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.994.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not recognise that the continuing concern of the CBI and others about Britain's manufacturing strength has been reinforced by the recent sustained fall in output described in the City as an appalling performance? Incidentally, the Minister will, I am sure, recognise that what he told the House about the last Labour Government's record is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I can see that the right hon. Lady has nicely caught the spirit of St. Valentine's day. I shall not be so churlish and I wish her a happy Valentine's day. My figures on the fall in manufacturing output under the last Labour Government are correct and I will send the right hon. Lady those figures so that she does not make the same mistake twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ervatives presided over their 10th successive annual deficit in the balance of payments current account; secondly, the UK's trade balance in manufactured goods went into deficit in 1983 for the first time since the industrial revolution, and has stayed there; thirdly, the United Kingdom's share of world trade has fallen to its lowest point this century, from 7.7 per cent. in 1980 to 5.2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will be aware that during Question Time, an hon. Lady, whom I will not name, crossed in front of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "t is quite possible that forward-looking authorities will want to start reorganising their departments as quickly as possible to minimise costs and so on, and very many staff are therefore exposed to being shifted around to their detriment without being entitled to compensation. I do not think I am wrong about that. I suspect that I will be proved right—not about everything, but about some things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-14", "file": "debates1996-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f4e805095f77a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "year before reorganisation. They could suffer a drop in salary a couple of months later and be entitled to detriment compensation. Equally, they could take a cut in hours and still receive detriment compensation. No one will be forced to take a worse paid job, because the normal protection afforded by employment law is unaffected and the staff cannot be forced to accept worse terms and conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-14a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1121.12", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "PRAYERS", "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.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1121.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that that success in putting policemen back on the streets to fight crime is greatly welcomed by my constituents and others? On top of that, there is the welcome news that 30 additional police officers will be recruited to the Milton Keynes force this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Again, again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests for transfer of prisoners from one prison to another the Prison Service dealt with in the last 12 months. [13860]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1138.7", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should really come off this silly line that he and his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " witness after witness from the Government at the Scott inquiry tried to deny: that the guidelines on defence sales were changed and that the Government failed to inform Parliament of the change. Now that he has accepted that conclusion, will he also accept Sir Richard's conclusion that that failure was, in his words, deliberate and the result of three Ministers agreeing to give that no publicity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Livingston has twisted and distorted almost every single point to which he referred in answering my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "epeatedly claimed that he has not had enough time to read the report. That did not stop him spending the past three years prejudging its findings and getting them wrong. The hon. Gentleman was invited to come to the Department of Trade and Industry at 12 o'clock to see the report, but instead of rushing in to see it, he was seen standing outside on the pavement for 10 minutes talking to the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Scott Report", "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/1996-02-15a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "has fed the House, the press and the public a sour stream of invective, innuendo and invention. It has been one of the most odious campaigns of manipulation and black propaganda that the House will be able to recall. He repeatedly—as we now know, without a shred of justification—charged Ministers with secretly plotting to arm a foreign dictator and with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "nment that privately, covertly, without public statement, arms a brutal psychopath who exposes British troops to fire from those arms. In 1993, he was saying: Ministers were prepared to see businessmen wrongly convicted rather than tell how much they knew about the arms trade with Iraq\". In 1995, he said: None of these businessmen would have been convicted in the first place if Ministers had not\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members will have an opportunity in 10 days' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members will have an opportunity in 10 days' time— [Interruption.] Order. They will have an opportunity then to tell us what is in the report. I shall spend the weekend reading it, as all hon. Members may. The Secretary of State has the freedom of the House to say what he wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Between 1985 and 1987, I was the Minister of State at the Foreign Office responsible for implementing the guidelines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman refer to the section in the report that deals with the letter that the Prime Minister sent to me on 17 February 1992, which Lord Justice Scott says was misleading?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1162.5", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ficates—clearly on the basis that the judge would have been able to look at them? Can my right hon. Friend also clear up the charge, which has been made during the past three years, that the case collapsed once the PII certificates—as gagging certificates—were released by the judge? In fact, the case continued for another four weeks. It was once Alan Clark changed his statement in the witness box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I mildly observe that I do occasionally walk the streets of London, usually when accompanying my wife on a shopping expedition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I mildly observe that I do occasionally walk the streets of London, usually when accompanying my wife on a shopping expedition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sexist.\"] I do not think that there is anything sexist in that. It is an entirely proper thing for a husband to do—and probably a wise one as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The agreement was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-15", "file": "debates1996-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "9e77222ef9e1bf67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "try, Kiss FM, Jazz FM and many more. Outside London, there are numerous local stations. As each one came on air, it was inevitable that Radio 1 ' s audience would decline, but, despite the editorials in The Sun , that should not be a cause of criticism or concern. Instead, it allows Radio 1 to offer a platform for new bands and other forms of popular music, such as acid house, rap and heavy metal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-15a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "asses easily through neighbouring walls in houses and neighbouring ceilings in flats. Is this music a passing trend that will not be with us in a year's time? No. The music is played widely in clubs around the world and, as a genre, is now indisputably the nation's favourite. It is so popular that different branches of the music have been developed, including jungle, handbag, hard core and techno.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "cott report—so I may be some time. Judging by the interviews that I heard on the radio this morning, Ministers are now calling the Scott report the \"We all got off scot-free report\". The hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) is absolutely correct about the Scott report. I will not detract in any way from the political and constitutional significance of the Scott report, but I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1312.13", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give the hon. Gentleman some guidance straight away. It is a bogus point of order, of which I take a dim view. I now put the Question on the tobacco promotion Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1312.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.10", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On the second Bill, which has just been called by the learned Clerk, with the leave of the Member whose Bill it is, I wish to move the Bill now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.17", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-16", "file": "debates1996-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "51fb7af0fb3dce38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.21", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [26 January] , That the Bill be read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-16a.1313.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-19", "file": "debates1996-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "7d5261424d8db5aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": " But it is time to take a fresh and comprehensive look at the challenges facing higher education as we approach the 21st century. So, with the agreement of the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I intend to appoint a committee of inquiry into higher education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-19", "file": "debates1996-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "7d5261424d8db5aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I intend to appoint a committee of inquiry into higher education. [Interruption.] In carrying out its task, the committee will make appropriate arrangements to take account of the distinctive features of higher education in different parts of the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-19", "file": "debates1996-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "7d5261424d8db5aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "w. We shall consult widely on the committee's precise terms of reference and composition. I shall place a copy of the draft terms of reference and the consultation letter in the Library. In due course, I shall make a further announcement on the committee's remit and membership in the light of the consultations. I expect the committee to start work after Easter, and to report by the summer of 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.21.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-19", "file": "debates1996-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "7d5261424d8db5aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "are available to suspects when they arrive at the police station and after every session of interview. A suspect could remove his clothes, rush blindly at the wall and injure himself. If that occurred, any interviewing officer should immediately bring the interviewing session to a close and should ensure that the matter is properly recorded not only by himself, but by those who were observing the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-19a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am not aware, at this moment, of the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of Sir Richard Scott's report, he will see that Sir Richard accepts that Ministers regarded not that there was not a change of the guidelines but that there was an interpretation of the guidelines against changing circumstances. Sir Richard accepts explicitly that Ministers regarded the relaxed interpretation as being a justifiable use of the flexibility believed to be inherent in the Guidelines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not the case. Sir Richard gives specifically the reason why Ministers did not tell Parliament and the public. He said: the overriding and determinative reason was a fear of strong public opposition\". That is a quite different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No; I have made the point before, and I shall reiterate, that I do not believe that my right hon. Friend deliberately misled Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ry of State to publish the true information on the state of mental health services in every region of the country. She did not anticipate that I would publish the list in the document that was published at 3.30 pm. I am sorry to have shot her fox. The hon. Lady also challenged me to agree to her four-point plan. I have had the advantage of a few minutes in which to think about her four-point plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not promise that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman had no duplicitous intent, but his letter to The Times is clearly apt to mislead, as it gives the clear impression that the Leader of the Opposition did not promise a guaranteed minimum pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. The Government have also announced in the orders that they are to freeze the level of cold weather payments for pensioners on income support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Those who apply the same day, the next day or a week later, will not suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-20", "file": "debates1996-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ddbe4afab4c25cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "93 because there is a part that is frequently not mentioned when this difficulty is being discussed. He was concerned about the breakdown of families and said: There are now 1.3 million lone parents. Many find themselves lone parents against their will. Widows, divorced and separated people struggle alone, but often successfully, to bring their children up well. They deserve not blame but support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-20a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "d. It was a remarkable and fortunate coincidence that the constituency Member of Parliament was not only interested in the area, but had some expertise. His herculean efforts over the past 48 hours have drawn to the attention of the press and public the way in which the Government have defaulted on their responsibility and created an appalling catastrophe for the marine environment in south Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "rest point from which to start my short but vivid journey. Lambeth has a very poor record in a number of areas of service delivery. It is one of the 10 London authorities with the highest number of empty accommodation units, second only to the London borough of Hackney. Needless to say, the other nine local authorities are Labour controlled, while Lambeth, mercifully, has no overall party control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " is committed to the establishment of a new voice for London. It might be a strategic authority. We should have to discuss its role and functions: it must have well-defined purposes and powers. It will not be a recreation of the GLC, but it may be something that I personally favour. Let me return to that superb, excellent, wonderful speech made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " are the inheritors of the wretched legacy of Margaret Thatcher. They cannot admit what many of them know in their hearts because of the great loss of political face involved. I favour an elected mayor for London, which would call into question the role of the Lord Mayor of the City of London. I do not see how we can have an elected mayor for London and maintain a Lord Mayor of the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ng tinkered with and local people are sick of never being allowed to work out a solution that meets their needs. If the Government had identified the functions and decided the size of authority that they wanted, we should not be in the present position and the people of Kent would not be in their present position. Lack of clarity from the start is the reason that the problems have not been solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "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": " extremely important capital. It is vital to the country and it is vital that it continues to be as competitive as it is now without all the interference that we had before. The interference was staggering. I remember the Greater London council interfering in decisions about numbers on doors in housing estates. That is not the role of regional government. It never had any power. It was absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ake the view that the Government's abolition of the Department of Employment—and with it the Select Committee on Employment, which will not now be in a position to consider the Government's response on training and enterprise councils—has something to do with trying to take the spotlight off employment issues and the existing level of unemployment, which is still well over 3 million in real terms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "It would be up to my hon. Friend to convince us of the need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I will not. The question is who is and who is not in favour of the measure. The hon. Gentleman trotted out the names of people and their views, but I shall present some different views. The Forum of Private Business conducted a survey of its members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Glasgow (Finances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "llor for the city of Glasgow, and that she will be able to watch this debate through the medium of television. I should also like to thank Mr. John Brown of the public relations department of the new city of Glasgow authority. He is a brother of my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown), and he has been extremely helpful in giving me the information that I require for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-21", "file": "debates1996-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "c23f31c3001f361d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Glasgow (Finances)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "ared to accept the COSLA proposals for a three-year transitional scheme to deal with the mismatch problem. Glasgow will receive extra funding of just under £31 million next year directly as a result of that scheme, and a further £15.5 million in 1997–98. The new Glasgow council must also seek to improve council tax payment levels within the city—at present, these are the lowest in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-21a.472.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-22", "file": "debates1996-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "89898336bfcce998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.490.5", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Returning to the Scott report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.490.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-22", "file": "debates1996-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "89898336bfcce998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right about that. [Interruption.] I said \"my hon. Friend\". Fond though I am of the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott), I do not regard him as my right hon. Friend in parliamentary terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-22", "file": "debates1996-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "89898336bfcce998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.499.4", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oil Tanker (Milford Haven)", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "will consider all the important issues that the hon. Gentleman has rightly raised in his questions. We understand, of course, the strength of feeling on the matter, but I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not imply that the inspectors I have appointed will be anything but independent and impartial. As the inspectors have done in the past, they will criticise my Department if it deserves criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.499.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-22", "file": "debates1996-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "89898336bfcce998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oil Tanker (Milford Haven)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has the sympathy of the House, inasmuch as no one seems to take into account the fact that it was one of the worst hurricanes to strike the coast for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-22", "file": "debates1996-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "89898336bfcce998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has spoken with characteristic vigour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-22a.510.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.573.4", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Can the Deputy Prime Minister say what discussions he has had with the Paymaster General on the implications of the proposed privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.582.7", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. I have received on the best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.582.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for writing to me to say that he was going to raise that point of order—but I could not understand his writing. I suggest that next time he writes to me he joins up his letters, or types. I find it difficult to take seriously a point made by an hon. Member who is prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "Has there not been a wicked deception of the British people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.601.12", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.601.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will want to rephrase what he has said. I am sure that he will do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.5", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.8", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "entina\". Those lethal weapons were sold direct by a Labour Government. Is not the real contrast between Labour and ourselves that in the Gulf war against Iraq, British forces risked facing no British weapons in the hands of the enemy, but in the Falklands war against Argentina, they did? There can surely be no more sickening example of hypocrisy than that—Labour saying one thing and doing another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.602.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "If there were not so much noise, we could all hear precisely what is being said. Is it a fact that the Secretary of State used those words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ility for the errors set out in the report. Confronted with those errors and five volumes of supporting evidence, the President of the Board of Trade and the right hon. and learned Member for Putney have produced the novel constitutional principle that it is the Opposition's duty to accept responsibility and resign. Every time they produce it, a wave of hilarity crosses the nation and drowns them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.606.6", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "earned Gentleman, and he will not like the answer. In the past week, several right hon. and hon. Gentleman, of whom he is only the latest, have expressed their version of Labour's charges against the Government. I have no doubt that they are trying to be helpful, and I am grateful for their assistance, but I hope that they will forgive me if I rely on the charges that the Opposition actually made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I give the right hon. and learned Gentleman an undertaking that I shall give way towards the end of my speech, because, by then, every single one of his charges will be nailed. At the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.607.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "0, which was long after the time in question. It was a decision taken by a Committee presided over by the Foreign Secretary, about which my right hon. Friend, the then Chancellor and present Prime Minister, was subsequently told. That recommendation was not passed on to the Prime Minister for approval, because the imminent invasion of Kuwait by Iraq ruled it out. The matter was not proceeded with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.609.7", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No. I must continue with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.609.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.611.6", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ld the House: The suggestion that Ministers misled the House is a serious and scurrilous charge and has no basis whatsoever in fact.\"—[ Official Report , 17 November 1992; Vol. 214, c. 136.] The suggestion does have a firm basis, in the five volumes beside me. I agree with the Prime Minister that it was a serious charge. Will he now accept that, far from being scurrilous, it was entirely accurate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.611.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.615.7", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I regret having to correct the Deputy Prime Minister while trying to achieve a spirit of unity with him, but this is a debate based on the five volumes of the views of Sir Richard Scott.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.615.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will hon. Members allow me to finish, please? \"Embargo\" was written on a brown paper envelope that was with the document. I believe that that word was written by someone who is not in a very high position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "circulation of intelligence material to Ministers of State is light years away from the accusation that the hon. Gentleman persists in making, that my right hon. Friend was in some way privy to a secret decision to arm Saddam Hussein. Exactly the same movement has occurred, as I shall seek to show, on the question of sending innocent men to prison. I have no particular axe to grind in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Henderson, who later stood trial, to emphasise the civilian and not the military use of any machine tools that might be sent to Iraq. Are we to believe that Mr. Clark kept all that to himself? From his diaries, he does not seem to be a man who keeps very much to himself—of anything. Are we to believe that he was conducting some clandestine policy of his own, quite separate from the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.632.6", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The answer is yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "t choices had to be made. I concede of course that mistakes were made. I assure hon. Members that, if a Labour Government had been in power, mistakes would have been made as well because no Government are foolproof when running such an enormous machine. We should therefore revert to the serious issues. Did we supply lethal weapons to Iran or Iraq and break our guidelines? The answer is clearly no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.632.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Scott Report", "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/1996-02-26a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "pon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott). Earlier this month, on 9 February 1996, he said: Next week, we shall have more evidence with the Scott report, showing how Ministers were prepared to send citizens to jail to cover their own backs. He has never apologised for that disgraceful assertion. The same is true of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook). He made three charges in the House in November 1992.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "he Attorney-General—it is in the report: I do not accept that he was not at fault. He stressed that the public interest dictates that the need for a fair trial outweighs the sensitivity of the documents\". That is not what happened. The Attorney-General was prepared to allow three innocent men, of whose activities the Government well knew, to go to prison to save the pelt of his Cabinet colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Roger Freeman)", "preceding_text": "legations from the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) that the publication of the report did not follow the accepted precedents and practice in the House. The publication of the report followed the precedents used in the House. The House has now had 10 days to read the report thoroughly, and has been well prepared for a thorough debate. The Government have behaved entirely properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Scott inquiry found that the United Kingdom Government did not condone the export of lethal defence equipment. The policy was also not to exacerbate the Iran-Iraq conflict when that existed by the export of non-lethal defence equipment. When the conflict ended it was our policy to stop the export of non-lethal defence equipment that could mean the resumption of the conflict by either side. It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will listen to my reply to the debate. I have 10 minutes left to me. Non-lethal equipment did not include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I quote one sentence from it: Guidelines\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-26", "file": "debates1996-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "a47dacc430eda24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.687.6", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Scott Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "under the Export Credits Guarantee Department were the subject of long preparation. They covered not only defence but civilian use, including the building of power stations and schools. The amount allocated for defence was always limited and capped. I now come to the issue raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding. Let me deal with the points he raised, because he is misguided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-26a.687.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The microphone is not on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "preceding_text": "When promoting urban design, will the Secretary of State consider no build being extended under high-voltage power lines, as happens in many villages in my constituency? Bearing in mind the link between ill health and the electromagnetic field under power lines, will the Minister consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that, under the regulator's price structure, prices will be stabilised in Yorkshire and will be much lower in future. Particular problems in Yorkshire have been caused by exceptionally dry weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "In his busy schedule, has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to study the book by the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson)? What lessons does he draw from it for his own Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Thameslink 2000", "cue_speaker": "Ms Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "That is not nonsense—it is absolutely true. The Minister should not intervene in that way. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is even more regrettable that the project will cost the taxpayer a massively increased amount of money as a result of rail privatisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "uster—to restate the record of what Labour has done. Purely what he said in his introduction forces me to take about one minute of my time to place on the record some of the information that I extracted from Hansard last week, because I found some time to peruse Hansard carefully. I went back only as far as 7 March 1983, when the House debated the prevention of terrorism Act. Labour voted against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "to take about one minute of my time to place on the record some of the information that I extracted from Hansard last week, because I found some time to peruse Hansard carefully. I went back only as far as 7 March 1983, when the House debated the prevention of terrorism Act. Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In November 1983, Labour voted against the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "ed from Hansard last week, because I found some time to peruse Hansard carefully. I went back only as far as 7 March 1983, when the House debated the prevention of terrorism Act. Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In November 1983, Labour voted against the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1984, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": " as far as 7 March 1983, when the House debated the prevention of terrorism Act. Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In November 1983, Labour voted against the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1984, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In February 1985, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "r voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In November 1983, Labour voted against the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1984, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In February 1985, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1986, Labour voted against the Public Order Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "ct. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1984, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In February 1985, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1986, Labour voted against the Public Order Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In February 1986 and February 1987, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "ention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In January 1986, Labour voted against the Public Order Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] In February 1986 and February 1987, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Then, in January 1988, when we voted on the Criminal Justice Act, increasing the penalty for cruelty to children to 10 years, Labour voted against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "February 1986 and February 1987, Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Then, in January 1988, when we voted on the Criminal Justice Act, increasing the penalty for cruelty to children to 10 years, Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the proposal to increase the maximum penalty for dealing in hard drugs to life imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "Then, in January 1988, when we voted on the Criminal Justice Act, increasing the penalty for cruelty to children to 10 years, Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the proposal to increase the maximum penalty for dealing in hard drugs to life imprisonment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It voted against the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for taking a gun to a crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": " years, Labour voted against. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the proposal to increase the maximum penalty for dealing in hard drugs to life imprisonment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It voted against the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for taking a gun to a crime. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the Attorney-General's right to appeal against lenient sentences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "sonment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It voted against the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for taking a gun to a crime. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the Attorney-General's right to appeal against lenient sentences. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the Government in February 1988, January 1989 and in March 1990 when the prevention of terrorism Act was renewed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "king a gun to a crime. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the Attorney-General's right to appeal against lenient sentences. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the Government in February 1988, January 1989 and in March 1990 when the prevention of terrorism Act was renewed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the prevention of terrorism Act in March 1991.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": " against the Government in February 1988, January 1989 and in March 1990 when the prevention of terrorism Act was renewed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the prevention of terrorism Act in March 1991. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Criminal Justice Act 1991 gave the courts the power to impose longer sentences on persistent, violent and sexual offenders. Labour voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour also voted against the prevention of terrorism Act in March 1991. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Criminal Justice Act 1991 gave the courts the power to impose longer sentences on persistent, violent and sexual offenders. Labour voted against it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the requirement for parents to attend court proceedings with their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "e longer sentences on persistent, violent and sexual offenders. Labour voted against it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the requirement for parents to attend court proceedings with their children. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Act gave the courts the power to make the parents of 16 and 17-year-olds pay their children's fines. Labour voted against that and other measures in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "irement for parents to attend court proceedings with their children. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Act gave the courts the power to make the parents of 16 and 17-year-olds pay their children's fines. Labour voted against that and other measures in the Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] For the sake of brevity, I shall move on to February 1992, when Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "ilty.\"] The Act gave the courts the power to make the parents of 16 and 17-year-olds pay their children's fines. Labour voted against that and other measures in the Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] For the sake of brevity, I shall move on to February 1992, when Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It voted against that Act again when it was renewed in 1993.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "asures in the Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] For the sake of brevity, I shall move on to February 1992, when Labour voted against the prevention of terrorism Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It voted against that Act again when it was renewed in 1993. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994—we are now up to date—reformed the right of silence. Labour voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": " that Act again when it was renewed in 1993. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994—we are now up to date—reformed the right of silence. Labour voted against it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It did not vote against the police stop-and-search powers, but it argued against them. Labour had no opinion about the whole Act: so it decided to abstain rather than support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-27", "file": "debates1996-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "0390c717aac81394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Maclean)", "preceding_text": "e right of silence. Labour voted against it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] It did not vote against the police stop-and-search powers, but it argued against them. Labour had no opinion about the whole Act: so it decided to abstain rather than support it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Guilty.\"] Labour voted against the establishment of secure training centres and against the prevention of terrorism Act in March 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.867.7", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "orities were able to set business rates? Rather than being pegged at around the rate of inflation—3 per cent.—as they are now, would not they go up to 30 per cent., which is the rate that many local authorities have threatened to introduce? That would be an additional tartan tax, because if income tax were put up by 3p in the pound, it would be logical to put up corporation tax by the same amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.867.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister calm down before he does his health some serious damage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend pay serious attention to the sensible views of people such as Bailie John Young, who said that Glasgow had been overspending for years? Does he agree with many of my constituents, who are seriously concerned about the fact that the Labour group that runs East Renfrewshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.875.8", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "There is a wide range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.875.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A waste of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro). She is focusing on particular areas of difficulty, which is understandable, while not acknowledging the spectacular success in Scotland as a whole. If the hon. Lady would like to see the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, my hon. Friend the Member for Kincardine and Deeside (Mr. Kynoch), he would, I am sure, be delighted to talk to her about the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberal Democrat party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "e same Labour Members propose that Scotland should have to pay a tax year after year after year—a tartan tax and a tax on Scotland's jobs. That is Labour policy. Labour Members are now going round saying that the Conservative party is telling lies about the tartan tax. Labour's partner in the constitutional convention, the leader of the Labour party, the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "No. 145), which was laid before this House on 24th January, be approved. That the Revenue Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1996, dated 12th February 1996, a copy of which was laid before this House on 27th February, be approved. We have precisely one hour and 20 minutes for this debate. I appeal to Front-Bench and Back-Bench Members to make speeches that are shorter than those that they had planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. I went through the argument with the hon. Gentleman this morning and I do not propose to go through the detail again because of time constraints. Inevitably, there have been some local disagreements about the figures, but the Scottish Office has been in no position to second-guess the apportionments made by the disaggregating authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to be called this evening, he must listen. The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) might like to withdraw what he has just said. There was a double negative on \"is it truthful\" or words to that effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "at an apparent cost of about £60,000 per bed. In making his submission, Mr. Bates would seem to be ignoring his own advice. He stated in the press on 30 November 1995: The fact of the matter is that we are now involved in quite extensive rationing of a number of the services we provide in Tayside … the fact of the matter is that we cannot spend pound notes that we have not got. Furthermore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "gher standards on class sizes. The right hon. Gentleman will accept that he constantly says that education is one of his priorities, but the truth is that he is not willing to provide the means for education. We should not seek to emulate England in education. England's staffing figures provide a dubious comparison with those of Scotland, because there are more grant-maintained schools in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "one, we would expect a reduction in the administrative costs of the local authority, especially when aggregate external finance this year is virtually the same as last year. There is only a £500,000 difference in £152 million of grant from the Government. The Opposition are not putting sufficient pressure on their local authorities to trim their budgets to what any prudent housekeeper would spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-28", "file": "debates1996-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "31de0812d011ea63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Settle down. The Minister does not need the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-28a.942.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " cross-section at all levels of income. The problems of obesity and heart disease that the hon. Gentleman mentioned are indeed important, and they are among the targets of \"The Health of The Nation\" White Paper. We believe that it is excess fat in the diet that causes the problem, and people do not necessarily have to spend a lot to eat a diet that is nutritious and does not contain excessive fat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.993.6", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.996.5", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.996.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Will the Deputy Prime Minister address the issue of the standards of conduct in public life? Are the Government planning to do anything to close the loophole—about which we are criticised—whereby hon. Members use the freedom of aircraft tickets to travel between constituencies to gain private air miles for their families?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "worth of public assets, including Waterloo international station, land at King's Cross, St. Pancras station, 120 acres at Stratford, and Eurostar? In addition, the Government are writing off £1.3 billion-worth of Eurostar debt, and contributing £1.4 billion to the project. Thus, the taxpayer is contributing £5.7 billion for a £3 billion project that we could have had for £1 billion in 1989. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ace? What would happen if that were to happen? I understand that Eurostar is to be handed over shortly. Will the Secretary of State tell us what will happen to Eurostar if the project does not go ahead? Finally, will the Secretary of State apologise to the House and the country for the Government's ideological obsessions, which have massively delayed the project that we are now considering? It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": "Members of my party join others in rejoicing at the success of the Welsh economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1026.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "sked during \"On The Record\" what the assembly would do, they were far from united. Mr. Wayne David, a Member of the European Parliament, said that it would have legislative responsibilities. Other leading Labour party members said that it would in no way have any legislative responsibilities. A recent meeting of Welsh Labour Members to discuss that body's electoral system was described as vicious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course it would, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "y from an assembly. Of course the people of Wales want to feel the proximity of Government, and the Government want them to feel that they are close to them. That is the way in which I regard my right hon. Friend's proposals to enhance the role of the Welsh Grand Committee. Some hon. Members are for ever talking about the \"powers\" of that Committee. It is not meant to have powers under our system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": " far better than I, but I should like to reiterate some of the questions he asked and ask a few others. Why was there insufficient tug pulling power? Why was there such an appalling failure to implement the Donaldson recommendations for a heavy tug at the western approach, despite the outstanding ecological value and sensitivity of the area? Even though Milford, with 6,000 tanker movements a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "This has been one of the best St. David's day debates in my nine years in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about since 1979?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "strengths. In the past 10 years, manufacturing employment has risen by some 12.5 per cent. From September 1994 to September 1995, manufacturing employment in Wales rose by 1.5 per cent.—over twice the increase rate in the United Kingdom. Since September 1985, manufacturing employment in Wales has grown by more than in any other region. The number of unemployed people in Wales has fallen by 29,400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "will be interested in his hon. Friend's remark. The hon. Member for Cardiff, West asserted that, were there to be a Labour Government after the next general election, the next Secretary of State for Wales would definitely be a Welshman. The hon. Gentleman clearly has influence in high places. The point I put to him is this. What will happen if a Welshman is not elected to the shadow Cabinet or to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "I recall that Mr. Neil Kinnock, who was opposed to a Welsh Assembly at one time, estimated in the 1970s that the cost would be £20 million. On the issue of unity, is the hon. Member for Cardiff, West telling us that the views of the hon. Members for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells) and for Blaenau Gwent (Mr. Smith) are shared—or not shared—by him or his right hon. and hon. Friends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-02-29", "file": "debates1996-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "82dd30519f45f946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "rdell) and their constituents. Obviously, I know that part of the world very well, having been brought up there, and I enjoyed the facilities and beaches. On that issue, there is clearly no disagreement at all. The hon. Members for Cardiff, West and for Pembroke said that local expertise was neglected in Milford Haven. Any evidence of that will be fully considered in the independent investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-02-29a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-01", "file": "debates1996-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c3cac214137a1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Interest Disclosure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "is career, was he would have become known as a troublemaker, making waves of difficulty. It was suggested to the Old Bailey that he should have gone to the head of the civil service. That makes the imagination boggle. Just imagine a grade 5 civil servant going along, without telling anyone what it is about, and knocking on the door of the then Sir Robert Armstrong, now Lord Armstrong of Ilminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-01", "file": "debates1996-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c3cac214137a1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Interest Disclosure Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs (Mr. John M. Taylor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs (Mr. John M. Taylor)", "preceding_text": " Dalyell) revived some of our favourite memories of him, not lightly, I grant, but in the most serious vein. My hon. Friend the Member for Blaby had serious misgivings. The hon. Member for Cannock and Burntwood (Dr. Wright) returned to some themes that he has been working on and maturing over time. He has form, as they say in the criminal world, in these areas of activity. He has been here before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1167.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-01", "file": "debates1996-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c3cac214137a1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1178.14", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [26 January] .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1178.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-01", "file": "debates1996-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7c3cac214137a1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1178.19", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr. Tony Newton relating to Welsh Business not later than Ten o'clock; and (2) Standing Order No. 52 (Consideration of estimates) shall apply with the insertion in line 41, after the words 'At Ten o'clock', of the words 'or immediately after the previous business has been disposed of, whichever is the later'.— [Mr: MacKay.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-01a.1178.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.24.6", "colnum": "24", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot have two hon. Members on their feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.24.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.24.11", "colnum": "24", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am always delighted to find that my words are followed with such close and rapt attention. My forecast for the public sector borrowing requirement in the Red Book, as it happens, was £29 billion. Partial quotation is no good. My policy for three years—,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.24.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "of the economy, the proportion taken by the state falls. No party in the United Kingdom—or even in western Europe—could succeed in this endeavour as well as we have over the past few years. I am proud of our economic performance during the recovery, but I am also optimistic about our prospects. I am confident that the British economy will defy its detractors and have yet another good year in 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "When I finish the point; it is perfectly valid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "When I finish the point; it is perfectly valid. [Interruption.] I shall go into hon. Members' date-picking later. I am taking the only respectable method of comparing performances—over the full international economic cycle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "y—temporarily, I hope. Our growth over that cycle was faster than that in Italy, the United States, France and Canada. We grew faster than the G7 and the European Union averages. That is the picture when the sensible figures for a full international economic cycle are used. The cycle coincides with Conservative economic policies beginning to come into effect in 1981. The Labour party uses figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ritish investment is going into the United States than there is Japanese investment. There is more overseas investment per head of the population, compared with our GDP, than is the case for any other developed country. The income from that investment contributes about 7 per cent. of our GDP and helps the prosperity of our pension funds and so on. I will continue—enough of the 1980s. In the 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "a supposedly radical Party. If a discussion of ideas proved unavoidable, the Party managed to suggest—discreetly most of the time, but overtly when necessary—that it accepted much of the Thatcherite agenda. But we preferred to avoid ideas altogether. They meant too many hostages to fortune. That is a quote from one of the most recent Front-Bench colleagues of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If Britain had fallen from 13th to 15th, the right hon. Gentleman might have had a point. Britain has fallen from 13th to 18th. We have fallen behind Italy, Norway and Iceland. The fact is that we have fallen from 13th to 18th.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are absolutely clear that we are in favour of a test of opinion, whether at a general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are absolutely clear that we are in favour of a test of opinion, whether at a general election— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I made the position absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "While I look for the quotation, perhaps the President of the Board of Trade can tell me what he did say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-04", "file": "debates1996-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbcf413b7e3864cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ployed now than in 1992. What her press statement did not say is that there are 250,000 fewer people in employment now than since that date in 1992. If the President of the Board of Trade and the Chancellor faced up to the fact that job insecurity is widespread and needs new policies to deal with it—and that it is not a lack of moral fibre that prevents people from getting jobs—we would do better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-04a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.141.4", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but this EC nonsense is way beyond me. I do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.141.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.144.6", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "lead and instruct the young people in our cadet forces? Bearing in mind the fact that investment in the cadet forces and the volunteer reserves is a very good way of spending money, will he have talks with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment about ways of involving more people in the cadet forces and their activities as a way of doing down the drop-out culture?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tudes to potential employees. A third of all part-time workers in this country—1.7 million people—receive no paid holidays; a few, just 13 per cent., receive less than two weeks. Who are we to deny part-time workers even a modest period of paid leave? As Members of Parliament, we claim the right to nearly 20 weeks a year, during which we have the freedom to choose when to take our family holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.163.7", "colnum": "163", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady wishes to answer her own question, perhaps she will do so in a later speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.163.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he last few months. I do not consider that entirely fair. I have been in the House since 1983, and I do not think that a month, or even a week, has gone by without some reference—perhaps in a parliamentary question, in an exchange at Prime Minister's Question Time or in a well-attended debate such as this—to the fact that the wicked old Tory Government are out there grinding the faces of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "preceding_text": " no Tory has mentioned the matter is that, by the Government's own estimates, £2 billion of social security benefits are not being claimed by those legally entitled to them. If the Government are as keen as Tory Members make out, why are they planning to abolish all the services that would encourage the take-up of that £2 billion of unclaimed benefits? There is a hidden agenda. Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "iming housing benefit, and there were council properties stuffed with fraudulently obtained mail order goods. In his evidence to the Select Committee, Bernard Crofton pointed out that it was clearly an organised fraud. When some of the flats were raided, mail order goods were found crated up to be returned to Nigeria. I make that not as a race point but to say that there is a considerable problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.222.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I understand that that is what the hon. Gentleman is saying. The point I was seeking to make when he failed to give way earlier is that that is what the Evening Standard believed, and if that is wrong I am happy to accept that. That was the only question I wanted to ask him. Either he or the hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) believes it, and it does not matter, in a sense, which one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-05", "file": "debates1996-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "bdc96ae2f0e174be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "When we find ourselves in power, through the welfare-to-work strategy that we will introduce, we sincerely intend to reduce the number of people who are dependent on means-tested benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-05a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ce to parents, governors and head teachers, centralise control of the curriculum and pass control of school inspections to Ofsted. I shall point out how those changes advantage Scotland. Devolved management has encouraged flexibility and responsiveness by allowing decisions to be taken closer to the Scottish people. Decisions are taken not just in the House and in London, but by local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "e streets of Edinburgh, they were not protesting against Edinburgh district council or the new Edinburgh unitary authority, as the Minister sought to claim in a BBC interview. The photograph on the back page of last week's edition of The Orcadian shows the Orkney EIS banner in Princes street. I do not believe that teachers from Orkney were protesting against the policies of Edinburgh city council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "nly people currently involved in higher education but future generations. Those of us who have high ambitions for all Scotland's children want them to have the best possible opportunities in higher education, but the Government have let them down. We are rightly proud of our education system, but there have been successive attempts to anglicise and destroy it. The hon. Member for Banff and Buffin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I have five minutes to respond to a debate that lasted for an hour and a half. The hon. Member for Angus, East took up half an hour, and I am trying to respond to some of the points in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will remember that I addressed that issue during the Adjournment debate this morning. We believe that any achievements will be based on the United Nations' set of ideas and the notion of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation. The hon. Gentleman made a very good speech in the debate this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "British taxpayers that it is a justifiable use of their money. Is not this another demonstration of the indefensible workings of the common fisheries policy? May I put two specific questions to the Minister? First, does he now accept that the relevant provisions in the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 were ill advised? It is true that we all wanted the legislation to succeed in preventing quota hopping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ipping Act 1988 were ill advised? It is true that we all wanted the legislation to succeed in preventing quota hopping— [Interruption.] That is what we wanted, but let me ask the Minister a legitimate question. Did any of the advice that he received—and the Government surely have access to a great deal of advice—give the slightest indication that we could be liable for compensation of this nature?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.345.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What would you do?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ans securing an amendment to the treaty, and that such an amendment will require unanimity—that one member state, Spain, for example, will be able to block it? Finally, may I point out that there is great demoralisation throughout our fishing communities, to which this incident can only add? That demoralisation should be a matter of great concern to the House of Commons. We cannot go on like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.345.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rnment or Lander. It is at least possible that they may have a claim as a result of the judgment, and that is a good thing. As for my hon. Friend's other question, the problem lies essentially not with the European Court, but with the treaty. The court is there to interpret the treaty, so if we are to remedy the problem, we must seek to change the treaty itself, either by amendment or by protocol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ot agree entirely with what he has just said. Of course, the negotiations will be tough. I certainly do not exclude the possibility that we shall be able to make alliances on the matter with other countries that also face the problem of quota hopping. We shall try to make such alliances on the issue. I cannot commend to the right hon. Gentleman the policy of denouncing the common fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy (Factortame Judgment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "de the possibility that we shall be able to make alliances on the matter with other countries that also face the problem of quota hopping. We shall try to make such alliances on the issue. I cannot commend to the right hon. Gentleman the policy of denouncing the common fisheries policy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I am just going to say why. First, I do not think that it is achievable in real politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-06", "file": "debates1996-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e53ac21a012316b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.362.5", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Emergency and Intensive Care", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that, when a Labour Government were in charge, hospital admissions were at the whim of the union convener? He said who should go into hospital, and his friends would not bury the dead that resulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-06a.362.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.435.11", "colnum": "435", "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.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.435.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Can we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will see the proposals clearly because we shall announce them on Monday. They will be very attractive. I think that small businesses will welcome them. The right hon. Gentleman should remember that small firms create the vast majority of new jobs. They have done so for years past and they will do so in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y of new jobs. They have done so for years past and they will do so in future. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear that I carry Opposition Members with me. There can be no employment rights if there is no employment. We are seeking to maintain a fair balance between the rights of employees and the burdens on employers. We are therefore proposing to reduce or remove unnecessary burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.449.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister agree that the opting out of a single currency is of supreme importance to the country? Would it not be damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No one is seeking to do that. The right hon. Gentleman should know better than that. We are encouraging a hire mentality. That is why unemployment has fallen while it is rising in other countries. I shall tell the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "y that introduced the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 was found to be in breach of it 20 years later. I welcomed the decision of the industrial tribunal in Leeds, because I believe that women should be chosen only when they are the best candidates. I do not believe that any woman wants to make progress in politics, public life or employment if that involves discriminating against a man. Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ound to be in breach of it 20 years later. I welcomed the decision of the industrial tribunal in Leeds, because I believe that women should be chosen only when they are the best candidates. I do not believe that any woman wants to make progress in politics, public life or employment if that involves discriminating against a man. Madam Speaker— [Interruption.] I am sorry, I mean Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "tive tendering for thousands of dedicated and hard-working women. That is not efficiency, but exploitation. It is not progress; it is a hark-back to the days that we should have been proud to have left behind. The Equal Opportunities Commission in Northern Ireland, in a recent report, called on the Government to halt the use of compulsory competitive tendering because of its impact on women's pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. I have resisted intervening, but there has been no end of chattering, particularly on the Opposition Benches when the Minister was speaking, and now on the Government Benches while the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Corston", "preceding_text": "No. I should make progress. I shall give way later. Poverty dogs women into old age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": " by letting out rooms to lodgers without being done by the tax man or some other inspector. There are many practical, sensible things that we in this House can do to improve the lot of women. I do not deny that there is chauvinism in the House. Indeed, I sat here this afternoon and heard the deputy leader of the Labour party make some very sexist remarks about me—and agist remarks too—very loudly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-07", "file": "debates1996-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "b0ae0e2ecdc4e034", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "embers on both sides of the House are relevant. We have had a good debate, and I would like to mention some speeches. My hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen (Mrs. Peacock), as she usually does in these debates, made a substantial contribution, which represented business women in particular. My hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) raised, in her inimitable way, several issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-07a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-08", "file": "debates1996-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23073b420240624e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-08a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Leasehold (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "at ensured that there would be no such debts. I am conscious that I have attracted a great deal of support for my Bill today. That being so, I shall not talk for much longer. I shall merely say that commonhold is the missing part of English and Welsh property law. I accept that it represents a radical change. It may be regarded as unusual for a Conservative Member to introduce radical legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-08a.590.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-08", "file": "debates1996-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23073b420240624e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-08a.624.7", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", and such Questions shall include the Questions on any amendments to the said Motion which she may have selected and which may then be moved; and (2) Standing Order No. 52 (Consideration of estimates) shall apply with the insertion in line 41, after the words 'At Ten o'clock', of the words 'or immediately after the previous business has been disposed of, whichever is the later'.— [Mr. Brandreth.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-08a.624.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "We must not allow the public spotlight to move away from what looks like being perhaps the worst ecological disaster since the Torrey Canyon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "hall and Westminster. It came up with some very interesting and unanimous suggestions. It again met during the war, in 1944, to recommend to the War Cabinet the appointment of a Secretary of State for Wales to promote the reconstruction of post-war Wales. It also met once or twice in the 1950s and 1960s to bring to the attention of Ministers the consensual approach to various political activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "orian of great note. He drew my attention to the proceedings of the Select Committee on Procedure, which met in July 1958, when the Welsh Grand Committee was established. Our debate later will concern amendments to those Standing Orders. I refer to three brief points of note. First, the Committee received evidence from Mr. Ness Edwards, who recommended the establishment of a Welsh Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "wever, it is a matter for the House and not the Government to decide. We have to recognise that it raises a significant question of principle since, apart from a few Norman-French survivals used principally for announcing the Royal Assent to Acts of Parliament in the other place and one or two other purposes, English is and has been for centuries the sole language of the United Kingdom Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members. The same serious defect can be seen in the devolution scheme encapsulated in the Wales Act 1978, which was subsequently rejected by the people of Wales in a referendum, and the same deep fault lies in Labour's current plans for an executive assembly. There is also the prospect of conflict with local authorities, many of whose powers would be absorbed by a Labour party assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "such as mine of their proposals for the Welsh Grand Committee and an assembly as constitutional niceties—as problems that will go away in time. I believe that they will be exacerbated over time. The Labour party puts its trust in the maintenance of its power, not only here but in a Welsh Grand Committee or assembly. I warn Labour Members that their plans contain the seeds of their own destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": " discussion of it, I did not realise that one of the most fascinating and intriguing proposed alternatives was that, on her 18th birthday, the then heir to the throne, Princess Elizabeth, should have conferred on her the title of Princess of Wales. That was the sop to Welsh opinion. I did not want to raise that point too strenuously because of my hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-11", "file": "debates1996-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5c7cacc9d1e2a438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1995–96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "r an hour, hon. Members can pose any question relating to them. Ministers are made to get up and down. They do not like it—it must be most uncomfortable. I am glad that it did not form part of ministerial experience in my time and that I did not have to go through it, because it is wearing. Ministers have to do their homework in a way that is not required in a general Welsh Grand Committee debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-11a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In no sense did my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister contradict what I said yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to swap quotes on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.781.7", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "So everything is up for review. The right hon. Gentleman used to be flatly against a referendum; now he cannot say. He used to be in favour of collective responsibility; now he cannot say. Is it not the truth that on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.781.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "One of these days, the right hon. Gentleman will learn to quit when he is losing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The only things for sale in this House are Labour party policies to the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.783.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " of people out there are longing for someone to admit that it has not worked. The halcyon days are over now. Neo-fascist parties are scattered all round Europe. Most Common Market countries have different views on Bosnia, Croatia and the rest. It has to be admitted at some time. The emperor has no clothes, and all treaties eventually finish up in the political dustbin. That is where this will end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference (White Paper)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "nt Benches. I do not know whether I speak on behalf of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) in any response that I make, but I ask the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) to ponder on one thing. If the European Union has been as unremittingly bad as he implies, it is interesting that countries continue to queue up to join. At the moment, 12 countries are anxious to join the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I have made no secret of the answer to that question, which is that the issue has not previously arisen. If the inadequacy of the present provision had been drawn to the attention of any of my Conservative or Labour predecessors, they would have tackled it as I am tackling it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I have made no secret of the answer to that question, which is that the issue has not previously arisen. If the inadequacy of the present provision had been drawn to the attention of any of my Conservative or Labour predecessors, they would have tackled it as I am tackling it. [Interruption.] I have answered the question—because it was pointed out to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "We have legislation that is brought before the House in the usual course of events to remedy something that is unsatisfactory in the present state of the law. The Opposition ask who pointed it out. It was the people with whom we are negotiating about the private finance initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "e controls set out in this document, I would be the first to argue—as one would expect of a former Treasury Minister—that we need to take effective action to ensure that trusts live within their financial obligations. Trusts can borrow without my specific consent, but they must first show that they are borrowing in a way in which good value is delivered. The overwhelming scale of trust borrowings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "that trusts can borrow is £5 billion. That is perfectly true. The amount that one trust can borrow is set out in its EFL, or in the amount that is provided for in the figure underlying its EFL. The Bill does not change any of those controls, and no evidence has been produced to suggest that the controls are inadequate. As has already been revealed in this debate, the fact is that the Bill changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "inition of stakeholding. Opposition Front Benchers are now defining for us their belief that, should someone be a creditor of the NHS under Labour, he will no doubt hold a stake in it, but he cannot be sure of being paid. He would be given a piece of paper that was of as much value as a voucher issued by the Tsarist railway system. Opposition Front Benchers want to retain the freedom to walk away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " 10 big projects have gone ahead in the past 10 years—that is roughly one a year. Since the programme was launched on a higher plane at the time of the last Budget, we have been announcing projects at a rate of one a month. Exchanging a system that approved projects at the rate of one a year for a system that is currently approving them at the rate of one per month seems a significant improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "In a moment. In their speeches and the briefings that appeared in the press, the Secretary of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave the strong impression that building was about to begin on PFI-based new hospital contracts. New hospitals have been trumpeted for Norwich, Carlisle, Amersham and Swindon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr.. Gunnell) was absolutely right about that. The Secretary of State says that he has agreed contracts, but he is not paying for them. The local hospital trust has agreed them, but it is not paying for them. The people who are supposed to be paying for them—the banks—have not agreed them, so now he is backpedalling fast and no contracts have been signed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) of being a member of new Labour, as it is just about as implausible. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman marred his contribution by such comments. I was also sorry to hear the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester, South and Maldon (Mr. Whittingdale) as, in his fine contribution, he said many of the things that I had been hoping to say in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "mplication, however. We must make use of the best in the private sector. This Bill fulfils all that I hope for. I look forward to the legislation supporting the private sector in this initiative, and to even greater future initiatives that will allow the health service to expand, to give of its best and to continue to be efficient. The NHS is the jewel in our crown, and I am extremely proud of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": ". If the PFI is to apply to the health service, it should be on the basis that it is additional and that it will do what it is supposed to do. Dozens of hospitals that should have been built—some of them years ago—remain on the architects' drawings boards because of the Government's belief that the private sector is always the way to go. We do not believe that that is correct in all circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-12", "file": "debates1996-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a2a2c95b2d33ad8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.880.8", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ve made a much smaller reduction in capital funding. That small reduction has been partly covered by receipts from land sales, as well as by PFI investment, and there will be a huge overall increase in spending next year and a tiny decrease in public funding for the capital sector. The hon. Gentleman's point is, therefore, not really relevant. I return to the speeches of Opposition Front Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-12a.880.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "I accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " environment and economic background in which they can develop and grow. There is no doubt whatever that a minimum wage would be disastrous for employment prospects. It is not a coincidence that unemployment is falling in the United Kingdom but rising in the European Union, where there are such restrictions. One question that I should like to ask the Labour party is: what will be the minimum wage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.977.5", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend understand that of all the policies that he pursued during the three years during which I had the privilege to be his parliamentary private secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.977.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. Can the Minister say whether gas consumers in Worcestershire, in the south-west of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. Can the Minister say whether gas consumers in Worcestershire, in the south-west of England—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"]—in the west country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.978.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "And many years to regret.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "No doubt, as this afternoon drags on—I mean, continues—my hon. and learned Friend will find the answer to his question. It may well be that, with his customary perspicacity—perspicacity that he has charged many a client thousands of pounds to savour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "e about that, and if we agree—as appears to be the policy of the Labour party—that the public sector cannot be landed with further commitments and none of us wishes to burden the taxpayer more than necessary, my hon. and learned Friend is entirely right to say that we should support the Bill, and I hope that in due course the House will do so. If I may, I shall say something about the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.999.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "actor to provide an integrated radio system for the underground, based on a fibre-optic network. The network will not only provide updated systems for London Underground's communications systems, but will have sufficient spare capacity for the contractor to provide telecommunications and information technology services to third parties. Sharing costs in that way will greatly reduce the cost to LT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": " the PFI. Given the desirability in principle of removing impedances to the PFI, and given that the problems that have been identified would prevent LT from taking forward schemes for which it has competitions under way already, it is clearly important to put the deficiencies right as quickly as possible. Before I go on to explain the purpose of the Bill in more detail, I should like to emphasise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1005.4", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ndon Underground, the like of which has been achieved in other nationalised industries only by privatisation and the preparations for it. I wish him well in trying to transform that business, while keeping it in the public sector. However, I fear that customers will expect a complete transformation—particularly when they see the success of rail privatisation and how services have been transformed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ting right at Heathrow. He suspects that it might have been more successful if the GLC were still operating it rather than the present quango. We all have a shared interest. I endorse what the Minister said and welcome his remarks that, as the entry point to this country, the provision of ticketing at Heathrow is a disgrace and that something should be done about it. I have spoken for long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) for giving way, because I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham (Mr. Stephen) is making an extremely important point. I must tell the hon. Member for Streatham that government is about slightly more than sucking it and seeing, inviting though that prospect may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "er for Twickenham, and probably to a public school education, but I do not know anyone else who can make the words \"go\", \"through\", and \"queue\" rhyme. The calibre of speeches that we have heard recently suggests that the subject is not taken immensely seriously by the Government. I pay tribute to the Minister, as has been done earlier, for at least giving it the courtesy of a long and full speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-13", "file": "debates1996-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1905eab8241b7cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " fashionable nowadays to do so, but I want to pay tribute to the way the Greater London council operated public transport in London. At least some of its legacy survives, to the great benefit of the underground system. In 1981, fares on the underground had reached their highest point in history. Owing to the introduction of the Fares Fair scheme, patronage of the underground soared to new heights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-13a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-14", "file": "debates1996-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6cdfcd96971c18ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1089.11", "colnum": "1089", "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.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1089.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-14", "file": "debates1996-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6cdfcd96971c18ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1122.7", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is my practice to call only Members who have heard the statement. I do not know whether the two hon. Gentlemen who want to be called did so. Were they in the Chamber when the Leader of the House made his statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1122.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-14", "file": "debates1996-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "6cdfcd96971c18ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will appoint them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-14a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "As I am sure the hon. Lady will realise, because I am sure she has read the report carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "No, it is going up. In particular, the hon. Gentleman should consider the fact that, in the past three years, unemployment has decreased in this country only because the Government were forced, kicking and screaming, out of the exchange rate mechanism in 1992, which allowed a reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.23.9", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "without legal pay protection for the poorest workers, without legal limits to working hours and in which discrimination against part-time workers in relation to pay and employment rights is legal. None of that is good enough for today's Tory party: it now wants the systemic destruction of employment rights, to move this country down towards the sweatshop economies of Latin America or the far east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.23.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.24.7", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Member for Colchester, North (Mr. Jenkin) strongly supports that model, but perhaps he would like to consider its effects. We have had 17 years of deregulated labour markets, flexible and casualised working, deunionisation and the steady chipping away of employment rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.24.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " record of which Ministers should be ashamed. It is certainly not a performance to preach about to other European leaders or to encourage them to copy. The Deputy Prime Minister—he is always at it—has been banging on again about making Britain the enterprise capital of Europe. It is essentially his policy of deregulation in the past decade that has made Britain the competitive backwater of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The fact is that if one looks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.26.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "As I said, the hon. Gentleman is a woolly thinker without a woolly hat. He would create an employment scheme for judges and those who care for ACAS. The whole point of the debate, Mr. Deputy Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.86.5", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "As a state-owned company, it cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.86.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "of sale. All bidders will be subjected to a rigorous assessment of their ability to meet customers' needs and of their plans for the business and its staff. I cannot envisage circumstances in which a buyer would wish to move the organisation away from Norwich. For the avoidance of doubt, I now confirm that such a buyer would be expected to maintain its presence in Norwich. The House will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " we have a proper contract, it will have to be done not through a reference back to Parliament, but through Committees and, in particular, through the House of Commons Commission. If Parliament wants to lay down any of those criteria, it can do so, and it will have a decisive say in the matter because Parliament is such a large customer. We have not really heard concern about parliamentary papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service (Mr. David Willetts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service (Mr. David Willetts)", "preceding_text": "The first proposition that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster put to the House today was simply that HMSO could not carry on as it had for the past few years. HMSO has a problem in terms of its performance, its turnover and its market share. The figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "raying that the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1996 (S.I., 1996, No. 360), dated 22nd February 1996, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22nd February, be annulled. In moving the annulment of the order, I feel a little like the groom who had a second chance after the bride turned up early at the church and he missed the service. We are having a second bite of the cherry tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "annulled. In moving the annulment of the order, I feel a little like the groom who had a second chance after the bride turned up early at the church and he missed the service. We are having a second bite of the cherry tonight. [Interruption.] I think that Conservative Members are making assertions about the bride, so perhaps I should protect her from Norman Blackwell and the policy unit at No. 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "ponsibility to parents and governors than ever before. We know from our experience of local management of schools that we need have no hesitation in leaving important and detailed decisions to them. If the governors can take decisions about admissions and staffing—and they can—surely they can be trusted to take decisions about the size of teaching accommodation, recreation areas and storage space.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "I take that point entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-18", "file": "debates1996-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "709902738988ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Congdon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Congdon", "preceding_text": " not strike me as a regime with no interest whatever in the amount of space that is available in the school. There is a distinction to be made. The guidelines refer to gross area, not minimum teaching area, thus avoiding the problem of having to define what is a teaching space and what is not a teaching space. When one visits schools, one finds that they use space in all sorts of imaginative ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-18a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.167.11", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cummings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cummings", "preceding_text": "What a pity—the right hon. Gentleman will never know what he is missing. Since I gave the Prime Minister notice of my question, has he had the opportunity to ascertain why the Department of Transport has rejected a submission by Durham county council for funds to provide access roads to the Dawdon and Fox Cover enterprise zones in my constituency? Would it not be common sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.167.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.167.11", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cummings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cummings", "preceding_text": "bmission by Durham county council for funds to provide access roads to the Dawdon and Fox Cover enterprise zones in my constituency? Would it not be common sense— [Interruption.] —for the Department of Transport to support those sites, which have been designated by the Department of the Environment, and for funds to be allocated to allow the building of access roads to the A19? Is this not a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.167.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.171.7", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ork rather than out of work. As for the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Waterson), I certainly intend to keep the advantages that he mentioned at the forefront of the country's mind. Our policy is to put British jobs and British business first. Investors are attracted here by low costs and flexible working practices; we intend to maintain those, and to improve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.171.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.192.8", "colnum": "192", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted—if my hon. Friend on the Front Bench will allow me to continue the point and respond to the Chair—because I thought that, you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, were criticising the word \"farce\". It is a farce because Opposition Members seem to ignore the central point—education. The quality of the way in which we educate young people has nothing to do with a physical place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.192.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.192.8", "colnum": "192", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "ecause I thought that, you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, were criticising the word \"farce\". It is a farce because Opposition Members seem to ignore the central point—education. The quality of the way in which we educate young people has nothing to do with a physical place. [Interruption.] I am sorry, but one can go to the most clapped out medieval buildings that are some of the best schools in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.192.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Mills", "preceding_text": " as countenancing the forced introduction of this scheme for local authorities such as the one in Solihull. The authority is not against private provision. Perhaps the private sector will eventually provide enough high-quality places—but certainly not by April 1997. Perhaps I should not get so excited, but I am worked up on behalf of the thousands of parents who have contacted me about this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "s have built up a well-deserved reputation for high standards, excellence of provision and popularity with parents. That is because they believe in themselves and in what is best for pupils. It is small wonder that the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) and several of their colleagues are queuing up for places at GM schools for their own children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": " parents. That is because they believe in themselves and in what is best for pupils. It is small wonder that the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) and several of their colleagues are queuing up for places at GM schools for their own children. [Interruption.] GM schools quite naturally want to provide the best possible facilities for their pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "not have them and working with parents and teachers in schools to provide them. The idea that a market system and a piece of paper can provide something that people sitting down and working together cannot plan is nonsense. The Secretary of State knows that. It is not only that in its early stages she opposed the scheme, but that her colleagues know that she did. In the Sunday Express last Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Evans", "preceding_text": "old Labour: it is Labour. Fourthly, we had a top rate of income tax not of 40, 50, 60, 70, or 90 per cent. but of 98p in the pound. No wonder nobody bought shares—anyone receiving a dividend would have had to hand it over to the IMF. People say that it will not happen again. They are right—not while we have a Tory Government. But I would not be so sure if that lot over there were ever given power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-19", "file": "debates1996-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "cfff3f49c0ee6834", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Angela Knight)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Angela Knight)", "preceding_text": "ts of shareholding and bought shares in more and more companies. That is important, because it encourages savings, investment and enterprise. It helps people to help themselves. We saw the need to encourage ownership and commitment in society, and there is true participation in a variety of ways. That is a long way from the so-called stakeholding that was explained by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-19a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-20", "file": "debates1996-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "038ffc300ae2654f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "To repeat in part what I said to the House yesterday, the commitment to the code of practice, or something similar that better reflects the different nature of voluntary providers, is there and up-front. It is understood by the groups that I have met on behalf of children with special needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-20", "file": "debates1996-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "038ffc300ae2654f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "hat when hard-headed business men from around the world are looking to invest, they come to this country, having made their comparisons. We attract one third of the total inward investment from businesses in Korea, Japan and the United States. Such businesses have made comparisons and concluded that this country is the long-term best bet for their economic well-being. That must tell its own story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-20", "file": "debates1996-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "038ffc300ae2654f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "BSE (Health)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman must take the public into his confidence. He must recognise that he must lead public opinion, so the public must not be left in the dark. Public concern is so great that Ministers have a duty to be entirely open about the considerations that are involved. If the facts are not fully disclosed, the public response will be fear, which will then be stoked up by ignorance and innuendo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-20", "file": "debates1996-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "038ffc300ae2654f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "BSE (Health)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House that my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will make a statement in a few minutes that will deal with the specific measures that affect agriculture. I agree wholeheartedly that this is not a time for a lay Minister to offer an opinion. I offer no opinion about the science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-20", "file": "debates1996-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "038ffc300ae2654f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I would welcome a fuller health analysis of the impact of burning Cemfuel and plume grounding. It is a vital issue for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-20a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ssurance; I hope that it genuinely covers all the advice that has been given. I assume from what the Health Secretary said yesterday that the scientific advice that the Government have received is absolutely clear that it is entirely safe to carry on feeding beef and beefburgers to children. May we have a categorical statement that the right hon. Gentleman's scientific advice does indeed say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that the advice is on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.493.9", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "\"I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave some moments ago.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.493.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.494.10", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Congdon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Congdon", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend explain to the British people why unemployment is lower in Britain than in France, Germany, Spain or Italy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.494.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can echo only what the hon. Member for Bolsover is now convinced of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 21 March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "This Government and this country have always been staunch upholders of the rule of law. I trust that my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.525.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.528.2", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "r people outside will know what has been said to the Foreign Secretary in the House. However, in the comparative privacy that the Government have given us for the debate, we can talk frankly to each other. Let me begin not with the Foreign Secretary's White Paper but with ours, which the Labour party presented to its conference six months ago and which, I am pleased to say, was passed unanimously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.528.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.533.5", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Of course I agree with my economic colleague. We share a place in the shadow Cabinet, and it is a condition of being there that we agree. Of course we agree fully and absolutely on every point relating to Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman's first point is that—let me take the second point first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.534.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.534.5", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "omies than our own, we would still find ourselves bound by the existing convergence criteria? That would involve restrictions on the borrowing requirement of a Labour Government and the transfer of the Bank of England into a subsidiary or a branch of the European central bank, and would require us to rejoin the exchange rate mechanism. Surely my hon. Friend is not even contemplating such nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Yes, I give my right hon. Friend that commitment—it has been repeatedly stated by our leader. We believe that Britain could enter a single currency only with the consent of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joyce Quin", "preceding_text": "d as was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook)—Labour published a White Paper on the issues many months ago and it has been unanimously adopted. It contains many details that I commend to Conservative Members. It is even in a white cover, unlike the Government's White Paper which, intriguingly, alone among European countries has Britain coloured red on the front cover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "We must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-21", "file": "debates1996-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1649b7ac61059845", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "oubt some will say—indeed, some have said—\"You have no hope of achieving these changes. You have no support.\" My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary quoted the French Prime Minister saying with disapproval that the ECJ is becoming, little by little, a sort of European Supreme Court\". He made it clear that the French want to do something about that—as do we. I should say en passant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-21a.599.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-22", "file": "debates1996-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "4716274850ad5b64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-22a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dogs (Fouling of Land) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mahon", "preceding_text": "sizes. It is not written on tablets of stone that we should all conform to a certain size. Yet the fashion industry and the image-makers put enormous pressures on women, girls and, increasingly, young men. One has only to look at the advertisements for jeans, where we see a requirement to have a certain sized bottom. The image-makers put enormous pressure on women and girls to be unhealthily thin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-22a.668.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BSE (Health)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ce was hanging by a thread. Now, public confidence has collapsed. Why did he not recognise that public confidence was draining away? Even though he was advising that beef was safe, 10,000 schools had already taken it off the menu. Will the right hon. Gentleman admit that it is his Government's reckless disregard for public health and their dogma on deregulation that have swept us into this crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.712.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BSE (Health)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Unparliamentary.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "y a thread. Now, public confidence has collapsed. Why did he not recognise that public confidence was draining away? Even though he was advising that beef was safe, 10,000 schools had already taken it off the menu. Will the right hon. Gentleman admit that it is his Government's reckless disregard for public health and their dogma on deregulation that have swept us into this crisis— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "BSE (Health)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of an earlier reply, what research does the right hon. Gentleman intend to set up and what research is presently under way into the spread of BSE, because of the cannibalisation of feed, across the species barrier into pigs, sheep, cats and dogs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Calum Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Calum Macdonald", "preceding_text": "the problem is that the scientific advice has been constantly overtaken by events and has been shown to be wrong. In 1989, the Southwood committee said that the cumulative total of cases by 1995 would be 20,000. It is now 155,000. The best scientific advice said that it was unlikely that the disease could be transmitted from cattle to humans, but it now says that it is likely to be so transmitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e Minister aware that I am astonished at his complacency while countries around the world are banning British beef, while slaughterhouses are closing, while farmers in my constituency have been telephoning me all weekend distraught at what is happening and while meat renderers, butchers and processors are paying people off? All that is happening not because of any scaremongering by Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-25", "file": "debates1996-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "3d1d5311679788e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "Surely one of the lessons to be learnt from this whole sorry saga is that food policy in this country should be rethought. Whatever Ministers have said today, the belief is that consumer interests have been subjugated to the interests of producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-25a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "I met market traders and councillors in Basildon, with whom I discussed plans to revitalise the town centre. I also visited Leigh-on-Sea in Southend, where I discussed plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.823.6", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, in spite of getting £5 million more than it expected under the revenue support grant, Ealing Labour council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.823.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "May I support most forcefully the point made a few moments ago by my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends had done enough damage in the last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that consumers of beef are looking for further reassurance that British beef is best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.832.5", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have received a letter from Sir David Naish and I have a copy of the letter that he sent to the Leader of the Opposition and to the right hon. Gentleman, the leader of the Liberal Democrats. My colleagues and I will study carefully the contents of the letter I have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Energy (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Energy (Mr. Tim Eggar)", "preceding_text": "d from the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett)—a speech of doom, gloom and scaremongering, even by her standards. For once I can say something positive about the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle), who until recently has refrained from trying to score cheap party political points about safety. I am sorry that he failed to persuade his right hon. Friend to follow the same route.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": " scientists are not up to the job. Of course they are; they are world leaders in the technology and have done an excellent job. Our safety record is as good as any in the world and better than most, but that does not alter the fact that a nuclear accident has more potential for destruction than any other sort of mishap that the world has known. There were 20 million dead in the 1939–45 war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "I will be expeditious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Battle", "preceding_text": "sury driven. Like every other utility privatisation, it is being forced through the House. It is half-baked and not thought through. The Government want to push the industry into the private sector, grab the cash and leave somebody else to pick up the pieces. It is the fag end of a privatisation programme by a Government who are absolutely desperate for cash to buy back their long-lost popularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This debate can go on until 10 o'clock if we feel so minded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.893.9", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Our first charge is that the Health and Safety Commission cannot meet the requirements laid down by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.893.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "workplace accidents and have caused the HSE to rethink the way it carries out inspections and interacts with those in control of work activities. That has led to the development of new techniques, alongside the traditional workplace inspection visit, to ensure that new and major risks are adequately regulated. HSE is also undergoing structural change. It is moving to a leaner management structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ontrol. Not even the scientists really understand the possible links, and because the information is so tentative and the consequences of catching CJD are so disastrous, although the risks may he infinitesimal compared with those of smoking a cigarette or drinking a pint of beer a day, no rational analysis of the risk has been carried out. The nuclear power industry has been vastly over-regulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.912.8", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ed it. It was then progressed under the social protocol and should not apply in this country. But the United Kingdom now has a competitive advantage and businesses based in the United Kingdom have decided not to invest in the continent of Europe because they will get tangled up in European works councils. Some big businesses—for example, Hanson Trust—are investing substantially in third countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.912.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-26", "file": "debates1996-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "5705b128cf273c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "ty Executive are in Brussels helping the Community to adopt the right approach to health and safety—not the approach that the Labour party has adopted. I was rather disgusted by the Labour motion. It talks of 30,000 deaths and major injuries, but it fails to distinguish—rather insensitive, this—between the 381 deaths of self-employed and members of the public and the statistics for major injuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-26a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": "e made her speech will agree that she talked a great deal of common sense and asked the Minister some informed questions. I hope that he will respond to them and to the points made in the excellent speeches by the hon. Members for Eltham (Mr. Bottomley) and for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin)—particularly the latter's point about matching lottery funding. I hope that the Minister will be sympathetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "nsideration of the National Farmers Union proposal for selective slaughter, a severe tightening of slaughtering laws and operation, and more publicity for the fact that quality-assured herds, both north and south of the border, are in a special case and class of their own? Will the Government consider a tracing scheme for cattle, such as that which already applies successfully in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": " the fact that quality-assured herds, both north and south of the border, are in a special case and class of their own? Will the Government consider a tracing scheme for cattle, such as that which already applies successfully in Northern Ireland? [Interruption.] Is it not time that much more energy went into accessing European funds to help this critically important and deeply endangered industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1019.6", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": " sure that we will be able to overcome some of the difficulties that have been identified. As the hon. Lady knows, I should like such a service to be established. There are difficulties with viability, but these matters are being addressed by officials. As soon as I have received the advice, which I understand is imminent, I shall certainly look at it with a view to being helpful to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1019.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Qualifications (16 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I endorse the Secretary of State's remarks, and offer our thanks and appreciation to Sir Ron Dearing for the work that he has done in producing the report. We welcome the broad thrust of the report and the Secretary of State's statement this afternoon, which echo the principles and the programme that we laid out in our document only a week ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Qualifications (16 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ch sees the Further Eduction Funding Council, local education authorities and training and enterprise councils at odds with each other—is an unsatisfactory and an unacceptable way forward. Is it not deeply complacent for the Secretary of State to parade the notion this afternoon that the staying-on rates at age 16 are satisfactory, when last year the number of students in full-time education fell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Qualifications (16 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State to parade the notion this afternoon that the staying-on rates at age 16 are satisfactory, when last year the number of students in full-time education fell? [Interruption.] Only 59 per cent. of 17-year-olds are in full-time education in the United Kingdom, compared with an average of more than 80 per cent. in other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-27", "file": "debates1996-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "3ad5bb3763a1ccf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Qualifications (16 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "th me that it is time to plan so that we can avoid the conflict between vocational and academic skills, and draw them together into a common route that will allow this nation to go forward using the real talents and skills of all our people? Would that not set aside the prejudice that has existed for far too long against those who dare to soil their hands by being engaged in industry and commerce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-27a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.6", "colnum": "1161", "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 that, to restore confidence in British beef, we should recognise the mistakes of the past and that contaminated meat did pass into the food chain, but that, for the future, we should take all measures that are necessary to make negligible, not just extremely small, any chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.9", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e always taken the action that was seen to be necessary and the advice that has been offered. In 1989, we took action that went beyond the advice that we had received. I have had an opportunity to look at the proposals that the Opposition made this morning. They are a mixture of motherhood and action that is already being taken, and they largely miss many of the matters that need to be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.9", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o question of labelling some beef as safe and allowing the sale of unsafe beef, which is what they say would mean. Their plan to ban specified bovine offal in cattle under six months overlooks the fact that SEAC specifically considered this proposal and concluded that it was unnecessary, not least because there has never been a single incidence of BSE in cattle that young. The plan for a separate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1161.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said a moment ago, and am happy to reaffirm, I am not prepared to see the social chapter opt-out, negotiated and agreed in good faith at Maastricht with our colleagues, undermined by an improper use of other treaty heads, and I shall demand changes in the intergovernmental conference to ensure that that cannot happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Schedule 38", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": " British beef exports turns out to be illegal, as we believe it to be, will my right hon. and learned Friend ensure that compensation for the enormous damage done to British farmers is paid not by the British taxpayer but by the 14 European Governments who supported the ban? If they will not pay, will he give the House an undertaking that he will deduct that amount from our next payment to Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Schedule 38", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "breeding records in Europe who was worth £65,000 before the crisis. The farmer, Mr. Cope, and his son have a BSE-free herd—they have never had BSE and they have not used any feed with the contaminated protein. Most vets and experts would say that that herd would never develop BSE. I put it to the House that the extravagant statements about the complete slaughter of the national herd make no sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Schedule 38", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes or no?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "I cannot sit here and listen to this for much longer. Will the hon. Lady say whether she believes beef is safe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-28", "file": "debates1996-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41aa05b3d6e641d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Schedule 38", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I have only another 10 minutes and I have some other important points to make in responding to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-28a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-29", "file": "debates1996-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3a067d1ce7d57be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) has said, this is an important issue. I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the measure. I just slightly regret that there does not seem to be much interest from the Opposition Benches. I know that the Opposition support it, but it is a pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-29", "file": "debates1996-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3a067d1ce7d57be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Spring", "preceding_text": " considerations. I am sure that he will address that in due course. I wish to comment on remarks made in the previous debate by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths). He seemed to imply that Conservative Members of Parliament were not taking the issue of bull bars seriously. Yet the Opposition Benches are totally vacant. Only the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-03-29", "file": "debates1996-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3a067d1ce7d57be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "e Transport Research Laboratory, based on figures collected by some police forces in the sample area that my hon. Friend the Minister for Transport in London mentioned. We have had figures of up to 70 deaths from the RAC, but I am not entirely sure about the basis of those figures. But other figures, produced by the Association of Protection Bar Manufacturers—which, I accept, is a vested interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-03-29a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.5.6", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I welcome today's statement by the Secretary of State that she intends to introduce talent funds. She is right to say that her announcement will be widely welcomed. We certainly welcome it because she is implementing Labour policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.5.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bruno!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "What view does my right hon. Friend take of Rupert Murdoch's decision to make Sky Sport's subscribers pay extra to watch the recent Bugner fight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I wasted my time responding to every inaccuracy that appears either in the House or beyond, I would have the pleasure of a 24-hour-a-day sojourn at the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I wasted my time responding to every inaccuracy that appears either in the House or beyond, I would have the pleasure of a 24-hour-a-day sojourn at the Dispatch Box. [Interruption.] As for the intergovernmental conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is possible that there will be no single extension at all. We are not seeking to accept any. What may turn up in negotiations lies ahead; at present, we do not intend to accept any extension of QMV whatever. I hope that that is clear enough for the right hon. Gentleman: no extension of qualified majority voting. As for fisheries, I said earlier that the list of matters to be dealt with in the IGC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "now that we will fight for the national interest and that we shall stick to that. Being in a kindly mode, I shall spare the right hon. Gentleman a list of quotes which shows that the European policy of the Liberal party has shifted from pillar to post almost on a daily basis, or almost between member and member. The right hon. Gentleman has the grace to blush, so I shall spare him on that account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "While warmly welcoming my right hon. Friend's commitment for further federalism in Europe, may I ask him what specific proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You didn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "While warmly welcoming my right hon. Friend's commitment for further federalism in Europe, may I ask him what specific proposals—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] I should have said \"against\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "hile warmly welcoming my right hon. Friend's commitment for further federalism in Europe, may I ask him what specific proposals—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] I should have said \"against\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"You didn't.\"] I apologise. It would be out of keeping with four years of speeches if I had not said \"against\". What specific proposals has my right hon. Friend tabled against the repatriation of powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It is not just the level of the grant; it is the distribution of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "There is certainly scope for improvement in council tax collection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "not all Westminster comprises Mayfair and Belgravia; nevertheless, Mayfair and Belgravia form a substantial part of it. Nobody in their right mind believes that Westminster is more deprived than the constituency represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Cummings). In terms of wealth and income of the people who live in Easington, it is one of the least well-off places in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beefburgers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "ed the doors of 85 families. I had cards in my pocket which I handed out so I know how many people I met. None of those people mentioned what the hon. Lady has raised. They all said, \"It is marvellous to live in a borough with good services and low taxation.\" Most of the people wanted me to come in, so if any Opposition Member would like to join me on a Sunday we can call on the burghers of Brent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.81.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "y area of Essex, to the eternal shame of that county council, the Labour and Liberal councillors decided to parade the old and vulnerable to speak for the council. Yet what do we find? We find that the council underspent on social services last year by £2 million. None of that underspend was necessary, and no one should have come to my surgeries crying because their home helps had been taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's list is completely bogus, it is a waste of everyone's time and is completely meaningless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "allenged with how much extra the Labour party would provide, the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras said: I do not endorse anyone's numbers but my own, and the hon. Gentleman is not getting one from me.\"—[ Official Report , 31 January 1996; Vol. 270, c. 1032.] That seems to undermine Labour's position completely. If Labour Members believe that the settlement is inadequate, they should say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "e the elections in May 1994, Brent electors were told that the Tories were committed to cutting the council tax. The right hon. Gentleman is right: they did cut it. However, they appeared to be suffering from amnesia when it came to telling the electorate, or even the council, where the necessary funds were to be found. A Conservative Political Centre pamphlet launched this weekend, co-written by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "epartment of the Environment's annual report, which states: This reflects the Government's view that council tax payers should contribute a slightly increased proportion of the costs of local government\". That is what it is about—because the Government cannot manage their finances, they are putting the onus on council tax payers. It is a tribute to the hard work and efficiency of local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-01", "file": "debates1996-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "02b35f2b61fddc7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that time is too short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-01a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.138.8", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batiste", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend had a communication from Bill Morris, the leader of the Transport and General Workers Union, which sponsors the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Chancellor and which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.138.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ome surprise. The proposal would reduce the level of our defence forces to some sort of volunteer militia. It would mean that we were spending £122 per head on our armed forces, which is less than half the amount spent in Luxembourg. We were surprised to receive the letter. The fact that the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) is sponsored by the trade union that put the proposal forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons why we have so many jobs in the defence industry is that the United Kingdom armed forces are not only extensively involved in peacekeeping operations but are training constantly for high-intensity situations, such as proper wars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister follow the logic of his case that some countries will not accept only self-destruct mines? Further, does he not appreciate that there is much dispute about the failure rate of self-destruct anti-personnel mines? Will he join the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cousins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cousins", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the situation at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ensuring that on each day of this week, a stage of the Bill was taken? For example, the Bill could have been taken in the Lords later on Wednesday and Lords amendments could have been considered on Thursday. That would have enabled us to take the Committee stage on Wednesday, following Second Reading today. There are a number of ways in which the procedures for the Bill could have been dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "It is important that the hon. Gentleman should learn to recognise the difference between the procedures of this place and the contents of a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.215.7", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I will not, if the hon. Lady will forgive me. We have limited time and I must make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.215.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.218.4", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "That was not the point that I made. My point was that, normally, one would need a warrant to search premises, but for a cordoned area a warrant is not needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ow people and their property to pieces. I accept that those amendments may be important to some Opposition Members, but they are not important to most people in this country. I am concerned about civil liberties. All my legal life has been dedicated to them and I do not take any lectures from anyone in the House about the need for civil liberties. But there are civil liberties and civil liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": " at the passing of the Bill. At the heart of many people's concerns will be the stop-and-search proposals in the clause. The Government and my Front-Bench colleagues have argued that the proposals are quite different from the provisions of the sus law and from existing stop-and-search provisions. But, in essence, the proposals are very similar to the sus law in that they give the police the power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"She was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) made a disgraceful speech, which paid no attention to the earlier debate on the timetable motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has now asked an entirely different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Semi-privately?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "doubt that is why the police suggested the change in discussions with the Home Office. The rest of the Bill is probably not controversial. Clauses 2 to 5 and the schedule have not troubled anyone in the House unduly. What we have not heard yet is whether some of these powers already exist in the Republic of Ireland. My hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) has told me semi-privately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-02", "file": "debates1996-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7edb3ce8812f0687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman goes to the Victoria tower and pulls out the 1641 Act of Charles I for dealing with the rebels in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-02a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "ll the Minister give us some idea of the number of cattle that are likely to be targeted under any new selective slaughter scheme? Will he give us some idea of the criteria that the Government are likely to take into account in deciding whether to slaughter individual animals or herds? Will he today give the House an undertaking that any slaughter under those policies will be carried out humanely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about hourly reports?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "hat the Minister said about the state veterinary service and the Meat Hygiene Service. Can he confirm that the Government will provide the required additional money not only to the Meat Hygiene Service, as he said, but to the state veterinary service? Although I welcome the proposal for quarterly reports of those inspections, in the current circumstances, monthly reports might be more appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "iene Service. Can he confirm that the Government will provide the required additional money not only to the Meat Hygiene Service, as he said, but to the state veterinary service? Although I welcome the proposal for quarterly reports of those inspections, in the current circumstances, monthly reports might be more appropriate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about hourly reports?\"] I ask him to consider that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "If I interpret that intervention correctly, it means that the scheme now is weighting the subsidy towards older rather than younger workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "e to go back into SERPS. We have decided to phase in age-related rebates by means of the 9 per cent. cap, but setting the cap at that level means that the majority of the current APP holders should be able to maintain their plans until retirement without imposing an excessive cost to the public funds. In so far as other commentators may not agree with that, we do not believe that they are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-03", "file": "debates1996-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "36ab283d1dc4084c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "e was no problem and that local authority social service departments would be able to act as \"gatekeepers\". The Committee replied that it did not think that that was the case and asked the Government to check with local authorities and talk to social workers. The ultimate humiliation for a Government who sometimes pride themselves on being careful with public expenditure occurred on 18 March when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-03a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that he is being uncharacteristically complacent in his answers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.506.9", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to talk about taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.506.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.506.9", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to talk about taxes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He raised it. Perhaps he would care to refer to the unattributable briefing that he gave on the plane, and subsequently denied, in which he made it clear that taxes would go up at £40,000 and higher. Subsequently, when challenged it was claimed that the conversation never took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.506.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " 70 per cent. of passenger services in London and the south-east getting worse since privatisation started; in £69 million of taxpayers' money being spent to make Railtrack shares saleable; and in a £900 million increase in the salaries of Railtrack directors? Is not it perfectly clear that if the Government get their way with our railways, passenger trains will take second place to gravy trains?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is really concerned about taking from the many and giving to the few—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.527.5", "colnum": "527", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"\"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that such recovery as he has noticed is due more to the collapse in price than to any action that is being taken by his Ministry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I give way to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.544.9", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "e whole point is to ensure the creation of bigger companies that \"can compete abroad\". His policy is to allow companies to take more of the market, even if that removes plurality of ownership and undermines people's choice. I am not certain whether he speaks for the whole Labour party, but if he does these proposals are as ill thought through as they are opportunist. In the words of Mr. Paul Foot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.544.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The complexity of the issue has become clear to a far wider audience in recent months. A great deal of money is going to sporting organisations as a result of the sale of rights and the rights holders feel strongly about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that, if it was 25 per cent., the Mirror Group would be allowed to participate. The amendment was blocked. United Newspapers and Associated Newspapers can participate. Conservative Members must say why the limit is drawn to block the Mirror Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "that clubs are being forced to pay their players fantastically high wages. Players such as Cantona of Manchester United are probably earning £10,000 to £15,000 a week, and Ginola of Newcastle is on £12,000 a week. What would happen if the clubs could not get the money from television? We are already charging high prices to the fans—as high as they can afford to pay. Where would the cash come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "the best British players used to go to Italy, France or Germany. Now it is the other way around. The best foreign players are coming here, because we are paying the high wages. That is why our sport on television is so good; that is why our teams are so good, and why everyone in Europe wants to play here. We can pay such high wages because of the money that we get from television, mainly from Sky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " published either by Mr. Murdoch, who was once an Australian citizen but is now a naturalised American citizen, or by Mr. Conrad Black, who is a Canadian. Personally, I do not oppose some foreign ownership. I would argue that, in their different ways, both Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Black have made great contributions to British journalism. The question is whether there is any limit to foreign ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "ember for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) said that Sky was innovative and imaginative. To what was he referring? I have cable television and I have all the Sky channels. I can watch films made by film makers, BBC programmes that are 10 years old, ITV programmes that are 10 years old and American programmes that are also 10 years old. What on earth has Sky produced? I cannot think of a single programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "As an hon. Member who must be one of the least expert in this complex subject, I welcome the chance to make a contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "We have had a fascinating debate, sadly curtailed by an hour and a half of statements, and by the Secretary of State's contribution having been perhaps a wee bit long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "We have had a fascinating debate, sadly curtailed by an hour and a half of statements, and by the Secretary of State's contribution having been perhaps a wee bit long. [Interruption.] As the right hon. Lady seems to be protesting, I must add that her speech was considerably longer than any by an Opposition Member. As has been said, we support the principle of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-16", "file": "debates1996-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "c372e7918c416b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "I certainly never opposed it, and the hon. Gentleman will confirm to the House that many is the time I have said to him, \"This is an important matter, which must be discussed during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill.\" That is what I said, that is what has been done and I believe that Parliament has reached the right decision on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-16a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "First, the manufacturing sector in relation to GDP in Britain is at about the same level as in other European countries, such as France and Italy. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I now regret having given way on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.727.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State attempted to convince the House—with a marked lack of success—that the Government's plans for the privatisation of our railways and the creation of Railtrack were already an unqualified success. That has not been the experience of my constituents, certainly from the beginning of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "remen or ASLEF. The situation has changed since the House has reconvened. I, in common with all my right hon. and hon. Friends, am no longer sponsored by trade unions. Such sponsorship as the trade union movement continues to devote and dedicate to the Labour party is via the constituency parties and not to individual Members of Parliament. I hope that I have set the hon. Gentleman's mind at rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "I cannot think of a greater disadvantage for any constituent in any part of the country than to be represented by a Conservative Member. If they have failed consistently for 17 years to bring basic improvements into the railway system, such as safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "ther is Great Eastern. They are names from 50, 60 or 70 years ago. Why do people still look back to that era as a model to emulate? The straight answer is that those railway companies were run by people with immense pride—by the families who were associated with them. Lord Portman was the last chairman of the Great Western railway and he rode on the footplate at least once a week on his main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-17", "file": "debates1996-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf710c0443d290ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "l as worries about protecting our countryside. I do not think that we will see improvements in the scale of the network, which is expanding again, or in the quality of rolling stock and equipment in a nationalised industry. For example, one notices quite a lot of pollution when travelling on diesel trains and I think that the denationalised private companies will start to filter the air on trains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-17a.776.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I suspect that my hon. Friend is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.833.7", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman advised his party not to vote against the tax cuts that I was able to introduce in the last Budget, one of the few wise decisions—indeed, one of the few decisions of any kind—that he has taken since he started shadowing me. The borrowing forecast for next year will be below the £30 billion that the Liberal Democrat spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.833.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Nobody can ask such questions as well as my hon. Friend. Not only do I agree with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.838.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Mowlam", "preceding_text": "No, I will not take any more interventions. I have debated and discussed the point for some time, as did the Secretary of State, and I hope that that will allow us to move forward in the debate. The process that the Bill will set up offers the opportunity for us to seek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course there can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "ing teams to this effect, and only at their formal instigation—and, we hope, on the basis of consensus, as stipulated in paragraph 24 of Cmnd. 3232. It is essential that this necessary separation is preserved and, if possible, strengthened. There can be no breach of the integrity of the ground rules as a package by seeking to process the negotiations through an internalist and majoritarian filter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another precondition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": " resolved in the negotiations. For too long, quibbles over mechanics and technicalities have got in the way of discussions on the real issues. The framework document sets out the broad outline of a possible settlement that nationalists and Unionists could accept as their own. The four guiding principles in the framework document must underpin any agreement and inform the search for that agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good let-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": " They are as follows: the principle of self-determination set out in the joint document; that the consent of the governed is an essential ingredient for stability in any political arrangement—as we have said often, acceptance by most nationalists of the principle of consent to any change in the status of Northern Ireland does not equate with the acceptance of the status of Northern Ireland itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.893.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Judith Church", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Judith Church", "preceding_text": "the ill health of the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh (Mr. Mallon), I send my best wishes to him, and hope that he will make a speedy return to us. I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in that. We should acknowledge tonight the great toll that the work load in terms of the peace process takes on hon. Members, particularly those from Northern Ireland and those on both Front Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-18", "file": "debates1996-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "35bb5bbe7486811b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "chairperson? How will he be appointed? Are the Government in a position to suggest a name tonight? We have seen names being suggested in Dublin. I hope that this matter will be left to the people of Northern Ireland through their elected representatives and negotiators to agree among themselves. But the Minister has a responsibility tonight to define more clearly how that person will be appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-18a.919.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-22", "file": "debates1996-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28c3dcf1d4078cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-22a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, Etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e. I think that they want us to surrender to a united Ireland. After that, the same thing would happen as happened in the south of Ireland. When the line was drawn, 10 per cent. of the entire population of the Irish Republic was Protestant. Today, only 2.5 per cent. of the population is Protestant, which means that 80 per cent. of the Protestant population of the south of Ireland have disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-22a.93.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-22", "file": "debates1996-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28c3dcf1d4078cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-22a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, Etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for East Londonderry asked why a selection was made of the parliamentary franchise. We went into this on Second Reading. There is a very slight difference—about 70—in the number of electors. The difference is accounted for by the fact that the parliamentary franchise includes 79 registered overseas voters, but excludes nine peers resident in Northern Ireland, which seems rather a pity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-22a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.181.7", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "I am happy to remind my hon. Friend that the last Labour Government put this country in that parlous position, robbing pensioners of their savings through high inflation. The Government have had the longest period of sustained inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.181.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister deliberately ignoring the facts about the poorest people in Britain? Is it not true that in Tory Britain poverty now wears a young face, often a child's face? There are 3 million families with children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "nly the other day the shadow Chancellor explained his ideas about child benefit for 16-year-olds and said that 80 per cent. of the children of unskilled parents leave school at 16. That information is 20 years old. Under the Conservatives, 50 per cent. or more of those children go on to further education. That just shows that the Labour party does not get its facts right. On poverty, under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "pe, it is more than all the other countries in Europe put together. It means that we can face the future without the crippling burden of taxation that they will have to put up with. We have tried to strengthen confidence in occupational schemes, which was damaged by Robert Maxwell—a Labour Member of Parliament and the only socialist who has ever taken a serious interest in private pension schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "European Communities (European Court)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ae of Francis Geoffrey Jacobs, appointed by the British Government to the European Court of Justice. He was a lecturer in jurisprudence at Glasgow university between 1963 and 1965, a lecturer in law at the London school of economics between 1965 and 1969, a member of the secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights and the legal directorate of the Council of Europe between 1969 and 1972—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "m that we are being asked to approve is that there will be Conservative representatives on the negotiating body. Unfortunately, I cannot say to the hon. Member for Belfast, East that Conservative representatives are any good at yogic flying—I am sure that that will be a disappointment—but I can tell him that Conservative representatives, if they were included, would be good at running the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "preceding_text": "agination; as the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) is aware, I really do exist. As for the nomenclature to be assigned to the individual parties, I simply submitted to the powers that be a name: \"UK Unionist Party—Robert McCartney\". Until what I have described as an electoral Caliban was thrust upon me through the medium of the Bill, it had not been my intention to stand as a party at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I accept that under amendment No. 47, I will have not only to bifurcate but to triplicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "roduce and validate 500 names. I refer to the general purpose that we have been pursuing in relation to these elections—that is, we are trying to make the elections inclusive. We are trying to reduce the burden on the smaller parties in relation to them standing. Elections are not very difficult for a big and well-organised party—there tend to be party machines that are ready to go into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.245.7", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I repeat to the hon. Gentleman, and I hope that he will accept it, that we were trying by this consultation to avoid a specific situation. I have to say to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.245.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I support the view expressed by the SDLP that it should be entitled to define itself as it wishes. The Minister's argument against the SDLP is that it did not respond to his communication requiring an answer by 10 April by saying that it wanted to be described as the SDLP. My party did respond, however, and the communication that I have before me from my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "reason why that limit should not be removed or why a party should not field six, seven or 10 candidates in a constituency. Parties would have many people on the streets—knocking doors, talking to the electorate, convincing them of the strengths of their party and persuading them to support their party. All I ask is that that can be done. We know that some parties, and I think that the SDLP is one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "May I recommend a European practice for the first session of the new forum? Far from the Secretary of State's taking upon himself the responsibility of selecting the chairman of the forum, the forum could appoint the eldest elected member as the chairman. Until the stage when the forum proceeds to elect its own chairman, the eldest member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-23", "file": "debates1996-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a385b5d0857c10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations, etc) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, the hon. Gentleman is not trying to be clever, but he is trying to pre-empt what, in the ground rules, is to be left for discussion with the parties. Essentially, if the hon. Gentleman looks again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-23a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "mbarked and if money is to be made available, the amount available should be the amount that has been promised. The right hon. Gentleman said that there had been a promise of £80 million over five years and that so far, only £4.5 million had been made available. When my hon. Friend the Minister stops talking to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher), I shall ask him specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Talking about mirrors, we are hearing a series of convoluted and clever, but utterly irrelevant, manipulations of figures from Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "that it is my view and that of my party—and frequently stated—that in our multicultural and multi-faith society, religious education plays a vital part in the national curriculum? Will she accept that I have never stated that I believe that we should abolish religious schools? Will she also accept that there is considerable concern nationally about the legislation on the collective act of worship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Jim?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "ver, I shall quote from a letter to the Committee that shows the attitude and approach of a victim—in this case, a feminine victim—of the various processes that make up a divorce. I make no apology to the Committee for quoting from the letter, which says: to have no 'fault' actually harms reconciliation attempts. Jim\"— I shall call the lady's erstwhile husband \"Jim\", although that is not his name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.491.5", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Geoffrey. The Committee has just had a Division in which more than 100 Conservative Members voted against the guts of the Bill. I ask the Leader of the House, who is in his place, to reconsider the Bill when things have cooled down a little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "preceding_text": "The amendments to which amendment No. 3 is linked refer to the period that should elapse between a statement of intention to divorce being lodged and the divorce itself. On Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.531.8", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Family Law Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " Chancellor quoted from letters that he had received from a number of children's charities. During this debate, we heard a contribution from the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong), who referred to her experience with the National Children's Home—I call it that in order not to engage in any sort of backwards attack from my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster (Dame E. Kellett-Bowman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.531.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way once on the point and, frankly, it was a waste of time, so I do not feel that there is any point in giving way again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Morris)", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for York must see that the Minister is not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-24", "file": "debates1996-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "866067352b08f8d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.12", "colnum": "548", "heading": "National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong. Section 10(2) of the 1990 Act gives my right hon. Friend the power to fix financial controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-24a.548.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Does not the fact that four of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that most people have an increasingly clear view of the Government. Is the Prime Minister not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is deliberately misleading, and he knows that he is deliberately misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not mind the Prime Minister talking tough with me, but it is time that he also talked tough with his Cabinet—that is all that we ask. Is this not all of a piece with the defiance that we heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not mind the Prime Minister talking tough with me, but it is time that he also talked tough with his Cabinet—that is all that we ask. Is this not all of a piece with the defiance that we heard—[ Interruption. ] We heard the Chancellor this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not mind the Prime Minister talking tough with me, but it is time that he also talked tough with his Cabinet—that is all that we ask. Is this not all of a piece with the defiance that we heard—[ Interruption. ] We heard the Chancellor this morning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"] Conservative Members are all shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.601.7", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend arrange a debate next week on the education of 16 to 18-year-olds, many of whom in my constituency have already had the payment of their fares to school or college stopped by Ealing Labour council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.608.9", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse)", "preceding_text": "With this, it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 5—Related works: application of section 9 of the Transport and Works Act 1992. Government amendments Nos. 1, 2, 9 and 10. The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-25", "file": "debates1996-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "2e33e8f31bb7a36c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I should not have given way and allowed the hon. Gentleman to make that nonsensical intervention. We are talking about the valuation of public assets. As I told the Minister, every commentator who—unlike the hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold)—knows anything about the subject, says that those public assets are being given away at a bargain basement price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-25a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-26", "file": "debates1996-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "23362b1e0e4f58fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-26a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "eer in the 1960s and which, on the face of it, might support the amendment. In reality, however, it serves to prove that my hon. Friend's proposition is ridiculous. I had just walked into the front office of the Savile Row police station just after midnight, when there was an emergency call to go to the Westbury hotel around the corner in Conduit street where a brawl was taking place in the foyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-26a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-26", "file": "debates1996-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "23362b1e0e4f58fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-26a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": " never tried the device while some authoritarian ones have grotesquely abused it. In the populist progressive upsurge at the beginning of this century, referendums were welcomed by some as a liberating force and as a way of purifying government by enlisting the people against the politicians. Before the first world war, the most significant development of the referendum as a political institution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-26a.737.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-29", "file": "debates1996-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "898d1732c2decf2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-29a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "wham, North-East (Mr. Timms) referred to the close interest being shown by Blackpool hoteliers in this issue. The hon. Gentleman may not know that my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North has been in contact with me both today and in the past about the matter. I believe that he is in the Chamber now, and that he has brought a delegation of hoteliers from Blackpool to talk about the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-29a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eethorpes and Immingham, who are still proud to call themselves working class? Is it not a fact that those people look to the Conservative party and the Conservative Government to ensure that they have the chance to buy their council house, to escape from trade union rule, from the closed shop, and to ensure that child benefit is protected for their children, who want better and further education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The latest recruit to the middle classes, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott), is heckling from a sedentary position. I hope that his arrival among the middle classes did not cause them too much distress. The policies that he advocates certainly would: higher taxes on people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Prime Minister will publish the full figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.901.2", "colnum": "", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "\" colnum=\"901\" time=\"\"> Can my right hon. Friend confirm that child benefit for children who stay at school for a further two years to study for A-levels is worth in excess of £1,000? Can he also confirm that child benefit has its origins in tax rebate? If that were abolished, as Labour proposes, it would be equivalent to putting 5p on the basic rate of tax for the average parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.901.7", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is, I believe, an honourable man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.901.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have procedures in the House that I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows. I should be very much obliged if he would supply that material to the Serjeant at Arms, who will carry out an investigation. If it is necessary, a charge for the cost of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " make people feel that they would be better off under Labour, when the cruel truth is that they would be thrown out of work by a party that remains anti-business and largely ignorant of it. Where do Labour Members acquire their experience of business? From the trade unions? From their council work? From their work in the media or as lecturers? It rarely comes from the real work of wealth creation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New schedule 1", "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": "ows also receive the pre-1973 allowance of £51.71 a week. That is also a mandatory disregard for the purposes of housing benefit and council tax. Although considerable generosity is being shown, the hon. Member for Attercliffe is suggesting that, in respect of income-related benefits that are designed to help those most in need, a total disregard of all such income should be introduced nationally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1024.9", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the noes had it in the previous decision, but I shall let that pass. I think that the ayes did have it this time, because otherwise we would be in some difficulty. First, I shall speak about a significant day-to-day problem of prospective tenants of council houses. At the moment, people can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1024.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-04-30", "file": "debates1996-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a1fa6b9895460718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1034.6", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "ardo's, the Children's Society, NCH Action for Children, Family Service Units, the St. Christopher Fellowship, the Catholic Children's Society, and Save the Children. Centre Point has pointed out that, during 1994–95, despite the Children Act, 38 per cent, of homeless young people seen by Centre Point were 17 years old or younger, and that 86 per cent, of them had been forced to leave home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-04-30a.1034.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am running short of time, so I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the people of Eigg?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "roach is to encourage local communities to work in partnership with Government Departments, Government agencies, local authorities and private sector bodies. Such an approach is at the heart of the measures that were announced in our rural White Paper in December. Rural policy in Scotland is about the livelihoods of rural communities, the countryside and the lives of those who live and work there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "than 25 commitments to action, ranging from new research on rural schools and rural crime to the publication of a discussion paper on the coast and planning guidance for small towns. It also contained three linked proposals for a framework for rural development in Scotland and a system that would help local people to take action on their own behalf. The White Paper consists of three main elements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "d much to rural Scotland during his many years as a Scottish Office Minister, and knows exactly what I am talking about. The Government's commitment to rural Scotland is measured in billions of pounds, and there is evidence that the commitment is working. Employment in rural Scotland increased by 6.5 per cent. in the period 1981–91 compared with an overall Scottish increase of 1.1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1133.6", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think I know what my hon. Friend is referring to, and I am glad to note that the person concerned subsequently acknowledged that drug misuse was illegal and unsafe, and declared that she would never condone the taking of Ecstasy or any other drug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1133.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "In addition to the punitive tartan tax, will my right hon. Friend confirm that the sixth form tax that has been proposed by Labour would punish people to the tune of £1, 000 per child for children trying to follow a sixth form course?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture Council)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "e Minister will have read the letter that I sent to him on Monday, calling for an investigation into the flouting of the ruminant feed ban, and into the high percentage of new cases of animals born after the feed ban was introduced in 1988. Such an inquiry could have been completed within two or three months, and it is necessary if we are to eradicate BSE from our cattle. Surely the determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture Council)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "lishments is not helpful to the long-term research that is required on BSE and CJD? Finally, I appeal to the Minister and to the Government to withdraw the prior options review plan to sell off the Government establishments that are carrying out research into BSE and CJD. Surely he must recognise that selling these establishments and privatising the staff is not in the interests of our scientists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "BSE (Agriculture Council)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "ng out research into BSE and CJD. Surely he must recognise that selling these establishments and privatising the staff is not in the interests of our scientists. [Interruption.] He must understand that BSE and CJD will be with us for some years to come, and that long-term research must be done by scientists in Government establishments who do not spend their time looking around for their next job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "No, we are not underwriting it. What we are talking about in the Bill is the normal commercial liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ying to the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. The hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) said, in a rather interesting speech, that the Bill was not theologically wrong and might be a good idea. I am glad to have that rather qualified support. He also said that there was not much accountability in it, but he forgot the role of community health councils, which are important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Residual Liabilities) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "go ahead—there was no doubt about that—but with public sector cash. The hon. Member for Blyth Valley said precisely that. He hoped that there would be a Labour Government and that schemes would then go ahead with public sector cash. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) will be surprised to know that, in some technical respects, he was actually quite correct, and I agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I should like to reiterate the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, North (Mrs. Adams) about stewarding and the need to set guidelines. I know that there are some proposals from the CU Jimmy university to offer a degree in bouncing which may be helpful. I believe that one can obtain a degree in most things there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-01", "file": "debates1996-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "4a2086dc6f0d5f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sam Galbraith", "preceding_text": "s made by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, North (Mrs. Adams) about stewarding and the need to set guidelines. I know that there are some proposals from the CU Jimmy university to offer a degree in bouncing which may be helpful. I believe that one can obtain a degree in most things there. [Interruption.] Caledonian university is known in Tom Shiel's diary as the CU Jimmy university. I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-01a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-02", "file": "debates1996-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e2d3f72640d8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding the fact that the Select Committee represents five different political parties in the House, the unanimous view of everybody on the Committee was that the people of Northern Ireland have had fewer advantages from privatisation than people in the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-02", "file": "debates1996-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e2d3f72640d8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1295.4", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Three times on Tuesday the Prime Minister failed to give a direct answer to questions about discussions he had had with the Deputy Prime Minister. I ask him now whether he has ever discussed with the Deputy Prime Minister the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-02", "file": "debates1996-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e2d3f72640d8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arbitration Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": ", but I think that this one will be the most pleasurable that he has had with me for some time because of the Opposition's position on the Bill. I said earlier that I should be in my constituency as it is local election day. My local agent has substituted me on the loudspeaker with a tape of my favourite, Jimmy Krankie. Worryingly, I understand that nobody has yet been able to tell the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-02", "file": "debates1996-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e2d3f72640d8806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Arbitration Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Yes. However, I am responsible for the content of this Bill, and I cannot anticipate what is in the other Bill. But I will oblige the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-02a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "My geography may be a bit rusty, but I do not think that West Lothian is that far from Midlothian. However, I apologise to the hon. Member for Linlithgow, and to Mr. Gladstone. Again, the hon. Gentleman, like so many of his hon. Friends, is living in a complete time warp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.15.2", "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 was wondering how the right hon. Gentleman would manage to get around to that from privatisation, but I suppose that I should have known from precedent that it does not matter what the first two questions are, the soundbite is always prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.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": " of child benefit for youngsters of 16 and 17, as proposed by the shadow Chancellor and objected to by the shadow Foreign Secretary, will be in Labour's manifesto, at a time when child benefit is being supported by Labour's official spokesman on social security. Perhaps he would care to make that clear speedily. On the merits of the case, there is no doubt that that would be a severe disadvantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share the deep concern of the British people and all of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share the deep concern of the British people and all of us— [Interruption.] I am quoting the Leader of the Opposition, who loves to talk about the British people. We represent the British people here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "y of appallingly low reading standards in three Labour-controlled local authorities? Does he agree that generations of children have been let down educationally and in other ways by the Labour and Liberal parties while the leader of the Labour party and others in that party have rescued their children into Conservative authorities and selective schools but would deny those opportunities to others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "To placate the loony Little Englanders behind him, why does not the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Cattle Disposal Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but can I put it to you, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coombs", "preceding_text": "ensibly, not wasted, and to engage the efforts of the private sector through housing improvement trusts, venture capital trusts and so on, to add to available resources. Tax relief for essential improvements, even though it may exceed the £30,000 limit, is something that the Treasury should examine. There is an argument for allowing capital receipts to be targeted for the purpose in some councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service Pension Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "have long wanted to say about the position of the civil service. I must immediately declare an interest that I had long before Nolan decided to treat us all as criminals. When I left the Army, in 1946, I decided to enter the civil service if possible. I therefore sat the administrative examination, and I have always been rather proud of the fact that I came top of the whole administrative service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service Pension Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "confidence when the specifications for the market testing are produced. I do not know. I rather doubt it. This is a matter of service as opposed to profit. Administration of the scheme should be left in the hands of those who have administered it extremely well over the past decades. That is an important question and I am sorry that the Minister has not answered it. I come now to the second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service Pension Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": " are produced. I do not know. I rather doubt it. This is a matter of service as opposed to profit. Administration of the scheme should be left in the hands of those who have administered it extremely well over the past decades. That is an important question and I am sorry that the Minister has not answered it. I come now to the second point— [Interruption.] Conservative Members are fed up with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-07", "file": "debates1996-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "510779692b32ce2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Service Pension Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "s, all pensioners have been balloted on whether they agree with the change. My challenge to the Minister is very simple: is he prepared to ballot civil servants after the changes have been agreed, or recommended, to find out whether those who will be affected accept the changes? That is a straightforward, simple question. Unfortunately, the Minister has not answered it. There are two points there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-07a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Small Business, Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Small Business, Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) for producing this subject for debate. Like him, I believe that an hour and a half would not be long enough to deal with the enormous success story of promoting enterprise in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rnment, and the House of Commons come to that, were a little less hypocritical and a little more honest about this situation? Is it not a fact that Israel is in occupation of southern Lebanon, against the United Nations resolution? Is it not a fact that any young men in a country under occupation, whether it is Scotland in my historic days, and the right hon. and learned Gentleman's historic days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "It is correct that the Executive should control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two and a half'.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am grateful for your guidance earlier in answering the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central (Mr. Watson). Hon. Members are often involved in work that is associated with their duties as Members of Parliament, and if we are to learn that questions are linked only three and a half hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I have said this at the Dispatch Box before, and I will say it again. If we could afford it, we would carry out the clear will of the people and return the industry to public ownership, but we will not be able to afford it, so we must ensure that the industry is regulated in the interests of customers and the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ruddock", "preceding_text": "they might give the Environment Agency. We challenge the agency to apply the same judgment as its predecessors. It is clear from the debate that short-term and long-term solutions are possible, and that the crisis could have been averted, just as any future crisis could be averted. What is even clearer, however, is that, once again, the Government of drift fail to provide the necessary leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ericay and for Sutton and Cheam raised the questions of London and Essex and went into rants about the Labour-controlled local authorities responsible in both cases. However, they failed to deal with the fact—and my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) made this point powerfully—that local government can respond only to the financial framework that central Government sets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman bears out the charges that I levelled against him. Of course we must look at all these matters to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-08", "file": "debates1996-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b7362738d7be87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has a strange view of history, as the regulations to which I have referred were put in place in 1988. But he has given no categorical assurance. The Government are considering deregulating children's nightclothes, foam-filled furniture and houses in multiple occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-08a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Westminster (District Auditor's Report)", "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": "r city council, in the form of a \"public interest report\", made under section 15(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1982. He has at the same time published a \"statement of reasons\" on which his decisions are based. This case is still subject to the due process of law. In these circumstances, it is appropriate for me to inform the House about the auditor's decisions, but not to comment on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Westminster (District Auditor's Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ed by the Government, it was clearly envisaged that those affected had the right of appeal to a court. That is what the law expected, and the very nature of the structure and the system must lead any fair-minded person to accept that people should be able to appeal to the courts, and that—until that appeal has been heard and the courts have judged—it is not proper, right or decent to condemn them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": " the fact that a Labour councillor in my constituency has resigned from the Labour party on grounds of extreme left-wing activity? A Labour councillor in West Suffolk has done likewise, and joined the Conservative party. Both councillors joined the Labour party believing all the moderate twaddle of new Labour, only to discover the reality: that Labour is still very left-wing in the constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has not said how she feels about the overwhelming majority of serving personnel who do not want to have homosexuals in the military.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ly missed the distinction that I drew between civilian and military life. My hon. Friend has given me a poisoned chalice. Without being facetious, I shall try to answer his first point. The difference between a Secretary of State for Defence and a member of an army unit is that the Secretary of State does not have to sleep every night with the Minister for Procurement or the Armed Forces Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "There may well be some homosexual personnel in the armed forces but they choose to keep that to themselves. That is a matter for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-09", "file": "debates1996-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2b61881676c763e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "That was a splendid sally from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-09a.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-10", "file": "debates1996-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77b73d1b74649f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-10a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Of course it is a problem of our society. It is a problem of an ever more egocentric culture—of members of the \"me generation\" blaring their music to the detriment of everyone else. But my hon. Friend is employing the type of arguments that the European Commission would use to suggest that it is a Europewide problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-10a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-10", "file": "debates1996-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "77b73d1b74649f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-10a.560.9", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "gainst which noise can be assessed. The Bill seeks to provide an additional weapon in the armoury of environmental health officers in the fight against noise nuisance. So often at my constituency surgeries, I am told of the dreadful and frightening conditions in which people find themselves too afraid to ask their neighbours to turn down the noise that prevents them from getting to sleep at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-10a.560.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.761.6", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is being slightly unfair to the Liberal Democrats, who seem to have helped on this occasion with the tax raising. If one looks across local government, one sees that it is Liberal, Lib-Lab and Labour councils that ransack the pockets of council tax payers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.761.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Waffling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I shall be happy to give way, but I want to finish my thought. I am sure that the House is following me with great care. The reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am not a lawyer, so I take advice on such matters. As I understand it, the auditor acts as an auditor and not as a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say to the hon. Member for Blackburn that, if he does not live in Westminster, but sends his children to school there, I am sorry that he does not send his children to school in the borough in which he lives. In Westminster, 17 per cent. of pupils come from homeless families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "nster is different from those applied to other local authorities? No, he has not. He cannot, because the same formula is applied to every local authority in the country. The system is completely open. Has the hon. Gentleman explained why, if the current system is rigged in its favour, Westminster did better under the last Labour Government than it does under the present Government? No, he has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.795.6", "colnum": "795", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "s, would he not have got up two years ago, a month ago, or even last Thursday, and said, \"We propose a radical change in the share-out system.\" He did not do that; he left it to the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong) to say what she thought about it. The hon. Lady told the Local Government Chronicle that she would not like to promise major changes at this stage. I am glad about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.795.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.797.7", "colnum": "797", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "d Southwark only 60 per cent. Hammersmith and Fulham says that it managed 71 per cent., while Islington says that it managed 60 per cent., but again the Audit Commission has its doubts about the figures provided by those last two councils. Children with special educational needs wait longer to be statemented elsewhere in London. In Westminster, 70 per cent. of special educational needs statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.797.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.797.7", "colnum": "797", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "our party. People do not pay more for those high-quality services. They have the lowest council tax bills—£295 at band D. That is £430 less than Hammersmith and Fulham, £436 less than Southwark, £484 less than Camden, and a staggering £558 less than Islington, a council that has a higher RSG than Westminster. The issue is therefore clear: people get a better service at a lower cost. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.797.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Couchman", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has been at great pains to tell us throughout his lengthy speech, these people have recourse to the courts of law, they have not been found guilty in the courts of law and, therefore, they should not be called crooks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ington, Lambeth, Southwark and Tower Hamlets—had more than 1,000 homeless households, ranging in number from 1,164 to 1,690, in temporary accommodation. That is the process that the Leader of the Opposition condemned last Thursday. On that same day, Westminster had 709 homeless families in the same condition. It was an era in which the Department of Social Security office, now the Benefits Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that Conservative Members are deliberately getting things wrong? The primary purpose of the Westminster decision was political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that Conservative Members are deliberately getting things wrong? The primary purpose of the Westminster decision was political. [Interruption.] The purpose of other decisions that were taken in a political context was electoral advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "preceding_text": "I agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is deliberately trying to obfuscate what I am saying, and is so concerned that it might hit home that she is constantly trying to intervene. I made it clear that Dr. Michael Dutt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has just walked in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I will in a minute. May I make just this point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ame across the hon. Gentleman on many occasions when I was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the right hon. and learned John Smith. At that time, I thought that he was the one person in the House who was prepared to say anything knowing that he could not back it up. He was prepared to see the worst in anybody and to say the worst about anybody. He was always prepared to find the worst in anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "we in the House ought to express some feeling for those who have suffered because of it. We have had a remarkable debate, but a sad one. The Secretary of State ran away from the issues and tried to blame other people. It is never an answer to try to blame other people for one's own sins, or to say that one wrong can be outdone by another. No one here has sought to defend wrongdoing in any council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "FISHERY LIMITS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " The Secretary of State ran away from the issues and tried to blame other people. It is never an answer to try to blame other people for one's own sins, or to say that one wrong can be outdone by another. No one here has sought to defend wrongdoing in any council— [Interruption.] I am being asked who the Secretary of State has blamed. In the past week, he has blamed the Labour party and the press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education (Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "ke to digress a moment to flag up to the Minister that concerns have been expressed to me about the role of Capita, the company handling the vouchers. Allegedly, that company is also involved in other activities in certain boroughs. Does the Minister agree that the fact that the company is also dealing with council tax collection on behalf of a local authority might lead to a conflict of interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-14", "file": "debates1996-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "8208203bc91127b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursery Education (Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " in her emollient speech that day the origin of tonight's grants and regulations? Since Mrs. Thatcher's speech 24 years ago, Britain has enjoyed about £120 billion-worth of North sea oil revenues and about £80 billion from privatisation moneys. For all but four of the 24 years since that speech the Conservatives have held power, yet the advance of nursery school provision has been wretchedly slow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-14a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The recent activities to which the hon. Gentleman refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Largely because it was bought by a state-owned Italian-French company. If the hon. Gentleman is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Forensic Explosives Laboratory", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The way in which my right hon. and learned Friend has dealt with this matter so far has been exemplary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman reminds the House that it is but eight weeks since my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and I made our statements. It seems like eight years from my point of view and that of the industry, but no matter for that. There has not been a deterioration in the situation. The 30-month scheme is running, and it is running effectively. We hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for giving way. His remarks about help for prime beef under 30 months old will be greatly welcomed by Suffolk farmers. May I echo other hon. Members' concern about slaughtering, because I do not think that one abattoir in Norfolk or Suffolk is working? In fact, I believe that just one abattoir in East Anglia, at Brentwood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "and is still a part of the United Kingdom. May I say that I welcome most heartily his plans about immediate storage? Northern Ireland has immediate capacity for storage, so why cannot the slaughter happen there tomorrow? We have to slaughter 6,000 head of cattle every week, and we could proceed now because we have the storage. Can he give the green light to that slaughter, if I might use that term", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "ut to make. In 1978 and 1979, the Government were actively discouraging increased milk production. In 1979, the first Conservative Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food—now Lord Walker—was appointed; he immediately realised that we had to push up milk production in this country so that we would be ready when milk quotas were, inevitably, imposed. Of course, he gave every encouragement to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me to pursue my line of thought and then I will give way. By 1983, as a result of all the investment and encouragement in farming, our milk production was increasing dramatically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "oblems. We must face the reality of exactly what happened on 20 March. First, the SEAC report was leaked to the press and was immediately printed in the Daily Mirror. The hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) put down a private notice question at 12.15 and the Government had no choice but to make a statement that afternoon. They were pushed into that. That is why there was no consultation in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. I believe that the time has come for us to retaliate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman like to know that it has just been announced that the veterinary standing committee has turned us down? Does he agree that the logjam to which he has just referred is absolutely outrageous and that the Government must take sufficient action, including the suspension of payments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will read my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman has heard the latest news", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-15", "file": "debates1996-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c8ca0ee4b4955c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ople will ever die of CJD. The Government's blundering ineptitude throughout the past 10 years, in ignoring the problem and not tackling it—not doing research on transmission and so on—has caused the crisis. Their ineptitude has caused the appalling crisis of confidence, the difficult relations with the European Community and so on. We are paying the price for a decade of extremely bad government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-15a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1062.4", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Why does not the Chancellor tell the European bankers, Chirac and anybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1062.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "er stability of currency and low inflation. One should encourage the maximum amount of openness in that. I am not in favour of making these decisions subject to the European Parliament. I do not think that such decisions in any country should be subject to short-term political considerations, and that is why I am in favour of openness and a declared inflation target—something Labour does not have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1064.6", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": " be revised—is an earnest of the fact that we will get more jobs in future. However, his Front-Bench colleagues take a different view. The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), in delivering what the Financial Times called a robust defence of income inequalities to KPMG—not the favourite firm of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown)—takes a different view from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1064.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on; get up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Ministers must give brisk answers. I call Mr. Geoffrey Robinson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to study the speech of the shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment at the weekend, when he said that Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1070.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "sday, certain Westminster Conservative councillors were called serial killers by Labour Members in the House. I have raised factual information that anyone can see in the register of companies at Companies house. That information points the finger at a Labour councillor. It is disgraceful that Labour Members are not prepared to have a situation pointed out to them, and want to cover up corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": " was under 5 million. Thirdly, and most important for the future, we played a major part in ensuring the success of the Uruguay round of negotiations, which included a far-reaching agreement on agriculture. That agreement set world agricultural trade on a liberalising course. We have also taken the lead in combating fraud. In short, the United Kingdom is leading the debate in Europe on CAP reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "into the continent may be wise at this time. That is clearly very unhelpful, and I think that British farmers are entitled to say, \"Thanks a lot.\" On 3 April, I attended a dinner of 450 farmers, their families, butchers and other people associated with the meat trade. There was obviously enormous concern among those present. I made a speech and attempted to avoid making any party political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ed recently. We need a Ministry to look after the interests of consumers in the food industry, not merely those of producers. We need to remove the Ministry's marked slant towards producers, not consumers. I hope that Labour Front Benchers will make such an announcement before the next general election. Like others, I have an interest to declare. I speak on behalf of the lowland farmers of Newham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ator. What a terrible thing to happen. I wish they could cull some Conservative Members. I would like to see some of them go down to the abattoirs and the renderers, although I do not know what good will come of them even if we put them through the renderers, because nothing in their composition is useful to any human being. That is how I see it. I have received a letter from the Hindus of Newham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "I hope that it is not. The hon. Gentleman should appreciate that we wanted to get the scheme going quickly because we did not want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend, who has summed up the motivation of all the Members who have missed their last trains tonight and who are sitting here this evening. They are showing an uncharacteristic interest in farming issues—there must some other motive, and people can come to their own conclusions. I wish to pay tribute to the speech tonight from the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-16", "file": "debates1996-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9e4191c37e3cd5df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "al issues, including advance payment on the flat rate per head of animals. He referred to other issues that he and his colleagues from Dorset have raised with us individually. I can assure him that we shall pay particular attention to the points that he raised. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset for making clear to the House the genesis of how the feed procedures were changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-16a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1186.6", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Is it possible that those young people were anticipating, God forbid, a Labour Government together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "compared with those of America, Europe, Japan and the far east. The logic of the hon. Gentleman's proposition seems to be that we should reduce support even more to solve the problems—that amazes me. If the Minister took the trouble to find out, he would learn from everyone who works in the sector that the most crucial element in post-16 education for people from deprived backgrounds is transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The Minister must allow me to make my speech in my way. I have said clearly that we attach great priority to the matter, and that is why the party is developing a review of funding arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " in my way. I have said clearly that we attach great priority to the matter, and that is why the party is developing a review of funding arrangements. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] We are developing a review for the funding of the post-16 age group with the clear intention of allocating additional resources to certain categories of students. We have made it clear that the present system is also selective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "When it emerges from a privatised monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-17", "file": "debates1996-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "459b562f90d261e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You should go and join them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that my remarks are cheap, but it was rich of the Labour party to hold a press conference recently at which the smiling faces did not hide the chasm between Labour Members on child benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-17a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "The problem is with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reserve Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention. He is the only serving reservist in the House. As such, he is someone whom we should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reserve Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "r and his support for my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury. I should like to tell my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson)—to whom I wish also to pay tribute for his many years of service, not only in the reserves and in the cadets—that I wholly agree with him that this is a national question, not a partisan question to do with some small section of the armed forces. The TA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reserve Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "peech that I have tried to make as brief as possible was, in fact, devoted to making a major announcement about the RAF, so my hon. Friend has had quite a good go of it. Irrespective of what I have said, there are a number of technical reasons why I cannot accept the new clause as it stands. I hope that my hon. Friend will understand. I feel obliged, out of courtesy, to list those reasons briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reserve Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "re still suspicious of the rationale and the implications that lie behind the Bill, but we have no hesitation in welcoming the introduction of the Commonwealth private investment initiative. During the Government's dying months, however, we want to be kept fully informed of developments. When the Labour Government take office after the next election, the House will receive an annual report. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-20", "file": "debates1996-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "62fe2ed2a42f5ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Reserve Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend understands the hysteria of Conservative Members. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-20a.66.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.94.9", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me put the hon. Gentleman straight. The Prime Minister has no ministerial responsibility whatever for any funding for his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.94.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.95.9", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.95.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.95.10", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.95.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "estion. TESSAs have proved a huge success. Literally billions of pounds have been saved by families in TESSAs; many of them are now coming to maturity, and a large proportion of that matured sum is now being reinvested. I believe that that is the right way to encourage wealth, for the determination of individual purchases and to pass on between generations. We believe in the acquisition of wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.97.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": " no practical possibility of it being reimported into the Community. A third element is the ban on beef from specialist beef herds, in particular slow-maturing, grass-fed herds that have never seen a single case of BSE and are among the finest in the world. As soon as appropriate verification schemes are in place—and preparations are already well advanced—we shall ask the Council to lift this ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " place for easing the wider ban totally by 21 June, Britain will engage in a policy of non-co-operation. May I ask two questions about that? First, what does the Prime Minister believe would be an acceptable framework and time scale for easing the wider ban? Secondly, and more importantly, I ask him to be specific as to what the policy of non-co-operation actually means. For example, does it mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y by 21 June, Britain will engage in a policy of non-co-operation. May I ask two questions about that? First, what does the Prime Minister believe would be an acceptable framework and time scale for easing the wider ban? Secondly, and more importantly, I ask him to be specific as to what the policy of non-co-operation actually means. For example, does it mean— [Interruption.] Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "vernmental conference unless the ban is lifted? Will the policy involve, as we read in the newspapers yesterday, the blocking of progress on Europol, and Europewide co-operation on policing? That suggestion has been made. I assume from what the Prime Minister said that he has a clear strategy. At the moment the language is strong, but there is an absence of particulars as to exactly what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "dence? Should not one part of our strategy be a massive information and propaganda exercise in other member states—this has been suggested by representatives of the farming interests and by hon. Members from all parties— to tell those states exactly what we are doing, why it has dealt with the problem and why our beef is safe? May I put it to the right hon. Genetleman that farmers in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " either to the farming industry or to our European partners to warn them or to secure their agreement to the measures that were being taken? Can he imagine any other Government behaving in that way? Does he accept that, at every stage—the years up to March 1996, the announcement itself, the policy of the slaughter scheme and the conduct of negotiations—his Government have shown a talent for error?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "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/1996-05-21a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "way consider it an insult to be referred to as \"new Labour\". The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) says that European leaders have been over here, I have wined and dined them and then they have gone home and voted against us. But President Chirac voted for us. The hon. Gentleman makes one assertion, and he gets it wrong. It is good to see that old Labour is alive and kicking, if not thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "EU Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n the intergovernmental conference. The IGC cannot reach a conclusion without unanimity, so it cannot reach a conclusion unless this matter is completely determined. Neither will the present agenda at the foreign summit proceed unless it deals with the beef question. Apparently none of those facts reached the hon. Gentleman. He clearly was not listening earlier, so I hope that he is listening now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "hon. and hon. Members provided by article 9 of the Bill of Rights and about the erosion of that cherished constitutional principle. We are also concerned about a possible arbitrariness. A potential litigant would not know if, when and to what extent a Member of Parliament involved in litigation would waive parliamentary privilege. That, in turn, could lead to uncertainty in the law and unfairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bodmin Moor Commons Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to pass on to the House what my hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Coe) muttered to me—that the great deregulator is now apparently intervening to try to introduce greater regulation into our legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bodmin Moor Commons Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for describing the position so clearly. I had recognised that to be the position. There is no intention of preventing the Bill's passage entirely. It is recognised that there is much in it of value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "solutely true—where the plaintiff is a private person who cannot get legal aid and the defendant is often a wealthy corporation. I would love it if we could incorporate something in the Bill to address the fact that plaintiffs who cannot get legal aid can hardly find a barrister to do the job for less than £300 or £400 an hour. In fact, silks charge about £1,000 an hour, which is simply appalling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-21", "file": "debates1996-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef43962446d4ea24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "—or about the editor of The Times , and sometimes I feel provoked to do both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-21a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": " State for Education and Employment, but it is essential that we examine the basics of education in our primary schools to ensure that children are not deprived of their basic right—the ability to read, write and add up. An issue raised at Question Time on Monday, which will no doubt be raised from time to time, is the problem of the legal aid fund. Under this Government, expenditure on legal aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "That hysterical outburst—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "There is no proposal whatsoever that children should be taken out of school as slave labour, or for any of the other ridiculous assumptions that the hon. Gentleman made. The Government propose in a consultation document to float the idea that young children aged from 14 could spend up to one day a week either in the workplace or a further education college.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I understand that one of our main daily newspapers describes contributions to debates by the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Foster) and myself as sleep-inducing and boring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "It depends what the right hon. Gentleman means by \"progress\". I assume that the relevant Select Committee will report before the summer recess and that I shall have the opportunity to study its recommendations and perhaps even discuss the matter again. Therefore, we shall not conclude the process until that has occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "tional asset which, since the 1870s, has been a permanent and impartial instrument of all Administrations. The new Government will recognise their duty to preserve its efficiency and honesty for their successor. Thirdly, we shall halt privatisation of the service. Fourthly, we shall place a moratorium on market testing while we institute a thorough independent review, but the drive for efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson) has a 6,500 majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " The Government have been driven by dogma to the point of recklessness in the exercise of their duty of care to the independence, impartiality and integrity of the British civil service. With 500,000 civil servants—many living in marginal seats such as that of my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich—a reasonable person would expect the Government to heed Voltaire's advice as the election approaches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Civil Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "preceding_text": "ss to RAS records. However, it is a monumental irrelevance to the operation and effectiveness of the civil service. I believe that it is potentially damaging, too, as I shall argue. Why, then, are the Government proceeding with this privatisation? I offer three reasons: because it is there; because the Deputy Prime Minister feels like it; and because the Government want to notch up further scalps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-05-22", "file": "debates1996-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "061c921d040fb947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I shall refer to performance indicators later. That is a different matter: it is not so much about the efficiency of the authority as the quality of service delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-05-22a.357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.391.6", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend seen the international reports stating that the ozone layer is recovering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.391.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can have it in the winding-up speech, but I have just given the House the figure. It is 2 per cent. of the cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "e cost. [Interruption.] Each voucher is £1,100, and 2 per cent. of £1,100 is £22. I hope that that will satisfy the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall). As the hon. Member for Linlithgow gets older, he continues to ask important questions. I wish that his friends on the Opposition Front Bench would answer the famous West Lothian question, which is so much a part of the vital debate in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ow gets older, he continues to ask important questions. I wish that his friends on the Opposition Front Bench would answer the famous West Lothian question, which is so much a part of the vital debate in Scotland. [Interruption.] I know that the hon. Member for Dumbarton does not want me to talk about these matters, but they are extremely important in the context of education, because our ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I shall do a deal with the hon. Lady. If she will give up all the ideas that are unworkable and useless and which are part of her party's programme, I shall certainly give that commitment, which I would freely give any way. The Government have never been attached to any policies that are unworkable and useless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.9", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the House has been listening to what I have been saying. I said that in respect of the pilot schemes, 71 centres in the voluntary and private sectors have applied to be newly recognised. If we give people purchasing power, the market will provide to meet their needs. For those in the Western Isles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.9", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "efits of the voucher system are already apparent. A partnership involving the public, private and voluntary sectors has been established and is working very well; so well, in fact, that its members are confident that between them they will be able to provide a place for every child in East Renfrewshire in their pre-school year from the start of the voucher system in August for the first time ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.411.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.414.7", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": " have grasped the breadth of the voucher initiative. On the contrary, bound up in their concern to fossilise present arrangements, they focus on a narrow set of issues and seek to deny parents the benefit of the expansion in opportunity that our policy would bring. They have concentrated on worrying people with mischievous talk of high costs and poor-quality provision—myths of their own invention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.414.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "I greatly appreciate the Secretary of State's generosity. As there is to be an important quality assurance, will he tell us how many of the inspectorate will be involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked my hon. Friend to give him the answer, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will do so when he winds up. However, the answer is that we shall be recruiting two new people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked my hon. Friend to give him the answer, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will do so when he winds up. However, the answer is that we shall be recruiting two new people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Two?\"]—to supplement the existing considerable resources of the inspectorate for this purpose. All centres will be subject to regular and rigorous�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": ", the answer is that we shall be recruiting two new people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Two?\"]—to supplement the existing considerable resources of the inspectorate for this purpose. All centres will be subject to regular and rigorous�ž [Interruption.] Opposition Members sit there mocking, but they are quite happy to have Labour councils running nursery provision which is not subject to inspection at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "We are proposing a national system of testing that will be externally applied. Whether parents are not prepared to allow their children to take part in the testing is of course a matter for them. I am determined that in every school in Scotland there should be an opportunity for children to be tested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ong last time, and where he fell foul of public and Conservative party opinion in Scotland. What brought about the right hon. Gentleman's downfall then was not a campaign by the teaching unions or by the intelligentsia in Scotland against testing, but a boycott by parents—the very parents he now says should have the choice. They brought him down and almost terminally affected his political career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "g done to create new places. The Government are waiting for providers to appear like street peddlers on the day of a football match. It will be a bureaucratic nightmare. Administration has already taken £3 million out of the pot available for the pilot studies, with an unspecified amount going to the consultants, Capita. That sum alone would have provided some 1,800 nursery places across Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "n, what was there before. We should not denigrate what was in place before. We should recognise the achievements, and pay tribute to those who have served on the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council. All of them have contributed something. I had just got used to SCOTVEC, NVQs and SVQs, but now I suppose I must start getting used to talking about the SQA instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "etary of State may have been making the same mistake as his Conservative colleagues in Falkirk, who tried to insinuate that I was at the university at the time of the debacle of the Queen's visit in 1972. At a funeral in Stirling last week, I was told by an elderly lady that I had been blamed for that. But I had been living in Canterbury from June of that year, and I had not been back to Stirling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "t programme of secondary schools in Scotland at S1 and S2 if there is some benefit to be gained from national test items. The real question is how much longer the people of Scotland must suffer from the fanatical zealotry coming out of St. Andrews. That mad Hayekian model of the economy filtered through the Adam Smith Institute and into the heart and the mind of the Conservative party in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "ucratic nightmare will be repeated three times a year, once in each term. Does the Minister call that efficient? How does he think that it can be run cheaply? That description does not even take into account the chaos that will result from the parents' confusion about the working of such a complicated system. I will use the English example again because the scheme has been put into practice there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": " Scottish Office. Without warning through the usual channels, we have learned that the Government will introduce new proposals for compulsory testing at S1 and S2. The fact that we are getting this information so late in the day is a measure of the Government's lack of respect for the House and the nature of the debate. These are major issues and we should have had the opportunity to discuss them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": " is a surprising recurrence of the names of those who frequent that lounge among those who appear in quangos. However, that is not why I am concerned about the membership of the Scottish Qualifications Authority. Broad-based expertise must be made available to the authority. We have seen through the Scottish Examination Board and the Scottish Vocational Education Council how that expertise can be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-04", "file": "debates1996-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "f8bece38651f2543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "n Scotland today from a Secretary of State who should have learned his lesson the last time he was hounded out of Scotland for introducing tests that parents opposed. The Secretary of State talked about doctrinaire egalitarianism. I believe in egalitarianism. The Scottish education system, from John Knox onwards, has believed in egalitarianism. I believe in equality of opportunity for every child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-04a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "be so denigrated. They are equal, if not superior, professions. Teacher training colleges must address that as well. As part of their jubilee celebrations, pupils at Montgomerie county infants and junior schools in my constituency are planting a time capsule on Monday 1 July. The special plastic capsule was provided by the European Nature Conservation Council, which has set up a nationwide scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.557.7", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eastham", "preceding_text": "oney where your mouth is and start spending on schools. You have to give them good working conditions. Some schools in Manchester are Portakabins with holes in the walls. They have no heating and are rat infested and you are doing nothing about it. It cannot be said that it is up to a Labour Government because Labour is in opposition. For God's sake, the Government have been in power for 17 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.557.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Minister said at the end of his reply, I hope that he will take the opportunity after Question Time to give a resume of those benefits to the local protesters who are visiting Westminster today to make clear the depth of not just local opposition but Scotland-wide and international opposition to what is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " officially connected, to proceedings pending in Parliament, or to matters of administration for which they are responsible. That is on page 285 if hon. Members would like to study it further. Elsewhere, \"Erskine May\" says—it for the benefit of those Members who put questions— The purpose of a question is to obtain information or press for action … it should not be in effect a short speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Choice of Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "their children and have made choices—whether of public, independent, grant-maintained or grammar schools or schools on the other side of London or in any other conurbation. I support what they are doing, because they are doing the right thing as parents, and they should be protected from the wrath of members of the real Labour party who have ganged up on them and said the nastiest things possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Proceedings (Welsh)", "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 debate in March that Norman French was still used in the other place when Royal Assent is signified to Acts of Parliament by Commission. The formula used—I have heard it many times—is \"La Reyne le veult\". Norman French is also used by the Clerks, I am told—I did not know this before—in the endorsements that are written on Bills as they pass from one House to the other. I see the Clerk nodding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Proceedings (Welsh)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ed solidly to get this through, assisting me in the recommendations that we have made to the House. I am pleased at the speed with which our report has been taken by the House. I urge all Welsh Members to use their influence on their leaders to ensure that other Procedure Committee reports are debated as quickly as this one. I would have liked a \"Hear, hear\" from Opposition Members on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-05", "file": "debates1996-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "37f9339cbb1c4206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Proceedings (Welsh)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Sweeney", "preceding_text": "and we all speak English in the House and its Committees. Such use of English may originally have been part of a campaign to discriminate against Welsh, as the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) suggested, but no reasonable hon. Member could doubt that the rule serves the convenience of monoglot Members, who should not be discriminated against. Most hon. Members can speak English fluently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-05a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.708.6", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " unworkable, the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge) says that they are ridiculous, and the Association of Chief Police Officers' spokesman says that they would give rise to huge practical difficulties. The only curfew that the Labour party is ever likely to impose is a curfew on the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) himself. It all goes to show that the Labour party cannot be trusted on crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.708.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.712.7", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "As ever, the Opposition are totally incapable of distinguishing between quality and quantity. I will give the hon. Gentleman some of the facts. We inherited from the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.712.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.730.5", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "ecently returned from the United States where they took part in Exercise Purple Star, the first exercise involving the permanent joint headquarters. The exercise was the largest combined United Kingdom/United States deployment since the Gulf war. It involved 12,000 personnel from the United Kingdom, including elements of the joint rapid deployment force, and 45,000 from the United States. A total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does he mean the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that these difficult and complex matters are dealt with by my hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement—the brains sitting to my left. My hon. Friend will refer to that matter later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Northavon (Sir J. Cope) criticised the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Campbell), the Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, for having made a fairly thin speech. I think that those were the words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ado F3, which was a wise and sensible decision that had the added advantage of protecting the vital Eurofighter 2000 programme, which we must do nothing to undermine. We are depending on that aircraft, and on it coming in on time. Can my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Defence Procurement give an assurance that decisions on the following programmes will be announced before the summer recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "That is nonsense. The problem is that the Labour party does not believe in defence. It believes in a number of different concepts, and defence comes at the end of the queue for spending. It might be a good idea if I moved on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-06", "file": "debates1996-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6e0f49a38f46310f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": " decisions shortly. In December last year, we issued an invitation to tender for the future medium-range air-to-air missile, which with the advanced short-range air-to-air missile will provide Eurofighter's key weapons for the air defence role. We also expect to announce shortly the winning bid in the competition to supply a replacement for the RAF's aging fleet of Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-06a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.835.6", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not the Speaker. Perhaps that is what he is aspiring to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.835.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.835.13", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "is speeches, obviously has—she would know that we have already said that we believe that teachers, who have gone through some damaging hoops as a result of the changes in Government education policy, should be recognised for that extra work. We would be rather more proactive than the Minister's Department in having talks with the Department for Education and Employment about resolving the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.835.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.838.7", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Southampton is Labour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ay, of course, Madam Deputy Speaker, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman was attempting to make a serious point, which I have covered before, and it concerns us. I must tell him that the councils that he mentioned are, of course, Conservative councils which have blocked the developments—but there is a bigger and much more important point than a party political point to be made on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.838.9", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": " that conversation with the right hon. and learned Member for Putney (Mr. Mellor), a former Minister, who, I must say, was so important to football when he was in office. I gave way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman because I thought that he intended to refer to the disabled groups. That is why I asked whether he wanted to intervene on that point. May I return to that most important subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.838.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leicester City.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "ped to catch your eye after the speech of the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Mr. Pendry), because I wanted to congratulate him on the restraint that he showed in his speech by not mentioning the fact that Derby County—his beloved Derby—is now part of that èlite. One hopes to goodness that Derby, Sunderland up in the north-east, and—which is the other team that has just been promoted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-07", "file": "debates1996-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "c05edaa168d20fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "oliganism—increasing restriction orders and punishment levels, and tightening the laws on racial abuse—to broaden the appeal of the game. I am pleased to report that 20 per cent. of the people who have bought tickets for Euro 96 are women, compared with only 13 per cent. of those who go to premiership matches. The hon. Member for Welwyn and Hatfield (Mr. Evans), in a temperate and moderate speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-07a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-10", "file": "debates1996-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "d43de8348c6ca353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-10a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. As a late and unlikely convert to the bicycle, I am convinced that it has a major role to play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-10a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-10", "file": "debates1996-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "d43de8348c6ca353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-10a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "ve judged appropriate and then seek to recover a contribution from the individual. Incidentally, the amendment does not create any power for the authority to recover the individual's contribution once it has assessed it. The amendment might, in fact, prevent authorities from securing any financial contribution where they make direct payments. Again, the level playing field would be out the window.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-10a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.111.4", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": " employment and industrial base in awarding defence contracts and abandoned the hands-off approach that they have adopted in the past 17 years? Is the Minister aware that more than 300 jobs at GEC-Marconi Avionics in my constituency depend on the awarding of the Sea King airborne early warning contract? The rival bids involve far more development and manufacturing work that is being done overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.111.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.111.12", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Billionaire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister heard today's admission by the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Cash) that Sir James Goldsmith is helping to fund his faction within the Conservative party? Does it strike the Prime Minister as odd that a foreign-based millionaire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.111.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The problem is that the right hon. Gentleman's political party is now moving towards advocating that programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " otherwise. The Government have got themselves into an impossible position over BSE. One could see it coming. The Government have made it quite clear that they want the European Union to back down, but the European Union is not going to back down. Jacques Santer was quite right to remind the Government that other European Union countries are not prepared to let us walk all over the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ciation of independent and sovereign nations, and, sooner or later, they are going to say to Britain, \"If you do not like the rules, there is the door. You can walk out and you can leave.\" If that were to be the case—if Conservative Europhobes were to get their way—it would be disastrous for this country. There is no future for this country, economically or politically, outside the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " going to say to Britain, \"If you do not like the rules, there is the door. You can walk out and you can leave.\" If that were to be the case—if Conservative Europhobes were to get their way—it would be disastrous for this country. There is no future for this country, economically or politically, outside the European Union— [Interruption.] It is about time that that was recognised. The final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ion of British Industry conference about discipline, detention and dealing with bullies, perhaps she could start with her own party and make it clear that she is not prepared to put up with the bullying tactics of the Minister without Portfolio, the right hon. Member for Peterborough (Dr. Mawhinney), who throws his weight about in suggesting that the Prime Minister, having given a particular task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "As I shall show this afternoon, every time Labour announces a policy, the Secretary of State comes up with her own version of it a few days later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "his Front-Bench colleagues or the structure of education with his own views, with those of the left-wing Campaign group of his party or with those of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) and the hon. Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg), or—since the hon. Member for Brightside talked a lot about polls— with those of 74 per cent. of Labour parliamentary candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady earlier drew comparisons with Labour local authorities. Will she cast her mind back to the time when she was a leading light in Norfolk county council's education authority? She may even have been the chair of that authority for a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "rity? She may even have been the chair of that authority for a time— [Interruption.] Does she recall that, when she played a leading role in Norfolk education, it was probably the worst authority in the country? It was at the bottom for the league for expenditure on books, for expenditure on pupils and for class sizes, for expenditure on buildings. Independent observers held it up as an authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "thority for a time— [Interruption.] Does she recall that, when she played a leading role in Norfolk education, it was probably the worst authority in the country? It was at the bottom for the league for expenditure on books, for expenditure on pupils and for class sizes, for expenditure on buildings. Independent observers held it up as an authority— [Interruption.] Its results were very poor, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.145.4", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "wo groups, they will each have half a lesson. The difference between our schools and those in the far east, where children are two years ahead, is that they are all taught together in classes far larger than ours. I do not accept that it is a matter of class size. I have seen classes of 60 or 70 in Japan, Taiwan and throughout the far east that have higher standards and discipline than those here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.145.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ial. It is a great pity that the Secretary of State, who I believe agrees with that aim, has been forced to capitulate to the Prime Minister, and now seems to be following him down a well-trodden dead end. It is also a pity that she has been forced to continue to promote that other pet project of the Prime Minister—grant-maintained schools—which is a failed policy initiative if ever there was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "who I believe agrees with that aim, has been forced to capitulate to the Prime Minister, and now seems to be following him down a well-trodden dead end. It is also a pity that she has been forced to continue to promote that other pet project of the Prime Minister—grant-maintained schools—which is a failed policy initiative if ever there was one. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Opposition Members may recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-11", "file": "debates1996-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c329495e1ebe9e4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "been very successful in doing—and industry should pay for that research. Near-market research, on which the wealth creators will capitalise and cash in, should be funded by business. We should introduce a tax regime that encourages business to do that and create the trading conditions in which business can make a success of its research. Some blue-sky research should be financed by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-11a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-12", "file": "debates1996-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "976a866cdc81a7d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "nd Mladic, and any military operation that was mounted to do so would undoubtedly involve substantial loss of international life. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that we should put all possible pressure on the President of Serbia, Mr. Milosevic, to intervene to try to get to Messrs. Karadzic and Mladic. I am afraid that the President of Serbia does not have total control over the Bosnian Serbs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-12", "file": "debates1996-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "976a866cdc81a7d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jessel", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, at UNESCO's palatial headquarters in Paris, where 2,000 people work, most of the experienced middle management were sacked and replaced by a lot of left-wing trendies, and long-haired men and short-haired women who wore sandals in the office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-12", "file": "debates1996-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "976a866cdc81a7d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "port of the Health Select Committee on NHS dentistry that concluded that improvements in oral health achieved by a positive health promotion strategy would enable the Government to reintroduce at no additional cost free dental checks and a free core service of routine treatment? Why was that idea not pursued with the BDA? As someone who has been told by his NHS dentist to go private or to go away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-12a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not closing hospitals; providing better facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has not answered the question about whether such an assurance has been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has not answered the question about whether such an assurance has been given. [Interruption.] He has not answered it. When he gets to his feet again, let him say, yes or no, whether such an assurance was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ime Minister has not answered the question about whether such an assurance has been given. [Interruption.] He has not answered it. When he gets to his feet again, let him say, yes or no, whether such an assurance was given. [Interruption.] Have Conservative Members any idea of the anger that people feel at the way in which decisions are taken when such closures are happening all round the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold), along with other hon. Members, must come to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It would be a lengthy business to refute all the nonsense that the right hon. Gentleman just uttered. I shall use just one illustration. If the Referendum Bill was designed solely as the right hon. Gentleman suggested, why did one of his hon. Friends vote for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.419.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that the person who has done more to undermine confidence in the local education system is the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), who moved his child out of Islington because he thought that standards were quite inadequate. The hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) moved her child from Southwark to Bromley because she knew that, under the Labour party, schools would never be properly run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a statement, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, that we have slipped from 13th to 18th in the prosperity league table while the Government have been in office. It has done that with the backing of the OECD and the Library of the House of Commons. In order to make the position worse, Labour has included Hong Kong and Singapore in the statistics, which of course are not members of the OECD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am now weary of comments from a sedentary position from the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ter have to accept the fact that, if one wants to destroy an economy, one fails to invest and one fails to educate and train the population to a sufficiently high level? That is the accusation against the Government. The right hon. Gentleman reduced the tone of the debate this afternoon when he referred to the education of the children of my right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman thinks that it is not of political significance when the Leader of the Opposition takes his child out of a Labour borough's education system and if he thinks that that is not a reflection of the quality of education in Labour authorities, I do not know what is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-13", "file": "debates1996-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4cc3ea5fd6cbb6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Competitiveness White Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nobody would support the hon. Gentleman more than me, in paying tribute to the remarkable achievements of the civil aerospace and aviation industry in this country. It has been a great triumph since it was privatised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-13a.436.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Child Abuse (North Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roger Sims", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.524.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Child Abuse (North Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "artedly, I have to say that my colleagues in Clwyd have been calling for one for a long time. We have been aware of the kind of abuse that is happening. One of my constituents came to my surgery and described the kind of things that went on. They are horrendous—there is no other way of describing them—and I am delighted that we are now to look at this matter. Although these matters are historical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The Minister's response is as grudging as it is mean-spirited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "New clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "New clause 10 seeks to give the court the power to provide for the separate representation of children and their interests in circumstances when it would appear to the court, on the evidence before it, that the interests of a child may be in conflict with those of either or both parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I support the amendment, but shall try to speak only briefly because I am conscious that we still have much work to do tonight. I agree with many of the remarks of the hon. Member for Leicester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "This is also the first occasion when I have spoken to the Minister across the Dispatch Box, so I welcome him to his new post and congratulate him. It is not the first time that I have spoken since the hon. Gentleman has been on the Treasury Bench, because as a Whip, he occasionally growled approval or disapproval at my comments. I hope tonight that his bite will be a lot worse than his bark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " marriages that have broken up and where the children who are being supported through the CSA are in a better financial position than the children of the second marriage, and where the wife of the second marriage has to go to work and utilise all her earnings and part of her husband's to meet the demands of the CSA—which, when it is shown to be wrong at tribunals, takes months to rectify mistakes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "When we are talking about people's lives and when children's interests are at risk, I sometimes wonder why it is so necessary for hon. Members to discuss the racing at Sandown or Ascot or other matters. There will come a time when the CSA formula will need to be examined. Indeed, it needs to be reviewed. These amendments could be considered in the other place as a means to examine the settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "d when children's interests are at risk, I sometimes wonder why it is so necessary for hon. Members to discuss the racing at Sandown or Ascot or other matters. There will come a time when the CSA formula will need to be examined. Indeed, it needs to be reviewed. These amendments could be considered in the other place as a means to examine the settlements— [Interruption.] Has the Minister finished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.625.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-17", "file": "debates1996-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "aa58995577fe276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-17a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is on to an important point. We have increased commitment to front-line services, delivering more treatment to more patients than ever before in the history of the NHS. The Labour party is more concerned with dogma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.675.4", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady is saying that people below income support level are not receiving free prescriptions, they are entitled to do so. The hon. Lady has only to add up the numbers about which we are talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.675.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seventeen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ere is no doubt that there is a great deal more that we wish to do to ensure that the quality of education for all our children is the equal of the quality of education anywhere else in the world. That is our intention, and we will continue to pursue it, despite the failures of so many Labour-controlled education authorities whose records have held back many children in inner London and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "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 did not waste my time watching \"Panorama\" last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " of the child benefit system. The fraudster must usually claim to be from abroad. If they claim to be from the European Economic Area or a British citizen brought up abroad, they will now have to pass the habitual residence test. That route is distinctly unattractive for the multiple identity fraudster, but it would be reopened by the Opposition, who propose to abolish the habitual residence test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "her words, taxpayers will pay a massive sum to invest in high technology that will make it easier rather than more difficult for people to commit fraud in claiming benefits to which they are not entitled. It will, we hope, prevent some fraud in stolen giros and impersonations, but it will not deal with fraud committed before that part of the operation. That is the part on which I am concentrating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "If the Minister will bear with me for a moment, he will hear the full argument about the extent to which deregulation has not just led to a huge increase in expenditure but opened the door to a level of fraud that is a disgrace and that, instead of being used to help people in need, is lining the pockets of people who should not be receiving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I remind the Secretary of State that I made it clear, in my response to an earlier intervention, that I thought it absolutely right for local government officers to be able to continue to pursue the fight against fraud in an effective and proper way. I have no doubt that that should be the case regardless of the London borough, or other local authority, in which those officers work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "tive Members who, over many years, have tried to stamp out fraud. When he was chairman of Islington housing committee, what did he ever do to clamp down on benefit fraud? Nothing. It is all very well to produce sneering comments about small landlords and to attack what the Government are doing, but tonight I should like to stand up and be counted. The Conservative Government have revolutionalised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "e tried to stamp out fraud. When he was chairman of Islington housing committee, what did he ever do to clamp down on benefit fraud? Nothing. It is all very well to produce sneering comments about small landlords and to attack what the Government are doing, but tonight I should like to stand up and be counted. The Conservative Government have revolutionalised— [Interruption.] They have revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Benefit Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Labour authorities are no doubt co-operating. I have met benefit investigators working for the Benefits Agency, who are experts in their sector. Every area that I visited last year has achieved record weekly benefit savings, and they are committed to doing even better this year. It is wrong for the Labour Front-Bench spokesman to criticise investigators and to pretend that they could not even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Nuclear Industry (Privatisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "hanged the discount rate the other way. They knocked it down from 8 to 6 per cent. to give a better cash flow. That is merely an accountants's manoeuvre—and they will do what they are told in the interest of serving their political masters. There has been jiggery-pokery in determining the liabilities of the industry. I shall briefly discuss what the brokers have had to say about the privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.771.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-18", "file": "debates1996-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "89e310478270df19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.784.6", "colnum": "784", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT 1921", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That it is expedient that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, that is to say, the abuse of children in care in the former County Council areas of Gwynedd and Clwyd.— [Dr. Liam Fox.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-18a.784.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "just of Lanarkshire but of all Scotland. With the help of Motherwell college, he got his highers, and with his own determination he got a degree from Glasgow Caledonian university. He now works for me, which is a bit of a dip in his prospects, but in the next few months my hon. Friends and I look forward to welcoming him to the Labour Benches as the Member of Parliament for Motherwell and Wishart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood, who I know is a keen critic of Europe, devoted some of his speech to the common agricultural policy. I draw his attention to the fact that the European Union donates huge sums to—I think—the Greek economy to subsidise its tobacco farmers. One could not put a cigarette paper between what my hon. Friend said and what I, eventually, will get round to saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The principal measures relevant to industry where Ministers have withheld agreement following the Prime Minister's announcement on 21 May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "The principal measures relevant to industry where Ministers have withheld agreement following the Prime Minister's announcement on 21 May— [Interruption.] —concern legislative simplification and administrative co-operation, accounting standards", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "There are indeed. I pick out countries such as Indonesia and India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unusual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Did you notice that I have been sitting quietly during Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I have just received a press release issued by the Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales, which welcomes the measures and says that they may even deter criminals who will be aware that they will not be able to hide their criminal activities from potential employers and is therefore another measure which puts victims first put and underpins the commitment to protecting the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the rest of my proposals, if the hon. Gentleman will contain himself. I will deal with them in detail. The hon. Gentleman has misquoted the former Lord Chief Justice, but there is no secret that the former Lord Chief Justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I understand the discomfort of members of the Labour party. I know that they do not want to hear all this. Let me remind them, however, of what the hon. Member for Blackburn told the Sunday Times. He said: The age groups affected could be people up to age 16. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman stands by that quote; perhaps he will enlighten us now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend realise that Mr. Giacopazzi has since been arrested on a drugs charge but that the company, being very generous, now employs his father?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The question that I put to the hon. Gentleman was about the Labour party's policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Sentencing Proposals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "mmit small burglaries to buy drugs. Perhaps they buy drugs for less than £100. They share them out among their friends, and thus they are suppliers. They then commit another small burglary to obtain drugs. Again, they share them out among their friends. Next time, it is then three and out. As the right hon. Member for Fareham said, that will cause manifest injustice. What on earth is the interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.914.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-19", "file": "debates1996-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd2dd5db6de79188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT 1921", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That it is expedient that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, that is to say, the abuse of children in care in the former County Council areas of Gwynedd and Clwyd.— [Mr. Burns.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-19a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": " the incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease here is no higher than in any other European country, and that the precautionary measures taken in this country probably make British beef the safest in the world to eat? Is it not the case that there is real anger among the farming industry at the way in which some food lobbyists and Labour Members—not least the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman)—have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "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 entirely wrong to suggest that 67,000 additional animals are to be slaughtered, That is not remotely the case. Every one of those animals was going to be slaughtered in any event. Not a single extra animal will be slaughtered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.996.7", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Weekends in Florence are always enjoyable, as I have learnt on many occasions in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.996.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "a free trade area, as occasionally is done. The whole point about the single market is the elimination not just of tariff barriers but of non-tariff barriers, and to deal with the inevitable protectionist tendencies in member states in the European Union. That is why we need the enforcement measures. That is why—despite the criticisms that we often hear about it—there needs to be a European Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "As the Foreign Secretary says, the document states: as exemplified in the UK framework document. If he regards that as the binding link, I would not go to him for legal advice, even though he may be a Queen's Counsel. As the Foreign Secretary has turned to the page on procedure, let us deal with his comments. He said that I was wrong in saying that this matter had to go before five committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has only just come into the Chamber.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ing to the jobs in those companies. We now have the opportunity to turn the page and to start a new chapter in our relations with Europe. It looks as if we are at the closing stages of the beef war; it will not need the skills of Richard Holbrooke or Henry Kissinger to bridge the outstanding points of difference before the weekend. The Foreign Secretary and his Ministers are quite up to that task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " a consistent theme. Four years ago, no one was to be left behind. Now, Britain can be left behind. What has changed in those four years is not Europe but the Tory party, under a leader who, instead of resisting that change, is drifting with it. It is the Government's duty to tell the country and the Conservative party about the world as it really is. Tory Members have totally abdicated that duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " is drifting with it. It is the Government's duty to tell the country and the Conservative party about the world as it really is. Tory Members have totally abdicated that duty. [Interruption.] I am talking about those on the Government Front Bench. I exclude the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mrs. Currie) from my strictures, although I do not know if it will do her any good with her colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1043.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ial harmony and did not prevent our economic development or our prosperity; yet those arrangements were abandoned three years ago, and that is claimed to be the secret of our success. It is nothing of the sort. The Foreign Secretary said that we have to compete with the products of the far east. If we are to do that by that method, we will have to go down to the level of the wages in the far east.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " Union find themselves. We cannot get away with simply saying, \"We will ask the scientists and that will put an end to it all.\" It will not. It is not all bad; there is some good. We heard from my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary that he and his colleagues—and, I think, the Prime Minister—now have complete and absolute trust in the Commission and the President of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "th simply saying, \"We will ask the scientists and that will put an end to it all.\" It will not. It is not all bad; there is some good. We heard from my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary that he and his colleagues—and, I think, the Prime Minister—now have complete and absolute trust in the Commission and the President of the Commission. [Interruption.] It is a welcome development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "gotiations in 1961 and finished with in the debates in the House in October 1972—that we sought an ever closer union. People who now say or write, \"We never knew anything about that,\" are only displaying their ignorance. That fact was constantly emphasised throughout that period. Some hon. Members who were not even born then have the nerve to come here and say, \"We never knew anything about that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "ause of the ten-minute rule. That is why I so disapprove of these ten-minute rule debates. I would like to speak for an hour. If the federalists here, such as the hon. Member for North Durham, and those overseas say that my position is incompatible with the treaty of Rome as it has been developed by subsequent legislation and practice, let them try to drive Britain out of the EU. So far as I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "ssible future deluge. Chancellor Kohl argues quite openly that German moderation, and European peace and prosperity, can be assured in the coming century only by the inextricable involvement of German political institutions and German business interests with those of adjoining European countries, and most particularly with France, in order to avoid, especially, a fourth terrible Franco-German war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-20", "file": "debates1996-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3d2eabf7d5b1f136", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "than 40 countries? The newspapers were rather maligned in the earlier part of our debate, but they made one forecast that has proved to be correct—that the Euro-enthusiasts on the Conservative Benches would be out in full force in this debate to repudiate the Euro-sceptics. They have indeed turned out—every one of them—and made the case for little Europe. They think of Europe as just 15 countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-20a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-21", "file": "debates1996-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "5141d6459a8aa8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "As I recall, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms Short) argued, and then retracted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-06-21", "file": "debates1996-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "5141d6459a8aa8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not the vice-chairman.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": ", \"Saturn's Children\": Logic suggests that the only completely effective way to ameliorate the\"— drug— problem, and especially the crime which results from it, is to bring the industry into the open by legalising the distribution and consumption of all dangerous drugs, or at the very least decriminalising their consumption. Does the hon. Lady agree with the vice-chairman of the Conservative party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-21", "file": "debates1996-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "5141d6459a8aa8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong, but I will not take him up on the details of where cannabis is produced. There is skunk cannabis now, which is much more potent than the other types. It does produce hallucinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-21", "file": "debates1996-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "5141d6459a8aa8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "rough a black market system, which is deadly and increases crime and death, or it is available through a system of regulation in which the strength and purity of the product can be known and in which people can live relatively normal lives and have a real chance of rehabilitation. Hon. Members on both sides are saying that they believe in prohibition. My argument is that prohibition does not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-21", "file": "debates1996-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "5141d6459a8aa8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that no one wants to intervene on this point. I can tell the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds, who seems to be angry about the matter, that I am concluding the introduction to my remarks. I hoped that the Leader of the House would return. I am sure that he has gone to have a quick fix from one of his cigarettes; he is a smoker. I say that with some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-21a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jacques Arnold", "preceding_text": "Far from turning a Nelsonian blind eye to the problems of child labour and of street children, did not my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, when in Rio de Janeiro for the earth summit, specifically visit a home that takes street children off the streets and educates and trains them for a constructive future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "European Council, Florence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman was not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "t, on dates, the Prime Minister chose his words with elaborate care. Can we be clear as to what he is saying? Is he saying that he can give dates and that the ban will finally go in total in November? Some Conservative Members are now shaking their heads, but that was the clear impression—they are now all shaking their heads, but if one was listening to the Prime Minister, that was the impression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "European Council, Florence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "lure to announce the link with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with proper consultation; and now the failure to secure the lifting of the ban once one was imposed? The Whitehall farce even continued at Florence, where we had the spectacle of the Government trying to hang on to one Minister who was threatening to resign and hanging the poor Minister of Agriculture out to dry to try to get him to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council, Florence", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iteria that we can meet in order that the ban can be lifted. The dates for lifting therefore lie in the hands of the British agriculture industry and the British Government; I have set out the dates by which we think that they will be met on each and every part of the agreement over the past few minutes. It is a shame that the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) failed to understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Asylum Seekers (Benefits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "Am I right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "We have chosen not to proceed in that way, in the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.68.4", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "Having sat here listening to the debate, and having watched it earlier on television, I am struck by the fact that the issue is complicated and confusing, and by the fact that the House has not been properly briefed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.68.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " defend such a title, in which the historic names of the two original hospitals were lost. However, I am not sure that the new title provided for in clause 12— the Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals' Medical and Dental School\"— is a wonderful solution. It will not fit with ease on a rugby shirt, a rowing vest or anything else unless one is a very large fellow indeed, or a large woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "urts should be able to force a publisher or a broadcaster to produce an apology in a particular position, especially one taking up the same space as the original comment. I understand, nearly as much as my hon. Friend, the pain and anguish that are caused when something highly damaging is published, but I believe that the House has the role of protecting the freedom of those who bring us the news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Robert Spink", "preceding_text": "Britain is truly great. We lead the world in many areas, but in hospice care, we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-24", "file": "debates1996-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9e16cbf84ab391ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.127.4", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defamation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "In hospice care, Britain is entirely unchallenged. Our hospice movement is held in unequivocally high esteem abroad as well as in the House. There is no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-24a.127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. I am bewildered because I cannot find a good answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "When I was canvassing in my constituency on Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend remind me and all those people under 35 years of age whether it was a Conservative Government who let inflation rip to 26.9 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend remind me and all those people under 35 years of age whether it was a Conservative Government who let inflation rip to 26.9 per cent? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who allowed the higher rate of tax to go to 98p in the pound?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend remind me and all those people under 35 years of age whether it was a Conservative Government who let inflation rip to 26.9 per cent? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who allowed the higher rate of tax to go to 98p in the pound? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who did not pay the senior citizens' Christmas bonus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e Government who let inflation rip to 26.9 per cent? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who allowed the higher rate of tax to go to 98p in the pound? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who did not pay the senior citizens' Christmas bonus? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who had 176 Members of Parliament totally sponsored by the unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "tion rip to 26.9 per cent? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who allowed the higher rate of tax to go to 98p in the pound? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who did not pay the senior citizens' Christmas bonus? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Was it a Conservative Government who had 176 Members of Parliament totally sponsored by the unions? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Or was it that lot opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mrs. Gillian Shephard)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "s. We intend to give the Funding Agency for Schools powers to propose setting up GM schools— including GM grammar schools—in all areas of the country where there is a need for a new school. Encouraging grammar schools gives parents greater choice, but our plans for increasing diversity go further. We do not want only two types of schools: grammars and secondary moderns. That agenda is out of date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "d choice. The White Paper would encourage those by a variety of measures. First, we want to give grant-maintained schools the right to select up to 50 per cent. of their pupils by ability or aptitude without needing central approval. Secondly, we want to give technology and language colleges the right to select up to 30 per cent. of their pupils by ability or aptitude in their specialist subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "list schools programme by giving more support for technology and language colleges and by extending the approach to include schools specialising in sports and the arts. Fifthly, we want all schools to consider each year, in consultation with parents, whether by using their new powers to select some of their pupils they could contribute more to the diversity of schooling available to local parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "e for what they do, gives schools freedom to decide how to run their affairs, and gives parents more choice. Much more remains to be done. Our social and economic future depends on making sure that all our children are helped to achieve to the limits of their ability. Today's White Paper sets out important new measures for making further progress in giving freedom to schools and choice to parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Schools (Self-government)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jean Corston", "preceding_text": "On 19 June 1979, Norfolk education committee considered a letter from the newly elected Conservative Government asking it to halt its policy of closing grammar schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Trade Unions (Limitation of Financial Powers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "What we have just heard from the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mr. Merchant) was nothing more than malicious drivel. The fact that he spoke about political donations without any reference to the money that the Conservative party received from Asil Nadir demonstrates the impertinence of his proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": " it is essential that my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Agriculture attends. At the meeting, annual price fixing will be decided upon. Frankly, if my right hon. and learned Friend were not there, thousands of farmers in this country would fail to understand why he was not fighting for them. I can say that with experience, having been Minister of Agriculture for more than four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I share the view of my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Jopling) that it was entirely inappropriate for the Liberal Democrats to table a motion of censure against the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food because he is not able to be here to defend himself. It is wrong to attack an hon. Member behind his back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "May 1990, which said: That this House condemns the relentless attack on British farmers and food-producers by professors who display symptoms akin to BSE; and calls on the Department of Health to investigate the mental state of Professor Lacey who, having helped to destroy the egg industry, is now turning his attention to beef. I shall not name the hon. Members who supported that early-day motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "scuss the matter with us. I had discussions, as others did, with Ministers at an early stage, and that was their frustration. We had to introduce a system of non-co-operation to persuade the Europeans to come to the negotiating table. That has shown the nation that the Conservative Government are not frightened to stand alone when the need arises. It is not for us to work towards a federal Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marland", "preceding_text": "ppens as speedily as possible. That is why we cannot give a hard and fast timetable. The selective cull is based on the thinnest scientific evidence. I agree with other hon. Members who have said that it is a most disagreeable thing to have to do, but what alternatives are there? This is a Liberal-inspired debate, and we have not heard a single suggestion from Liberal Members of what we should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "th everything else, there will obviously be different views and different conclusions. The hon. Gentleman and I accept the relevance of friends; we draw a different conclusion about what follows. We can usually conduct our debates without saying that a particular Minister is personally at fault and to blame. However, that is the territory on which the Liberal Democrats chose to conduct the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "been far too bedevilled with politics rather than based on good scientific advice and cool rational judgment. The NFU pledges to do all it can to co-operate with the relevant authorities to ensure that the export ban is lifted on the timetable referred to by the Prime Minister if not earlier. It is essential that, for their part, the authorities pull out all the stops so that this can be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I cannot say what deal I would have brought back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mrs. Angela Browning)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mrs. Angela Browning)", "preceding_text": " not on their concern for the farmers, the beef industry or the trades associated with it, but on a disgraceful attack on the Minister of Agriculture on a day when they know that he cannot be present. I do not question their challenge to Ministers on Government policy, but they are becoming well known for personal smears and underhand tactics that debase the politics and democracy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-25", "file": "debates1996-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "47f378bb0da85be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "It is not Labour money. How typical that a Labour Member should shout that. There is no such thing as Labour money or Conservative money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-25a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": " no other work. That idea is not new. It was first introduced in the House in 1911 by Keir Hardie, who by that time was not top of the pops in the Labour party. A rehash of the Keir Hardie Bill was introduced again by a Member of Parliament named Enoch Edwards in 1912. My Right to Work Bill, 84 years later, comes from the opposite side of the House, although I am still as right-wing as I ever was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "preceding_text": "rchasing power, they do not buy clothes, furniture or houses; there is a general rundown as a result of those poverty payments. As was pointed out to me some years ago, when there was slavery in America at least the slaves were fed. Today, some working people in Britain receive such poor pay that they are denied a decent diet. Doctors talk about the malnutrition among the very poor in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Eastham", "preceding_text": "s living hand to mouth. I wrote to the manager of the jobcentre, but was told that his job was only to put a card on the wall and that he was not responsible for what happened. Somebody must take some responsibility. I believe that both the Government and jobcentre managers have responsibility. Bogus jobs are being advertised. I can tell the Minister that I will be giving this case some publicity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Mr. Eric Forth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Mr. Eric Forth)", "preceding_text": "This debate has been light on Members and heavy on cant and nonsense, which I suppose is no surprise given its nature. I counted as many as six Labour Back Benchers crowding the Chamber for a debate to which they claim to attach such importance. I counted one hon. Member from the Scottish National party and one Liberal Democrat. I say that because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Mr. Eric Forth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1979.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Mr. Eric Forth)", "preceding_text": "nhead (Mr. Field) of all people made a rather infelicitous reference in which I am sure he said—we shall check the record—in passing that there had been an increase in unemployment in all our constituencies. That sparked me into looking at the movement of unemployment in the constituencies of this small but dedicated handful of Members who are present. I find that unemployment since December 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Yes, we are in favour of the principle, but we dispute the Government's cavalier approach. That is a serious problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRAYERS", "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": "ne and improve. I very much welcome what the Select Committee said as a contribution to that debate. My hon. Friend mentioned the bidding process. We have, subsequent to the Select Committee's report, published a new set of procurement guidelines, which have been widely welcomed by many of the people who were quoted by Opposition Members as being critical or in some way against aspects of the PFI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRAYERS", "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": "re because their resources or their manpower are limited. It is not, though—to answer the criticism of the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott)—because they have issued a vote of no confidence in the PFI. Far from it. When I saw the number of companies that attended the roadshows that I visited around the country; the number of companies that continue to bid for projects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRAYERS", "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": " the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott)—because they have issued a vote of no confidence in the PFI. Far from it. When I saw the number of companies that attended the roadshows that I visited around the country; the number of companies that continue to bid for projects— [Interruption.] If the hon. Lady had listened, she would have heard that I answered her a moment ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian David Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian David Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Sir D. Knox) for raising Staffordshire's concern about the SSA. Does the Minister agree with some figures that I have here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.327.4", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian David Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian David Jenkins", "preceding_text": ". Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Sir D. Knox) for raising Staffordshire's concern about the SSA. Does the Minister agree with some figures that I have here? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] The Library gave me the figures this morning, and I think that they are fairly accurate. In 1976–77, the SSA for primary schools in Staffordshire was £1,894, and the SSA for secondary schools was £2,520.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "It is typical of Labour Members to keep harking back to something that occurred 20 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "knowledge of these matters, nothing should surprise my hon. Friend. It should not surprise him that Labour Members are intent on removing the ladder up which most of them climbed—the ladder of grammar or direct grant schools, which many attended. Indeed, earlier we listened to constant sedentary comments from a very prominent former grammar school pupil, the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "Before I answer that, I must correct the hon. Gentleman on one point. I am not objecting to English Members serving on Scottish Standing Committees. I object to Members from English constituencies serving on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "I rise to support my right hon. Friend's motion, and the House may well ask why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "First Scottish Standing Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "that the left-wing socialists of the SNP fell out in Committee with the socialists of the Labour party in Scotland. Those of us who were in the Committee know that the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh)—to put it kindly—was miffed. He and Labour Committee members had words, which was partly due to the fact that the very able but inexperienced Labour Front Bencher leading for the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "It was received as a failure by The Independent. Let me quote further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "It was received as a failure by The Independent. Let me quote further. [Interruption.] The doctors were not there in huge numbers, either. It was primarily a conference of health authorities and trust managers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "e planning of health services and the delivery of health care are distinct responsibilities. They will be kept separate. That could not be clearer. But what is very much less clear to me, and I suggest it should be to the hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig) if he reads the six-paragraph section on abolishing the market, is how maintaining the purchase and provision system that we have established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong in several respects. In 1977, every part of the country was covered by a general practitioner committee, health authority, area health authority and regional health authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "bers are asked to demonstrate how they would do that, they never can. Another question for which we await an answer from Labour Front Benchers relates to fundholding, which has troubled them ever since fundholding was established. The policy background is clear. More than one half of GPs have opted into fundholding because they believe that it delivers the best prospect of care for their patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "Opposition Front Bench increasingly recognise that, and are beginning to see the realities of life. I look forward to the hon. Gentleman joining that club in due course. After all, Nye Bevan himself wholly failed, in all his admirable work in setting up the NHS, with all-party backing—the Conservative and Liberal parties, Beveridge, all worked together in the all-party tradition to set up the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "called \"market madness\". As to GP fundholding, it was incredible to watch the hon. Member for Peckham wriggle on the end of her hook. She said that she would not abolish GP fundholding, but then she said that she would abolish it and introduce in its place \"contracting\"—or some other Mandelson expression. At the end of the day, we need the managers, the market and, most importantly, the resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "The only point on which I take issue with my hon. Friend is the fact that he referred to only five years of Government-imposed reforms. Their reforms are like the painting of the Forth bridge—they start on one end and they never finish. They keep reforming their reforms. I remember that it was \"Sir Sheath Durex\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "efend the private finance initiative. We have posed an interesting question to the Secretary of State, which he ducks on every occasion. Where are the contracts? How many are there, and how many openings will my hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) be attending as Secretary of State; for Health when we take over in a few months' time? I fear that it will not be as many as she would like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "sion. Where are the contracts? How many are there, and how many openings will my hon. Friend the Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) be attending as Secretary of State; for Health when we take over in a few months' time? I fear that it will not be as many as she would like. [Interruption.] Ministers are now discussing the future of the PFI. The fact is that it is going nowhere, because it is expensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "at we know the reason for that: the Government have simply run out of energy, enthusiasm and commitment to health equality. Here is a statistic that the Government do not like. Over the past five years the number of nurses has fallen by 50,000, and there are 19,000 fewer in training—but, of course, there are 20,000 extra managers. Does that not constitute a comment on the current state of the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "s at rock bottom, with 900,000 people looking for leadership. They need not look to the Government Benches because in a privatised set-up, staff are regarded only as hired hands. We regard those staff as a vital asset. They must be given leadership and allowed to participate. The privatisation of the railways has provided a classic example of a Government whose ideology blinkers them from reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "red by voluntary organisations. As I go around the country, I frequently hear that argument, usually levelled at leagues of friends who in fact do tremendous work for the public sector and underpin the connection between the health service and the community. When Labour Members deride those organisations and say, as the hon. Gentleman did, that those services should be delivered from public funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-26", "file": "debates1996-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "1405965bec2a06c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": " State's comments would iron out that particular point, but it would appear that, to gain some cheap political points, the Minister will not acknowledge the sincerity and honesty with which I said that the comments reported by the Secretary of State were simply untrue. Does the Minister accept the sincerity of the point that I am making or is he going to ignore it and make political points anyway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-26a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-27", "file": "debates1996-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "639ddcbcda202384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "iend join me in welcoming the fact that our corporation tax is among the lowest in the world and in welcoming the Government's recent announcement about reducing rates on small businesses in rural areas? Does he agree that small businesses do not want extra bureaucracy and extra regulation—particularly that which would flow from adopting the social chapter and other social legislation from Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-27", "file": "debates1996-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "639ddcbcda202384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.459.6", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "There are more people in work now than there were then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.459.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-27", "file": "debates1996-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "639ddcbcda202384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I, in the time-honoured courtesy of the House, welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Dispatch Box in the absence of any member of the shadow Cabinet prepared to come here today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-27", "file": "debates1996-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "639ddcbcda202384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Gentleman to the Dispatch Box in the absence of any member of the shadow Cabinet prepared to come here today? [Interruption.] Again, following the time-honoured courtesies of the House, may I say to the deputy leader of the Labour party—who has sadly had an accident to his leg and has received excellent treatment under the NHS—\"Come back soon, John. We know it's hurting, but we know it's working\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-06-27", "file": "debates1996-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "639ddcbcda202384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 1996–97", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed , That this House do now adjourn.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-06-27a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "h borough council is still being excluded from the deliberations when it wants the event to be a success and to make a positive contribution to the raising of private sector funding? Is it the case, as has been suggested in the newspapers, that the life of the Millennium Commission will be extended by one year to give it an extra £250 million to cover the eventual costs of the exhibition? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.537.7", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows full well that I am a great believer in the British seaside holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.537.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made a most important point. When calling into question another Member of the House, it is crucial that that Member be so informed. What is said may or may not be accurate. I am not aware whether it is accurate in this case or not, but I hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "New clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I understand that the BBC objected to the higher limits that were introduced in Committee because of the economics. My question is whether the BBC has taken the other side of the equation into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.584.3", "colnum": "584", "heading": "New clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "taken by IBM, with some of our finest surgeons, to develop voice recognition technology. Rapid progress has been made, thanks to British scientists working with the national health service. It is extraordinary that the Government have failed to recognise that we have more than a fledgling industry in that area. In fact, we have a massive potential industry which the Secretary of State is ignoring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.659.7", "colnum": "659", "heading": "The Olympic Games", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The four nations rugby championship, now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "st annually and to place it in the form of a statutory instrument before the House of Commons. Nothing of that nature happens at present. As the proposal has been controversial—not only here, but among sportsmen and women, broadcasters and fans—many people have argued that the list should have a number of other events added to it immediately. The five nations rugby championship has been suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "The Olympic Games", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " have on the game. How much control would he want to exercise? We have already seen what has happened with rugby league. It has been transferred arbitrarily manner to the summer. I understand that attendances at matches have dropped substantially. Today, of course, the running of various sports is all to do with sponsorship. We have seen the ridiculous outfits that our cricketers wear on a Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-01", "file": "debates1996-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "440f169ce731e23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "The Olympic Games", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro) rightly said what a lot of people in different parts of the United Kingdom, including England, say about the way that was done, but it is not our right to tell people who own assets what they can or cannot do with them. That is the prime principle on which we stand. Those assets belong to the sports bodies. Whatever we may have as private individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-01a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Gentleman told the Council for the Protection of Rural England that he would not build as many houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.712.7", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.712.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has overlooked the two most salient facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "My amendment involves a point that I raised in Committee. The Minister said that he would consider it, but he has not responded. The ITC wishes to pursue the question of whether the qualifying revenues in clauses 83 and 85 cover revenues from home shopping channels. I would be grateful if he could answer that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Clause 136", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": " ensured that, if problems are seen to arise and if industry is unable to arrive at a consensus as to how the technological developments should take place, it has the powers to step in and try to do something about it. Everyone will welcome that. We welcome the link to the provisions in the Broadcasting Act 1990 on quality, to which the Secretary of State has given at least ringing verbal support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-02", "file": "debates1996-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "68421533cd9842f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Clause 136", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "ially available. I do not hold with the view that it will be a failure. There is a huge potential market to be exploited. I wish the Bill well when it becomes an Act because there has been a fair measure of agreement among hon. Members on both sides of the House on some underlying points, which will prove to be a useful framework for the developing industry to which I have referred. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-02a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-03", "file": "debates1996-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f4dc807a5ac0388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I can hardly disagree with my right hon. Friend's flattering comments, but in any event he has made an important point which transcends party interests and is important to Scotland. The office of Secretary of State for Scotland is powerful in relation to Scotland and its interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-03", "file": "debates1996-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f4dc807a5ac0388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "y could be better spent on other matters. The real danger is not just the cost, but the conflict with Westminster and the break-up of the United Kingdom. There is also a constitutional danger, which I hope will be discussed in another place this afternoon, arising from the way in which the Labour party wishes to remove the House of Lords or any second Chamber from revision of Scottish legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-03", "file": "debates1996-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f4dc807a5ac0388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Stone of Destiny", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the Stone of Destiny. The Stone of Destiny is the most ancient symbol of Scottish kingship. It was used in the coronation of Scottish Kings until the end of the 13th century. Exactly 700 years ago, in 1296, King Edward I brought it from Scotland and housed it in Westminster abbey. It remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-03", "file": "debates1996-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f4dc807a5ac0388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Stone of Destiny", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure that it is the Labour party's policy to have independence in Scotland. Perhaps that was just a slip of the tongue. I will accept that as the case if it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-03a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I can only conclude that the hon. Gentleman was not listening to my previous response to the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Carlile).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that my hon. Friend speaks for millions of people in every part of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that my hon. Friend speaks for millions of people in every part of the United Kingdom. [Interruption.] The dangers that arise from the Opposition's policies are self-evident and many people are beginning to see them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "he Labour party. I make no apology if the Labour party and the Tory party now feel that we are spoiling their party. The local government review has been a shambles from beginning to end, and today's orders demonstrate how arbitrary the process has been. Some areas have been selected for unitary status against the wishes of the local people, who want to maintain the present structure. Other areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1085.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman is so determined to demonstrate the commitment of the Liberals to local government, would he like to tell the House where is the rest of his party? He has been the sole Liberal Democrat in the Chamber for most of this debate, although now there are two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": " a prejudiced and sometimes—as has been proved—illegal review. The Labour party, because of its desire to boost the power of its urban fiefdoms, has colluded with the Government at every step of the way—not, I hasten to add, in an open and co-operative consultation, but behind closed doors and in smoke-filled rooms. Recently, some Labour Members have shown their distaste for Labour Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "I fear that the hon. Gentleman missed what I said on that very point at the start of my speech: three hours is not sufficient time for adequate debate. If he wished for more, he could have asked for more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "I do not necessarily agree with everything that the Tories or the Liberal Democrats say in different parts of the county about the local government review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "I do not necessarily agree with everything that the Tories or the Liberal Democrats say in different parts of the county about the local government review— [Interruption.] —because all parties are split on this issue. The Labour party is split. The Tory party is split, and. to some extent, our party is also split.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.7", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "ally affected. If their opinions are to be overridden as a result of an hon. Member's opinion, as we have just heard, taking into account only the district authority that is to be made into a unitary authority, frankly it would not be democratic. It is clear that the effect on the rest of Shropshire will be so damaging that the unitary authority order should not go through. I turn finally to Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1092.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-04", "file": "debates1996-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3ff177db61d92c29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Local Government (Structural Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-04a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-08", "file": "debates1996-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1d4f18e9d3e91b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-08a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I intended my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Dr. Goodson-Wickes) to be sympathetic, but the suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) would lead to another difficulty—unless he really wants the House to sit during the party conferences. That would involve some obvious problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-08a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-08", "file": "debates1996-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "d1d4f18e9d3e91b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-08a.132.7", "colnum": "132", "heading": "New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "es are required to have strategies on many matters, and they are usually far more tightly drawn than my proposal. The new clause would require local authorities to look at all type of housing: private sector; housing association; and its own stock. 9.45 pm The Government have far too many empty properties. The void rate in Ministry of Defence properties is 20 per cent. and has long been a scandal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-08a.132.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that Complete and general nuclear disarmament remains a desirable and ultimate goal\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.164.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "During financial year 1995–96, my Department spent £5.105 million on official hospitality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "While I recognise that the sale of non-self-destructing land mines is an evil, is it not the case that our exports of arms is 19 per cent. of the world market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.169.6", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. Is it not also the case that Britain is second only to America in exporting arms? Does my hon. Friend agree that the comments of the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) about hospitality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Constitutional Change (Referendums)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Shaw", "preceding_text": "hian question, as it is being put by the Member who represents West Lothian, the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell). If a Scottish Assembly comes into existence, should the number of Scottish Members at Westminster be reduced from 72 to 55? If a Scottish Assembly comes into existence, should the public expenditure allocation formula be the same per head of population for all parts of the UK?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "My hon Friend makes a cogent point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "My hon Friend makes a cogent point— [Interruption.] Dimmer I may be than the hon. Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Fabricant)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "That is a different matter. There is a case for metering people who use excessive amounts of water on domestic premises, but the vast bulk of people do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "remain a shadow Minister dealing in hidden agendas and shadow views for the rest of his life. The hon. Gentleman expresses his views; but, in a week that has produced the most detailed report on global warming and the effect of climate change on water resources in Britain, the Labour party can manage only a pathetic motion designed to grub up a few votes rather than grappling with the real issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ing, and have more leisure, we have more dish washers and power showers. Most important, we want to water the gardens in which we rightly take so much pride, but, on top of that, demand will increase simply because the climate is hotter and drier. The Opposition's panacea is to cure leakage in the distribution system. Do that, says the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, and all will be well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ses with attendant environmental damage. The hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras needs to understand those linkages better if he is to shape an environmental policy. I should like to encourage him to shape such a policy, because it is becoming a serious embarrassment to the United Kingdom that every Labour party abroad asks me why the British Labour party does not have an environmental policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "allow them to revert to rateable value based charging if they wish. When people have gone to the company and said, \"I want to have metering,\" they can still opt to go back. I welcome that element of flexibility, which will make metering generally much more acceptable to consumers. Of course, that has had very little effect on the number of meters, because the vast majority of people want to go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "nt option: It will he aimed at low income customers, who may already be in debt to us\". I bet it will be. Such people will cut themselves off because they cannot afford water. It may sound dramatic, but I can envisage people who have no electricity using candles, a fire starting and there being no water to put it out. That is how serious the matter is. That is what we have come to in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "The Minister has spoken for an hour, but insists on coming back to the Despatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "resting contributions by other hon. Members, who plainly did not follow the line of argument of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras. The hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) was concerned about budget pre-payment units, but, as he was rightly told by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, they are a matter of choice. Consumers can choose to have them, and they can later be removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "e of divorce or for some other reason. But is it right for us to have a housing system, a benefits system and a welfare system that encourage dependency and single parenthood? It is a little-known fact that this vicious, right-wing, cutting, Dickensian Conservative Government have increased social security expenditure by 75 per cent. in real terms in the 17 years for which they have been in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "I would refer the hon. Gentleman to a more recent labour force survey, which apparently is accepted by the Labour party, which showed that only 11 per cent. of women in part-time work wanted full-time work. The hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) has been a Member of the House longer than many of us in the Chamber at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "arty's trade union paymasters want a minimum wage of more than £4 an hour. At that level, we believe that 900,000 jobs would be lost, assuming that only half the differentials were restored. With full restoration, 1.7 million jobs would be lost. How would the hon. Member for Rotherham apologise to his constituents and others in the north-west—I am sorry, north-east—and in Yorkshire and Humberside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As many as that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": " a surge in supply of a variety of different forms of provision. This evening, we have seen the real danger that is new Labour—a party that believes that it alone knows best. It knows what is best for business, for employees, for families and for nursery education. Whatever the issue, it knows better than the individual. Throughout the new Labour document, the word \"choice\" appears just six times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e to a bare minimum or to non-existence the participation of member-nominated trustees. The proposed rules do not guarantee any proportion of trustees as member-nominated. I believe that they should. The Government should at least consider the compromise proposed by the Trades Union Congress, which has suggested that, where the opt-out proposal is for less than one third member-nominated trustees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-09", "file": "debates1996-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "788234a62e21add3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stern", "preceding_text": "vement towards pension fund trustees could take place. With that in mind, and in conjunction with officers of the National Federation of Post Office and BT Pensioners, I drafted the early-day motion that stood in my name and those of some 150 colleagues on both sides of the House. The purpose of the early-day motion was not to overturn the Pensions Act 1995, as Labour Members are claiming tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-09a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "eds. I am seeking to set out the Government's strategy for improving the prosperity of Wales, and the single main cause of low income is unemployment, not low pay. A recent European report found that, in the UK as a whole, low pay is a relatively minor element. Lower-paid workers, including women, do not generally live in low-income households. Most are second or third earners in those households.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Unlike the Labour party, the Government do not run their policy by ballot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Would it not be advisable if the majority of Members of the House of Commons made some effort to prove themselves somewhat less ignorant about the history of Cyprus over the past 50 years? Is it not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "I fully understand that, and such pairing is fully acceptable, but any apology should be made by the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Chisholm), who made the mistake of voting the first time and then demanding a second vote. Pairing is acceptable and it should have happened in the normal way, but two votes took place. If the Whip is not up to his job and makes mistakes, that is his problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "ion structure for pre-school children can be created in Scotland. In the first four years of independence, our proposals would create a nursery place for all three and four-year-olds whose parents wished that provision. The voucher proposal is political dogma and it will be bad for education in Scotland. As our detailed proposals show, it is not the best way to meet education needs in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.425.6", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " whether they are about the system that governs the House, its membership or the fact that Scottish National party supporters have been out of sight for decades because they colluded with the Tories to bring down the previous Labour Government. The people of Scotland and hon. Members are left cold by all of it. What is important is that we deal with the matter in hand, which is the voucher system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.425.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.425.8", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have told him that I will not give way, and that is it. We want to get on with the today's business, and I do not want to take up too much of the House's time. Certainly the amendment on quality control and the matters of staff training and premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.425.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "res of the House of Commons is not a symptom of being Westminsterised; it is a symptom of competence. Earlier, I intervened on the hon. Member for Monklands, East (Mrs. Liddell) and drew her attention to remarks that she had made in Committee when the amendments were discussed. She said clearly in several newspapers and on television that this precluded discussion of the same amendments on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Clause 328", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "three of the amendments in this group, I say to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) that I could do a lot worse than to start with the arguments of the magnum opus—the excellent 90-minute speech in Committee made by my hon. Friend the Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh), who went through the debate issue by issue, and discussed the impact of compulsory testing on parents and teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.497.9", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "We gave evidence on these matters in relation to what is sometimes known as affordability and it was very much in line with the evidence that we gave to other pay review bodies last September, but updated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.497.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "it by the Government. It no doubt moderated what might otherwise have been the conclusions of its report in the light of the Government's evidence. In those circumstances, it would be totally wrong for the Government to reject the view expressed by the review body. We are told that we must exercise restraint. It is plain from the figures that I quoted that we have exercised restraint for 30 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "that relating to Members of Parliament, but I have here illustrative vehicle running costs from the RAC, copyright 29 November 1995, relating to all petrol-engine cars from 1,000 cc to 2,500 cc. Having looked at the two volumes of the review body's report and its surveys and studies, I believe that virtually no evidence was taken about true motoring costs and maintenance. That seems extraordinary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name her.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": " wish to undertake and that my constituents wish me to undertake. It is not possible for me to travel by rail or from the excellent international airport at Manchester. I care to travel by car. I respect the hon. Gentleman greatly for his experience of the House. More often than not, another Member of Parliament happens to travel with me and the taxpayer gets damn good value for money as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "me, I understand. By definition, Tory Members tend to represent the leafier areas of the country. They belong to a party where status is everything. They rub shoulders every day with people who earn a great deal more than they do and, to put it crudely, in the past 17 years, they have handed out a great deal of dosh to their friends and many of them want their cut. Some Tory Members take the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "o set the pay to come into effect at the beginning of a Parliament and that it should not change during that Parliament. I support that. Sadly, it is not one of the recommendations and there is no amendment that would allow it to happen. I believe that there should not be an annual pay increase for Members. I also believe that we should reduce the number of Members and that during this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.517.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-10", "file": "debates1996-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8779f34729e0f889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril D. Townsend", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we could move into calmer waters and discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-10a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.566.6", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunnell", "preceding_text": "man join me in congratulating those who supported the anti-apartheid movement throughout President Mandela's years in prison? Will he join me in hoping that President Mandela's attitude towards his former oppressors will strengthen and build the new democracy? Does he agree that President Mandela's attitude brings shame to those in this country who gave succour and support to the apartheid regime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.566.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.567.4", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that this country has the finest civil service in the world, and that any newspaper reports to the contrary today are entirely bogus? Will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that question, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I hope that the First Division Association is behaving impartially and is politically neutral, and that it intends to continue to do that under Governments of whatever political colour. This is a sensitive area, and I hope that the FDA has no hidden political agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will reflect on my remarks when he reads Hansard. I have nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " needs of individual Departments and agencies, but the White Paper highlights four areas where action is needed across the civil service in support of Department and agency objectives. The first is the continuing development of a stronger managerial culture. That is the key message of \"Continuity and Change\", and it carries through to this White Paper. The nature of civil service work is changing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I have experienced the failings of the Child Support Agency in my constituency. We are all responsible for that—Ministers, Parliament and those who work for the agency. We should all learn by our mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "he most precious of gifts—unpalatable advice, in telling the Minister things that he does not want to hear. I am thinking particularly of those who were with Brian Abel-Smith at the time, not least the chief medical officer, Sir George Godber, Sir Alan Marre and others. I was parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Crossman, and I was well disposed towards him, but he was not an easy man to advise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Civil Servants (Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "ork come from the Minister directly or from his or her political adviser—a fast-expanding species of political operator in Conservative-controlled Whitehall. That is an abuse of the civil service, of ministerial position and of taxpayers' money. It is no secret that government is being closed down in readiness for the election, and that Departments are being turned into one big propaganda machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-11", "file": "debates1996-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "28a4ce93e3ea884d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Parliamentary Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I agree that this has been a most interesting debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-11a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-12", "file": "debates1996-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4c4617934d15eb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can make it clear that the Bill places no mandatory requirement on local authorities to implement it. If the amendment is accepted, as I hope it will be, that position will not be changed, but the Secretary of State will have a power to order local authorities to implement in some cases. Obviously, no Secretary of State would order universal implementation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-12", "file": "debates1996-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4c4617934d15eb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "preceding_text": ", in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle (Mr. Leigh), I would probably take a similar approach. If I lived in the countryside where my next-door neighbour was two miles down the road, as I believe is the case for my hon. Friend, I would know that I or my neighbour could jump up at three in the morning and rave, shout, play loud music and foam at the mouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-12", "file": "debates1996-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4c4617934d15eb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Noise pollution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, as I was earlier this morning when he ticked me off in the Library for using a dictating machine. I apologise to him for that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-12", "file": "debates1996-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4c4617934d15eb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nature of compliance is most important. I return to the substance of the amendments. My hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North seems to think that they are premised on the assurance that we shall always have a splendid Secretary of State for the Environment, and a no less Tory Secretary of State than my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer). Have I got that right? It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.704.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-12", "file": "debates1996-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4c4617934d15eb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.757.14", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Noise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-12a.757.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister list the schemes in Powys that have benefited from the PFI, or that are likely to benefit from it in the next 12 months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the millions of pounds that the Labour party plans to spend on a Welsh Assembly—which is opposed by the vast majority of Welsh people—would be better spent on the national health service, thus building on the Government's reforms which have reduced waiting lists to a record low?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": " the Labour party plans to spend on a Welsh Assembly—which is opposed by the vast majority of Welsh people—would be better spent on the national health service, thus building on the Government's reforms which have reduced waiting lists to a record low? [Interruption.] Does my hon. Friend agree also that Labour's policies for the health service would deprive patient care of as much as £500 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "he south Wales valleys. I believe that the extension of nursery education that will be brought about by the introduction of the voucher system will do a similar thing. The hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) is right to say that there is higher provision of nursery education in Wales than in England, but there are shortcomings in some parts of Wales in terms of the quality of that provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e introduction of the voucher system will do a similar thing. The hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) is right to say that there is higher provision of nursery education in Wales than in England, but there are shortcomings in some parts of Wales in terms of the quality of that provision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I am bound to say that there is a stark complacency in some of the observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that nursery provision across Wales as a whole is patchy and that parts of Wales have no provision for all four-year-olds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ing the 6 July decision by the Chief Constable, a lawful order had been made that the return stage of the march should not go down the Garvaghy road. It was therefore the duty of all concerned to comply with that order—that duty was not complied with, and I greatly deplore that. The hon. Lady said that failure to act on the part of the Government makes me responsible for the riots that took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": " do not care what history says: I care that I discharge sensibly and properly the obligations that are imposed on me. I am able, in the context of criticism that has been laid, to point to what was said by the Chief Constable yesterday and previously. He said unequivocally that he was subjected to no political interference or influence at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of that episode.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "San Suu Kyi's consistent calls for no encouragement of western business interests in her country until the State Law and Order Restoration Council shows a real commitment to democracy. The Minister assured me that Her Majesty's Government are in very close contact with Madam Aung San Suu Kyi, and that they pay close attention to what she says. However, there were reports in yesterday's newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker, the point of order is that a Minister of State, in response to a question from me, led the House to believe that the Government had a uniform policy on the calls made by Madam Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma. However, reports in yesterday's and today's newspapers underline the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.800.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.829.9", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, it is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. If Lords amendment No. 6 is the one that grants asylum seekers three days in which to apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.829.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "what the amendment would do. It extends benefit to three groups. First, it would give benefit to illegal immigrants. Since their immigration is illegal, we cannot say when they came in, so the three-day rule would enable any illegal immigrant, when discovered, no matter how long they had been in the country, to obtain benefits simply by declaring that they had only recently arrived in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "hat he entered the country three days ago, when he did not. That is a bogus argument. All the Government need to do is to provide clear guidance that proof of the date of entry is required before benefit entitlement can be achieved. The moment that that is achieved, the Secretary of State's entire argument falls. 7.45 pm The Secretary of State also told us that the proposal would cost £80 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "nt to leave their countries and cannot expect to come without forged passports, exit visas or whatever. But all they have to say when they arrive is, \"Asylum.\" They do not have to say any more before we give them asylum, and with it they get social security benefits, housing benefits, health benefits, education benefits. All they have to do is say, \"Asylum,\" and if they cannot \"speaka da English\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Ms Roseanna Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Roseanna Cunningham", "preceding_text": " Members for Torridge and West Devon (Miss Nicholson) and for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) spoke about the enormous difficulty that many people have—and, in the example that I wish to raise, that many women have—about talking about some of the things that have happened to them. That should not be underestimated. Women who have been raped or have been subject to other forms of sexual torture will find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "ly 600 per cent., which is a telling sign of educational inflation in the independent sector. In his wisdom, our misguided Prime Minister has announced plans to double the number of places, notwithstanding the failure to take up the slack in the scheme from the start. His proposals dovetail with his other plans to establish secondary moderns in every town. To coin a phrase: de pluribus ad minores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When or if?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to the distinction between the state system and the independent sector, and earlier in his speech he used the word \"divisive\". Can he tell us whether, when the Labour party, or if the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "racy and figures. I do not believe any of this nonsense, whether from the Government or from the Opposition, about £118 million—I have read the brief—or £263 million. It is all a load of hogwash. The assisted places scheme is a success for the young people who are on it because the schools that they go to are good schools, with good teachers, who work hard outside school hours and it is a quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "savings—councils have done. However, it is absurd for Ministers to suggest that the scale of the shortfall can be anywhere near met by efficiency savings. In Aberdeenshire, the education budget accounts for more than half of council expenditure. Non-exam swimming has had to be cut altogether, which is controversial and the council does not wish to do it. There has been a reduction in supply staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "ncil having to cut its education budget by £11.5 million. I note, however, from the council's own leaflet that it has increased its education budget by virtually £2 million over last year's level, from roughly £108 million to £110 million. I take it that, if the council had not made cuts of £11.5 million, it would have pitched its education budget £11.5 million higher—an increase of 12.5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-15", "file": "debates1996-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1a0e23da67f6e7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Kynoch)", "preceding_text": "ent on several occasions by between 1 and 2 per cent. Last year's overspend of £143 million represents an overspend of 2.5 per cent., and is some £100 million more than the 'worst overspend in the past 10 years. Therefore, the difficulties that the new councils face are the fault of the outgoing councils, not of the Government. There is absolutely no doubt that the difficulties that Aberdeenshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-15a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.938.8", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to welcome these substantial new investments to Scotland and Wales. They are the latest of a large number of inward investments that we have seen not only in Scotland and Wales but in other parts of the United Kingdom. I certainly hope that we shall get more. They are coming here predominantly because of the economic environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.938.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.938.8", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d to welcome these substantial new investments to Scotland and Wales. They are the latest of a large number of inward investments that we have seen not only in Scotland and Wales but in other parts of the United Kingdom. I certainly hope that we shall get more. They are coming here predominantly because of the economic environment— [interruption] —because this country is an economic success story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.938.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Not a single one of those figures did the Prime Minister dispute—£1,000 a year in tax just to service the debt. Let me tell the Prime Minister that, if he wants to have a better balance in public spending, why not tackle the problems of long-term unemployment which have put up the bills for people in this country? Is it not the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ease the costs of employers, which would create unemployment; and that one of his unions is asking for a minimum wage of £6.03 an hour, which would cost an enormous amount in unemployment. While the right hon. Gentleman is concerned about economic performance, let me mention the things that he neglected to mention: the lowest level of inflation for 50 years; the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ons is asking for a minimum wage of £6.03 an hour, which would cost an enormous amount in unemployment. While the right hon. Gentleman is concerned about economic performance, let me mention the things that he neglected to mention: the lowest level of inflation for 50 years; the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—four years of falling unemployment and increasing employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t an enormous amount in unemployment. While the right hon. Gentleman is concerned about economic performance, let me mention the things that he neglected to mention: the lowest level of inflation for 50 years; the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—four years of falling unemployment and increasing employment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—the lowest rate of basic tax for 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is concerned about economic performance, let me mention the things that he neglected to mention: the lowest level of inflation for 50 years; the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—four years of falling unemployment and increasing employment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—the lowest rate of basic tax for 50 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—disposable income rising way above inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the things that he neglected to mention: the lowest level of inflation for 50 years; the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—four years of falling unemployment and increasing employment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—the lowest rate of basic tax for 50 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—disposable income rising way above inflation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"]—No. 1 in Europe for investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did the hon. Gentleman give notice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "t we are about to deal with be held to be sub judice? It has been reported in the press that Mr. Demetrious Panton, who was abused as a resident of an Islington council home, is suing the council and will summons its former leader, the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge), to give evidence. Is it not then wrong for the hon. Lady to introduce a ten-minute Bill dealing with the banning of paedophiles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Marshall", "preceding_text": "reported in the press that Mr. Demetrious Panton, who was abused as a resident of an Islington council home, is suing the council and will summons its former leader, the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge), to give evidence. Is it not then wrong for the hon. Lady to introduce a ten-minute Bill dealing with the banning of paedophiles? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Did the hon. Gentleman give notice?\"] Yes, I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.5", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman assures me that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.944.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "ly teacher, but will instead make one call to a private supply teacher agency. The Department's survey found that 70 per cent. of supply teachers in inner London and 42 per cent. in outer London were recruited through private supply agencies. The agencies are here to stay. Some provide a first-class service—others do not. All work in an unregulated market where rogue operators are able to prosper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "rs in inner London and 42 per cent. in outer London were recruited through private supply agencies. The agencies are here to stay. Some provide a first-class service—others do not. All work in an unregulated market where rogue operators are able to prosper. [Interruption.] Like all parents, I want to feel certain that my child is safe and is being well taught. At present, no parent can be certain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "r in a school in Southwark. There she behaved inappropriately with boys, seduced two of them and falsely accused them of raping her. Although the truth came out, it was after the lives of the two lads and their families had been ruined. Another agency took on a teacher without doing a police check that would have uncovered two convictions for indecent behaviour. He was sent to a school in Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have had heard enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": " seeks to address vital issues that affect every child, every day\". Vital issues affected children in Islington every day. As the Evening Standard said on 23 May 1995: An era that allowed pimps and paedophiles to flourish unchallenged at the heart of child care in Islington, corrupting and seducing vulnerable children bestowed into their care, is finally over. It has taken three and a half years\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Protection and Education of Children", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not, of course, seek to blame the hon. Member for Barking personally for that. In the context of the Bill, however, we are entitled to question what was going on in that council at that time and to ask why she maintained, right up to the end, that the allegations were A sensational piece of gutter journalism\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "r we can take it to law, with all the expense and unpleasantness that that involves, or we can have the simpler system of appointing an arbiter. I believe that the second is the simpler and better way. The hon. and learned Gentleman must recognise that over any contract there may be a dispute; no one can guarantee that that will not happen. So what we want is a good way of resolving such disputes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ldhood ditty \"10 Green Bottles\". One after another, those who had so bravely held out before suddenly found themselves converted to his position, because of the nature of the concessions that he was able to make. If concessions on the proposals were necessary even in the course of this debate, they have been hardly indicative of the type of intellectual rigour that one would be entitled to expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "e announced some important new concessions and clarifications that meet virtually all the concerns about the scheme that were expressed sensibly during constructive discussions in recent weeks. Secondly, the motion should fail because the facts of the scheme speak for themselves. The message is clear: the glory of the scheme is that it is in the interests of both the service men and the taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Spellar", "preceding_text": "make a decision about their future. If the Government have taken that decision, it would be a retrograde step, especially since the Army is involved in peacekeeping operations, which require a balance of personnel including mature and experienced soldiers, and what all the services increasingly need—it is part of the Bat report that has been mentioned—are trained, experienced, technical personnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. James Arbuthnot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. James Arbuthnot)", "preceding_text": "as did the hon. Member for Warley, West (Mr. Spellar). When the hon. and learned Gentleman was looking at the Select Committee report, perhaps he should have read paragraph 76, which says: It is clear that the MoD marketing of the estate has been approached professionally, and put to prospective bidders in a way that encourages them to expect a potentially profitable but not risk free acquisition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "We know that the reactors were undersold because of the price of building them, and we have seen today that the cost of the shares is falling through the floor—89p is I believe the price today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "We know that the reactors were undersold because of the price of building them, and we have seen today that the cost of the shares is falling through the floor—89p is I believe the price today. [Interruption.] I do not think that the shareholders will be amused by the remarks of the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan). They believe that the Government have short-changed them again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "We made it clear that we would not have started to sell nuclear energy. We have emphasised that it is a bad deal for the taxpayer and the shareholder alike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1013.11", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": ". They did that, because clearly there was an issue; they were in the process of floating the company. They decided, in the light of all the advice that they had had, that it was not an issue that needed more than the issuance of a press release. As I said, that press release came forward at 5.30 that afternoon. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there was no attempt to deceive, that absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1013.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "d constituency, there are still four collieries. I believe that the coal industry faces a major challenge. New contracts are due in 1998, and the challenge before the coal industry can be risen to. I estimate that the newly privatised coal industry is producing at £1.30 per kJ. I estimate that that price will have to come down to £1.10 to compete in the highly competitive market. In the long term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Small Business, Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Small Business, Industry and Energy (Mr. Richard Page)", "preceding_text": "e—there is no need for them to do anything else. However, is negativity the right approach of a potential Government who are waiting to provide positive leadership to voters? No, it is not. Whatever the slogans and however skilled the airbrush techniques of the new Labour spin doctors, the centralised ethos of the old Labour party has not disappeared; it lies like an old rotting log in the stream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "necessarily having to go through the tedious business of actually improving the product—but it carries a few risks. Eventually the consumer sees through it, recognises that this wonderful new brand has nothing to offer—it is the same tired old product as before—and resolves not to buy the product again. That sounds exactly like the Labour party to me: a lick of paint, a toothy smile, but the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-16", "file": "debates1996-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "54dc8f6964ccd1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": " of Destiny. It is part of the common heritage of Scotland and Britain. The recognition of its Scottish identity complements its vital role in cementing the combined sovereignty of the United Kingdom. I strongly congratulate my hon. Friend on the service that he has done the House in allowing us to explore the matter further, and his representations will be taken into account. I value the reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-16a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman attributes more conspiratorial motives to the Conservatives than we are capable of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " Conservatives than we are capable of—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and significantly more than Opposition Members are capable of. His question is rather interesting, because it shows that the much-touted slogan new Labour, new danger is not always right. This is a classic example of new Labour, no danger. Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman is totally out of line with the rest of his hon. Friends. He says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1134.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1135.5", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "In fact, it applies to North America and South America. The reason is the substantial social costs that Germany must bear. Those costs are very damaging to its industry. Does its experience teach us any lessons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " the document a description of the end of the welfare state. On the way to the interview this morning I finally obtained a copy and began to go through it. The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the document does not bear the construction that he has put on it. It is, as I say, not a policy document. It is not policy advice. It was written by a middle-ranking official in my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "er cent. in 1997. For this year, that is a bit below the 3 per cent. that I expected at the time of the Budget, but all serious commentators have revised down their forecasts for most of the major economies, including the UK, as a result of the slowdown on continental Europe. The OECD shares my view that the UK will remain easily the fastest growing major European economy in 1996, 1997 and beyond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I did not abstain on my salary. The figure that the hon. Gentleman cited was for a ministerial salary that I do not receive because it is meant to come into effect in the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ntry has seen for half a century. If the right hon. Gentleman is minded to address those issues in his speech, I ask him also to clarify other issues besides interest rates. Does he agree with my inflation target? He does not have one of his own, but what does he think of my target of 2½ per cent? Does he dare comment? Does he agree with my borrowing target? That was the other issue raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I must conclude. I say without fear of sensible contradiction that the UK is facing the most promising prospects for a generation. How different things looked in 1979, when we inherited a shambolic, inflation-prone economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The document says: A further proposal under active consideration is the privatisation of the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1163.8", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But once again this is why the public have no trust in politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1163.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ly being given to reducing state support. Can he give me a straight answer? The Chancellor is now asking the Chief Secretary. He cannot tell me that that proposal is not under consideration, and I have to assume that, despite all that is said about the Labour party having an open review, in private the Conservatives, in the most hypocritical way, have been discussing reducing support for over-16s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The document says that consideration is currently being given to that. Again, I am not satisfied, and I do not think that the country will be. Let us move on to the third proposition. The whole gist of the document is that, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1165.6", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "said that he welcomed many of the ideas. Five Conservative Members produced the No Turning Back group pamphlet, \"Three Phases of Changes in the Welfare State\". The third phase would Give people the opportunity to contract out of unemployment and invalidity insurance. Give people the opportunity to contract out of the basic state pension. Make employers insure employees against industrial injuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1167.13", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "xt general election, I have some sympathy for many of the Conservative Members in the No Turning Back group. They said at the last election that they would cut public spending as a share of the national income, but in fact, when we get to that election, it will not be less than 40 per cent. as the Chancellor predicted it would be two years ago. As he rightly says, it will be more than 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1167.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1168.6", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The House will agree that I have given way on numerous occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More spending.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: \"More spending.\"] I have made no secret of the fact that we will use the privatised utilities' resources to take action against the problems of unemployment. That will be a central issue of the next general election. Conservative Members will regret defending the utilities, and becoming the political voice of the utilities in this Chamber and in the country. Let us conclude by examining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1172.5", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "s education service, defence, law and order policies and a health service, and to ensure that they get reasonable increases next year while lowering these forecast increases. Before the summer forecast, I proposed £6 billion less increased expenditure; having seen the forecast, I now think that £7 billion less is necessary, given the extra increase in general expenditure proposed in that forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "m sorry to say—because I am sometimes quite entertained by speeches made by the right hon. Member for Dunfermline, East—that the right hon. Gentleman's speech was the worst that we have ever heard from him. It contained no humour, and nothing about economic policy. What a contrast it made with the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood). It was an insult to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman deliberately seeks to avoid answering the question. The state pension system in Singapore is private, as everyone knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": ", more on servicing the national debt than on the whole of further and higher education put together? That shows the real cost that the people of this country pay for the grotesque financial mismanagement by the Chancellor. Whom does the Chancellor blame? He says it is not his fault: the boffins in the Treasury are to blame. On \"Breakfast with Frost\", he said: My boffins got their estimates wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "mber for 20-odd years, and no Government have ever failed to alter their forecasts. A Labour Government would alter their forecasts, and that is why Parliament wants forecasts every six months. The Labour party is bereft of policy and criticism, and has built a ridiculous pyramid of claims that I blamed someone else for a crisis. That is complete nonsense. Can we hear a policy from the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman lavished praise on all the Conservative Back Benchers who have spoken, but was scornful about me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "as a mighty whimper at his enemies—he began to try to obfuscate them further. That is why Labour Members have not talked about the economy today, but have shifted to an attack on public spending, debt and tax. Here we need no lessons from Labour Members. They argue to the spending lobbies that they will increase spending. I do not have time to quote from the piles of material that I could produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-17", "file": "debates1996-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f3cb1e4f20ea4475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, they will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "Is not the position even worse than my hon. Friend describes? The hon. Members for Meriden (Mr. Mills) and for Calder Valley (Sir D. Thompson) said that their local authorities, like mine in Durham, are high nursery providers. If the nursery scheme is successful and goes through this evening, authorities like theirs and mine will lose money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-17a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-07-18", "file": "debates1996-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "000ce2774b855362", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "eserve lovely creatures such as the brown hare and the skylark. The number of skylarks has declined by 30 per cent. since 1969. Should we not concentrate on the skylark, so that we can continue to praise that beautiful bird along with the poet, saying: \"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-18", "file": "debates1996-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "000ce2774b855362", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Basildon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that yesterday's welcome news that unemployment has hit a five-year low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-18", "file": "debates1996-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "000ce2774b855362", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For Basildon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that yesterday's welcome news that unemployment has hit a five-year low—[HON. MEMBERS: \"In Basildon?\"]—is in part due to the Government's reforms to curb trade union policy? Is not new Labour's policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-18", "file": "debates1996-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "000ce2774b855362", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that yesterday's welcome news that unemployment has hit a five-year low—[HON. MEMBERS: \"In Basildon?\"]—is in part due to the Government's reforms to curb trade union policy? Is not new Labour's policy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"For Basildon?\"]—to give privileges to trade unions, which no previous Labour Government would have done, further proof that new phoney Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-18a.1298.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-19", "file": "debates1996-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d42932cc54de574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Science Policy and Human Genetics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ly thought through and applied. The overall impact of research and development on the economy has been reinforced by a Science Policy Research Unit study carried out for the Treasury, which I can announce is being published today. That study shows the importance of publicly funded basic science, and examines the contribution of basic science to the economy. I have had copies placed in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-19", "file": "debates1996-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d42932cc54de574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Science Policy and Human Genetics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e material science unit at Sheffield Hallam university is working extremely well with regional interests. We are making progress in each of those sectors. Hon. Members share the view that research and development is an important part of the national economy. I have mentioned the report that the Treasury is issuing, by the way, at 10.30 this morning. The House has had a foretaste—a foresight—of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-19", "file": "debates1996-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0d42932cc54de574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Science Policy and Human Genetics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "n saying it he punctures the smug conspiracy of those who believe that people who hold the views that he and I do should not be allowed to express them. We are told that what we say is weird. We are told, \"Good grief—you want to bring religion or morals into these things?\" Geneticists may be wonderful men, as the hon. Member for East Kilbride (Mr. Ingram) said, and doubtless they do terrific work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-19a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-22", "file": "debates1996-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2ebe63e3006ea1ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-22a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"National Audit Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "That shows that the National Audit Office, which does a splendid job, is increasing its staff and the number of people on the public payroll. Will my right hon. Friend consider the possibility of the Audit Commission charging the people it audits sufficient money so that it can become self-financing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-22a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.133.8", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Ministers have made it clear that each case that is put to us will be looked at most carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.133.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Minister is not ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The strikes last week were completely unjustified, and I hope that future plans for industrial action will be called off before more damage is done. My hon. Friend is right to point out that the sponsored silence by Opposition Members continues on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is wrong on all the facts. I saw the story that interested and misled him. No one can buy access to Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is wrong on all the facts. I saw the story that interested and misled him. No one can buy access to Ministers. [Interruption.] No one is promised favours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "vernment could be proud. They are the three basic indices of prosperity—GDP, ranking in the league and the ability to create jobs. I have not invented the figures. They are published regularly, by the Government and reputable international organisations. Conservative Members do not want to face up to the fact that, in the foreseeable future, we shall be overtaken by Thailand, Brazil and Indonesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "nterest in so many cases to remain on benefit than go to work. That is not something that has just happened in the past two or three years or in this Parliament. It has been growing and getting worse over the last decade or more. Yet the Government still cannot find any innovative or imaginative policies do deal with it. Why not? Because we all know that they are tired, worn out and without ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I challenge the hon. Member for Croydon, North-East (Mr. Congdon) to give us a single idea for dealing with the poverty trap. I shall willingly give way, but he does not have one, so he will not rise. I now come to the personal tax and benefit rates of people at the lower end of the scale. I happen to believe that, at the top end, one cannot impose penal tax rates. I think that that was a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "ey were given for nothing during those years? Would it not be right for the redistribution from the poor to the rich that occurred under the Tory Government to be reversed under a Labour Government through the medium of the welfare state? I am being told that I should finish, so I do not have time to outline the other ways that could be used to fund the needs of the welfare state. There are other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady says from a sedentary position that it is stupid, but it is an excellent report of an authoritative study by the United Nations. No Conservative Member has even attempted to undermine its contents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-23", "file": "debates1996-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "2ce33f45851e96b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must have been visiting a different planet between 1974 and 1979. Many good initiatives were taken during that time. It is a pity that this has not been followed by a burst of consultation and discussion by the Secretary of State and that she has not seen fit to take part in today's debate or even to listen to it. It is an omission on her part, and it is extremely disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-23a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Neubert", "preceding_text": " says that one of the myths gathering round the stone is that it once bore the inscription: Ni fallat fatum, Scoti, quocunque locatum Invenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem\". Fortunately, it is translated as: If the fates go right, where'er this stone is found The Scots shall monarchs of that realm be crowned. That prophecy was held to be fulfilled when James VI was crowned James I of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "e. That responsibility applied to them, their heirs and their assignees, and those laws have never been repealed. The Government's actions have allowed the irresponsible to maintain ownership of that land, and to get rid of the responsibilities and obligations that the ownership entails. The Government cannot continue to ignore that fact. I had hoped that this would be my last speech in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Social Policy (Europe)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entirely right. There are now more than 50 per cent. more businesses than there were in 1979. That in itself is good for employment. He is also right that we should not dwell on what are often described as failures. Just because a business may cease to operate does not mean that it is a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman massages himself into hysteria, I advise a little more calm. Of course I shall have a look at what he has described. If there is any substance to it, we shall see what can and should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Transmissible Encephalopathies (Sheep)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "If you will forgive me, Madam Speaker, I must begin with an apology. I am afraid that I have lost my voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Transmissible Encephalopathies (Sheep)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " has been said in the House and elsewhere, we shall find that consumer confidence bounces back and the price will be restored to its former levels. My hon. Friend is quite right in what he says about discrimination. I have had the opportunity to discuss the matter in some detail with Philippe Vasseur, the French Agriculture Minister, and I do not believe that there will be any such discrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "s instilling a sense of national pride in their country once again? Mrs. Woolley, of Cardiff, South Glamorgan, writes: I have just returned from a holiday in the West and to see the flags of Canada and America so proudly displayed in almost every garden and on public buildings made me ashamed for the way in which we are fettered by planning restrictions and days for flying the flag. I could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Amendment Regulations 1996, which were laid before this House on 16th July, be approved.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.363.8", "colnum": "363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Mr. McLaughlin.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s of trapping wild animals; shares the Government's concern that the Commission's proposals represent a significant weakening of the existing Council regulation agreed unanimously in 1991; and supports the Government's view that the Community must make it clear to fur-exporting countries through Community legislation that it maintains a strong commitment to end the use of leghold traps worldwide.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.363.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Central Railway Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "I have tried to set out in fairly neutral terms the case that the company has presented. I turn to the Government's view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Central Railway Order", "cue_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She's spoilt it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Clare Short", "preceding_text": " road as would the Central Railway plan. This scheme could be completed in two years. Central Railways' plan would take four years after the public inquiry had been completed and the funding found— if it could ever be found. In contrasting these schemes, I would like to say in passing that this is an example of the deeply unsatisfactory rail system that the Government's privatisation has given us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-07-24", "file": "debates1996-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5d18477e092972ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Central Railway Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Streatham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "to the channel tunnel to enable standard 4 m high lorry semi-trailers to be carried. It is estimated that the infrastructure work may take two years and cost about £ 100 million. That is not an insignificant sum but it pales into insignificance when compared with the costs quoted by Central Railway, which optimistically says that the cost will be about £ 3 billion. As the hon. Member for Eastleigh", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-07-24a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "Collaboration in Europe serves two purposes. The first is to provide competition against American products in the short term. In the longer term, America and Europe will face strong competition from the far east. In both instances, European industry must strengthen itself to face the competitive challenges that lie ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Let me make one general point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "hat our armed forces have been unable to attract recruits from those traditional areas. Let me try to give some reasons for that, because the Minister has challenged me on this. By their failure to recruit from all sections of society, the Government have made the problem worse. Labour has long argued that insufficient effort is being expended on recruiting young people from the ethnic minorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I agree that, under certain circumstances it is right that British soldiers should be involved in UN operations. I am pointing out that the choice of a British soldier wearing a UN helmet rather than a NATO helmet shows the relative priorities attached by the Labour party to different aspects of defence. Let me pass on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mans", "preceding_text": "I am not a member of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "In 1981 I was deputy defence spokesperson for the Labour party, and I resigned when the party went unilateralist in the 1981 conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wyre.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "t. I fully accept that the Department should have known the correct position much earlier, especially in the light of anxieties expressed about pesticide use. That is why my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces has commissioned a further investigation as a matter of urgency. My right hon. Friend the Member for Northavon (Sir J. Cope) and my hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-14", "file": "debates1996-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "90bbd8a5516f7b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton)", "preceding_text": "hese are being held in Monklands, and I know that the health board will shortly wish to invite the hon. Member for Monklands, East in particular, along with other hon. Members from Lanarkshire, to discuss the proposals. I am not in a position to anticipate the final outcome of the consultation exercise, or the Secretary of State's decision in relation to the possible closure of Bellshill hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-14a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The Labour party is obsessed with capital receipts and is trying to do it with mirrors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "st in the past few days? He said: I fear the hospital service will he close to collapse this winter. Do not people know from their experience that waiting lists are getting longer, people are still lying for hours on end on trolleys in casualty departments, acute beds are scarcer and staff and nurse morale is lower? The right hon. Gentleman simply washes his hands of it. If that is the experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have put a great deal of public money into a number of rail lines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Primary Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a huge range of issues that I cannot deal with in any substance in an answer to a question. We shall continue to ensure that the staffing is available to deliver the kind of service we describe. I must point out, as the Prime Minister did a few moments ago, that we have seen a huge growth in NHS staffing since 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I have great respect for the hon. Gentleman, but I wish that he were sure of his facts. The social chapter specifically excludes the armed forces and therefore is not relevant to my point about pregnant service men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "On the last point, the hon. Gentleman, who is an intelligent man, is sufficiently semantically aware to know that there is a difference between consensus and unanimity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "tmosphere of soldierly duty and esprit de corps permeates the soul. whereas drill merely attunes the muscles. Basil Liddell Hart got it right. It would be to everyone's benefit if the Secretary of State for Defence paid a little more attention to Basil Liddell Hart than to Mr. David Hart when taking decisions inside the MOD. Another obstacle to consensus is the Government's response to entreaties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " there is a threat to the continued existence of the nation. There is a nasty whiff of history about the events taking place in the ex-Soviet states. Twice in the past 200 years the largest power in Europe has imploded economically and politically, its armed forces have felt humiliated and the price of bread on the streets has risen. One was post-revolutionary France; the other was Weimar Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "some limited personal experience. There were some very unpleasant injections against anthrax and bubonic plague. Vile pills were administered, and, more conventionally, one was expected to take paludrin against malaria. The Gulf was astonishingly cold, often very wet, and, inevitably, we got very dirty. I was in a staff job, so I spent very little time digging trenches, which makes one very dirty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "CS gas at least a dozen times. It was part of training. I am now told that it is terribly dangerous—too dangerous to be sprayed in the face of criminals. It was not too dangerous to be used on soldiers in training. It was not pleasant, but I do not seem to have suffered any ill effects and my eyesight is still relatively good, as I can see all the Liberal Democrats sitting on the Benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Asylum (Designated Countries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "large number of asylum applicants to this country are bogus applicants. They must also know that the large number of bogus applicants weigh down our system to the great detriment of the genuine applicants, for whose plight they do not seem to care. All they can say is that more money should be put into the system. I would rather put more money into the pockets of the pensioners in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Asylum (Designated Countries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "e House. The message is clear from the explanatory note, which reminds us that the order provides part of the machinery for an \"accelerated appeal procedure\". It is not a more effective, more efficient or a more just and equitable appeal procedure: it is an accelerated appeal procedure. The order establishes a rebuttable presumption against asylum status for those coming from white list countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Asylum (Designated Countries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "art of the rationale behind the United States Government's decision not to have a white list system is exactly that they understand article 3 of the 1951 convention. But the order is also contrary to article 13 of the European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms—I know that the Government do not like it, but we have been in it since 1948—because it provides that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-15", "file": "debates1996-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f0f45ce15b0a6dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Asylum (Designated Countries)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must tell us exactly what advice—she must place it in the Library—she has received from Government lawyers and from outside counsel, if the Government have taken it, as to whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-15a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-16", "file": "debates1996-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff91c94f0bcef42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.807.6", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are dealing with a particular council. The hon. Gentleman is aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.807.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-16", "file": "debates1996-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff91c94f0bcef42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "It is because there is a large amount of forestry in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-16", "file": "debates1996-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff91c94f0bcef42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "It has met on a great many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-16", "file": "debates1996-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff91c94f0bcef42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Dunblane (Cullen Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "Is not the dreadful truth that such a tragedy was bound to happen, given the total inadequacy of the Government's response to a similar shocking event in Hungerford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-16a.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major). At least he did not smoke, but he had one distinctive habit: he was the only Minister I knew who, when taking a meeting of civil servants, took off his coat, stood on a chair and invited questions. Sadly, it must be admitted that the best known thing that I did in the Government was to resign from it. I left to spend more time with my family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Field", "preceding_text": "y asking, \"But surely it's usually reserved for brilliant young Back Benchers with a promising career.\" As a Territorial soldier and a Member of Parliament, and despite my usual modesty, I restrained myself from pointing out to him that one of my predecessors had gone on to become the Duke of Wellington, and no fewer than three of them, Palmerston, Canning and Melbourne, had become Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "without them. They should call a ceasefire immediately and, if the latest threats of a bombing campaign are true, the IRA must understand that neither the House nor any party in it will ever give in to terrorism or the threat of terrorism. I think that everyone knows—perhaps even some Conservative Members—that we should not be debating a Loyal Address today; we should he having a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "led crime to give us, over 17 years, the fastest growing crime rate in Europe? They did. Who undermined the national health service and smothered it with red tape? They did. Who made the economic mistakes of the late 80s and early 90s that now must be corrected? They did. Who gave us an education system in which half our 11-year-olds do not reach the right standards in English and maths? They did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " meanwhile, the only responsibility that the Government have rests on the shoulders of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in whom the National Farmers Union has just passed a vote of no confidence. There is drift on beef, drift on crime and drift on Europe. Let no one pretend that the truce in the Conservative party will hold together. Everything is just being swept under the carpet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " than in the national health service. We can bandy statistics for ever, although I do not believe that the massive rise in administration costs in the health service is in doubt any longer. There are 20,000 more senior managers, and 50,000 fewer nurses. But it is people's experience that counts. Let me tell two stories that I have heard within the last week just from people of my own acquaintance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ry-style. The Tories say, \"Talk to national health service staff.\" We do. Those staff are wonderful—at times, they have the patience and commitment of saints—but they are being subjected to pressure that is intolerable and wrong. \"Listen to the doctors,\" the Prime Minister said the other day. We do. According to the chairman of the consultants committee of the British Medical Association, the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Those commitments from the Government have been shown to be utterly worthless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Those commitments from the Government have been shown to be utterly worthless. [Interruption.] The previous Labour Government spent more on the national health service in real terms than the Conservatives, and if we speak to the people operating in the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have heard such a ridiculous intervention in all the time that I have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " to allow it to invigorate and innovate itself. A real Queen's Speech would give us many more measures. It would present measures to replace the boom and bust of Tory years with stable growth during which living standards would rise for all our people and in which Britain was equipped for the challenges of the future. The last hope of the Tories is a massive, collective attack of national amnesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "nd incompetent Government in living memory. But people will not forget, because they know that enough is enough with these Tories. I say this to the Prime Minister: in his party conference speech, he claimed that the Prime Minister's job was taken. It was his, he said, and it could not be taken away from him. That is for the British people to decide. I do not take it for granted and nor should he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman let me continue? Both Bills are in the course of being drafted. Drafting approval was given some time ago. They have never been in the Queen's Speech. They were intended to be private Members' Bills because we judged that the House would pass them speedily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Prime Minister has ever tried to take a private Member's Bill through the House. I am not sure that he has. Will he confirm that the first date on which either Bill could be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that I have taken enough interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.29.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " will still be able to own handguns but they must be kept safely under lock and key at properly run centres. The hon. Gentleman took that view, and so, I believe, did the official Labour party until very shortly before the statement was made in the House. I believe that that is the right way to deal with it, but the House will be able to make its own judgment. We shall bring forward our proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "k it will be—and if Britain can be a part of that single currency, it should be. But we also have no doubt that the British people have a right to a say in these decisions, and the right way to ensure that is through a referendum. Those are the things that the Queen's Speech should be about, but it is not. I do not believe in the politics of opposition: of saying what is wrong with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": " agreed with the invitation from my right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) to include that measure in Government business, I must simply record my delight at that news and my wish that we follow it carefully, but thoroughly, through into effective legislation. Secondly, I am disappointed that it appears that the stalking legislation is being consigned to private Members' business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": " simply record my delight at that news and my wish that we follow it carefully, but thoroughly, through into effective legislation. Secondly, I am disappointed that it appears that the stalking legislation is being consigned to private Members' business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am sorry; in that case I am doubly delighted. If I keep this up, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will be carried away with ecstasy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "f 1964, we were still in the land of the commanding heights of the economy being captured by the Labour party, and nationalisation, clause IV and all the other trappings of socialism were on the banner. Now, as I come to the end of my parliamentary career with a few months left to go, I can safely say that in my time here I have seen the disappearance of socialism altogether from the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I do remember that, and I will always treasure it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "aedophile legislation. We now know that we shall have proper co-operation in getting those two Bills through the House. I will tell the House why I am keen to have that legislation on the statute book. A few months ago, a Labour council located a paedophile opposite a primary school in Ealing. All the parents were up in arms. It was known that the paedophile had been put there by a Labour council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-23", "file": "debates1996-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dfcae40717efd02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.4", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "he House should start thinking about that. I can give a serious and modern example of the damage caused by the Labour party in power. A few weeks ago, I was sad to have to say goodbye to the last worker at Lyons Tetley in Greenford in my constituency. The factory was closed and about 2,500 jobs were lost. They were lost because of the actions of Ealing's Labour council, which hoisted up the rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-23a.77.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.132.5", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "While we are on the subject of NATO enlargement, may I say how very much I agree with what my old and right hon. Friend the Member for Honiton (Sir P. Emery) said on that subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the single important question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman later. I noted with interest that, in his speech to the Labour party conference, the right hon. Gentleman said: we are going to put jobs at the head of the European agenda … jobs will be the bottom line by which we judge whether Britain will join any single currency. So jobs are the most important criterion—the single question. Yet, in the same breath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ion of the Gracious Speech. The really big thing that is due to happen in Foreign Affairs in the next 12 months is that on 1 July next year Britain will enter the troika of the European Union and on 1 January 1998 it will become the President of the European Union. That is not referred to anywhere in the Gracious Speech, but it is likely to be the issue that will most preoccupy the Foreign Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ordinary aspect of the case is that in France, as in many other parts of the European Union, English law does not prevail and, therefore, there is no habeas corpus. Astonishingly, what happened to Mr. Allsop could not have happened in the United Kingdom or in the United States. It certainly could not have happened to him in Australia, New Zealand, India or South Africa, where English law prevails—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle), in her high-pitched voice, is criticising the fact that nuclear weapons have to be available and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-24", "file": "debates1996-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "4064a52c1e497240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Group 4.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " the Government should take their arguments to their logical conclusion. Why do they not go the whole hog and privatise our armed forces? The Navy could go to P and O and operate under flags of convenience: that would be the best way. The RAF could be franchised to Virgin Atlantic Airways, although I fear that this Government would choose Freddie Laker. The Army could go to Securicor or Channel 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-24a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-25", "file": "debates1996-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "680c3c2c42d727a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " and secondary care sectors of the health service. Large numbers of general practitioners were frustrated because they considered that resources were being inefficiently used—used in a way that did not represent best value for their patients—in the secondary care sector. They also saw, from the patients' perspective, how the secondary care sector was failing to respond as effectively as it should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-25", "file": "debates1996-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "680c3c2c42d727a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Obviously the right hon. Gentleman is very experienced in these matters, but I am a little confused, because a day is allocated next week for a debate on education policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-25", "file": "debates1996-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "680c3c2c42d727a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Peter Lilley)", "preceding_text": "ore it to asylum seekers. My hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Sir R. Sims) welcomed the publication of Bills in draft. He made a valuable speech which was enhanced by his knowledge of the problem of child abuse, having been involved in a recent important report on the subject. My hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead made one of the most lucid and knowledgeable speeches in the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-25a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.327.8", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "his Session and will the Lord President please be precise?\", but the serious point is that, although the Minister has been helpful in organising many aspects of our business, two steps remain: first, to end the nonsense of the spillover when we could easily finish all our business in the summer; and, secondly, to ensure that we have reasonable summer holidays, not a huge expanse of summer holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.327.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.333.5", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ACPO, in a letter dated 9 May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I agree very much with my right hon. and learned Friend about kitchen knives and so forth. I am a keen cook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.357.6", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " across the Floor of the House. However, like the Police Superintendents Association, I believe that it is possible to distinguish between a kitchen knife and a combat knife. What is more, I also believe, and it was our opinion back in 1988—I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was in the House then, but no doubt he would have joined his hon. Friends and voted against the measures on the control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "e will be no difference in penalty for the two crimes. There will be an effect on the fight against drugs. If the legislation is passed, less intelligence will be available because the sentence will be automatic. Recently, some serious drug offenders were given extraordinarily broad concessions, presumably because they had provided intelligence that assisted in the apprehension of other offenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "th intent. Under section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, the maximum offence currently is life, even if it is a first offence. Suppose that I am 17 and stupid when I do it. At the age of 21 I am involved in a pub tight. I may or may not be the cause of it, but I am convicted. Again there is a wound, and again it is said that it was inflicted with intent. Under section 18 do I then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "e extent, we are responsible for raising expectations that we know cannot be delivered. We should think carefully before we do it in future. The general breakdown of society is often blamed on my right hon. and noble Friend Baroness Thatcher. That is nonsense. In so far as our problems stem from increased prosperity—we have more cars, videos and everything else to steal—perhaps she is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stephen", "preceding_text": "rs within the criminal justice system, who were in and out of the Home Office almost every day. Fortunately, we have got rid of them, and we now have a Home Secretary and a ministerial team who are determined to roll back the liberal ideas that have done so much damage to our country. Some judges say that prison does not work, but, with the greatest respect to them, that is none of their business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ember last year when he was appointed to a job in the Cabinet—a job which, he tells us, he has coveted all his political life. It is a description of Tory Scotland by a Tory in 1995. It is not something of which the Conservative party can be proud, because it is all too accurate. They have had 17 years to get it right, so why should anybody believe that suddenly, startlingly, they have the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "at after 17 years they have spotted all the social undercurrents, all the serious problems that are there, that they have discovered the defects in the prison system, the police system, the sentencing system, and here it is, in one Bill. Actually, the Home Secretary has half a dozen Bills, but the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill is an omnibus Bill for Scotland that is supposed to sort it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-28", "file": "debates1996-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "292c5a776f1efa4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "g party to protect them from assault. The Government want to be sure that we are doing all we can to protect the fire and ambulance services and the police. The police forces have been equipped with new batons. We are funding research to provide more effective protection for the police against knives; we hope to find a suitable stab-proof vest. To ensure that these and other measures are adequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-28a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "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 certainly right about the impact of BSE on the rural areas. That is why we have provided so many resources to assist the farming industry through the difficulty. We agreed in Florence, some time ago, that we take decisions—especially decisions on selective culls—on the basis of science. What has happened since Florence is that several elements of the science have changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me time ago, that we take decisions—especially decisions on selective culls—on the basis of science. What has happened since Florence is that several elements of the science have changed— [Interruption.] I am sorry that the Opposition do not think that we should deal with the matter on the basis of the science. I happen to think that we should. First, the evidence suggests that the selective cull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.453.4", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "With all due respect to the Prime Minister, some Ministers say that the cull will proceed simply on the basis of science while other Ministers say that they must take account of other considerations and whatever is necessary to restore confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.453.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.458.10", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that to do with education?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "rvatives were running education in Calderdale. They forced through the amalgamation of the two schools. If they want to start throwing darts this afternoon, I shall throw a few back. Last week, there was to be no Government Bill on a paedophile register and no Government Bill on stalkers. That was the case on Wednesday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, the Government had capitulated and seen sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.458.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman has lots of experience of family life and its development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman has lots of experience of family life and its development. [Interruption.] If his activities and speeches are anything to go by, the hon. Member for Dartford (Mr. Dunn), who is shouting about gutters, knows all about them. There will not be an amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I hope that you will call the hon. Gentleman later, Madam Speaker, so that we can hear the pearls of wisdom that fall from his lips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "0 young men and women under 25 have no job, no education and no training to go to; in which, even according to the Government's fiddled figures, more than 2 million people are unemployed; in which the long-term unemployed have no hope for tomorrow or for next year; in which more than 50 per cent. of those who have found jobs in the past year have become unemployed again within 12 months; in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not think that it sounded like a state paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Dame Angela Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Angela Rumbold", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman says, but I fail to understand his logic. The majority of those who send their children to independent schools pay their taxes and support the state system, but choose to spend more to give their children a different education. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought that being allowed to spend one's taxed money on whatever one chooses was the benefit of living in a free society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ls. I believe that education best takes place in a disciplined environment, and that greater efforts should be made to ensure that it exists. Accordingly, I welcome my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's statement that all schools will be required to publish a policy on discipline and that schools will once more be empowered to give pupils detention without first obtaining parents' consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "no doubt, be involved in and commit misdemeanours. Many of those who are or will be excluded would have benefited from being caned, as they would have been in my day. I therefore argue that if a school wishes to insert in its contract with parents a clause that would allow the school head to use the cane in place of exclusion, such a clause should be inserted and the contract signed by the parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " receive an average of £1,808 for each pupil. Extraordinarily enough, the problem arises because there are three separate budgets: the general schools budget, the potential schools budget and the aggregated schools budget. Those three budgets mean that the whole system of funding the nation's schools is fudged. Those who believe that the maximum amount withheld is \"only\" 15 per cent. are mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steinberg", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I do not accept that. A letter from the headmaster, which was printed by the press, said that he had no objection to what had gone on and was quite happy with the situation. He added that the hon. Member for Stockton, South had originated the complaint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " and the other takes the dimmer pupils. That is the major difference between the two systems. One reason why the 11-plus was abolished was that on educational grounds it often failed to select the right pupils, as it so obviously did in the case of my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg). He should obviously have been selected. One has only to look at his career since to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hill", "preceding_text": "ay evening in the company of a couple of tagged lads, restless after drinking their second or third can of lager. Those parents might find that they had trouble in their own home. There must be further examination of how to curb the bitterness in some young people that arises because they do not have the job that they desire or cannot manage on the money that they are getting from social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "e, albeit late in the day. The words \"moral crusade\" have been mentioned once or twice during the debate, and no moral crusade would be complete without a man who was once responsible for a publication called \"Pulpit Monthly\". Northern Ireland Members are not present, but I undertake to draw to the attention of my hon. Friend the Member for Redcar (Ms Mowlam) their comments about Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.537.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "approvals. Indeed, it will be worse, because they are not in the right place. If that is what the Labour party wants to do, it would be far more sensible to increase credit approvals. That, however, would increase public expenditure, because the Labour party says that it would not redefine the public sector borrowing requirement. Would the Labour party liberate all future capital receipts as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration (Mr. David Curry)", "preceding_text": "orities to give discretionary relief to a wider range of shops, so that they can give a great deal more assistance to their communities. That is a subject of great amusement to the Opposition parties, but many people in Britain prize our rural communities and wish to assist them. There has been a lot of talk about subsidiarity and devolution. Our proposals for parish councils put them into action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "A commitment was given and, as the Secretary of State is not here, may we presume that she is photocopying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-29", "file": "debates1996-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "48af105412d0aa83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Curry has the Floor and may give way to whomever he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-29a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rmation of the economy had occurred; and that prospects were brighter than for a generation. I can only say that the Government are at it again: the same deceit for the second time. There is legislation in the Queen's Speech to deal with second-time offenders. For these second-time offenders, we would certainly support a minimum sentence: a minimum of life in opposition, and life should mean life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " it should be put in the manifesto. I suppose that means that they should tell the truth rather than leave it on the hidden agenda. How can the Chancellor deny that he supports those proposals when he is on the record, year after year, supporting the extension of VAT to food, water, books and magazines and domestic passenger transport? In fact, he wants to extend VAT to children's clothes as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "What we have had since 1992 is the fastest growth in western Europe, a huge fall in unemployment and a recovery that is combined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "tion we asked about the windfall tax, much as my hon. Friend the Member for Dover and I tried. Let me try the right hon. Gentleman on the 10p rate. They are straightforward questions, and he might have thought about just some of them already. Will it apply to everyone paying tax at the 20p rate now? That is a quarter of all taxpayers. If not, will it apply to half those who are paying the 20p tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "tion to its spending plans? The right lion. Gentleman is supposed to be disagreeing with his colleagues on these matters, but I do not understand how they can have disagreements when they have no policies or when no details have been worked out. How have they moved to that elevated state if none of these points can be answered? We have had a go at the tax on utilities, the so-called windfall levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "lso worries me. Plans are produced on the spur of the moment without proper consideration of the effects. Education, like health, is an area in which our fellow citizens want the Government to provide properly. They also want the Government to deal with the immense problem of unemployment. The Chancellor has had to leave before I could commend him on one other matter, which is the single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ers approved, explaining the pros and cons of the single currency. Like every other country, we have contributed to that work. Every other country has used the results, but our Government are not allowing them to be given to people in this country. That is disgraceful. We have contributed, but we are not allowing the discussion that should be carried on, and the Government must look at that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ne factor that he did not point out was that all those countries have an independent central bank, which is a significant reason for interest rates being lower there than here. It remains, however, the united view of both main parties that they have no intention of setting up an independent central bank, even though the Maastricht treaty requires one whether or not we join European monetary union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Keith Hampson", "preceding_text": "mere shadow of what it is today. It is now one of the most exciting and vibrant cities in the land. I know that this is a nice middle-class judgment, but when I went to Leeds there were only two restaurants in the Good Food Guide, both Chinese. Leeds now has Michelin restaurants. The whole of the inner city centre spreads down to the canal south of the tracks. There is a wonderful pedestrian area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.709.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Before any silly hares get running, I have always made it clear in all my discussions at the European Union and here that the right to retain the zero rates must remain a British option. I have always argued in Europe that we retain the right to decide whether or not we keep the zero option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "We have got used to U-turns this week, and here is another one from the Chancellor—made between 4 o'clock this afternoon and now. If he agrees on the need to keep zero rating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "s managers may have in the future because the Budget debate and the debate on the Queen's Speech are often so close together and cause significant congestion to parliamentary business. He made a measured contribution, as he often does on such occasions. We shall miss him in future debates, and we shall particularly miss his contributions on House of Commons matters, which have been greatly valued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-30", "file": "debates1996-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "89fa771302918d1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I have already commented on work that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has been doing in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-30a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-31", "file": "debates1996-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b663f90ebd920f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I had thought that Labour Front Benchers had cleansed themselves of any connection with any lobbying organisations. The fact is that the so-called NHS VAT forum, which has been running this scare story, is run by one organization—an organisation of VAT and tax avoidance lawyers called VAT Liaison Consultancy Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-31", "file": "debates1996-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b663f90ebd920f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. When it comes to fraud, of all Labour's phoney figures, those on borrowing, debt and tax are the most fraudulent. Our worst year for public borrowing was better than Labour's best year. If we had continued to borrow at the level that we inherited from the last Labour Government, national debt would have doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-31", "file": "debates1996-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b663f90ebd920f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "n now that it will not be lifted by November, and that he cannot tell when it will be lifted? I think that is true. He simply cannot tell us what the position will be. Is not that weak and ineffectual leadership—precisely what means that his Government can no longer advance Britain's interests abroad, nor look after them properly at home? That is why people in this country say, \"Enough is enough\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-31", "file": "debates1996-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b663f90ebd920f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "important to that industry, but the right hon. Gentleman does not understand them, does not enter into any research on them, deliberately distorts what little he does know, ignores the reality of what is happening to the British beef industry, and moves—as he does on his third question every Tuesday and Thursday—into a carefully pre-packaged, pre-prepared piece of irrelevant, juvenile sloganising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-10-31", "file": "debates1996-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b663f90ebd920f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Hara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Hara", "preceding_text": "Two days ago in the House, I repeated to the Prime Minister our invitation to co-operate in the introduction of legislation to regulate the advertising and sale of certain dangerous knives and weapons that are obvious to Opposition Members and to the British public and that ought to be obvious to the Government. The Prime Minister once again retreated. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-10-31a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "ing more money for the chalk face. I commend that excellent exercise to all schools. We have been building the partnership between key agencies. I have already mentioned the consultative group. In March, Ofsted, SCAA and the TTA came together to host a series of conferences entitled \"Teachers Make a Difference\", which helped to clarify the agenda on pedagogy and achieve a closer focus on teaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "ent now seek to plagiarise from a Labour authority and the Labour party. The context in which the Minister put his opening remarks about standards simply amazed me. I should like to take the Minister on a short trip around the educational world as everybody else sees it, at least those who do not wear the rose-coloured glasses that seem to be de rigueur on the Government's side of the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment, but we have said repeatedly that the programme will be phased. It is not as if, overnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment, but we have said repeatedly that the programme will be phased. It is not as if, overnight—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Obviously, we shall not prejudice the education of any child. We shall simply stop awarding fresh scholarships. That will have an impact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "thumberland, where I saw an excellent synthesis of all these ideas, including a business partnership. The school enjoys technology status under the Government's initiative, and it offers modern apprenticeships. I saw there what a truly local community comprehensive high school can achieve. It is indeed a model of best practice. We need to establish a standards and effectiveness unit, and the DFEE—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-01", "file": "debates1996-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "89e8c1f51d964a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "pegoats would be more accurate. The Minister does not deny that the FAS will have the power to create new schools. The school plan of the Butler Act has disappeared. The Government's education policies do not even match up to the education policies of enlightened Conservatism. They follow a competitive compulsion because they believe that all competition is good. I am nearing the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-01a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n the number of crimes committed, and an absolute fall in the number of people convicted of them. The number of rapes recorded has increased fourfold since 1980, yet the proportion resulting in a conviction has fallen so much that a rapist now has four times the chance of getting away with his crime that he had when Labour left office. Crimes of violence have shot up. For every one street robbery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": ". Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon said about the importance of the Criminal Justice Act 1991. However, we should not have been surprised by the inadequacy of the Home Secretary's political skills and administrative judgment. As Minister for Local Government, he said that the Bill that introduced the poll tax was as important in its own way as the great Reform Bills of the nineteenth century\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes—the people who are committing knife crimes on the underground, about which the Evening Standard has written today. That list will also include robbers and domestic burglars. According to the Secretary of State, all those people pose the least danger to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "If the people referred to on the front page of the Evening Standard today committed a serious wounding with their knife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "n by his Department to me this year. The Government have failed to recognise the cost-effectiveness of police officers. If we had another 3,000 to 5,000 police officers, they would be cost-effective. If all that a police officer achieves is to prevent the equivalent of one person spending a year in gaol, he has paid his salary for a year. The Government have failed to recognise those simple facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Line of thought?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I shall not follow the line of thought of the hon. Member for Corby (Mr. Powell.)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "ould go to Committee for discussion. I am disappointed that the Government have introduced it in this form, because the proposals strike me as more about pre-election posturing than positive ways to reduce crime. No Opposition Member wants to see criminals getting away with crimes or crime increasing. We want effective measures to be taken to reduce crime and provide security for our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to respond to the debate, and he can then deny that he has failed to support the tough measures that we introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-04", "file": "debates1996-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "41973daf7b598ed7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Because other hon. Members want to speak. The hon. Gentleman has not been here from the start of the debate, unlike some of my hon. Friends. He will forgive me if I carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-04a.988.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1017.6", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "id upon the Table of the House, the Bill shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; 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 Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State recall that, last July, I asked, in a written question, what were the deficits in funding for the health service. The Department replied that the figures were not suitable for publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that everyone, including now the Government, agrees that the health service is facing a real crisis this winter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1026.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t is no good promising on the one hand to cut VAT on fuel while, on the other, proposing a windfall tax on the utilities which would put up the price of fuel by more than any potential reduction in VAT. Thus far, the shadow Chancellor seems to be spending the windfall tax on a number of different things, including helping the long-term unemployed back to work, improvements in child care provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oposing a windfall tax on the utilities which would put up the price of fuel by more than any potential reduction in VAT. Thus far, the shadow Chancellor seems to be spending the windfall tax on a number of different things, including helping the long-term unemployed back to work, improvements in child care provision—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—new environmental tasks, small business VAT relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": " nature of Labour's amendment. I am struck by the fact that the Opposition have declined to give this Bill a Second Reading. Their refusal seems to be in stark contrast to their behaviour yesterday in relation to the Crime (Sentences) Bill introduced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, because the provisions of that Bill are almost identical, except in some specific, key areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Forsyth)", "preceding_text": "f 16. The Bill contains no provision for electronic tagging of individuals under 16. It is true that the Government have said that they will consult on those matters and consider their introduction at a later stage, but—as the Bill does not contain such provisions—that is not a reason to vote against Second Reading. The other explanation that we are offered for this volte-face by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"You are abolishing parole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not explained why he uses the word \"reverse\". I accept that it goes further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not explained why he uses the word \"reverse\". I accept that it goes further—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"You are abolishing parole.\"] Indeed we are abolishing parole, but if the hon. Gentleman understood the 1993 Act, he would realise that it tightened the system. It required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1048.4", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ling the Lord Advocate to appeal against lenient sentences. The Labour party opposed the Crown's right of appeal against lenient sentences, just as it has opposed every other major measure that we have introduced to toughen the position. The hon. Gentleman now has the brass neck to argue that the Crown should appeal in particular circumstances as a justification for opposing what we are proposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1048.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "y be the explanation. I asked the hon. Gentleman that question because I thought that I had found the answer to why he intends to vote against this Bill tonight but did not vote against the Crime (Sentences) Bill last night—because it does not have the same provision in respect of mandatory sentences for repeat burglars. If that is the case, I would be happy to help the hon. Gentleman in some way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "t will be able to tell hon. Members, is that the provisions in respect of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences are being applied in the Bill because drug offences have always been dealt with on a United Kingdom basis. Drug dealers are mobile and operate across borders, while burglars tend to get around Scotland, but I do not know that there is a great traffic between Scotland and England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "pital direction. That will ensure that mentally disordered offenders who respond to treatment are transferred to prison, and are not released until their prison sentence has expired. Clauses 5 to 10 provide for the introduction of the new disposal for courts in sentencing an offender who is well enough to stand trial, but who is suffering from a mental disorder that warrants admission to hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I was not thinking of any players in this context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I know that it has been a bad day for the Secretary of State, but he and every hon. Member knows the purpose of a reasoned amendment. Other parties may take a different view from us and that is quite realistic. In last night's vote fewer than half of Conservative Members voted for Second Reading of the Home Secretary's Crime (Sentences) Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "f the Board of Trade? The Bill will sweep away the provisions for parole and early release. Those provisions were not the grand design of the judges. They were not the design of the Law Society, of the Labour party, of Liberal Democrats or of the Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, but the brainchild of the right hon. Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Mr. Lang).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ng like a modern plague. The people of Scotland, the ones whom the Secretary of State talked about in his \"Flourish\" article last year, woke up last Monday to the Daily Record headline: \"Murder mayhem as five are killed\" in one weekend in Scotland. They share the Secretary of State's view expressed in his article last year, but, after 17 years of this Government, Scotland has got to that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made much of the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Hurd), but he has also been critical of the Conservative Government's performance on law and order issues. Perhaps my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney did not always get it right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "e impact of the Government's proposals will simply be to increase sentences across the board. As the Secretary of State reflects on the opinion poll rating today, I wonder why there are so many gaps in the Government's crime strategy for Scotland. Why is there nothing about bail and the perennial complaint from the police and the prosecutors about criminals offending and reoffending while on bail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "The fact does not seem to have penetrated through to the Secretary of State that we will not be voting against the Bill: we will be voting for a reasoned amendment that asks the Government to go away and think again on the critical issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "After reflecting on the reasoned amendment, the next Government, or this Government, can introduce a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "After reflecting on the reasoned amendment, the next Government, or this Government, can introduce a Bill— [Interruption.] That is the purpose of a reasoned amendment. The synthetic noise by Conservative Members today—a very bad day for the Scottish Tories—is what will be remembered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon. The Government's record is good and the statistics are beginning to reflect that. It takes a while to make a sea change in criminal activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They support the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "r sedentary interventions. We have heard all the nonsense that he said about Customs and Excise. He got that totally wrong, and now he is getting criminal statistics totally wrong. Perhaps he could wait and just vote against the Bill this evening to show what the Liberal Democrats really think of it. I should like to put in a good word for the police, who have to put the legislation into practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "ted to law and order issues of the kind faced up to in the White Paper. The survey was sent out to 17,000 voters, and I am pleased to say that we had 5,200 responses—remarkable in marketing terms. The responses showed that it is perhaps better to heed the ideas of the public than the words of Lords Hope, Ross or McCluskey, all of whom are steeped in the ways of the legal establishment in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "whether there should be a referendum on capital punishment. I was going to raise that subject, because I was slightly surprised that only 60 per cent. of people were in favour—I had expected a higher figure. We did not specifically ask them whether they were in favour of the restoration of capital punishment; had we done so, the number in favour might have been greater, but that is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Roseanna Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Roseanna Cunningham", "preceding_text": "re. It is an element of the Bill about which I feel somewhat ambivalent, and I have taken care not to rush to say that we would automatically oppose it, because I can see that it may on occasion be an appropriate measure. I do not dismiss it out of hand, as I can see the usefulness of the disposal and its possible practicality if used as an alternative to imprisonment. However—it is a big however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ence in the criminal justice system. That is our unshakeable resolve. I hope and believe that we can count on the support of all hon. Members who subscribe to that goal. Above all, our policy is driven by an absolute resolve that the public of Scotland and of Britain should be properly protected. We shall put in place all necessary measures to ensure that. I challenge the hon. Member for Hamilton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-05", "file": "debates1996-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ed503ae6a9f955ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Toll Charges (VAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I hope there is more cross-party agreement. Tolls are not taxed in the United Kingdom. They have never been taxed, and we do not intend to tax them. The hon. Gentleman said that we would shed crocodile tears and pocket a nice little earner if they are taxed. If they were taxed, the Government would have some of the proceeds, but they would not be pocketed; they would go into hospitals and schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-05a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Land Ownership (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "of land law in Scotland. No sane or decent person can support the abuses that I have described this morning. Surely, within that piece of legislation, we can take action on casualty clauses and pre-emption rights, and so do something substantial to meet the real needs of the people of Scotland. The hon. Member on Labour's Front Bench does not seem to think that this issue deserves a high priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1228.7", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being ridiculously downbeat about the situation in his constituency. West Cumbria has objective 2 area status, which means that it is eligible for investment funds for business support measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1228.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The United Kingdom last recorded a surplus on visible trade in the fourth quarter of 1982.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that the village garage to which she rightly refers can be helped by the discretionary rates scheme that we are proposing today. Those village garages that double as the village shop, selling a significant quantity of groceries and the like, may well qualify for mandatory rate relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "t is no longer a problem. My hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin) is right to suggest that the problem would return if a regional system of government were introduced. Such a regional government would then impose an extra tax—one of the so-called \"advantages\" of an extra tier of government—to do what it is difficult to imagine needs to be done. My hon. Friend is perfectly right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " prospect, I stress that there will remain the right to do that on hardship grounds, as well as the ability to extend it. That is an important difference. The Bill contains several other measures important for rural life. For example, it will end the anomaly whereby sporting rights—fowling, shooting, taking or killing game or rabbits, and fishing—are rated in England and Wales but not in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.7", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am interested in the fact that the hon. Member for Camden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.7", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ny of our constituents, those rights are the difference between having a business and not having a business. The fact that the hon. Gentleman laughs shows how little interest the Labour party has in rural England. He really should contain himself when we talk about that subject. He is now falling about with laughter, because he does not understand what it means in rural England when people manage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "t is more, the hon. Lady's ideas would take away from this country its enormous advantage in the world of being a United Kingdom, able to fight for its position collectively, not just in the European Union but in the councils of the world. The hon. Lady would not just damage Scotland; she would charge the Scots for the damage she does. Her policies are unpopular in the United Kingdom in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "illages—is currently limited to £3.50 per elector—the sum that parishes can raise for general purpose spending. The new powers will give parishes the freedom to increase their precept beyond that limit to cover the costs of new community transport initiatives. The same is true of crime prevention. Crime and the fear of crime are highly relevant to rural areas, just as they are to the inner cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " this, even though he does not represent a rural area. It would be nice to find him caring about rural issues, since the principal Opposition spokesman on these matters has clearly forgotten whatever youthful touch he may have had. We have taken the opportunity here to give parish and community councils in England and Wales a new power to help the police and support local crime prevention efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1258.6", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "t those who are dependent on the life and the livelihood of country sports will not find themselves rated. It ensures that parish councils can be set up because people want them, and not after an enormously complicated and arcane process. Above all, it is designed to ensure that the parish council plays a much more important role in British society than it has until now. I believe in subsidiarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1258.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Lady's knowledge of grouse shooting, because many of her hon. Friends are utterly ignorant of that activity. But sadly her knowledge does not extend to the basic laws of economics. If money is put into a community—whether it is given to a landowner or anyone else—that money trickles down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-06", "file": "debates1996-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "cf7bb68f10207c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Rating Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "ity. Are community councils to be allowed to build bus shelters, given that the Bill restricts them from doing anything of a capital nature with regard to bus services? The Bill states that community councils may, for the detection or prevention of crime in their area— (a) install…any equipment. What does that mean? Will community councils be allowed to put the stocks on the village greens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-06a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-07", "file": "debates1996-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "34d364f55991d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Does the Deputy Prime Minister not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-07", "file": "debates1996-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "34d364f55991d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1359.6", "colnum": "1359", "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 would overwhelmingly support anyone who sought to raise funds for charitable purposes for the health service. One of the most exciting additional supports to health funding in Britain has come from the idea of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to ensure that part of lottery proceeds go to charities in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-07", "file": "debates1996-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "34d364f55991d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and, of course, he will follow any advice that that committee gives. I want to stand back from the regrettable nature of the question asked by the hon. Member for York (Mr. Bayley) and say that the only reason why no Labour ex-Ministers are in a similar position is that there have been no Labour ex-Ministers in recent memory. However, when there were Labour ex-Ministers, what was Lord Marsh doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-07", "file": "debates1996-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "34d364f55991d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1393.2", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Licensing Law (Northern Ireland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Illsley", "preceding_text": "he order are used sensibly by the licensed trade. There is always a demand for later drinking, but that must be balanced against the public's freedom to avoid rowdiness in the early hours of morning. My experience is that later closing times help to avoid pubs emptying at one time, which can lead to disorder and rowdiness. Lengthened drinking time will allow people to leave in a staggered process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-07a.1393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "speak to a public newspaper without the facts being properly described. The Government have an open mind on legislation. At the appropriate time, whether it be in debate or during private conversations, I am happy to carry forward any concerns that the code may not be as effective as some hon. Members believe, and about whether it would be right to incorporate those concerns in legislation. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not going to say that I have never met him in my life, because I think that I have. However, the idea that I have had any sort of negotiations or dealings with Ian Greer ex officio is absurd. I have given the clearest possible explanation to the House. I find it deplorable that, when a Minister gives such an assurance, it is immediately suggested that he should publish his diary. I find also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We must have clear, achievable objectives; we must have a clear mandate; we must have a clear time scale; and we must have a clear exit strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.15.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Short", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "emainder are to be rejected, we are being offered a world in which we will have a fringe economy on the very edge of Europe. We will be unable and unwilling to take advantage of a new technological era in a global economy, in which major companies can recruit from across the world the expertise and educated excellence they need to do the job. It is a type of trickle down of excellence to the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Pawsey", "preceding_text": "te during her remarks. Labour Members conveniently forget that they and their Liberal allies control the overwhelming majority of LEAs and that it is LEAs that are responsible for administering the nation's schools. They exert a fundamental influence over the character of schools and the way in which education is delivered. As Chris Woodhead said: What counts is not class size but teaching method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "ation ideas. Strangely, the Labour party's current policies would affect those people whom it claims to represent: the Labour voters. I shall give reasons for my claims. I have a list of the 10 worst local education authorities in the country. The standard table shows the number of children who obtain five or more passes at GCSE grades A to C. According to that table, Islington has 17.4 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "e whom it claims to represent: the Labour voters. I shall give reasons for my claims. I have a list of the 10 worst local education authorities in the country. The standard table shows the number of children who obtain five or more passes at GCSE grades A to C. According to that table, Islington has 17.4 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] Knowsley has 19.2 per cent., Tower Hamlets 21.7 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.68.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Labour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "e shows the number of children who obtain five or more passes at GCSE grades A to C. According to that table, Islington has 17.4 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] Knowsley has 19.2 per cent., Tower Hamlets 21.7 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"] I am not sure whether Tower Hamlets is still controlled by Labour. According to the table, Southwark has 22.2 per cent., Manchester has 22.5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.75.2", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Congdon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Congdon", "preceding_text": "ity range, and has a dyslexia unit. It deserves much praise for having introduced diversity. I also welcome the proposals to allow schools to select more pupils on the basis of ability or aptitude. I do not believe that that constitutes the reintroduction of the 11-plus through the back door. Indeed, I would not support the reintroduction of the 11-plus, for a variety of reasons. It was too rigid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.75.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "nd distribute the resources to avoid adding burdens. The Government should think again about discipline, which is related to the response of children and their families. We ought to give more priority to teachers who can actively and positively relate to parents, especially those whose children are not co-operating. The Government have created sink schools and the Bill will make them sink further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hall", "preceding_text": "arliament. Here we are in November 1996 with only 1,100 GM schools. The target set by the then Secretary of State in 1994 has not been reached. We are talking about only 5 per cent. of schools in our education system. So much for the success of that Act. That is why the Education Bill is before us. After 17 years of Tory rule and the most centralised system of education ever known in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I absolutely will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "f the 3,900 maintained secondary schools, as well as a significant proportion of the 19,000 maintained primary schools, could be grant-maintained. As my hon. Friend also said, the right hon. Gentleman promised that he would eat his hat if he was wrong. He can eat his hat. I hope that it is a large hat to match his large orifice and his even larger ego because his commitment has not been fulfilled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-11", "file": "debates1996-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "1b3f5d18a9478984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister tell the House how many of the Cabinet have sent their children to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-11a.115.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.137.7", "colnum": "137", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "able of the House, the Bill shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; 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 First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.137.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Exactly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Prime Minister can tell us of a successful company in Britain that does not give its work force a holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve the directive's impact reversed. The right hon. Gentleman should realise two things. First, this is a damaging directive. Secondly, if we were to accept this directive under that treaty head, it would be but the first of many others, as was implicitly made clear by the European Commissioner this morning. I am concerned to ensure that we protect our jobs and our competitiveness. All over Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman thinks the question of gun control is appropriate for a free vote, I do not agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Working Time Directive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"European partners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the European Parliament comes into the equation, except to the extent that there are many Labour Members of the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "ter a point concerning the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mr. Norris). It has been drawn to my attention that what I said implied that the hon. Gentleman had behaved in an improper manner in his relationship with Capital City Bus—in particular, that he had accepted a seat on the board of a company that he had been responsible for privatising. Unfortunately, I had been misinformed about the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": ". Member for Epping Forest (Mr. Norris). It has been drawn to my attention that what I said implied that the hon. Gentleman had behaved in an improper manner in his relationship with Capital City Bus—in particular, that he had accepted a seat on the board of a company that he had been responsible for privatising. Unfortunately, I had been misinformed about the matter— [Interruption.] I now accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": " Norris). It has been drawn to my attention that what I said implied that the hon. Gentleman had behaved in an improper manner in his relationship with Capital City Bus—in particular, that he had accepted a seat on the board of a company that he had been responsible for privatising. Unfortunately, I had been misinformed about the matter— [Interruption.] I now accept— [Interruption.] I now accept —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that I require no further instruction on this matter. I am sure that the House is quite aware of the sentiments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wallace", "preceding_text": "use solid, full patch bullets? These are specifically designed not to expand and intended for human targets … they would pass through the body of an animal with little loss of velocity, hit the ground and ricochet in all directions. not good for public safety one might think. I simply ask for such arguments to be considered in detail, so that we can ensure that we pass sensible legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "st said a moment ago, it will merely create a surge in demand for lower-calibre weapons. Many shooters will use their compensation to buy other weapons. Indeed, I received a letter this week from someone who promised to spend every last penny of his compensation on new weapons. As others have argued, a .22 weapon in the wrong hands can also inflict considerable damage. I could have been convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall; but I would point out, not in an aggressive way, that, because Opposition Members' speeches have eaten into the time available for my winding-up speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.253.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-12", "file": "debates1996-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "018520b00d0686c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ed, be added to the Bill); and (c) any other Question necessary for the disposal of those provisions of the Bill committed to the Committee, which shall include the Question on any Amendment or new Clause or Schedule or Amendment thereto which has been selected by him and which may then be moved; and (2) proceedings in the said Committee may be taken, though opposed, after Ten o'clock.— [Mr. Coe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-12a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Cattle Head Deboning Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": " compensation was offered as a result of the statutory instruments to which my hon. Friend referred, and I fear that he has been misled by the Library. The point that my hon. Friend has not so far addressed in his speech, and which mine will deal with because I did draft it, is the concept of settled public policy. No Government at any time have ever paid any compensation for the loss of business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Cattle Head Deboning Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I am sad that we did not have her support, but she will have recognised that, in a number of instances, such as with firearms, companies go out of business as a consequence of certain Acts of Parliament. This is another such instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone first, because he secured the debate and I think that he rose slightly more quickly than the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When is shortly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) could be so described this morning: he made a powerful speech. I hear what the hon. Member for Sherwood says, and I have made it clear that an announcement will be made shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister's pathetically timid response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "For a start, the Labour party has not even begun to find the money—which may be as much as £250 million—to meet that pledge. No one is saying that class size is not important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is wrong on every material particular. He is certainly wrong to suggest that the advertisements are in some way party political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "m the by-products such as the hide, as well as by selling carcases to pet food manufacturers and maggot farms. The flesh is not allowed to be used for human consumption or for consumption by livestock, fish or horses. Welfare concerns come to mind immediately. The calves are condemned animals, and, as I have said, I believe that they will receive minimal care on the farm. Certainly, an expensive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "I understand that it was a Brussels decision. It was certainly taken in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he didn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "riend the Secretary of State for Scotland has found additional resources to promote it—he met its representatives through the summer—and its quality aspects. Such support is very important, and has been welcomed by the industry as a whole. Indeed, only this week, Sandy Mole, the president of the NFU in Scotland, complimented my right hon. Friend on the support for BSE and a number of other issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "traught, or that the National Farmers Union passed a vote of no confidence in the Minister and the National Farmers Union of Scotland called on the Prime Minister to take charge of policy on the beef crisis, which has now become a bumbling shambles. It is vital that the beef ban is lifted. Only the European Union can do that, and the Florence agreement is the only mechanism currently on the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-13", "file": "debates1996-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "6d8eba6a9bf70533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "g industry in Northern Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom would be extremely frustrated if we were to start and complete a selective cull throughout the United Kingdom with no guarantee or reasonable expectation that the export ban would be lifted. The Labour party has come somewhat late to this issue, and Labour Members have been noticeable by their absence in most previous debates on BSE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-13a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister did not dispute that we were 11th out of 15 for interest rates and inflation. If he disputes it, let him come to the Dispatch Box and say that the figure is wrong. The House will listen to him when he rises to his feet and tells us that 11th out of 15 is wrong. The simple fact, as on every other matter, is that when he said that he would cut taxes, he raised them, when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "tes and inflation. If he disputes it, let him come to the Dispatch Box and say that the figure is wrong. The House will listen to him when he rises to his feet and tells us that 11th out of 15 is wrong. The simple fact, as on every other matter, is that when he said that he would cut taxes, he raised them, when he said— [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like this because it is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " Box and say that the figure is wrong. The House will listen to him when he rises to his feet and tells us that 11th out of 15 is wrong. The simple fact, as on every other matter, is that when he said that he would cut taxes, he raised them, when he said— [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like this because it is the truth. [HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"] They want more, so let us give them more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.5", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I had fondly suspected today that the right hon. Gentleman might have broken with tradition and mentioned the fall in unemployment, which his party is supposed to care about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Did the Prime Minister see the warning from Coopers and Lybrand yesterday that if we continue as we have so far the Government will be technically bankrupt by the end of next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Zaire", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": "y; rightly, it has been moved to act to alleviate that suffering. When the United Nations proposed the use of military force to try to facilitate the aid effort, it was appropriate that Britain should offer to play her part. Our troops are well trained and highly respected and they will acquit themselves very professionally. I know that all hon. Members wish them well in their very difficult task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e growth in the economy. It would be extremely unwise to suggest that the growth in the economy is a function of that tax rate. In addition, Governor Patten has made sure that there is a balance between an increase in public welfare and the availability of tax reductions to those who are in need of them. We only wish that the same balanced judgment had been exercised in Britain by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-14", "file": "debates1996-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "821535ee1b3958a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "nsible for the United Kingdom's foreign policy when Hong Kong returns to China. It was good to see the extent of Labour interest, which I have no doubt will continue to be shown by my hon. Friends in future. Even if my hon. Friend the Member for Warley, East (Mr. Faulds) is not with us in future deliberations on Hong Kong, I have no doubt that his presence will be felt and perhaps his voice heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-14a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-15", "file": "debates1996-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "368b7cd218cc8d43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Rail Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You might have plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister—we have plenty of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-15", "file": "debates1996-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "368b7cd218cc8d43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Rail Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norris", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, it is now new Labour and we all know the jokes, which are now so old and tired that they are hardly worth repeating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-15", "file": "debates1996-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "368b7cd218cc8d43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Rail Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a nice point. Let us be absolutely direct about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-15a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am not averse to crucifying a few Tories to celebrate the millennium or, indeed, feeding them to the lions, but will the Secretary of State bear in mind that we live in a multi-faith society? According to the Jewish calendar, this year is 5757, according to the Islamic calendar it is 1417, according to the Indian Hindu calendar it is 2054, and according to the Bengali Hindu calendar it is 1403.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am lost for words, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "INTERPRETATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I was not in the House in 1951, although the hon. Lady may have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "e House's time, so I shall address some, but not all, of the points raised by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Putney in his fine speech. When he was courteous enough, as he always is, to allow me to intervene, I asked him a question about a farmer with a shotgun. He responded by saying, \"Well, yes, perhaps we would have to look at that example.\" That revealed the irrefutable logic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-18", "file": "debates1996-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "59937d42ed750e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is right, it is enormously significant that valuers are prepared to give their services free. In my experience, valuers do not come cheap. If they are prepared to give their services free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-18a.799.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d upon the Table of the House, the Bill shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; 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 Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.817.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellingham", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister heard of an organisation called SPLAT, which stands for Sparsely Populated Local Authorities Team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riddick", "preceding_text": "en by 640—22 per cent.—since the beginning of the year? Is not a reason for that good news the fact that the United Kingdom has a stable industrial climate with few strikes, except in the public sector? Is it not true that only a Conservative Government can be relied upon to do anything about that problem because the Labour party, with its strong links to the unions, is still the strikers' friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "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 think that the character of any party becomes clear until it is in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady to the reply that I gave some moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Channel Tunnel (Fire)", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am right in saying that both the hon. Gentleman and I sat on the Committee considering the legislation to which he refers. It took a substantially long time to get through the House, due in part, if I may say so, to his objections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I understand the point on which the Minister is attempting to convince the Committee, but she has not convinced me, and I am not sure that she has convinced the Committee. She has accepted that there is a loophole. I hope that, in the light of this discussion and the confusion that exists in the minds of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-19", "file": "debates1996-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "272eac48d0cf04c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I wish to make just one point. It is clear in my mind now that the law is itself quite clear: anyone can be made an heir, and therefore anyone can sell any trophy of war to whoever he likes by signing a simple affidavit. The gun will then come on to the open market. Trophies of war will be kept on the open market, and will be specific items for sale and resale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-19a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-20", "file": "debates1996-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "21e18141829757d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.922.5", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Social Services (Lancashire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "saying to Lancashire county council. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for West Lancashire (Mr. Pickthall) will be dealing with these matters, but, in fact, Lancashire county council has used the money that it did not spend, having carried it forward. It believes that it is on target to spend this year's budget; indeed, there is no doubt that that is so. But to criticise a marginal underspend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.922.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-20", "file": "debates1996-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "21e18141829757d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman usually accuses me of being the supporter of free market ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-20", "file": "debates1996-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "21e18141829757d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "ported to the House by the Chairman, as laid down in Standing Order No. 102(8). Further proceedings may follow in the House in accordance with the next paragraph of the Standing Order. I do not think that it is necessary or proper for me to say anything else at this stage. It is a matter for the Government to resolve. The Leader of the House will be before us tomorrow to answer business questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-20", "file": "debates1996-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "21e18141829757d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "orth Yorkshire health authority. The good news network in the national health service is supposed to supply information to help the Government. It engages in overtly political activities, such as feeding back good news stories so that Ministers and Conservative Central Office can use them. There is one rule for them, but for ordinary staff in the national health service it is completely different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-20", "file": "debates1996-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "21e18141829757d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malone", "preceding_text": "ll who perform services in the NHS. I recently wrote to the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), the Leader of the Opposition, raising with him an issue that he had raised at Prime Minister's Question Time. On that occasion, the right hon. Gentleman made yet another unfounded assertion about our NHS, saying that maternity services had declined under the present Government in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-20a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Gentleman shaking his head: it is a matter of record. The hon. Gentleman may not like the truth, but here it is. I do not know how often he does his shopping: I hope that he, like me, goes to the supermarket and the butcher every week. If he does, he cannot fail to have noticed that, since 20 March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " I hope that he, like me, goes to the supermarket and the butcher every week. If he does, he cannot fail to have noticed that, since 20 March—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I am getting on with it. It is pathetic that when this important market and the issue of consumer confidence in this product are discussed in the House, Opposition boys and girls are so quick to run down this vital industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "with it.\"] I am getting on with it. It is pathetic that when this important market and the issue of consumer confidence in this product are discussed in the House, Opposition boys and girls are so quick to run down this vital industry. [Interruption.] The supermarkets have supported British beef; they said from day one that they would sell it, and they have. I offer the hon. Gentleman one example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These regulations, were they to be approved in due course, would apply only to those countries that enter into a single currency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. I support the hon. Gentleman in his request for a much better system. Last night and in the early hours of this morning, I flatly refused to sleep in a small conference room on the Committee Corridor with three gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would be better advised to talk to pensioners and employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is very interesting for the Chancellor to break his purdah and come to the Dispatch Box to ask that. I have some questions for him. Will he abolish capital gains tax? Will he reduce income tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ustrial companies, the privatised utilities have underpaid on tax, despite massive and obscene profits. Some water companies paid no corporation tax at all, while others paid less than 7 per cent—those figures compare with the typical 30 per cent. paid by industrial companies. Altogether, the energy and water companies alone have gained a tax windfall in this way of £4 billion since privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Every tax is basically arbitrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it has not dawned on the Deputy Prime Minister that when people are taken off the dole—which costs £9,000 per person, according to the Government's figures—in the long term, more money is saved by reducing other public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " work to meet the community's needs. That is the intelligent way to deal with the matter and my right hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) has constantly made the point about how much it costs to maintain people on the dole. In our proposals for incentives for the long-term unemployed, we have stated how much will be used for the financial incentive to keep people back at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " at work. [Interruption.] I would have thought that the hon. Member for Dover, as an accountant, would know about the changes in losses and profits that will occur if people go back to work instead of staying on the dole. The hon. Gentleman will have his own concerns about being out of work, because our proposals will return the Labour candidate in Dover to replace him as the Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that the higher the profits, the bigger the corporation tax take, so there is more money for all the things that we all care about, such as education, and all the social services which always need more money. Taxation cannot be raised if there are no profits. This is very boring stuff, I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "Or cut jobs? The accountants' report on the regional electricity companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Since last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman was responsible was cuts in public investment. Does he remember them? Does he remember the cuts in nurses' pay? Does he remember the queues at the hospitals? That was his yesterday. That was the legacy that he bequeathed to this country. It has taken the courage of the Conservative Government and privatisation to make up for that lost time. It is a record of which we can be proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "er them? Does he remember the cuts in nurses' pay? Does he remember the queues at the hospitals? That was his yesterday. That was the legacy that he bequeathed to this country. It has taken the courage of the Conservative Government and privatisation to make up for that lost time. It is a record of which we can be proud. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman chastised us about the fact that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-21", "file": "debates1996-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d0b54980b8ccbbcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1157.8", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Windfall Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": " that is awash with cash, and his company is now offering people the cheapest electricity in the country. His customers have had a 25 per cent. reduction in real terms. His company now pays double the amount of corporation tax. He said that the company would have to raise its borrowings to pay for this tax, and cut back its investment. I come back to the central issue: why did we call this debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-21a.1157.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowis", "preceding_text": "A cost-benefit analysis of traffic light and speed cameras in 10 police force areas, commissioned by the Home Office and carried out between November 1995 and March 1996, identified a 28 per cent. fall in accidents at speed camera sites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "y were commissioned at the Florence summit in June and cover the legal status of the euro, the proposals for a new voluntary exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system, and the stability pact designed to provide a mechanism to help to ensure that participants in stage 3 of EMU do not run an excessive deficit. I have written to every hon. Member setting out the facts about those texts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "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": " debate in this House before the Dublin summit. That meeting in Dublin is the earliest occasion on which any binding decision could be requested. There are two possible futures for this country. First, at some stage in the future, we might move to the third stage of EMU and adopt a single currency. As the Government have always made clear, there could be advantages for this country in such a move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "e base on which any future British Government might enter EMU. They are part of the detail to be settled before we form our views on the way in which we should exercise our option. We must never repeat the mistake of abdicating from European negotiation so that the structures are designed to meet only the interests of other member states. Secondly, we might always remain outside a single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "cipate in political decisions on them at the ECOFIN Council on 2 December? Why did the Leader of the House say that scrutiny would have to be completed by the end of November, because that would be in time for the House's views to be taken into account in any decisions at the 2 December meeting? Surely the main point of the Chancellor's letter of Friday is that, with or without a security reserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "on a member state to get back within the excessive deficit. That is the position that is being taken, and the process will not be concluded next Monday—it was always highly unlikely that it would be concluded next Monday and I am not even sure that it will be concluded at Dublin. I shall put in a parliamentary reserve on those matters until the House is satisfied and its scrutiny process finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "use of Westminster, will find that slightly bewildering. My right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Leader of the House are anxious to give the House a proper opportunity for debate. The difficulty with a debate, as the right hon. Gentleman said, is that there is a limit to the number of Members who can take part. That is why the House has the Scrutiny Committee, which allows everyone to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The form and nature of debate is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " right. Another reason, of course, is that there is so much detail in the regulations. They are about as exciting a read as the social security regulations that flow through the House, and they give plenty of opportunity for people to take little bits out of them and get wildly excited that something new is happening. That process is not helped by Her Majesty's press, which does that all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "g a read as the social security regulations that flow through the House, and they give plenty of opportunity for people to take little bits out of them and get wildly excited that something new is happening. That process is not helped by Her Majesty's press, which does that all the time— [Interruption.] I have been brought to the House today by weekend newspaper reports written by journalists who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall go through the scrutiny procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "EMU Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall go through the scrutiny procedure— [Interruption.] I am not in control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Household Projections", "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": " will be a sensitive issue. That is why we need to discuss with people whether that would be the best option for them and for their areas. Other options could include new villages or even new towns. Again, whether that is an appropriate option will depend on local circumstances. I am not advocating new settlements, or ruling them out. I simply want to explore what is possible and what people want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Household Projections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson (Holborn and St. Pancras)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson (Holborn and St. Pancras)", "preceding_text": "ry of State not accept that the years of failure by the Government to do anything about the problems of air pollution, rising crime, schools and hospital services in urban areas, other than to close those hospitals, have made things worse? Will he confirm that, last year, the Budget reduced the funds available for hospitals, schools and police in urban areas? What will happen in tomorrow's Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Household Projections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ever wanted to. It pretends that such money does not go to city centres. The regeneration of the country will depend on partnership between Government, business, local government and voluntary organisations. That is what we are promoting. We want a debate that goes far above and beyond the kind of petty comments that the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras made up on the train from Nottingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "or Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) wrote to me suggesting that the Bill should be used to promote take-up of income-related benefits by pensioners—an issue raised in the past by the hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field). It is not clear exactly how the Opposition envisage that the cross-checking exercises used to identify fraud could also be used to promote take-up of income support among pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-25", "file": "debates1996-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "2c43ed13280ab8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because I am short of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-25a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And winning the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Kenneth Clarke)", "preceding_text": "ther, while providing more money for priority services. It makes responsible progress on our tax-cutting agenda, while getting borrowing down faster. This is not a reckless Budget on either tax or spending. In the run-up to Christmas I am not going to play Santa Claus, but this year I do not have to play Scrooge either. I have one overriding aim, which is the lasting health of the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We have made good progress in reducing public sector borrowing, but it has not been as fast as I expected. The Budget therefore targets public sector borrowing again. The general public may ask why I concentrate on public sector borrowing in the way that I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y now is to reduce the risk of having to tighten monetary policy excessively as I set policy to hit my inflation target. My decisions are always taken solely in British interests to benefit the British economy. But my decisions in this Budget also mean that, by happy coincidence, we will meet the Maastricht debt and deficit criteria in 1997, and we will do even better than that in the medium term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This Government believe that effective law and order are an essential part of making Britain a nation at ease with itself. A good quality police service and an effective system of criminal justice are very high on the list of this Government's priorities. When it comes to spending on law and order this Government have a record as long as your arm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "cent. in real terms. The real increase in current spending for hospitals next year over and above inflation will be 3 per cent. On top of this, private finance initiative investment will play an increasingly important role in providing new health care facilities. The PFI contract for the Norfolk and Norwich hospital scheme, worth close to £200 million, was signed yesterday, and others will follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y important role in providing new health care facilities. The PFI contract for the Norfolk and Norwich hospital scheme, worth close to £200 million, was signed yesterday, and others will follow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health for not signing it tomorrow, but I do not think that he had the Budget in mind. There are many in the pipeline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whisky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "emember—I keep describing it as eye-wateringly tight—but we never lost sight of our objective, which is to sustain and improve the key public services that the British public care about: education, combating crime and our national health service. In part we have achieved that by increasing efficiency within the priority services, but inevitably we have also had to find savings in other programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In time for a general election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rnment will start to withdraw this special tax relief. I intend to do that gradually, so I must ensure that businesses which need to adjust their pay packages and their sharing of the rewards of success have ample time to make those adjustments. The upper limit of pay attracting the relief will remain unchanged at its present £4,000 until 1998, which means that no one will be affected before then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "as also been undertaxed, because it has proved difficult—still proves difficult—to get international agreement to tax its fuel. The rates of air passenger duty are to be increased. The £5 rate on flights to most European countries will be increased to £10, and the £10 rate on flights to the rest of the world will be increased to £20. Those increases will not come into effect until 1 November 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f alcohol causes our drinks industry in Britain. I have already announced that customs is further stepping up its efforts to catch smugglers. Last year, I was able to freeze the duty rate on beer and wine. This year, it will remain frozen. The proportion of tax on the price of a pint in the pub is now at its lowest level for 30 years. For some of us, that helps to keep our small cigars affordable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t tried them. That increase will meet public concern about the attraction of the \"alcopops\" for under-age drinkers, but it will also attack a distortion of competition by bringing the tax broadly into line with that on beer. The House will notice that I have considered carefully the balance of my overall package on this matter, and I have not yet been converted to a bubble-gum flavoured \"alcopop\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Modest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "gnificant step towards abolishing inheritance tax. Inheritance tax is nowadays a penalty on thrift, independence and enterprise. It is a growing anachronism. Lloyd George's maxim that the \"the most convenient time to tax the rich is when they are dead\" no longer holds. Inheritance tax today is largely paid by people of modest means who either cannot or simply do not make careful plans to avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have heard a Budget that was very, very big on boasts, but let us look, one by one, at the facts of what the Chancellor of the Exchequer said. The one advantage of what has happened in the past 24 hours is that the Opposition are perhaps a little better prepared than normal on exactly what those facts are. We shall go through every one of the claims and test them out—first, tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give some details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " the Government's figures, the interest payments on that debt will amount to £25 billion a year. That is more than we spend on law and order and on defence, and all from a Government who promised to cut taxes and cut borrowing. The Chancellor said that one of the other ways in which he would get the money is through our old friend the public finance initiative; that somehow, hey presto, the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "It was nothing to do with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-26", "file": "debates1996-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c8863d1b5288960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ent through the roof and the pound was devalued by 20 per cent. However, the most remarkable quote of all from the Prime Minister comes after the election, not before it. He was interviewed, about a year later, by the Los Angeles Times and this question was put to him: a year later, you find yourself under tire. What happened? He answered: Fiddle-de-dee! I do not know why he said that, but he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-26a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "igures in last year's Budget, it would be worth significantly more for local government spending than was envisaged because of the good housekeeping of this Government and because of the underlying low inflation rate. Local government accounts for almost a quarter of general Government expenditure. It would be absurd to imagine that within this large total there was no room for greater efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "ed already. I want to forestall some of the nonsense that often comes from Opposition Members. They compare TSS for this year not with TSS for last year, but with budgets. That is analogous to comparing a person's weekly basic wage for this year with his weekly wage plus his overtime plus any bonuses for last year. It is not surprising that the two are different. We have to compare like with like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "roblem that most hon. Members understand. To put the difference in context, last year English authorities budgeted for revenue expenditure some £2.5 billion above TSS. I should like to score a first this year by ensuring that all sides of the House compare like with like. Now I want to turn to how much assistance local authorities will get from the non-domestic ratepayer and the national taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "series of elements, each of which has been crawled over by the local authority associations and the Government. The individual factors reflect the concerns of different authorities. Rural areas are most interested in the sparsity factor. Closely packed urban areas are interested in the density factor. According to independent experts, the system may be the most sophisticated anywhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "ound the review's general approach convincing, but seek further refinements of particular aspects. The other two associations were unconvinced. Many individual authorities have made strong representations both for and against. The associations, however, were unanimous that they did not wish the recommendations of the review to be introduced for 1997–98. We have therefore accepted that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": "mestic rate relief from the capping regime; the capital limits for residential accommodation charges grant payable this year; and the transfer of voluntary schools into the state sector to be maintained by local education authorities. These adjustments are necessary to make a fair year-on-year comparison of budgets. Subject to these and other technical adjustments affecting individual authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "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": " cent. above their SSA, I propose a continuation of passporting. This means that an authority will get an increase which is the greater of the increases compared to 1996–7 in the authority's SSAs for education, police, personal social services, fire and revenue support for private finance initiative projects, and a flat rate year-on-year increase compared with its 1996–7 base budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman asked about other sources of income. Last year, local authorities budgeted for £2.5 billion more than the TSS because they had additional sources of income. If he had listened, he would have heard me give a series of examples of such sources. This year, authorities will have a new source if they attract voucher money for pre-primary schools. Many will expect to be able to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that his child was moved from a school in Islington, and that is the point. He went to school in Islington, and they decided that it was not good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker, of which I have given you—and, out of courtesy, the Leader of the Opposition—notice. It involves allegations that, in his response to the Budget yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition used documents that were stolen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ernment failed to solve the problems in 17 years, so who would expect them to solve them in the 18th? I know how the trick works, because it was the same with the roads programme. The Government flood people with detail on the day of the Budget, to obscure the real position, and when it comes down to it, one finds that there are cuts far beyond what they announced. Let me tell the Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We can see how it all works from the roads programme that was leaked the day before the Budget. The leak shows how civil servants advised on how to go about things. It said that they were going to cut the long-term transport programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m sure that the House will enjoy every part of his contribution. Let us consider the argument about what has happened over the past 17 years. The Government said that they entered power with one mission in mind. The first Budget of Sir Geoffrey Howe was intended to stop the relative decline of Britain. Now, as we have been saying for the past 12 months, we find that in the world prosperity league—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.379.6", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "Certainly the steel industry, with which I am connected, is concerned about the rocketing rise of the pound. After the right hon. Gentleman's last answer to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) can he tell us where he thinks the pound will be in three or four months' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "education? The fact is that there is no additional money. The hon. Member for Hallam should therefore rethink whether my analogy was correct. It was absolutely apposite. The only thing that I did not do in my analogy was to say that the parents were increasing the amount of pocket money but reducing the amount of money that they were giving to the child. There is no additional money for education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "it held back. There will also be a reduction in spending overall, and lower public spending. As a result of those measures, the loss of revenue will be only £735 million in 1997–98, despite an impressive reduction in income tax worth £3.4 billion in a full year. The Budget will actually produce a net increase of nearly £1 billion and it is tighter than all the pundits would have us believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "sive reduction in income tax worth £3.4 billion in a full year. The Budget will actually produce a net increase of nearly £1 billion and it is tighter than all the pundits would have us believe. [Interruption.] Does any hon. Member wish to intervene? That is an old Whip's trick. The Budget would allow interest rates to remain about the same and could even prevent any further significant increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvine Patnick", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Phillip Oppenheim)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Phillip Oppenheim)", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate. I thought that the comments by the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Simpson), when he complained about the Rolls-Royce metaphor, missed the point. He probably thought that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor meant Rolls-Royce, the rich man's car, but he meant Rolls-Royce the aero-engine manufacturer and I think that is a good analogy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I do not blame the hon. Gentleman, or the work force; I blame the management and the Government at the time. The fact that the workers were working overtime indicates appalling labour management, because the company was building 10,000 cars a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Booth), who all made a number of good points. The hon. Member for Bristol, South (Ms Primarolo) referred to the need to tie up tax loopholes and to increase the VAT take. Every time we tie up a loophole—in this Budget we are doing just that—Labour shouts, \"It's a tax rise.\" It will be interesting to see what Labour does if it ever comes to power. One of the VAT loopholes that we tied up last time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "uth listens, she might learn something. One of the loopholes that we tied up last time was VAT on gold granules, and Labour published a leaflet calling that a tax rise. Presumably, for fear of what Labour calls \"putting up taxes\", it will sign a tax avoiders charter and say to the clever accountants and well-paid tax lawyers, \"Get on with it, boys. We don't want to be accused of putting up taxes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "o a point. One of the tables compares the OECD ranking of GDP per person for 1979 with the World bank ranking for 1994, which allegedly shows Britain slipping from 13th to 18th. The trouble is that only one of the league tables was in the competitiveness White Paper. The 1979 comparisons quoted by Labour come from a different organisation, use different methodology and include different countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-27", "file": "debates1996-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "c7e6638dc58218a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks where we are, and I shall tell him and put the matter in perspective for him. In 1960—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-27a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " because we have returned to our tax-cutting agenda and lowered income tax. That £2,000 figure is apparently some cumulative, rolled-up calculation of the difference between tax paid and what tax would have been if it had not been indexed, and it also takes account of the fact that earnings are going up. What is happening in this country is that more people are working, more people are unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "et. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor increased the starting point for tax by enlarging allowances by £280 and he also widened the 20p band. Those are important further tax changes that the hon. Gentleman did not mention. The figure that I gave a moment ago takes into account all those factors and the growth in earnings in real terms occasioned by the economy's excellent performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "d the Chief Secretary making any such admission. I remember an exchange about the tax burden, when he put the record straight and said that, as a result of this Budget, the tax burden would be the same as it was when we went into the last general election. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Darling), in putting his question, does not take into account the 25 Tory tax decreases since 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.460.8", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ld be absolutely clear, we are publishing today a statement of our policy, which we sent to the hon. Member for Foyle last weekend. A copy is being placed in the Library together with a short explanatory statement. The talks that have been carrying on for some time are likely to break for Christmas soon and to resume later in January. When Sinn Fein could join the talks depends on its own actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.460.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "E. Coli (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. People sometimes complain about regulations, but they are necessary. The clear lesson from this outbreak is that the proper handling of meat products and the proper use of utensils and storage of food is very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "E. Coli (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption. The hon. Gentleman is asking me a question and I am trying to answer it— [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "As to the point about the gravy in the pie and why it was not in the statement, the chief medical officer informed me about that just after 3 o'clock and I informed the House of it because I was asked a specific question about it. At the beginning of the statement, the hon. Gentleman was complaining that he had not had the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "00,000, and neither should benefit pay the full council tax for those whose properties are above the top of band E. In England that means properties worth about £120,000. I intend to implement this change in April 1998. It will affect about 65,000 people and save about £15 million in the first year. In a press release put out on Tuesday by the hon. Member for Peckham, the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " are roughly similar in size, but unemployment in France is more than 3 million and rising, whereas in this country it is 2 million and falling. If that is not due to the social chapter and the minimum wage, can the hon. Member for Peckham—or any Opposition Front Bencher—tell us which factors cause unemployment to be higher in France than in the United Kingdom? I shall be happy to give way to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "Then, we had a nation at work, not a nation on benefits. Now, increasingly, we have a nation on benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I will deal with the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "His party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-28", "file": "debates1996-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "db5a251a58b236df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I do not have a vision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-28a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-29", "file": "debates1996-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ade1550ed3658aa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ur economy is in its fifth year of sustained growth and we have had the longest period of low inflation for almost half a century. That is particularly beneficial to tourism because those are exactly the sort of economic conditions in which leisure and business travel can thrive. As a result of the Budget, a family on average earnings will be £1,100 better off next year than it was five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-29", "file": "debates1996-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ade1550ed3658aa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": " from the east midlands and there is more to follow. Such a response shows that the industry now recognises that we are the party with a positive agenda for tourism, in contrast to the Government's lacklustre approach. Let us take accommodation standards. We know that there is a serious problem with the quality and standard of service offered. The Government's own report \"Competing with the best\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-11-29", "file": "debates1996-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ade1550ed3658aa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ot expect that the Government's strategy will match Labour's plans to introduce a development of tourism Act. The need for restructuring is clear, and my right hon. Friend the Member for Copeland has already outlined how Labour will make that new Act work for the industry. Integral to our aims is the need to encourage the British travel agent to sell more domestic holidays, including short breaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-11-29a.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "Regardless of the somewhat bilious question from the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Mr. Jones), and as this is the first—and possibly the only—time that I have attended Welsh questions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.663.6", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State and his colleagues give vent to negative and carping criticism of the European Union, will they stop and consider that one of the major reasons why industrialists come to this country is that we are a launching pad for the European Union? The Secretary of State and his colleagues should stop and consider the damage that is done to Wales by their criticisms", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.663.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ned Friend the Chancellor made on the national health service. Last week's Budget shows clearly the Government's commitment to the NHS. In the context of a public spending round in which the Government faced difficult choices and decisions, they identified three priorities for public expenditure: education; law enforcement; and the national health service. The biggest growth in this year's Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "telling the press for some days that he is to make a major speech tomorrow on the future of GP fundholding under the Labour party. He cannot contain his excitement and wants to share the good news well ahead of the speech. By the end of last week, he was already briefing journalists. In the Daily Express I read: Tony Blair has ordered a new U-turn over Labour's health policy. He has vetoed plans\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "a question to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment to ask him what provision is made in year 2 of his public expenditure survey settlement for the transfer of community care responsibilities. Let him table that question. If he does so, he will find that my right hon. Friend's budget has been increased in year 2 by £325 million. That is the fact. Would the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.686.4", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "tions. East London and The City health authority benefits from other allocations as well. Now, have those on the Opposition Front Bench sorted out what the answer is? The reality is that the Government are committed to real terms growth in health expenditure. The Opposition have made two attempts to demonstrate that that is not true and both have been demonstrated to be wrongly based. They should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ow from its private paperwork that the Labour party, including the hon. Gentleman, does not believe that that is an adequate answer. We know that the hon. Member for York (Mr. Bayley) told the Fabian Society: Labour's health policy will not look credible at the general election if we do not commit ourselves to matching the rate of growth delivered by the Conservatives in recent years. He is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": ", South (Mr. Gunnell) was there. He was talking to Labour Back Benchers about Labour's health policy. He said that the Government are talking about additional money for the health service. He is quite right. We are. He said that Labour had to make an effective response. He made it absolutely clear that he does not believe that Labour has an effective response to the Government's additional pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "right. We are. He said that Labour had to make an effective response. He made it absolutely clear that he does not believe that Labour has an effective response to the Government's additional pledge. [Interruption.] Let me read another bit of the minutes, which the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) might recognise if he had been at the meeting. I am not sure that he was, but I can tell him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ry, and the right hon. Member for Dunfermline, East, the shadow Chancellor, have put him. He is shifting slightly and offering a little friendly advice to the right hon. Member for Derby, South. The right hon. Lady will not have a better position than the hon. Gentleman, because they cannot get the shadow Chancellor to agree to match the Prime Minister's pledge to real terms growth in NHS funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "retary of State claims to demonstrate. He said that, even if we did not believe him because of what is shown in the Red Book, we should believe him because of the Government's overall record on health spending. He spoke about 3 per cent. a year in hushed tones, as if that were a record that no other Government had achieved. It is, of course, less good than the record of the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with the matter and do not want to spend much time on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "As the Government have not made such a commitment, the issue falls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Yes, I agree that that was a horrible speech. I should like to share with the House the experience of a friend who works for a small local builder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "he forecast is that it will almost double from £2¼ billion in 1996 to £.4¼ billion in 1997. These are all alarming figures. To put them in the context of the Government's many claims to be doing better than others in Europe—to be, as the Secretary of State claimed, a role model—let me remind the House of another Government claim in which there is some substance but much misdirection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.703.8", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.703.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Betts", "preceding_text": "endent analysis of the tax implications of the Budget produced by Coopers and Lybrand—I doubt that the company is a paid-up member of the Labour party. Every salary group—whether single people, married couples or couples with children—paid more tax under this Government. They would all pay more tax in the next tax year than they had paid in the tax year in which the last general election was held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may recall spending part of his summer holiday coming down to my constituency—without doing me the usual courtesy of telling me that he was coming—and terrifying people in Dawlish by saying that their hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. The hon. Gentleman knows that I was given my information by the Department of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "preceding_text": "The Minister is asking me to do homework, but he cannot even do his homework on the name of the constituency of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Capel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAvoy", "preceding_text": "the level of employment or unemployment. There is a convention—it is not a rule, but it is a convention—that the Chancellor does not do that in the Budget. That is a breach of the normal rules for the integrity of the Red Book. Others far better qualified than me have passed an opinion on the integrity of the Red Book. Adam Cole, an economist at the brokers James Capel, or is it pronounced Capell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-02", "file": "debates1996-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "72bacf253a8f316e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "should come down and the Conservative party should apologise to the British people for its dishonesty on tax. The last defences of the Tory party on tax are shot through with holes. They are not defences at all because the Tories have no defence. There is no defence for a party that promises to cut taxes but repeatedly raises them. Its only answer to broken promises has been to make more promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-02a.761.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.777.7", "colnum": "777", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ble of the House, the Bill shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; 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 First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.777.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.778.8", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "hospital trusts operate within a number of former health districts that still receive below the national average for health funding? In particular, and as my hon. Friend knows, Scarborough district and Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS trust have a deficit. Can my hon. Friend reassure me and my many constituents, and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough (Mr. Sykes)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.778.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Real terms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on both counts. The Red Book makes it clear that the cash plans for the health service in year three are increasing faster than the GDP deflator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": " to say that fundholding has worked. It is the option that has been chosen by almost 60 per cent. of GPs in England—because they believe that it is in the interests of their NHS patients that they should be come fundholders. My hon. Friend was wrong about the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury. The hon. Gentleman made it crystal clear this morning that he intends to abolish fundholding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.782.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State visited Huddersfield and met the impressive team that runs the trust, did he mention page 124 of the Red Book—a page which I am sure that the Minister knows off by heart? In particular, did he mention the lines that refer to health, of which the NHS budget forms a part? The total health budget from 1997 to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "entleman is obviously trying to help the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith), who failed last night and again this morning. There is a straightforward answer to the question; there is no secret about it. He will see it confirmed if he continues to look through the Red Book. There will be a real-terms increase in spending on the national health service. The fall in the figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.6", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing the problem to my attention. She will be aware of the record increase, in the context of total national health service funding, in last year's budget.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.789.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.794.7", "colnum": "794", "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. The reality is that the basic rate of income tax is at its lowest level for 60 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.794.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Economic and Finance Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Riddick", "preceding_text": "urely the Maastricht treaty says that countries that wish to participate in the single currency will have to have been within the ERM for two years before joining. If that is so and, as my right hon. and learned Friend said today and also in his letter of 22 November, this country will not rejoin the ERM, surely it means that no Conservative Government can take this country into a single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.819.9", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "ponding to the most exciting economic prospects that we have seen for a generation. Unemployment is down by almost 1 million. Housing starts are up. House prices are up. We have heard much from the Opposition about negative equity, but the latest figures show that the number of households affected by negative equity is now down more than 80 per cent. on the 1992 peak. In the first quarter of 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.819.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.819.9", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "uch from the Opposition about negative equity, but the latest figures show that the number of households affected by negative equity is now down more than 80 per cent. on the 1992 peak. In the first quarter of 1996— [Interruption.] The deputy leader of the Labour party knows that housing starts have started to rise again. I know that the Opposition are totally uninterested in any facts or figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.819.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "x, called a windfall tax, and a teenage tax, as child benefit is withdrawn. All those taxes are clearly set out in commitments made by the Labour party. We were promised details once the Budget was over. The right hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) clearly said that he would produce the details, but all we heard was a new commitment to lower the rate of value added tax on domestic fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The reality is that taxes are going up. People recognise that, and I am sure that they have made a judgment about it. Since 1992, direct tax has increased for families earning an average income. I must say to the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ising the Prime Minister and other members of the Government for trying to avoid admitting that the fiscal stance had been tightened and what that meant. The Chancellor was quite clear about it. My speech will make it clear that I am not in favour of relaxing the fiscal stance. The Liberal Democrats have, as every year, produced an alternative Budget. I shall not detain the House with the details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ghtened and what that meant. The Chancellor was quite clear about it. My speech will make it clear that I am not in favour of relaxing the fiscal stance. The Liberal Democrats have, as every year, produced an alternative Budget. I shall not detain the House with the details—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] Well, I could detain the House with the details. It has been extremely well received in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "gnificantly from last year's forecast. For the following year, the forecast is £19 billion, whereas last year that forecast was £15 billion. For the year after that, the forecast is now £12 billion, compared with the previous forecast of £5 billion. That is a significant alteration, to our disadvantage. The Chancellor's wise men and women, the independent forecasters, are slightly less optimistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Portillo and Lilley?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "me that the Government have lost their appetite for reducing public spending. I know that we have a much lower level of public spending than Germany and France, but those countries are making a real effort to cut public expenditure in real terms. This year, we must admit that the feudal barons from the big-spending Ministries have succeeded in fighting off Treasury attempts to reduce their Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "any of the new jobs created since 1990 have been part-time or casual jobs. That is an option that many people like, but for many others, they are the only jobs on offer. Many people are simply disappearing from the count. We do not know what is happening to them. We are told that living standards are up, but we know that, because of the 22 Tory tax rises, the typical family is worse off by £2,120.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "If there is any judgment on what we both said on that programme, the right hon. Gentleman will find that he comes off slightly worse than anyone else who appeared. I have made my position clear and I stand by it—because of the taxes that the Government have put up, the typical family is £2,120 worse off. That is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.895.6", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " for the very substantial cut-back. That is an interesting insight into how the Government regard public spending, with the main effort being directed into covering up the Government proposal. We have been promised that, despite this tough spending round, more money would be spent on health. But, a year after the general election, we find that spending on health is set to be reduced in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.895.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.895.6", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "nment may claim that they are reducing the basic rate of income tax, but everybody knows that taxes are going up elsewhere. Last year, the Chief Secretary was again helpful. He told the Treasury Select Committee that council taxes would rise by 8 per cent. When asked on Sunday by Mr. Dimbleby what he was going to say this year, he replied I'm not going to say it. No wonder he does not want to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.895.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "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": "against a background of growth and of economic prospects that the country has not seen for many years. It will help to make Britain and the people of Britain better off, and it will secure our prosperity for many years to come. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central had the nerve to suggest that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had devoted the minority of his speech to the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The idea that all the improvements of the past few years are purely cyclical and that the Government have stood aside and allowed things to happen is preposterous. I defy the hon. Gentleman to find a time in any stage of any previous trade cycle when the average family was better off than it is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-03", "file": "debates1996-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "b256837059556135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " I asked the right hon. Gentleman whether he would stick to the spending totals in the Red Book, or, if not, whether he would adjust them upwards or downwards. His answer was two minutes of incomprehensible gobbledegook—he had no reply. That is not surprising, because, as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary has pointed out, the Labour party is committed to £30 billion-worth of extra spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-03a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1016.6", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Electricity Generation (East Lothian)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend will note those comments by my hon. Friend, whom I am pleased to see here for the debate, because he has always expressed a great interest in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1016.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1018.7", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Electricity Generation (East Lothian)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kynoch", "preceding_text": "I was most impressed with what I saw when I visited Longannet not long ago. The company is also testing at Longannet a new technique that extracts sulphur dioxide efficiently from flue gas. Those developments all exemplify the entrepreneurial attitude of both Scottish Power and Hydro-Electric, and augurs well for their ability to deal with the competitive threats that the future undoubtedly holds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1018.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel) and his colleagues propose in amendment (a) to Government amendment No. 74. If we win the case for fair compensation, it will make sense to have independent arbitration available in case there should be any dispute. In debates such as this, it is as well to call in at one's Whips Office to pick up the brief that gives the party line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "No, it is not at all. It is entirely supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "New clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Let me say immediately, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am confining myself entirely to the new clauses and not raising any wider issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "New clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall deal first with amendment No. 57 tabled by my hon. Friends, which I urge the House to resist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "a free vote. If we are to believe the briefings from the Scottish Office, it may be that, in a free vote and were it not for his Cabinet responsibilities, the Scottish Secretary himself would follow his constituents' views and vote for a handgun ban. At least the Home Secretary did not tell us that our new clause was in some way technically incompetent—that is usually the last refuge of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "virtue and a value in Scotland leading the way. They believe, reasonably, that, if Scotland can implement a total handgun ban, the lesson will be followed south of the border. The handgun ban is not comparable to the poll tax. The overwhelming majority of the people of Scotland opposed the poll tax. The overwhelming majority of the people in Scotland support a handgun ban—and not only in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ll never hope to understand this Government, or the rationality of Ministers. None the less, I would like them to consider the more limited proposal for safe storage of weapons, because it would avoid the obvious danger. Perhaps it could serve as a beachhead to build on, and to push the process of developing common sense, which we should have pushed earlier. I hope, therefore, that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It is a bit difficult to divine whether there has been a Government revolt, judging by the number of abstentions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1163.6", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend obviously has a future ahead of him in clearing rooms. If the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) judges Government revolts by the numbers of Conservative Members who abstain, he should know that the number who abstained on Second Reading of the Crime (Sentences) Bill was rather larger than the number who abstained on Second Reading of the Bill before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1163.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Because members of the mob are to be found only on the Conservative Benches—that is the simple answer. We exercise our judgment on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "f mobsters at Stamford Bridge from my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson), as this is a serious debate. We have reached our view, and the right hon. and learned Member for Putney has come to a different view. I do not believe that shotguns are in the same category as handguns. Shotguns are not manufactured to kill human beings, although I know that they can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-04", "file": "debates1996-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "ee06ad098f460937", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1167.5", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " quite a lot. If, for the sake of argument, his two new barriers reduced the 4 per cent. to 2 per cent., is it reasonable to extend the Cullen recommendations to reduce that remaining 2 per cent. at such enormous cost? What is the cost? First, we are depriving 55,000 people of their lawful activity, an activity that has been regarded in the past as a patriotic one, not unlike the Territorial Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-04a.1167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " two separate and distinct matters. The first involves proposals to simplify about 19 complex measures. No pensioner will lose money as a result of that. The second concerns new independent medical advice on pensions paid for loss of hearing. The purpose of that independent advice is to determine what disabilities have been caused, so that people can be compensated accordingly. Those changes were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1199.4", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "simplistic and misleading way by The Guardian. If the right hon. Gentleman relies on The Guardian for his information, that explains why he is so often inaccurate in his questions. The first issue involves proposals to simplify complex measures. No pensioner will lose money as a result of that. The second is the way in which we have always dealt with independent medical advice concerning pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1200.2", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is unable to answer the specific points that were put to him, he will stand condemned out of his own mouth. I must ask him why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Speaking in my role as the only political leader who understands Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Harbours, Docks, Piers and Ferries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "the arguments that I have set out, or the views of the port and its employees, the local authorities or the people of the region, perhaps he will listen to what private business has said about the privatisation. The chief executive of Mitsui OSK Lines said: My colleagues in Japan and Europe all feel strongly that the process and effect of Privatisation of the Port of Tyne will, at the very least\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1242.7", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ors which rejected other comments? Even at this late stage—six months after implementing the regulations—the Government must think again. Their record is littered with disability living allowance-type measures. No thought has been given to the implications. At the end of the day, it is not Members of Parliament or Ministers who will have to pick up the pieces, pay the costs or suffer the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Andrew Mitchell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Andrew Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "rom the opening remarks of the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish). First, he referred to the Government's cavalier treatment of the House of Commons. I must take him to task on that point. As he knows, the regulations are subject to the negative procedure: they do not need the approval of the House unless someone prays against them, as occurred today. They are law until they are annulled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-05", "file": "debates1996-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "05469ed438ed78ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "preceding_text": "I do not have any difficulty with the theory advanced by my hon. Friend the Member for Gelding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-05a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1285.7", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. With the Government in turmoil, as they are now, what would be the precise arrangements for telling the House if the Chancellor of the Exchequer were sacked over the weekend? Would we be the first to be told about the sacking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1285.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1292.2", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lang", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The working time directive, like many of the other burdens on business, is not to do with health and safety but is to do with social engineering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ment Agency and the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland. The intervention of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield helps me to refer to Northern Ireland. In debates such as this, we rarely mention it. We are the United Kingdom and I am often surprised that Government documents refer to Britain, which so far as I am aware means England and Wales. The United Kingdom covers Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "ate has rightly turned on the fact that a Labour Government would fetter and obstruct the ability of our business men and women to compete in world markets. On inward investment, I want to read out one quotation that sums up our position. It is from Kumar Bhattacharyya—I hope that I am pronouncing his name correctly and do it justice—who is professor of manufacturing systems at Warwick university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "be permitted to recite now are set out in the brief. We have heard about the LG Newport project, which will create 6,100 jobs as a result of £1.7 billion investment. That is amazing investment in the production of semiconductors. The Jaguar project at Castle Bromwich will create up to 1,300 new jobs. We have already heard about Honda in Swindon, where £330 million has been invested in a car plant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-06", "file": "debates1996-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a21f0ca4867b8fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Trade and Inward Investment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "rd. I hope that the Minister will deal with that when he replies. The whole House wants to attract inward investment for Britain, but we must try to envisage our future as we seek to do that. The Confederation of British Industry has identified three weaknesses which hold back Britain's inward investment performance. The first is our \"image as poor Europeans\" —those are not my words but the CBI's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-06a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-09", "file": "debates1996-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4406d6ddc8d1510b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.5.8", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am coming on. That document suggested that Deputy Prime Minister's Question Time should be used to set the \"sleaze agenda\" and that, prior to my appearance before the Select Committee tomorrow, we should publish a dossier of 'Hessergate' scandals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.5.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-09", "file": "debates1996-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4406d6ddc8d1510b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.5.8", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am coming on. That document suggested that Deputy Prime Minister's Question Time should be used to set the \"sleaze agenda\" and that, prior to my appearance before the Select Committee tomorrow, we should publish a dossier of 'Hessergate' scandals. [Interruption.] I am only quoting from a Labour party document", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.5.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-09", "file": "debates1996-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4406d6ddc8d1510b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.8.8", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "As the question refers to the \"English regions\", does it not provide an opportunity for the Minister to condemn completely the policy of regional government—which may well involve my constituency being governed from Guildford or Reading or, worse still, being taken into a revitalised Greater London council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.8.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-09", "file": "debates1996-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4406d6ddc8d1510b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "I find that breathtaking, since the Labour party has not come forward with a timetable for reaching 0.7 per cent., unless the deafening silence from Opposition Front Benchers is about to change. This country has more than met the other UN target—to which the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Ms Short) did not refer—for combined private and official flows; we are at 1.38 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-09", "file": "debates1996-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4406d6ddc8d1510b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "s hold their weapons lawfully and legitimately. If it starts from the basic premise that it holds its weapons lawfully and legitimately, not only will it not hand over a significant amount of weaponry or engage in a process in which weapons are taken out of the political context, it will not hand over a single rusty revolver or a pound of sweating Semtex. The reason it cannot do so is ideological—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-09a.60.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-10", "file": "debates1996-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f5722bf365e0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.101.7", "colnum": "101", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Tuesday 17 December.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "le of the House, the Bill shall be read the first and second time (and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read) and shall be ordered to be read the third time; 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/1996-12-10a.101.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-10", "file": "debates1996-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f5722bf365e0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "raordinary that the Labour party should suggest that we pick and choose our medical advice on such matters. That is a frightening suggestion, as the only part of the benefit system that allows Government some discretion as to how much they give war pensioners is in local government matters, and all but two of the local authorities that do not give full help to war pensioners are Labour-controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-10", "file": "debates1996-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f5722bf365e0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is not a cop-out. I can supply the hon. Gentleman with the detailed figures, but I will not weary the House with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-10", "file": "debates1996-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "3f5722bf365e0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I welcome the fact that the Prime Minister has admitted that these Conservative divisions damage the country's interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-10a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Unfunded Pension Liabilities (European Union)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ody outside this wonderful House of Commons of ours has ever dreamt up the possibility of going down the road of pension schemes paying out their pensions by raising current debt in the markets. There is therefore no reason to protect ourselves from such an eventuality in the criteria for monetary union. What would those pension funds do if they could not pay their pensions? They have two choices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend is not alone in being interested in that article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I can understand the hon. Gentleman getting excited about this subject, but we should al I take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that Devon is in the lowest 15 in Britain for spending on central administration and has a tine record? Perhaps he will also confirm, however, that the high spenders on central bureaucracy are Westminster", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that Devon is in the lowest 15 in Britain for spending on central administration and has a tine record? Perhaps he will also confirm, however, that the high spenders on central bureaucracy are Westminster [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"], Wandsworth", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that Devon is in the lowest 15 in Britain for spending on central administration and has a tine record? Perhaps he will also confirm, however, that the high spenders on central bureaucracy are Westminster [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"], Wandsworth [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"], Kensington and Chelsea", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that Devon is in the lowest 15 in Britain for spending on central administration and has a tine record? Perhaps he will also confirm, however, that the high spenders on central bureaucracy are Westminster [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"], Wandsworth [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"], Kensington and Chelsea [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tory\"] and the City of London", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Donald Thompson", "preceding_text": "How is it that the Opposition believe the figures when they get worse, but disbelieve them when they get better? Do their prejudices extend to our service industries, about which they are constantly sniping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "tive politician in the House who is a federalist; no Conservative politician would accept a European super-state. Every Conservative opposes any suggestion of the creation of a united states of Europe. Treating the debate about economic and monetary union as if it were a debate about the creation of a super-state arouses public fears and deprives the public of sensible information about the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "eation of a super-state arouses public fears and deprives the public of sensible information about the issue. [Interruption.] We may return to this, but we last debated the matter when we debated the Maastricht treaty, and I responded then to several hon. Friends who intervened. In my view, fewer and fewer people on the continent see economic and monetary union as a tool for political integration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "rs of the parliamentary Labour party who, in July this year, put out a document opposing the whole idea of a single European currency. When we discussed Maastricht, Labour was against having an opt-out. At the last election, the Labour party's policy was to bind ourselves by treaty without a choice to a single European currency. We have a clear policy, on which we shall stand at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Hans Tietmeyer does not speak for Germany. It is no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will come to the hon. Gentleman's point. We will make the decision in the national economic interest and I will lay out the factors that we will consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.303.9", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.303.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall make some progress and then give way to some hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "one so for many years, will be patient, I shall tell him. As he knows, there are two outstanding issues relating to the stability pact that have yet to be agreed and I shall come to those issues in a minute. They are the definition of exceptional circumstances and the discretion that is available to the Council. I think that he would agree that those are important issues on which the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am now on the detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But what does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman is not quoting from that document, but that was my understanding of the comment that was made, and that is the basis on which we shall fight the election. I understand that it is impossible for the Conservatives to have a similar document at this stage. Indeed, it may be impossible for them to agree on a manifesto on those issues, but the Labour party has agreed its position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Minister said that he was a Euro-sceptic. I saw \"Breakfast with Frost\". He has now read out his statement. The Minister who is to reply to the debate on behalf of the Chancellor later this evening went on the programme as a Treasury Minister who is supposed to defend the documents, and said that he was a Euro-sceptic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " defend the documents, and said that he was a Euro-sceptic. [Interruption.] The House will look strangely on a Minister of the Treasury who said publicly on \"Breakfast with Frost\" that he was a Euro-sceptic. That sends out a clear message. If he says—which I accept—that he does not support the principle of a single currency without a referendum being held and without proper parliamentary approval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was reading the quotation from The Independent on the Monday after the Minister's Frost interview. Does he deny saying that he was a Euro-sceptic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am reading the report from The Independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am reading the report from The Independent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] If I have misquoted the hon. Gentleman, I apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Strident. I came back to earth and realised that the Euro-coalition in the House was alive and strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " something frequently enough, people will eventually believe it. What are the facts? Only eight weeks ago at a conference of more than 3,500 Conservatives in Bournemouth, support was given on the conference floor to the Chancellor, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary without a ripple of dissent, interruption or speech in opposition. A vast standing ovation was given to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": " we are now. It is of the greatest concern that the \"On the Record\" interview does not seem to deal with the fundamental question that we should be considering in relation to where we are going on monetary union as a whole. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor said, I think—he is here now, so I have an opportunity to test this—that about 70 per cent. were in favour of a single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I have been in the House only a short time—not yet three years—but tonight has been a remarkable occasion because, since I entered the House, to be openly pro-European in Westminster meant feeling very much in a minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "he British people. It is time to get rid of this tired and discredited Government. This country needs vision, direction and leadership in Europe. It will get all three from new Labour: on economic and monetary union; on the regeneration of the British economy; and on giving Britain increased influence on Europe. We have seen the Chancellor's struggle to reconcile his views with those of his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I hope my right hon. Friend will forgive me. I have very little time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " getting my title wrong, although tonight's performance was a slight improvement on his last effort, when he called me the Posthorn General. He said that I was a Euro-sceptic and therefore I was hostile to Europe. He is right in one respect. I am a Euro-sceptic. That does not necessarily mean that one is hostile to Europe. It means that one is sceptical about Europe. One is pragmatic about Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Marlow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Constituents say to me, \"Mr. Marlow\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "urrency has not changed and will not change. On 11 November, in a speech to the CBI, he said: Labour supports the principle of a single currency. The Opposition said that their policy on EMU would not change. A few days later, they announced that they would prance along behind us and hold a referendum. Some people say that that was a ploy aimed as much at some of my hon. Friends as at anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "empts to poodle along behind us. Only yesterday, the shadow Foreign Secretary, who we all know is at one with the shadow Chancellor on these issues—I make that point only to illustrate that we are not the only party that is wholly united on these issues—affirmed that it was Labour policy to surrender Britain's right of veto over key areas such as social, employment, industrial and regional policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-11", "file": "debates1996-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "fff478972a20bd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Medicinal Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "Medicinal drugs are one of the great triumphs of science. They relieve the pain of millions of people and provide longer, healthier lives. Britain has better safeguards and less drug use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-11a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-12", "file": "debates1996-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40a3782e5ab2c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Public Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. William Hague)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. William Hague)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I should like to make a statement on public expenditure in Wales. Copies of my statement, provisional standard spending assessments, my proposals for a council tax damping scheme, provisional capping principles and notional amounts for local authorities are available in the Vote Office. Full details of my decisions will be published in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-12", "file": "debates1996-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40a3782e5ab2c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.439.10", "colnum": "439", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "the presumption is against integration unless we can be convinced that the national interest is served and that the benefits of greater integration would be sufficient for our quality of life and for employment that it would justify the loss of some national decision making. Within weeks of the final possible date for a general election, the intergovernmental conference will conclude at Amsterdam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-12", "file": "debates1996-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40a3782e5ab2c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "as the political equivalent of Landseer's \"The Stag at Bay\". I know that he is a rather portly stag, but rabid hounds were all around him—well, they were not all around him; they were all behind him. I do not think anyone who has sat through various big debates in the House can recall quite as bloodthirsty a scene in terms of an attempt being made to rip one of the most senior Ministers to pieces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-12", "file": "debates1996-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "40a3782e5ab2c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "He is absolutely wrong about that. In the Conservative party, it seems to be a left-right split. I do not know all the Conservatives on both sides of the argument, but one does not often see or hear anyone who could be described as on the left of the Conservative party bitterly opposing further economic and monetary union. One does not find Euro-sceptics on the left wing of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-12a.486.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Suffolk.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Olner", "preceding_text": "When the Minister has completed his visit to Somerset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.610.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.611.6", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Was that a challenge to you, Madam Speaker?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point concerning the magistrates courts in his constituency and people who have passed through them in relation to offences that they may have committed. He speaks for many people when he describes the offence that has been caused by the incident that he mentioned, and his points are well made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The cull?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have provided about £2.5 billion precisely to protect the beef industry across the United Kingdom after the health scares that arose following the scientific evidence about BSE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.628.8", "colnum": "628", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "bout dollops of sovereignty, perhaps he should state in the parliamentary Labour party his views on the dollops of sovereignty that the Labour party is committed to surrendering. They relate to social policy, industrial policy and regional policy. Would the hon. Gentleman surrender sovereignty on those issues? He would not and neither would his hon. Friends. Perhaps we should have a show of hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.628.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I can only assume that the hon. Gentleman either has not read or has misunderstood the Florence agreement, which never provided for a timetable. It provided for a process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.657.12", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "to make fishing more selective and reduce discards. We also have to tackle industrial fishing which is why, at the forthcoming Fisheries Council, we are arguing for a limit be to placed on the number of sand-eels that can be caught. The UK took the initiative on conservation measures in setting up a fisheries conservation group, bringing together fishermen, fisheries scientists and administrators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.657.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "common fisheries policy is in need of radical reform. That is why we set out our commitment to CFP reform in \"New Labour, New Life for Britain\"—a document that has been endorsed at every level of the Labour party and that will be the basis for the manifesto that we will put to the people of Britain. A Labour Government will attach a high priority to fisheries policy and to securing a reformed CFP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Hague preference, the Minister of State said today that he had all the fishermen's organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "tional quota swapping—that is the phrase, I believe, but he will correct me if I am wrong—that is fine. But I must say honestly and fairly to the right hon. Member for Strangford—who, I am sure, would not expect anything else—that we cannot give the Government a blank cheque to wreak whatever damage they want on the fishermen on the south-west of England by taking away their quotas; obviously not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "t is unacceptable that our vessels should be decommissioned in order to give greater opportunities to vessels from other member states of the EU to fish in UK waters or waters within the jurisdiction of the EU. I reminded the House of the Government's disastrous failure to keep the additional Spanish vessels out of the Irish box and the western waters two years ago. That came into force this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.670.10", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang) says that he is not giving way, the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) should listen and resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.670.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Porter", "preceding_text": "partners and still came back with permission to catch fewer British fish than before. If the Government are defeated tonight, it will again make no difference at all. The Minister will still go off and the 1997 quotas will still be set. Tonight I shall vote with the Government: the time to vote against is afterwards, when the Minister comes back with a deal that is too poor to accept. Furthermore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ve been considered by the College of Commissioners as a whole. At the Fisheries Council this week, I shall repeat that concern and I look to the Commission to recognise that Scottish producers are entitled to some safeguards while their complaints about dumping and subsidies are investigated. We have had a useful debate. My hon. Friend the Minister of State and I have listened to various concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-16", "file": "debates1996-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "99deb2fad4aad05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "ort for the protection of the countryside for its own sake. My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield rightly asked what are the concerns that have been referred to in the consultation document and have apparently been expressed to the Department. There is no evidence to support what has been asserted. The amount of concern and the importance to be attached to it needs to be seriously questioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.738.7", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is clearly subject to some arithmetical confusion. The Government have reduced income tax. Council taxes will rise somewhat because we have always felt that it is sensible to return some financial autonomy to local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.738.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I happen to think that real effort is made by councillors of all sorts, not only Labour councillors up and down this land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " Minister wants to ask me questions, I shall be happy to swap roles whenever he wishes to call the general election. The Prime Minister's answer on beef is extraordinary. Does he not recall that, after the Florence summit, he came to the Dispatch Box and said that he had a firm agreement that, if we did certain things, the ban would be lifted, and that the timetable was in our hands, not Europe's?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "So the Prime Minister cannot give us a date for lifting the ban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ot give us a date for lifting the ban. [Interruption.] The Government gave us a date before, they did not honour it and they cannot give us a new one. I have just checked in Hansard , and the Prime Minister specifically said that the date for lifting the ban was in the hands of the British Government. If that is correct, why can he now not give us a date? The answer is that it is not in his hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.780.7", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.780.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "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": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill has one simple aim: to protect the victims of harassment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "the next general election is that the Daily Mail will not support the Labour party. Support from The Daily Telegraph is questionable, and it is certainly questionable from The Sun, The Times and the Daily Star. But I think that we can say with some certainty that the Daily Mail will support the Conservative party. Indeed, I would be profoundly shocked if that certainty in my life was not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sedgefield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": ". That offer was rejected. On the day of the Queen's Speech—I am glad to see that the Home Secretary is smiling about this—Ministers spent all day until 3.30 pm in radio and television studios, defending the decision to turn what would have been a Government Bill into a private Member's Bill. As we all remember, during his speech on the Loyal Address, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgemoor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maddock", "preceding_text": "s, too. In view of what the Minister has already said, I hope that he and his civil servants will consider the scope for the use of undertakings in both civil and criminal courts in the context of the Bill. I hope that we shall hear some response to that suggestion during our proceedings tonight. I now move to a second area where we on the Liberal Democrat Benches are looking for some improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": ", as it were, her maiden speech from the Dispatch Box, I think that she has done very well. Certainly she does not need my help; my purpose is to help the Home Secretary. Will the Home Secretary make it clear once and for all whether he thinks that the scope of my hon. Friend's Bill was too wide, or whether he thinks that it was too narrow? He has made both allegations in the space of two minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "y statutory authority. A journalist who may be pursuing an investigation is certainly not acting under any such authority. This Bill, however, deals specifically with the matter by setting a standard: whether it is reasonable for someone to act in such a way in the circumstances. That is entirely different from the misconceived approach adopted in the hon. Lady's Bill, which would not have worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Anderson", "preceding_text": "victim. It would make it more likely that county court judges would issue civil injunctions in strong prima facie cases of harassment. The Bill seeks to provide a remedy against behaviour that would often otherwise be considered lawful—for example, using the postal system, the public highway, or the telephone would be rendered a civil or criminal offence under the Bill by the effect on the victim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-17", "file": "debates1996-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "560962eb93421c7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Anderson", "preceding_text": "would often otherwise be considered lawful—for example, using the postal system, the public highway, or the telephone would be rendered a civil or criminal offence under the Bill by the effect on the victim. [Interruption.] At present, when deciding whether to issue injunctions, the courts are naturally inclined to attach too much weight to potential interference with a harasser's civil liberties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-17a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "One thing is certain: at all times we have acted with dignity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "East London and the City Health Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": " Gentleman knows, East London and the City's population is ethnically diverse and characteristic of London's densely populated inner-city areas, and it makes much of that. In response to the point made so forcefully—but, in my view, mistakenly—by the hon. Member for Newham, North-East, let me say that our allocation policy is to target resources where the need for health care services is greatest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Congdon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Congdon", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed: I am happy to give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that I shall look carefully at that; and at any information that he wants to give me beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Lofthouse. As you know, last night, amendment No. 13 was passed by 179 to 172 votes, to strengthen the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will know that one relevant factor is that, when the British library moves out of the Reading Room, the British museum will lose a substantial amount of income, but the Government have not yet made it clear that they will fully compensate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1996-12-18", "file": "debates1996-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d722f59b30479a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection from Harassment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "That is a very important point, but it is not the only one. If museums care well for the artefacts in their charge—as the science museum and the natural history museum have done—it would be unfair to take money away from them to pay for those who have not performed their function. It is the parable of the virgins or the talents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1996-12-18a.1010.1"}