{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-13", "file": "debates1997-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c19db177de836a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-13a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The new clauses and the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-13a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-13", "file": "debates1997-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c19db177de836a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-13a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate that has been marked by some moving contributions from the hon. Members for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mrs. Golding), for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) and for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller).I shall return to their points in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-13a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-14", "file": "debates1997-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a5f58df601c1487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nding £724 for every man, woman and child in Britain, perhaps the hon. Lady will explain how things were better when it was only £444 in 1978–79, but there is a serious point behind what the hon. Lady raises: the need to provide intensive care beds. That is why, in December, we set up a national register for intensive care beds so that, by a single call, doctors can find out where they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-14", "file": "debates1997-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a5f58df601c1487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "aking to my right hon. Friend only half an hour ago. He is at this moment watching our performance on the television in his office. He is quite happy that we should deal with these matters. If the Chief Secretary wants to hear more, why does not he agree to sit on the Finance Bill Committee for the next few weeks? In his speech this afternoon, the Chief Secretary has invited us to forget the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-14", "file": "debates1997-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a5f58df601c1487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "hat there was nothing in the Finance Bill on capital gains tax, because it seems absolutely mad that someone who has spent 10 years building up a business and who then sells it will pay the same marginal rate of tax as a speculator who makes an overnight gain on the international currency markets. That does not seem to make any sense. It does not encourage people to risk their money and to invest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-14", "file": "debates1997-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a5f58df601c1487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "ouse to important aspects of monetary policy, pointing out that the Opposition's monetary committee-type proposals were not worth the paper that they were printed on. My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) reminded us clearly that at the heart of every Labour Member is a desire to raise taxes and spend more. As the Bill confirms, we Conservatives are intuitively tax cutters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-14", "file": "debates1997-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "2a5f58df601c1487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Key Facts,\" which lists programme after programme designed to get people back to work. Such programmes have returned 768,000 people to the labour force over the past four years. That figure is from the labour force survey. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central mentioned profit-related pay. Perhaps I might refresh his memory on what his right hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-14a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-15", "file": "debates1997-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e79a6ad6223ec2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Pensioners' Welfare", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Oliver Heald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Oliver Heald)", "preceding_text": "and the proposed measures to enable individuals to ring fence their assets and provide for their long-term care in retirement while protecting the inheritance that they rightly wish to pass to their children and others. Anyone watching our debate today will have noticed that, as we discuss the important subject of pensioners' welfare, the Labour Front Bench is empty, there are no Liberals present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-15", "file": "debates1997-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e79a6ad6223ec2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Pensioners' Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "the Labour party has said that it would scrap our veto and make us join the European social chapter. Those measures would damage our sovereignty and damage the interests of people who work in this country or who want jobs. The change in occupational pensions has been dramatic. The proportion of people retiring each year with occupational pensions and other savings income has risen to 63 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-15", "file": "debates1997-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "e79a6ad6223ec2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.313.6", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-15a.313.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-16", "file": "debates1997-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "34e1a1d54fe36af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "That, I think, is a hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-16", "file": "debates1997-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "34e1a1d54fe36af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "With regard to that and to the campaign launch this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-16", "file": "debates1997-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "34e1a1d54fe36af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should probably have continued the quotation to put it in context. I think that her question is marvellous. I never thought that I would stand at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-16a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-17", "file": "debates1997-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "75a179a7cb24ab30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "a combination of Ecstasy and an excessive amount of water. The drug meant that her kidneys were not working properly, so she could not discharge water: she died from an excess of water. If she had taken Ecstasy alone she would have been all right; if she had taken water alone she would have survived. The combination killed her. Other Ecstasy-related deaths are almost all the result of overheating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-17", "file": "debates1997-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "75a179a7cb24ab30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes. We have just heard a claim about filibustering, but the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Howarth), spoke for nearly 25 minutes, which is far longer than most of the speeches made by Conservative Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-17", "file": "debates1997-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "75a179a7cb24ab30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can sense that the House is getting a little distressed about this morning's proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-17", "file": "debates1997-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "75a179a7cb24ab30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady said that she was going to make progress on her Bill. Perhaps now would be an appropriate time to start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-17a.585.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-20", "file": "debates1997-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "10b18e012ac555b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.623.10", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "I am always brief, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.623.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-01-20", "file": "debates1997-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "10b18e012ac555b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Question put, That the clause be read a Second time:—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-20", "file": "debates1997-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "10b18e012ac555b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McFall", "preceding_text": " the Government. The Secretary of State cannot get out of that, despite his assertions to the contrary. Anyone who considers the macho approach to law and order displayed in the Secretary of State's article in The Sun today knows that the Government are responsible for conditions in prisons. We shall be unrelenting in our efforts to ensure that the Government take their responsibilities seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-20", "file": "debates1997-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "10b18e012ac555b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": ", in the exercise of its discretionary right of refusal, it is of the opinion that, in looking to the public interest and securing the ends of justice, there is good reason why bail should not be granted. This approach applies to both men and women. I must tell the hon. Member for Dundee, East that bail beds are provided in Aberdeen and Dundee, and we expect a new hostel to open in July this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-20", "file": "debates1997-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "10b18e012ac555b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": ", and I want to ask the Minister one question—where on earth did this notion of electronic tagging come from? I cannot believe that it came from the civil service. I was not on the Committee, but some of us have served on many Committees—including Kincraig—and tagging was always excluded in the past. By what alchemy did this idea infiltrate St. Andrew's house? I put forward one possible candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-20a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Geldard, which gave rise to this whole problem—but the Secretary of State for Health claimed that the business of having to go from hospital to hospital would stop. May I give the Prime Minister an instance from Bristol children's hospital? Since January this year—even this year—15 children, just at that hospital, have been turned away because of a shortage of beds. Does the Prime Minister accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l cases that the hon. Gentleman raised—if he had wished me to do so, he would doubtless have given me notice of them—since literally hundreds of thousands of people are treated in the national health service every day. The hon. Gentleman gave some facts about the health service; perhaps I can give him some. We now spend £724 for every man, woman and child in the country compared with £444 in 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "nts see a large banner saying, \"Save British fish\". They have to go to the nearest supermarket for their meat, because the local butcher—a shop that had been there for 150 years—was closed down because of all the new regulations, which literally prevented him from using his old chopping block and the knives that his father and grandfather had used. The butcher could not afford the new regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "lling small enterprises. The list goes on and on. My constituents bitterly resent that, but they feel impotent to do anything about it. Most of the time, we seem to be at daggers drawn with people we call our partners. My constituents know no other way of reasserting what they consider to be the rights of the British people except to say, \"Can we have a referendum to put our point of view across?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "out by a national newspaper in my constituency, 64 per cent. of people said that they would totally oppose giving up the pound, and others said that they would like to get out of Europe altogether—my Bill does not advocate that. There has been a massive shift in public opinion. One constituent, putting it his own way, said, \"Who wants pockets full of bottle tops instead of good old British money?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now you've had it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " \"Now you've had it.\"] Forgive me, Madam Speaker. I do not think that, in pure terms, the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) will find much opposition to her Bill, because for some time it has been the policy of the Labour party and of the official Conservative party to put to the people the question of continued membership of the European Union or the specific question of a single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "move from many British people—from local authorities, civil society organisations, trade unions and others—the right to decide for themselves in various areas of their lives and activities, should now complain that Britain has to share some of its power with our partner nations in Europe. The hon. Lady is, however, an adornment to the House, and I think that it is fair to say that we all love her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roe", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman, who has not been listening to the debate. I regard it as discourteous to enter the Chamber and start intervening in the middle of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ily supportable, everything but the last line is criticism of the current position and the last line does not contain a positive proposal. Sadly, yet again, the Labour party, as the Secretary of State rightly said, has been weak on content, weak on performance and poor in attendance. Today is an Opposition day, but there have been more Conservative Members than Labour Members present at all times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong to say that the Labour party will not match the Government's spending pledges on the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": "onservative Government, so that was a Conservative creation. In 1944, a White Paper laid the basis of what we now know as the national health service. The wartime coalition Government, in which the Labour party participated, had a Conservative Health Minister, Henry Willink, who introduced that White Paper. So let us hear no more nonsense about the health service being the Labour party's creation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " everyone who might—not would—have a need for one, having fallen under a bus or out of a window, would be amazing to contemplate. The same point can be made about ordinary hospital beds. Patients on trolleys in corridors are not there for fun. They are there because every bed in the hospital is full. We never hear, however, about the numbers of patients who are being treated in hospitals. We know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ted in hospitals. We know— [Interruption.] It is no good the hon. Member for Doncaster, North (Mr. Hughes) laughing. God forbid that he should have any responsibility for providing the country with health care as he clearly knows little about it. We cannot possibly keep empty beds available just in case we are faced with a 'flu epidemic. It is clear that Labour Members are living in a dream world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-21", "file": "debates1997-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "09e77c1b6ac511d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "tish beef. I hope that McDonald's, the brand leader in the fast food industry, will quickly reintroduce British beef to its restaurants. I salute, as will other Conservative Members, the Meat and Livestock Commission's campaign to rebuild confidence in British beef mince. We want worldwide sales of British beef to take off again because the markets are still there. Foreigners want to buy our beef.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-21a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Knight", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman rereads the report because it deals not with wealth and poverty but with differences in wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.942.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Lady is wrong on just about every count. She should update her briefing before she reads it out. She did not refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Royal Yacht", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Clark", "preceding_text": " perhaps give us some information about what will fill the gap between the end of this year and the commissioning of the new royal yacht that he envisages in about three years' time? Will he also give us an idea of when he hopes to issue the tender and when he anticipates the contracts being signed? Why has the Secretary of State rejected in such a cavalier manner the injection of private capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Royal Yacht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "vice in 2001 or 2002, there will be a gap, with no royal yacht on the seas. That will not be as long a gap as the 14 or 15 years between the end of the Victoria and Albert and the commissioning of Britannia. The hon. Gentleman asked why we had rejected out of hand the idea of using private capital. We did not reject it out of hand; we considered it carefully, but we did not believe it appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Royal Yacht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not realise why, he has simply learnt his lines and spouts them and no longer thinks—if he ever did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Royal Yacht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "e thought that it was appropriate to the dignity of the monarchy. On the earlier points, if the hon. Lady is concerned about our hard-pressed shipyards, I would remind her that those at Barrow would not be building a fourth Trident boat if it were not for the fact that there was a Conservative victory at the previous general election. I remind the hon. Lady that it is the pledge of her Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Royal Yacht", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman that most people throughout the country will warmly welcome this statement? Does he accept from me that most people throughout this country very much appreciate the services rendered by Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Charles to Britain? Does he not agree with me that the Carlton TV programme was a load of unutterable rubbish and totally unrepresentative of British public feeling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.966.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-22", "file": "debates1997-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f680ee9a877fa3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for introducing the subject of a right to roam, on which I have tangentially touched. I must, however, return to the smaller insects and the molluscs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-22a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1064.4", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "The Minister's comments were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1064.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "That was rhetoric if ever we heard it. The hon. Gentleman talks about criminals being happy. I think that it was the head of the Superintendents Association, Chief Superintendent Brian Mackenzie, who said this week—following Labour's behaviour in the other place—that criminals would be clapping their hands with joy because Labour peers had voted for two contradictory amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Let us just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.9", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is not answering the question of whether he agrees with the Chancellor that if the single currency does proceed on the right criteria, he retains the option to join. Let him answer that question specifically and then let him answer this question, too. If that is the position of the Conservative party, is it the position of the whole Conservative party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.9", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bye bye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "ees with the Chancellor that if the single currency does proceed on the right criteria, he retains the option to join. Let him answer that question specifically and then let him answer this question, too. If that is the position of the Conservative party, is it the position of the whole Conservative party? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] \"Yes\", they all chorus. Will he then tell us whether he will prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1071.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1072.7", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, in my constituency, one in five primary school children are taught in classes with more than 30 other children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether that counts as an expenditure commitment; it will be interesting to see in due course. The proportion of children in classes of more than 31 has fallen since 1979. Beyond that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Author.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That was very well rehearsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prompt him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Not often enough. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that we must have a debate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I am sensitive to the hon. Lady's sensitivities in this area; they are very touching. The Opposition should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-23", "file": "debates1997-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "baf9c11bd8c23e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevenson", "preceding_text": "On the horse's shoe. In a most effective and devastating critique of the Government's complacency and irresponsibility, he urged them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-23a.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-24", "file": "debates1997-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c934569f87f65a53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "drop-in centres, bowling alleys or anything else. All the more shameful, then, that local Labour councillors in Castle Point tried to stop the provision of those new facilities for our youngsters. For the past five years, I made the provision of such facilities for my youngsters a personal crusade. Hon. Members are fed up of hearing me talk about the new sixth forms for Benfleet and Canvey Island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-24", "file": "debates1997-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c934569f87f65a53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Davies", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrat conference has done no such thing. It has passed a resolution calling for a royal commission to look at all aspects of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-24", "file": "debates1997-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c934569f87f65a53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "timately has no bite or sanctions to force changes in marketing practice. I read in The Daily Telegraph today that there has been a degree of success in that the Portman Group upheld some complaints about particularly aggressive advertising of drinks with names such as Purple Passion, TNT Liquid Dynamite and a beer called—I do not think that I can mention its name publicly as it is just too awful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-24", "file": "debates1997-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c934569f87f65a53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Rendel bypass.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "der to build the necessary roads, have ended up covering the whole of London with asphalt. It is not a new problem; we have known about it for many years but have done very little about it. The problem is that politicians—of all parties—like to build things. They like to leave their mark. How many city or town relief roads can hon. Members think of that are named after an eminent local politician?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-24a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the reports to which the right hon. Gentleman refers. The Prime Minister, on behalf of a unanimous Cabinet, made our policy quite plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.6.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "preceding_text": "Questions on that subject have already been answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bates", "preceding_text": "Listen: we are not going to take that from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "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": "he decision was collectively agreed by Ministers. But the whole House will have witnessed the most extraordinary thing: when the announcement was made, one conspicuous voice on the Opposition Benches, the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), had the guts and integrity to speak for Britain. If I have to choose between new Labour and old Labour, give me old Labour every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that Mr. Faulds is making it clear that he also caught my eye on that occasion and was very supportive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words. He may be slightly confused about what I said or by my answer to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Mellor). It is clear that those who are convicted in the United Kingdom of offences in schedule 1 will be required to register. Those who may be convicted of offences overseas would not be required to register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The new clause is intended to help teachers. I hope that hon. Members on both sides of the House will welcome it, as the teachers' unions have. It will codify and clarify teachers' powers to restrain disruptive pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "nd Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) is here. Perhaps later he might go and rally some of his troops and get them into the Lobby to vote on some of these matters. Very few Conservative Members are present, and we saw earlier that the Government could not even rally the troops for a vote on a vital clause. They have lost not once but twice. To lose a vote once is unfortunate, but twice is sheer carelessness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.96.4", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "rehensive school for 11 to 19-year-olds, and it achieves better results than were gained in the old days, when there were grammar schools and secondary moderns in the town. What would happen if a school like that, without consulting local people or the council, chose to run its own tests and set up a grammar stream? Could local parents be prevented from using their local school for their children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.96.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.96.4", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jamieson", "preceding_text": "r to me that there is no enthusiasm on the part of parents for further selective education. The Minister may recall that, 15 years ago or thereabouts, there were attempts in Solihull to return to selection. When parents realised that their local comprehensives could suddenly again become grammar schools or secondary moderns, they spoke out loud and clear. Further selection was roundly turned down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.96.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-27", "file": "debates1997-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b2800b4fb5a1bd7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way yet again. Does he accept that in Warwickshire, we have a safety net, as it is called? That means that young people who go to the high schools can transfer at age 16 to the sixth form in a grammar school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-27a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's figures are wrong. That is the simple answer to her question. Perhaps she will answer my question and explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that it is not, and never has been, his intention to impose VAT on Severn bridge tolls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "of being able to see league tables is greatly popular with parents? What significance does he give to the fact that the National Association of Head Teachers recently launched a major test case to try to ensure that parents would not have that right? What significance should be attached to the fact that the barrister who vigorously prosecuted that case was the wife of the Leader of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ntained schools are popular with pupils and parents and they achieve good results. If there is no demand in a certain area, schools within it will not seek to expand. I remind the House that grant for capital work will not be automatically available to GM schools that wish to expand. Such schools will need to make a good case to the Funding Agency for Schools, or raise the money themselves. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "to total failure. Devoid of rational argument and adrift from common sense, the Minister has persistently sought to compare the best with the worst in teaching, as if that somehow proved that class size made no difference. In Standing Committee, he led us down the byways of individual Members' decisions about their children's education. I thought that I would mention that before the Minister does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.197.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "ber of important points. He mentioned that the cane would be the implement to be used and implied that there is such a thing as \"reasonable\" use of the cane. I should be interested to hear a little more about what he means by reasonable use. He has not made clear in the new clause or in his speech which parts of the body are to be struck by the cane. We used to get struck on the head at my school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "o, two said that they were not sure and one said yes. The one school that said yes held an informal ballot among its teachers, who voted 10 in favour and eight against. The other schools' responses seem to have been the view of one person. Equally interestingly, of the schools that said no, six volunteered the view that capital punishment was perfectly acceptable in the home, if not in the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " are. There is a danger that Dr. Tate is promoting the very relativism that he claims to be against. I strongly believe that we should reject the \"stand idly by\" approach to breakdown of families, for two good reasons. First, instead of promoting responsibility and family stability, that approach panders to the lowest common denominator of instability and irresponsibility to which I have referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-28", "file": "debates1997-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "e5bbe17f7756e344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Jonathan Evans)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Jonathan Evans)", "preceding_text": "nces, I hope that that proposition will be accepted by the House. Amendment No. 62 stipulates co-operation between ACCAC and the QNCA, but we believe that that is unnecessary. Under the existing arrangements, such co-operation already exists. We are resistant to the idea that it would be appropriate to set up a whole new regulatory framework and an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-28a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Cold Weather Payments (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "possible way that the country can afford. The hon. Lady was less than gracious about cold weather payments. Between 1964 and 1970, there were no cold weather payments under the then socialist Government; and between 1974 and 1979 there were no cold weather payments under a socialist Government. The Scottish National party and even the Liberal Democrats are fairly closely allied to socialism today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Cold Weather Payments (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Ewing", "preceding_text": "ogies, because she had wanted to be here. I endorse the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross. This is a matter of conscience and morality. Every legislator must search his or her conscience and decide how funding should be allocated. I go back many years on this subject: when I first raised it in the House in the 1970s, there was a Government with a different perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Cold Weather Payments (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e. The Bill is wholly unnecessary, because, under section 138 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, we have the statutory power—the power that we use to make the regulations each year—to fine-tune the scheme. We are able, if we wish and if we are persuaded that it is right and proper, to take that into account. The difficulty is whether it is right and appropriate to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Engineering", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ystem and are no substitute. The Department for Education and Employment argues that English and Welsh students could take GNVQs or AS-levels, but all universities say that they prefer the depth of A-level courses. I am not sure why that is. With the proliferation of examining boards and the variety of options available, there are about 253 alternative syllabuses—or is it syllabi?—for maths alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pearson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pearson", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the widespread dismay felt by jobseekers in the west midlands at recent reports that half of manufacturing companies are experiencing recruitment difficulties while those jobseekers have not had even the merest sniff of a job? Why does not the Government scrap crap schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Adams", "preceding_text": "ne default one of the crimes that the Minister has in mind? In Committee, the Minister failed to answer questions. What would the tag entail? When it is switched off will it still activate other electronic equipment such as that at supermarket doors? We often set equipment off in airports with pagers and mobile telephones. I understand that people will wear the tags even when they are deactivated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "I shall be fairly brief. The hon. Member for Paisley, North (Mrs. Adams) who stated, \"We got over the problems of alcohol abuse and hooliganism at football matches.\" The Government certainly did that by introducing legislation during the 1980s. I was not in the House at the time, but I suspect that Opposition Members opposed those changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "powers have been described as iniquitous by bodies such as the Glasgow Bar Association. One can of course argue that it comes at the question from a particular angle, but I hope that my right hon. and learned Friend has an opportunity to reconsider what he has said. From listening to the hon. Gentleman, I certainly felt that, at the very least, he deserved a detailed reply to his important points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": "t, as we know, will be increased overcrowding. The main unplanned consequence of that, which has been predicted by everyone who has considered the criminal justice system over the past 100 years, will be to increase tension in prisons and stress for prison staff. I predict that prison unrest and violence will increase. The effects will not be confined to prisons, because the public are well aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "own home; then we have reached a point where action must be taken. That is a description by a Conservative Cabinet Minister of this country—of my country, of Scotland—after 17 years of Conservative government. It is a vivid, bleak and depressing description, and it is exactly right. If the Conservatives cannot get it right in 18 years of government, how can anybody expect them to get it right now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "t, not on the ideological fixation and publicity seeking of a transient politician. We shall not block the Bill's Third Reading, because, first, although concern about several aspects remains, many elements of the Bill are vital for tackling crime; and, secondly, because the Government have either accepted Labour amendments and new clauses or given assurances as to the meaning of specific clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Grant (England and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I fully understand the figures, but we do not appear to have heard, amidst the large amount of criticism, a clear statement of what the Labour party would do. We have no idea whether the council tax payer would pay less under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-29", "file": "debates1997-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "3fcf44c1e1bbf92d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Grant (England and Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I have heard enough nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-29a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.501.12", "colnum": "501", "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 waits, he will hear what I have to say. The hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Sutcliffe) referred to the north-west. He might have begun by acknowledging the brand new £2.9 million extension to the accident and emergency department at the Royal Liverpool hospital, which opened a year or so ago and makes it one of the finest accident and emergency hospitals in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.501.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I asked the Prime Minister two questions. I said, as he himself said a few weeks ago, \"Does he expect them to stand on the same manifesto?\" I answer, \"Yes.\" I then asked him, \"Will he at least seek to persuade people to stand on the same manifesto?\" I answer, \"Yes.\" He is so weak and powerless, he cannot even say. He cannot even get to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I asked the Prime Minister two questions. I said, as he himself said a few weeks ago, \"Does he expect them to stand on the same manifesto?\" I answer, \"Yes.\" I then asked him, \"Will he at least seek to persuade people to stand on the same manifesto?\" I answer, \"Yes.\" He is so weak and powerless, he cannot even say. He cannot even get to that— [Interruption.] Is it not extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He was shouting abuse at the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"He was shouting abuse at the Prime Minister.\"] Order, If anyone has been abusive, they will indicate it to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.4", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We intend to maintain our voice in Europe—there should be absolutely no doubt about that—but we do not intend to follow slavishly whatever happens to be the favoured policy of some European Governments at any particular moment. We shall not follow policies that would be damaging to British interests. We shall not sign social chapters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.504.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Procedure Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "osals, which were concerned always to make sure that the law in this respect did not develop outside the world occupied by lay people, where the consumer interest rather than the interests of lawyers ought to be to the fore. We therefore seek some assurances from the Government on this point and some proof that the concerns expressed by consumer organisations, among others, have been met. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Procedure Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "should not allow—or at least we should be wary of allowing—irresponsible defendants to get pre-action discovery of documents to fish for a defence, having made an unsubstantiated allegation. I am reasonably sure that the Lord Chancellor does not have in mind allowing irresponsible defendants to go on fishing expeditions, but help on that would be gratefully received. Finally, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Procedure Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "Lord Justice Henry, the chairman of the Judicial Studies Board, said that there would need to be a substantial increase in the Board's Annual Budget\", which is now £3.2 million. How much is that substantial increase to be? Have the Government budgeted for it in the existing budget of the Lord Chancellor's Department? We want to know. Lord Woolf himself recognises the importance of case management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-01-30", "file": "debates1997-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "c83949d45eb7db0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Procedure Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "nt mention of alternative dispute resolution. I thoroughly agree that the importance of ADR has yet to be fully recognised. I thank him for his warm support for our reforms. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence) made a helpful and important speech. He exposed Labour's new idea of a windbag tax, which could raise an awful lot of money from one or two Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-01-30a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.668.5", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Lady agree that if she made any inquiries in, for example, the Derbyshire peak district, south Lancashire and the Fylde area around Blackpool, about the wages paid there, she would find that they are currently in excess of what is likely to be the minimum wage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.668.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "n. The task of clearing up the mess will then be passed on. That is what Harlow has done and what a Labour Government would do. The attempts of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras to pin the blame on the Government for the high taxes and poor services of many Labour councils reveals a contempt for local democracy. It is about time that the hon. Gentleman started talking responsibly. He is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "anised, are subject to a boundary change, or whose budgets are affected by changes in funding arrangements for nursery vouchers or national parks. That will allow me to make a fair comparison between years for capping purposes. Finally, I come to my proposed capping criteria. I have listened carefully to the strong arguments put to me to relax the provisional criteria that I announced in November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ot harm the House, as his contributions are universally and uniformly silly—as they are when he speaks from a seated position. If I am helping hon. Members by putting off the evil moment when the hon. Gentleman opens his mouth, I am sure that they will cheer me on. As I said, I have listened carefully to the strong arguments put to me to relax the provisional criteria that I announced in November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is of course true that it is a national matter, but it has a local dimension; it is a mixture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I shall come to our intentions in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that they have asked for some of the things about which I am talking to be done. The biggest scandal of the lot—the racket at the heart of the racket—is the Westminster racket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "preceding_text": "ouncement on capping will be a great disappointment, particularly in Oxfordshire. It is interesting that even the local Conservatives are saying that the capping limit is unsustainable and must be broken. All three parties seem to agree—although I understand that the Labour party has refused to propose a budget. The other two parties agree that the budget to be set must be above the capping limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "With the greatest of respect, the hon. Lady spent most of her speech talking about Conservative Members. It is therefore perfectly reasonable for me to talk about Labour policy. I shall come to Conservative matters in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I do not know, because I do not know the hon. Gentleman's constituency well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "er head, compared with £327 for Liverpool, a difference of 50 per cent.; so the last Labour Government gave Westminster 50 per cent. more than they gave the unfortunate, sad and miserable people of Liverpool. That seems a foul and filthy thing to do, but they did it. Under the present Government, in every year since 1991, the SSA for Westminster has increased by less than the inner London average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "preceding_text": "to be paid for living in a rural area but it should not be at the cost to children in urban South East Northumberland. There is a high price to be paid by schools in the south-east urban part of the county, to maintain schools in the rural areas. As a socialist, I do not disagree with that. We should provide the best education we can for our children, but the price to be paid is becoming too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-03", "file": "debates1997-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "920f4cebcda7761b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "dered the £85 billion in North sea oil revenues or the proceeds of privatisation; it is not local government that has pursued short-term policies at the expense of this country's long-term interests. This is a dishonest settlement. Council tax payers and service users are paying the price of this Government's economic incompetence and waste. That is why we cannot promise them more money next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-03a.762.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.783.6", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " most recent analysis of the English house condition survey, the number of unfit properties in the country as a whole has fallen by about 10 per cent. The hon. Gentleman's local authority will no doubt want to deal with its particular problems by taking advantage of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 strategically to use the renovation grants that the Government provide to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.783.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.796.7", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the Labour party has not supported a single privatisation until it has proved to be a success, at which point it pays lip service to it. Under Labour, none of the privatisations would have taken place. It certainly bitterly attacked rail privatisation, which has now increased investment, increased rolling stock, improved services, provided extra service and saved the taxpayer a substantial amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.796.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend congratulate a firm in my constituency, Technic Holdings, which is now the world leader in manufacturing tyre re-treads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.799.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "s was a proper use of public money. The press release continues: Mr. Robertson said … 'Ministers may be operating within technical government rules, but the fact that they will piggyback Tory posters on taxpayer funded advertisements shows what a shabby exercise all this is.' The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) has received a letter from Sir Robin Butler. I shall quote parts of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.801.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Some of the investments that have come into the United Kingdom, and specifically into Wales, in recent years have been partly negotiated or signed because of events held on the royal yacht. I can absolutely assure the hon. Gentleman of that. The royal yacht is worth far more than £60 million in generating new jobs and investment for the UK, and Wales has been one of the principal beneficiaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.868.10", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down and do not be silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's body temperature is higher than his IQ—on the centigrade scale. Is it in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for an hon. Member to make unsubstantiated accusations in the House against officers of the Crown?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.868.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "Just so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-04", "file": "debates1997-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "62351078d8cf17ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rod Richards", "preceding_text": "ich the local government settlement has been made. I therefore compliment my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on the settlement that he achieved with the local authorities and on his presentation this afternoon. It was in contrast to the presentation of the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies), who I notice has just scuttled out of the Chamber before I reach the key point in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-04a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "king shops, and why do they indulge in a wide range of non-core activities? In an excellent article in Kent Today by Paul Francis, we are told that Kent county councillors are considering awarding themselves extra expenses to pay for babysitters. I am informed that the Labour co-chairman of the economic development sub-committee went on 14 trips overseas between 20 April 1994 and 6 to 7 June 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "With my hon. Friend's usual delicacy, he has refrained from commenting on the point made earlier about one county councillor—I have forgotten his name—who has made a large number of trips abroad. I cannot remember the precise number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "abour voice in the House of Commons. You will know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that all 16 Members of Parliament for Kent are Conservative. The voice of Kent Labour has not been heard in the House of Commons for 18 years. Conservative misrepresentations in Kent's affairs have repeatedly gone unchallenged. Their endless stream of untruths, party propaganda and distortion of facts is a travesty of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ase spending by £2 million to cover pay and prices and service pressures. Those three items alone are costing the council a total of £37 million. Representatives of the local authority have made representations on the three items to the Minister of State concerned. Perhaps today the Under-Secretary will give Kent some response to the representations which it has made and which I repeat here today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "n its share of the debate. The £100 million figure to which several hon. Members have referred, and which has been much trumpeted in the press in Kent, has been portrayed by Conservative Members as the \"demand\" of the county council—but it is no such thing at all. The leaders of Kent county council are realists. They would not expect such a sum to be made available, especially from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.956.7", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ings of 10.7 per cent. in all budgets. To protect the most vulnerable, special educational needs were exempted, and increases made. Unfortunately, however, to balance the budget, that meant that extra cuts—more than 10.7 per cent.—were necessary in adult education and youth and community services. Current figures are likely to be 1 per cent. for fire services and 9.5 per cent. for social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.956.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "of central Government. No amount of propaganda or misleading attacks on Labour and Liberal councillors for alleged extravagant spending can disguise the simple truth Conservative Members of Parliaments are prepared to use Kent county council as a political football to be kicked around the Chamber in a squalid attempt to pick up votes. As a Member of Parliament I have always rejected that approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Kent)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "oper debate this morning about the problems facing Kent and the way forward. The tragedy is that not one suggestion has come from the Conservative group at county hall, other than merging the posts of the chief officers. That has been the Conservatives' only suggestion for budget cuts for next year. They have not produced figures on how to pay for retaining services without putting up council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Poverty (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "s are the poor. Those with means have an alternative. The poor will suffer if hot school dinners are cut by councils across Scotland, which is what is happening. The problem is not that there is not enough wealth—we have more than enough for everyone—but how we distribute it. For almost 20 years, the Government have been taking from the poor to give to the rich. It is time to reverse that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1001.7", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "Chancellor. He made it absolutely clear that a Labour Government would not give a cent more to the public expenditure plans that we have provided. If the hon. Gentleman feels that Glasgow is not getting its share of the pot, he should have a word with the Labour chairman of COSLA and leader of Edinburgh council, Mr. Keith Geddes, who has indicated that the distribution formula is fair and correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1001.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "that, on the face of it, that seems rather extraordinary. I am very happy for that to be considered in the distribution committee and agreed by COSLA. We simply cannot have COSLA, which is dominated by the Labour party, saying that it speaks for the whole of local government and agreeing an arrangement with the Government, followed by the various constituent parts of local government coming along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fiddled figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer, and for the fact that unemployment in Scotland has fallen by 71,200 since December 1992.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer, and for the fact that unemployment in Scotland has fallen by 71,200 since December 1992. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Fiddled figures.\"] Does he agree that the rate of unemployment, at 7.4 per cent., is lower than that in Germany, France, Italy and Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the girls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. The only jobs that a Labour Government would create in Scotland would be jobs for the boys in their Parliament on Calton hill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "olleagues and me to the conclusion that, sadly, the NHS is not safe in the Government's hands. We also believe that the NHS would not be safe in a Labour Government's hands. On the basis of agreed commitments given by the Conservative party, the Labour party and ourselves, we believe that the best guarantee for the NHS after the next general election would be for its management to be in our hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1014.8", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "the public, we must admit that there will be no one-election wonder. There is and can be no miracle cure. Demand is rising, costs are escalating, and a national debate is needed about how much health care we can fund and how best we can fund it. That debate will, of course, take place in politics, but it must also take place outside and beyond politics. It is not a moment too late to start it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1014.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Gerald Malone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Gerald Malone)", "preceding_text": "priorities. The first is a national commission—a sort of fairness commission on statistics. Commissions to gather figures always fascinate the Liberal Democrat party. We are always told that these proposed commissions will be independent. They are surrounded with worthy words, which the Liberal Democrat party hopes will play well with the public, although they will perhaps not do very much at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ould take care when advocating the hypothecation of taxes, because we could end up with a problem if we had to find money to spend on provisions that were not particularly popular. Although the motion does not refer to nurses' pay and whether it should be negotiated locally, I have read the hon. Gentleman's previous speeches in which he has referred to that, not least in the debate on 20 November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way again— [Interruption.] In a short speech, I have already given way many times. I shall move on to the costings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "row. I do not want to be churlish, but the hon. Gentleman will appreciate the fact that, in the electoral sense, I cannot wish him many happy returns. I hope that Councillor Fearn will be back among us after the election. The hon. Member for Southport asked about my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown), the leader of my party, who was in the Chamber for a brief part of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": " surgeon, and when serious medical conditions—very serious, in some cases—are going unchecked, or are not being picked up in time, as a result of people not resorting to optical tests when they should. I carried out a survey in my constituency, and I was genuinely surprised by the results. Local opticians were asked how many times in the past year they had detected any of the following conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " assure the hon. Gentleman that, by the time of the general election, he will have sight of the detailed costings for our education proposals, as, indeed, will the whole country. The fundamental difference between the Liberal Democrats and the other political parties is that we believe in being honest with the electorate—telling them what our policies will cost, and where the money will come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot change his policy in an intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "I have instigated this somewhat intimate debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-05", "file": "debates1997-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d4cf37284c9509c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Walden", "preceding_text": "I have instigated this somewhat intimate debate— [Interruption.] It will be intimate in a moment. I have instigated the debate since it is one that would not occur naturally. That is because the condition of our universities is something that Parliament instinctively avoids.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-05a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1129.8", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "their own shopping any more—I suspect that they send out for the groceries in Islington now—so I must tell the hon. Gentleman that, if one goes into a supermarket, as most of us do every week, one finds that there is a choice. I am sorry that he has not heard of Freedom Foods, for example, which offers a range of foods and is supported by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1129.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.5", "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 right hon. Gentleman spent the whole of the recession encouraging us to spend money to assist people in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.6", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can quote the right hon. Gentleman again. Does he not recall saying that he would be the Prime Minister who would balance the budget? Does he not recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.6", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I can quote the right hon. Gentleman again. Does he not recall saying that he would be the Prime Minister who would balance the budget? Does he not recognise—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] They complain about us. We have been trying to save the Government money over the past few weeks while he and his rag-bag of outgoing Ministers have been spraying around the post-dated cheques like there was no tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suppose there was never a chance that the right hon. Gentleman was going to debate the real issues of today, on which the shadow Chancellor has landed him in such trouble. I will tell him about the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1139.6", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I was interested to hear the Prime Minister admit in his previous answer that the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong were potentially going to be left stateless, as he specifically denied that in answer to a question that I asked him along those lines three months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1155.7", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it a separate point of order? Is it a sensible point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "day to rescue an injured walker from the Cairngorm mountains. Indeed, the enthusiasm of the search and rescue crews shone through when the flight at RAF Valley was dispatched following reports of a walker overdue on Mount Snowdon. Although the walker was located quickly he declined to be assisted, explaining that, as a Buddhist, he was attempting in vain to find peace and solitude on the mountain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "use to say that he cannot be here because he has flu. It is absolutely ridiculous. Time after time, my right hon. and hon. Friends come here reeking with flu, falling down with it, and take their places. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that he can be Secretary of State for Defence and not turn up because he has flu, he really has problems. The hon. Gentleman did not dare show his face, flu or no flu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "al ploy. We should now move on in this debate, because Conservative Members are obviously incapable of understanding our position, although I have expressed it in plain English. I have made our position on the Eurofighter clear in my statement, but that does not suit Conservative Members' party political purposes. It is a game played by those in a party which is so far behind in the opinion polls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "bviously incapable of understanding our position, although I have expressed it in plain English. I have made our position on the Eurofighter clear in my statement, but that does not suit Conservative Members' party political purposes. It is a game played by those in a party which is so far behind in the opinion polls—[ Interruption. ] They are desperate to cling on to office, by their fingernails—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "The TSR2 was a source of disappointment to many in the services—probably when the hon. Gentleman was serving in them. I do not think that what happened then is in any way similar to the Eurofighter or that the instances are in any way parallel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "by the accusation, \"You are just politicising the issue and taking us back to the nuclear election of 1983.\" We have to examine Labour's plans and their consequences carefully. It could be a watershed. Nowadays, Labour tries to give the impression that it is the party of sound defence. Many of us read the article in The Daily Telegraph on Monday by the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "graph on Monday by the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair). [Interruption.] I took a rather cynical view of it. I could not believe that he promised a review of our armed forces to reflect Britain's international interests and commitments. He boldly announced that the armed forces were a precious national asset to be treasured and proceeded to offer the armed forces a period of stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-06", "file": "debates1997-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "41f0fbeb492e28b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Olga Maitland", "preceding_text": "n's international interests and commitments. He boldly announced that the armed forces were a precious national asset to be treasured and proceeded to offer the armed forces a period of stability. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Frankly, I do not believe the right hon. Gentleman, and nor will anyone else, because of his track record of twisting and turning his views to suit every political occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-06a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-07", "file": "debates1997-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "a9ef3f893d7fbe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-07a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Tissue (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Transplant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "h the scheme was put together in the first place. I hope that we will be able to do even better. Therefore, rather than introduce a measure of compulsion, it is preferable that the Government should continue to promote organ donation through publicity and education and through encouraging people to join the register. I should like comment on the study by the UK Transport Co-ordinators Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-07a.1301.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-10", "file": "debates1997-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5342b6d14317faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-10a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watts", "preceding_text": "tisation. [Laughter.] Hon. Members may scoff, but it is a fact that the amount of freight carried by rail declined steadily throughout the years of state ownership, but that it has recently started to increase. The new private sector freight companies are attracting new traffic to the railway. Meanwhile, we will continue to make available grants to encourage the shift of freight from road to rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-10a.15.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-10", "file": "debates1997-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5342b6d14317faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-10a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Welsh Development Agency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I am interested to hear what my hon. Friend says. If there are well-documented examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-10a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have been treated this afternoon to a display by old Labour, and we have seen the old danger lurking within the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "The services never abuse local fauna; we are against abusing local fauna—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.134.4", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I know that the commanding officer of RAF Halton is grateful to my hon. Friend for his support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "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": "I should like to wish the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) a very happy birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.138.5", "colnum": "138", "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 becoming quite curmudgeonly in his retirement. The fact is that we have the lowest debt ratio of any of the larger economies in Europe. It is far lower than in 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "I can see the hon. Gentleman shaking his head—he or any other hon. Member is welcome to intervene, but those are the figures prepared by the Library, whose staff will dig out the same information for him if he wants it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-11", "file": "debates1997-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8058b237fa919cf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Gerald Malone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Mr. Gerald Malone)", "preceding_text": " to do. She does herself no credit by trying to raise scares, and trying to elevate issues that were, perhaps, always at the periphery of what was happening as we introduced the legislation to a central position that they never held. I am delighted to be able to say that there is a great deal of consensus between the Government and the medical profession, whose members consider the Bill necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-11a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Public Research Establishments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "sensible to let the matters stand where they are. I hope that the debate that has been opened up between the university, the research institutes and the Government can be continued positively. I am trying to be brief, but I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister has picked up my point and can say that that will happen. If he can do that, there is no need for me to elaborate further my local points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not in Europe\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister condemn the incidents of racism and xenophobia that have been witnessed by NATO peacekeepers in the city of Mostar in recent days? Will he tell the Croatian authorities that there can be no question of progress towards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Senile dementia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Political Fundraising", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "nate small sums should not be identified, but there is every reason to identify those who donate thousands of pounds and more. If I were asked what limit I would place on identification, I would say that the source of any sum above £5,000 donated to a political party should be identified accordingly. Tory Members have recently made a great deal of fuss about the Leader of the Opposition's funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's premise. There is no basis for the suggestion that the use of such powers has been found unacceptable over the years—they have led to remarkably few complaints and criticisms. I accept that it is desirable that those powers should be put on a statutory basis with additional safeguards, and that is what we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not regard a Standing Committee as operating in semi-privacy—it is open to the press just as much as debates on the Floor of the House. Nor do I wish to subscribe to the hon. Gentleman's proposition that every Bill of importance has to be debated on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Cynon Valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-12", "file": "debates1997-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "c162605df33b0ad4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Now you have stepped over the line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Madam Speaker. Perhaps my right hon. Friend would allow me to draw to his attention the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-12a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "only shareholders but pensioners would suffer from the introduction of a windfall tax, because the fundholders of pension schemes invest heavily in the privatised utilities? Will he further confirm that the costs of the utilities for consumers are bound to go up in the event of a windfall tax, simply because, if the prices were too high now, the regulators would have intervened to force them down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend will have seen the posters put up by the Labour party advertising that the Government are to put up VAT on fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate next week on local government finance, because the good people of Ealing face a 10 per cent. increase in their council tax and a severe reduction in services from the ghastly Ealing Labour council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Companies (Payment Practice)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "times blame the very businesses that they are talking about. Only last June, the Minister told The Independent : Small companies are so delighted about winning an order they forget about getting paid. More recently, the Minister told The Mail on Sunday that small firms are \"unprofessional in credit control\". Understandably, Stan Mendham, chief executive of the Forum of Private Business, responded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Companies (Payment Practice)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "ion are determined to do so. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has said many times, unlike the present Government, the next Labour Government will take tough action on late payment. We want to change the culture that allows large companies and Government Departments to treat small firms as a source of free credit, and we believe that it is necessary to have a basket of measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-13", "file": "debates1997-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8431277ce16136df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "ople who diligently serve, basically as volunteers, on industrial tribunals. I shall talk about them later. It seems mean-spirited, if not rather sloppy of the Minister not to allow an adequate consultation period before bringing the matter before the House. He can screw up his face as much as he likes, but he has not done that, and he is a sloppy Minister. That fact needs to be put on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-13a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-14", "file": "debates1997-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "4968e2f45b769838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-14a.582.4", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Police (Health and Safety) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkhope", "preceding_text": " that I had covered the point a few moments ago, but I am clearly being told that I did not. I thought that I said clearly that arrangements would be made for recognition of the police representative bodies as trade unions in the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the National Crime Squad. If I have not covered that point, perhaps the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth can explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-14a.582.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The opponent of choice is the hon. Gentleman, who made it clear at Question Time a month ago that he is opposed to the assisted places scheme. He has also made it very clear that he is opposed to our nursery voucher scheme, which is all about extending choice. To take up his point about the number of submissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "as also made it very clear that he is opposed to our nursery voucher scheme, which is all about extending choice. To take up his point about the number of submissions— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Bridgend (Mr. Griffiths) would listen for a minute, he might learn something. If he is interested in the number of parents in Wales who are responding positively to the nursery vouchers scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "There are no official data on income per head in Carmarthenshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.617.2", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Lady that undertaking. She speaks of delays of up to five years; that is another example of the type of complaint to which my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General just referred—vague and unsubstantiated generalisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.622.6", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I shall come to that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.622.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "Yes, it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.624.10", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang) giving way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.624.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.633.8", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "That flows from what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.633.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.633.8", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no, it doesn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "That flows from what I have said. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"] Oh yes, it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.633.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.642.7", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I think that, over quite a number of years in the House, I have been generous in giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.642.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jopling", "preceding_text": " have just listened to is that the leader of the Liberal Democrats has a bare-faced cheek coming in five minutes before his spokesman makes a speech and then telling us what has been left out from the first hour and a quarter of the debate. If is he going to interfere in debates in that way, I hope that he will do us the courtesy of listening to the debate before telling us what has been left out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "t ensure that public money is responsibly spent. I look at this debate against that background. If we are to believe reports in the newspapers, the Opposition have a problem about the number of seats available in any Cabinet that they might form. It is suggested that, under a Labour Government, the Minister of Agriculture would be downgraded to a Minister of State, and would not be in the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I am concerned about whether the Minister's actions are giving hope to the farmers of Northern Ireland, rather than to politicians in the House. The needs of the farming community should be paramount—rather than pleasing political figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Huddersfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Taunton said rightly—it is the only thing he said that was quite right—that the BSE crisis should have been debated on the Floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "limbed down and said that the cull would be introduced. The conditions of the Florence agreement have still not been met, and the quality assurance scheme on traceability has still not been presented to the Commission. Of course, this has implications for Northern Ireland, as we have heard, and for Scotland. There is no doubt that those areas are well placed and would certainly be in the vanguard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " industry. Besides £250,000 for beef promotion, £9.4 million will be available for suckler cow herds. All suckler herd owners will receive a £25 per head top-up to the suckler cow premium, but in recognition of the unique problems faced by the flagged suckler herd owners, and with the support of the representative organisations, those herd owners will receive an additional £135 to £145 per animal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.711.6", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I confirm to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.711.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.711.8", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "sympathetic, sensitive fashion. Indeed it will. It will take up to six months to slaughter all the additional cattle involved. My right hon. Friends the Members for Witney and for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) accurately summed up the purpose of the debate. They both said that the Labour party was turning an agricultural crisis into narrow party advantage. On 26 May 1996, the News of the World said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.711.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-17", "file": "debates1997-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "970ac2f105742e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "Yes it is. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, East was a junior Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the late 1970s and he will know that the charge is untrue. He will know what Keith Meldrum, the chief veterinary officer, said in giving evidence to the Agriculture Committee on 27 March 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-17a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "May I suggest to the Prime Minister that, just for once at one of these Prime Minister's Question Times, he tries answering the question put to him? Is there not the sharpest contrast between the massive windfall gains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s of British Rail nationalisation—services were cut with no protection for the passenger. Now, penalties can be imposed and passengers have the right to apply for compensation. Clearly, from what he is saying, he is proposing new capital controls on the market. We look forward to hearing precisely what those are. He cannot deny that privatisation has been a success. Investment is at record levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Victims of Crime", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "I am finding my hon. Friend's contribution fascinating, as I am ignorant on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.759.4", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e Act through the House, notwithstanding predictions from Opposition Members—including, in an eloquent winding-up speech, my hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson). Then there was the Maastricht Bill, the Bill that became the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993. All Conservative Members voted for the guillotine motion, thus truncating debate on a critical constitutional measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It is good to know that the hon. Gentleman claims part authorship or knowledge of the letter, but what is on the record at the Internet site is not \"revenge at the polls\", just \"revenge\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The compensation that would arise from a complete ban would not be vastly in excess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "That wholly depends on the particular case. There will be some clubs or gun dealers who will be able to adapt their trade to take account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-18", "file": "debates1997-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "63162e7c59b0b648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Could it be recorded that in the 140 were the overwhelming number of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-18a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Further Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "ies and are responsible for managing their own financial affairs. The Further Education Funding Council has effective arrangements in place for identifying colleges in financial difficulty and for working with them to recover their financial health.\"— [Official Report, 18 February 1997; Vol. 290, c. 455.] That is what the Minister told me yesterday; it is moonshine. This is not an academic debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Further Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "n Service did not own them either. Getting together the money for expansion proved to be a real problem. The Further Education Funding Council, at least in the London region, was not as helpful as it might have been. I think that it could have sorted the matter out, but suggesting that, if the present site is too restricted, the college should find another site makes no sense in north-west London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Revenue Support Grant (Suffolk)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "preceding_text": "rstand rural areas. However, only 16 of about 60 councillors are from Ipswich—and I think that there are four from Bury St. Edmunds. There is a great swathe of people from the constituency of the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo), although they are usually either Liberal or Labour, because there is hardly a Tory left. They all represent rural seats. Duncan MacPherson represents a rural seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " conference that a Labour Government would spend more on education, which he claimed would be financed by savings on social security achieved by Labour's scheme to get a quarter of a million young people into work. Yet a week later the shadow Chancellor, in an interview in the Evening Standard, said in the clearest possible terms that, far from saving money, the scheme would cost a net £3 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ucation, which he claimed would be financed by savings on social security achieved by Labour's scheme to get a quarter of a million young people into work. Yet a week later the shadow Chancellor, in an interview in the Evening Standard, said in the clearest possible terms that, far from saving money, the scheme would cost a net £3 billion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I shall quote his words: I estimate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.935.4", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) wants to intervene to apologise. The House will note his ungracious attempt to slur one of my hon. Friends, and I shall think twice about giving way to him in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where will the money come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "Only one child in 80 have an after-school place, and the waiting lists are enormous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": " is part mythical. The generalisation is that the money to buy social services and to pay benefits is the source itself of social security. That is the handout mythology. Yes, we pay a lot of money and I hope to develop my argument to show how the amount has increased since 1948–49. I wish to advance today an alternative principle—that we should have not a handout, but a hand-up philosophy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Smith", "preceding_text": "des to pay his employees in supermarket vouchers and those are not part of the remuneration—an employer can simply say that they are not—the employer can simply reduce a package of, for example, £18,000 per annum to £17,000 with the addition of £1,000 in vouchers. He says that that is how the scheme works. I do not know whether what the author says is true, but a two-page article is devoted to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " windfall profits tax was justified. There is nothing of that nature with the proposed windfall profits tax on the privatised utilities, which lies in the background of this debate. At least a bank is a bank; there is argument about what constitutes a privatised utility. Labour's friends in the former privatised companies are trying to wriggle out from the obligations that are to be put upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert G. Hughes", "preceding_text": "sition Members recognise that description of Britain under a Conservative Government? Do they recognise the fact that the poorest 10 per cent. of the population by income spend 14 per cent. more now than they did in 1979? Do Opposition Members deny that that is the situation in Britain today? Do they deny that less well-off people now have a higher standard of living than when Labour was in power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": " past four years in particular. If the money involved had been not expenditure but investment, in a product that then materialised, we might have been debating that tonight; but, in a sense, all we have seen is a black hole. We can argue about the proportion of the budget that has been devoted to so-called family benefit, as against \"failure benefit\", \"poverty benefit\" or benefit for older people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1006.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry McLeish", "preceding_text": " this evening that the number of unemployed people has gone down, but, in the four years to February 1996, every working day an extra 47 unemployed people claimed income support, an extra 140 pensioner claimants joined the poverty queue, and there were an additional 675 new claimants in terms of lone parents, the sick and the disabled. Those are chilling figures, and they come from the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1006.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "tistic. One in three of all households in Britain are on means-tested benefits. When we add up the catalogue of misery, it is clear that we will inherit a legacy of Britain on benefit, Britain on the breadline. As I said earlier, give us a chance and when the election comes we will start to get on with the problem. I have other considerations for the Minister who will reply, because we have heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-19", "file": "debates1997-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe684590763868f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burt", "preceding_text": "ety. That is nothing new. He need not defer to the Labour party in terms of that phrase; we have all had it in mind as part of our policy for a long time. The only difference between us and the Labour party is that we achieve it. Our welfare-to-work, family credit and work incentive policies have done the job. The hon. Member for Rochdale, surrounded by so many of her colleagues during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-19a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an immediate answer to that question, but I am perfectly prepared to let the hon. Gentleman have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1042.7", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t a solution to this problem. We would like a solution as much as the relatives, but we need a proper criminal trial and there are genuine and practical difficulties in trying to establish such a trial in a third country. I think that many hon. Members, including—if my hon. Friend will permit me to say so—me, would, on grounds of principle, find a trial in a third country very difficult to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1042.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1056.5", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "iament for Scotland, or a toothless Welsh Assembly, or 10 regional assemblies, taking powers either from this House or from local government or from both—it is uncertain where they would come from. Nor do I favour unpicking the House of Lords, changing the voting system and ceding further powers from this House to Europe. The Labour party has given in to the temptation to put party before country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1056.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "way a little later, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. We have in the House constitutional parties that favour separatism—an independent Scotland and an independent Wales. Devolution plans, for them at least—and for others—cloak separatist ambitions. The Labour and Liberal parties may well believe that they are buying off the separatists. I believe that they are selling out to the separatists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Just a minute. Of its 129 members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, 56 would be placemen, drawn from lists approved by party leaders, with no accountability to constituents or responsibility for them. There would be gender quotas—a politically correct idea, which many people would find patronising. There will be no revising chamber—no second chamber. The House of Lords would not be permitted to scrutinise Scottish legislation; neither would anything replace it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g chamber—no second chamber. The House of Lords would not be permitted to scrutinise Scottish legislation; neither would anything replace it. [Interruption.] I am pleased to see Labour Members hoot. Nor would anything replace it. Five million British subjects, on the threshold of a new millennium, would be brought under unicameral Government—the object of suspicion to every democrat for centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1057.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall come directly and in detail to Northern Ireland, to answer the hon. Gentleman's question. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why should there be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall come directly and in detail to Northern Ireland, to answer the hon. Gentleman's question. It is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is a fair point, and I will discuss it in detail. If I may return for a moment to Scotland, the other question unanswered is whether, in any legislation, there is to be Royal Assent. I am not sure, and I hope that it can be made clear. Then, of course, there is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.9", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I shall finish this passage, and then give way first to the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel). We have long known that those difficulties exist. The Labour leader himself has honestly admitted that \"the anomaly is there\" and said that the answer to the West Lothian question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1058.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Campbell-Savours, I am sick and tired of hearing you shout out from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not the only one who thinks so. As another critic said: The moment powers to raise taxation are offered and taken … the fracture of the United Kingdom will have begun. They are not my words—although I agree with them—but those of Mr. Neil Kinnock when he was a Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " listen, as he may wish to respond to this point. I am sure that the conversation of the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mrs. Taylor) is diverting, but he can talk to her later. Kwik-Fit has 4,000 employees in England and 1,200 in Scotland, but all are paid from the payroll in Edinburgh. Would they all pay the tartan tax, or would Kwik-Fit be expected to apply different tax rates to different employees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman, as I am now talking about Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Wales had a choice and expressed its view very clearly in the past. Let me now move to what is proposed for England. A parliament for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Wales had a choice and expressed its view very clearly in the past. Let me now move to what is proposed for England. A parliament for Scotland— [Interruption] . An assembly for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.6", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntly supported Government efforts, and that has given the peace process added strength. I have publicly thanked them for that often enough, and I willingly do so again today. Unfortunately, some of them attempt to use the special circumstances of Northern Ireland to promote other views. The hon. Gentleman asked why we can contemplate an assembly for Northern Ireland but not for Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1063.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m of the voting system. The Liberal Democrats have long favoured that, for reasons that I well understand. It is true that the \"first past the post\" system does them no favours, but I think that it is right for the country. Proportional representation would deliver permanent coalitions, for ever depending on back-room deals with minority parties that would withdraw support whenever it suited them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Labour leader uses his familiar tactic of sending people out into the Lobbies to whisper that he personally is opposed to PR. We know that he says one thing in public and another in private; now we see that he says different things in private whenever it suits him. Today, he can tell us his position in public. We are told that constitutional reform would be a priority for a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1067.6", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I should like to make a little progress and then I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman. Of course 1,000 years has been not a period of constitutional paralysis but a period of massive constitutional development and change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1067.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the Prime Minister reserved his loudest attack for devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": " legislation on those grounds. I asked the Secretary of State for Scotland that question for a reason. This is what he said last June. This is not going back to the time when he may think he was a victim of teenage madness; it is going back just to last year. He said: It is high time Labour committed themselves to seeking endorsement for their programme through a referendum of the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Sit down. Wait a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1072.8", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to remind the hon. Gentleman, but to quote from his election address of 1974, he said: Give the people of Scotland more say over their own affairs with a Scottish Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1072.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "than two thirds, were won by the votes of hereditary peers. In case it is said that Labour Governments and Tory Governments suffer equally, that is not the case. On average, in a Session under a Labour Government, that Government suffered 68.5 defeats, but, under this Government, there have been 13.5 defeats. The poll tax would never have got through the other place but for the hereditary element.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1074.10", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "It would be interesting to know when the Welsh Secretary stopped thinking that it was the right thing to do. Can he tell us whether the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1074.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.4", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Floor of the House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "They will be debated in the normal way, according to the conventions of the House. We have always made that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.4", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "They will be debated in the normal way, according to the conventions of the House. We have always made that clear. [HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Floor of the House?\"] They will be debated in the normal way. We have made that clear. I ask the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir P. Cormack) whether, if we are elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.6", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) said, the convention is as the House decides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.6", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) said, the convention is as the House decides—[ Interruption .] That is the convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1075.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "t signing the social chapter and then 500,000 jobs go; the nonsense and lies from the Conservative propaganda machine about a hidden £30 billion spending campaign; although his party used to espouse it, he said that devolution is the \"most dangerous idea\" ever put before the British people. Make it up, say it with passion and repeat it—that is his course. He believes that it worked for him before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1077.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "on and repeat it—that is his course. He believes that it worked for him before—[ Interruption .] The Conservatives believed that it worked for them before and will work again, but I think that they are mistaken. To make the weapon of fear work, the Prime Minister needs credibility. When he attempts to frighten people, they remember—Mr. David Hunt (Wirral, West): On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1077.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), followed by the sophistry and rumour-mongering of the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown). Speaking from my experience of the Liberal Democrats in my area of Sussex, I know that they are experts in scaremongering. Compare those speeches with that of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, which was straightforward and thoughtful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "ur party blundering into a morass. It is incredible that, after 18 years in opposition, it has no clear idea and no detail of the reforms that it wants to introduce. The Leader of the Opposition was prepared only to dedicate himself to jeering at the House of Lords, because that is a nice easy sell to the left wingers on his Back Benches. It shows that the Labour leopard has not changed its spots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": " are enthusiastic about proportional representation. I fear that, in the successor Parliament, we shall see yet another push towards PR. Let me repeat the question that I asked earlier. What is the purpose of this House of the communities? It is to represent the boroughs and counties of the kingdom. Any attempt to introduce PR will break the sacred link that all of us have with our constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "preceding_text": "history in that regard. Education was to be provided free and at the time of need: that was, perhaps, a forerunner of the theory of the national health service. In modern times, Scots have been irritated by the fact that, irrespective of how we have voted in Scotland—especially since 1955—the Conservatives have never had a majority of the vote. When they came here, to this Parliament of the Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William McKelvey", "preceding_text": "SNP and Liberal Democrat. As a form of punishment, if nothing else, we were to be guinea pigs to test the success or otherwise of that obnoxious, iniquitous and unfair tax. Once the tax was imposed on England and Wales, English Conservative Members began to feel pressure from their constituents against the tax when they realised that it was not as even-handed or as fair as they had first imagined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Gallie", "preceding_text": "vative opinion back in 1974. The Conservatives were wrong at that time.It was the wrong policy, but we had the guts to face up to the mistake that we had made. We rejected the devolution policy because it would have been disastrous not only for Scotland but for the United Kingdom, so we gave up on it, and perhaps with good reason. In 1974, when we pushed that stupid argument, we lost the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "very local authority in Scotland complains at the moment that it cannot deliver services because it does not have enough money. Whose fault is that? Is it because local authorities waste money? Is it because they do not manage their affairs properly? They say, \"It is nothing to do with us. It is the fault of the Scottish Office, which does not provide us with the readies.\" That is their complaint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "they do not manage their affairs properly? They say, \"It is nothing to do with us. It is the fault of the Scottish Office, which does not provide us with the readies.\" That is their complaint. [Interruption.] Hon. Members agree with me that that is what would happen if we were to have a Scottish Parliament. It would never have enough in the bank or in the kitty, and would always blame Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-20", "file": "debates1997-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "db0d9744605e1db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I will not take an intervention at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-20a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.6.5", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The natural reaction of any socialist party is to introduce not only more regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.6.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot have been paying attention when I dealt with that point in my winding-up speech on Monday 17 February. It is a calumny to argue that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "another. Recently, a memorandum from the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS trust let the cat out of the bag. I suspect that my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Broadgreen (Mrs. Kennedy), who is here with us, may have a word or two to say about that later. This is a briefing note sent round the hospital by the hospital, presumably as an instruction to those working in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " It distorts the clinical judgment of doctors and other health care professionals. If, heaven forbid, the Government were re-elected, their real agenda—the commercialisation of primary care, the privatisation of at least some clinical services, the end of the national health service as we know it—would be put into effect. That is not a vision shared by the people of Britain. They share our vision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "alty department involving the presence of GPs and GP-type doctors, and the provision of GP-access beds. Those were the arrangements set out by the health authority after its meeting last September. If the hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Mackinlay) was genuinely interested in health in Edgware, rather than in making silly party political points, he would know that, because it is on the public record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "If they thought that, why are those countries which have to some extent depended on the private sector moving down that road? They are not so daft that they will move to a situation that would lead to the conclusion that the hon. Gentleman advocates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "th service managers, but we do not need people to manage a system when one does not need that part of the system. Money can be saved from bureaucracy. We are not, however, at the beginning of a five-year programme, committed to spending money to be derived from that saving. Unlike the Labour party, I do not believe that one can obtain £100 million overnight from a pot marked \"bureaucracy savings\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "eir need for help. The report said that the uneaten food is cleared away at the end of the meal time, and that there is no follow-up action to establish why the food is not being eaten. There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence, of which I am sure right hon. and hon. Members must be aware, of people with learning disabilities getting wrong or inappropriate treatment in hospital. In another case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "e will build on that agenda, we will move to a new agenda for disabled people, of skills, knowledge and opportunity—an agenda for the new century which affirms that we have pursued for and with disabled people better social services, health care, social security benefits, independent living and civil rights. We will do that to enable disabled people to make the most of their talents and abilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-24", "file": "debates1997-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7b2b8a8aaab88404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security and Disabled People (Mr. Alistair Burt)", "preceding_text": "some of the points that we have heard. There has been an overwhelming contrast between the two sides this evening. My hon. Friends achieved a sense of balance: they do not underestimate the problems of the health service and our ability to overcome those problems and deliver a good service. In contrast, Opposition Members hardly mentioned the good work done by so many people in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-24a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "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": "My right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) has had a long and distinguished career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.144.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I am not asking the Prime Minister to anticipate the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.145.6", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "I assume that the Transport Secretary will tell us the precise percentage of money that will be reinvested in transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I return the Prime Minister to what is clearly a central contradiction in his programme for the general election—the statement by a former Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I return the Prime Minister to what is clearly a central contradiction in his programme for the general election—the statement by a former Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir.\"] Forgive me, Madam Speaker. Sir Edward Heath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State recall that his predecessor, at the beginning of rail privatisation, told the House that there would be no hiatus in investment? We have had four years of virtually no investment in our railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-25", "file": "debates1997-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "7179fefb335e6f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Bill [Lords]", "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": "periences and the misery of his constituents who suffer from that extremely horrible disease. Its consequences were not apparent in the past, and people either did not realise the danger or failed to take adequate precautions. Asbestosis cases are among the most horrible, graphic and difficult of personal litigation cases. I think that the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Mr. Worthington)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-25a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": ". Bennett) and for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) and I sought hard to persuade the Government to ensure that hedgerow protection was included in the measure, but they declined. Just before then, I had made one attempt to secure hedgerow protection, by urging the Government to extend tree preservation orders, for what they are worth, to cover important and significant hedgerows. The Government declined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.319.5", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "e in work felt that their jobs were secure, the figure is now less than half, at 43 per cent.? Has she further seen the evidence in the British Medical Journal showing—as anyone with common sense could have guessed—that people whose jobs are threatened by privatisation or reorganisation are more likely to report symptoms of ill health than those in secure jobs? Can I say to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "e quotation. The Prime Minister spoke about ensuring that all four-year-olds will have a nursery place, and we have made a start during this Parliament. It is a question not of theory, but of what is happening. If the hon. Gentleman looks at what is happening under phase 1, he will see that extra places have been created not just in the local education authority sector but in the voluntary sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Squire", "preceding_text": "d we have made a start during this Parliament. It is a question not of theory, but of what is happening. If the hon. Gentleman looks at what is happening under phase 1, he will see that extra places have been created not just in the local education authority sector but in the voluntary sector. [Interruption.] There is a net increase in the voluntary sector in Norfolk alone of more than 300 places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I know that you, Madam Speaker, are against parliamentary sleight of hand in any form in which it might appear. There is a widespread rumour that, at 9.30 on Friday morning, the Government will slip in what is commonly called the conspiracy Bill, which is a very controversial measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "lause, as it seems to be eminently sensible for all the reasons that my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Chisholm) offered. I do not understand why restrictions should be put on local authorities when dealing with emergencies. I do not see why a justice of the peace must be involved. It has always been a great source of irritation to me that I was never made a justice of the peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": " come to their rescue—they expected some Government help, but this Government certainly did not provide it. It was said at the time that the Government had left them high and dry. Assistance from central Government was certainly a long time in coming. The local councils did their best. They did not know where the money would come from or how they would deal with the problems created by the floods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-26", "file": "debates1997-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "7de80b2e0fb2f3c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "May I point out to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that you are fortunate in one respect and I am unfortunate in another? My hon. Friend the Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) is a neighbour of mine; you just come across him occasionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-26a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-27", "file": "debates1997-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c78398aaa896ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course we will examine the report of the Defence Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-27", "file": "debates1997-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c78398aaa896ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes, he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces came voluntarily and immediately to the House the moment that it was drawn to his attention that he had not been advised accurately by his officials. My hon. Friend did as he should have done, and came immediately to the House. The right hon. Gentleman talks about responsibility, but he is not in a position to criticise on that front—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-27", "file": "debates1997-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c78398aaa896ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As far back as 1993, the Ministry of Defence established a medical assessment programme to try to diagnose why Gulf war veterans were ill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.427.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-27", "file": "debates1997-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c78398aaa896ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "If I heard right, the hon. Gentleman referred to early-day motion 329, which appears to be about digital television set-top boxes. I would not immediately have seen those as a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.450.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-27", "file": "debates1997-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c78398aaa896ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I remember the hon. Gentleman making that point. I was listening keenly for the name of LG, because I had these references to earlier debates. I did not hear it. If the Hansard writers have managed to record one utterance of LG, I apologise to the hon. Gentleman, but I did not hear 10 references to LG like the 10 that he made when he attacked the Secretary of State 12 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-27a.519.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-02-28", "file": "debates1997-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "8ea90aa0a3ffd88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-28a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Spink", "preceding_text": "sent the Bill in the first instance, and for his invaluable support and advice during its progress. He truly cares about his constituents and about the community that he represents so well. I also thank my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary, who was the prime driving force and inspiration for the Bill. I even thank the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), the shadow Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-02-28a.554.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-03", "file": "debates1997-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2db95d645a4b69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that, although the North Wales music festival attracts widespread support from the private sector, it is continually looking for new sponsors? Will he join me in congratulating North Wales Blue Grass festival—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-03", "file": "debates1997-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2db95d645a4b69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that our policy is to bring the legal aid budget under control—to bring an end to its demand-led, runaway nature before any thoughts of applying legal aid elsewhere can be entertained. I was therefore shocked to read the shadow Lord Chancellor's proposals to extend legal aid to industrial tribunals that appeared in the New Statesman in December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-03", "file": "debates1997-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2db95d645a4b69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.635.4", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Information Technology (Government Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's disappointment at the fact that the NACAB was not successful in its millennium bid. I very much hope that it will qualify for assistance from a redirection of the Millennium Commission's funding after 2001. We are trialling the provision of IT in one citizens advice bureau in Spennymoor in Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.635.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-03", "file": "debates1997-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2db95d645a4b69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.659.7", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Elections (Candidates' Expenses)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " conduct a review of the way that political parties and elections are funded. It is not enough to regulate what is happening locally, although that is important. It is crucial to look beyond that, at how public opinion is influenced and how political parties raise funds to influence public opinion. The British people would not want rich people similar to Ross Perot in America, Berlusconi in Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-03", "file": "debates1997-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2db95d645a4b69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.672.5", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Directors' Emoluments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "egislation—which we are considering today. We are saying that we shall build on the regulations, based on the Hampel commission's recommendations and on the consultation that we have conducted in the City of London. Therefore, the answer to the question asked by the hon. Member for Hendon, South is yes, a future Labour Government will build on the regulations, in the same terms as the regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-03a.672.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.706.10", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister deserves credit for that answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.706.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "re vouchers and the assisted places scheme. Where will he get the other hundreds of millions that he says will sort out the problems of local government in Scotland? The hon. Gentleman speaks about partnership and not confrontation. Is he looking forward to meeting the parents of the children who will lose vouchers or assisted places? Is that partnership? It is confrontation of the most evil kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "ases of £140 million—2.2 per cent.—and that cannot be converted into cuts, however one wants to jiggle the statistics, including this and excluding that, and then say, \"It isn't fair.\" Ultimately it must be recognised that the Government have provided more money for local authorities, and that there is not a cut in their resources. I shall mention the Labour party once more. It is not good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " however one wants to jiggle the statistics, including this and excluding that, and then say, \"It isn't fair.\" Ultimately it must be recognised that the Government have provided more money for local authorities, and that there is not a cut in their resources. I shall mention the Labour party once more. It is not good enough— [Interruption.] Good Lord, the hon. Member for Hamilton has gone already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman ever wants to make any comments or observations about me, just try it—that is my advice for him. I make many overseas visits that I pay for. I have no qualms about that. What is more important, I take my family with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.744.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.748.4", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I trust that the hon. Gentleman would accept that the cost of providing education in rural areas can be much more expensive because of the distances involved and the problems faced. That is one aspect of the matter. As education is a very large part of local government expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Chisholm", "preceding_text": "ollected tax. The reality is that single-tier local government in Scotland is called the Secretary of State for Scotland: he determines the service and grant levels. That, of course, will change after the general election. One of our main reasons for wanting a Scottish Parliament is so that such decisions can be taken in an open, democratic manner, rather than by one person in the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.758.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": "using. The first factor is the level of the public sector borrowing requirement and, alas, one of the problems that we shall need to confront is a public sector borrowing requirement of at least £26 billion. If 1992 is anything to go by, the sum will be much larger, because then we were told that the PSBR would be £30 billion, and it was actually more than £45 billion. That is a serious onstraint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.771.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "preceding_text": "about and cease to exist. The spectacle, however, was provided by the principal Opposition party, the Labour party. Today it promised not one extra penny for housing in Scotland and confirmed that 75 per cent. debt repayment would stick. Whereas I had support from my hon. Friends on the Government Back Benches, not one Opposition Back Bencher supported the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-04", "file": "debates1997-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "44419f50ee06be1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond S. Robertson", "preceding_text": "r Hamilton (Mr. Robertson)— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hamilton should not sit there chuntering away, because he was not in the Chamber for the debate and did not hear a word that was said in it. He does not know what the hon. Members for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe), for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) or for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Chisholm) were saying or how they were criticising him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-04a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-05", "file": "debates1997-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "85ef2e337a13fede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallie", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that residents in south Ayrshire are absolutely delighted that South Ayrshire council has received an above inflation rate grant this year? Does he agree that there should be an element of optimism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-05", "file": "debates1997-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "85ef2e337a13fede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Hunterston Power Station", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has much more knowledge and experience of power stations than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-05", "file": "debates1997-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "85ef2e337a13fede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Northern Ireland Appropriation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dowd", "preceding_text": "It is strange that the Minister did not want me to speak, but that he now wants me to answer questions. I will happily tell him. I will send him details of our five pledges, which include using the windfall levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-05a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point. Our difficulty is that the European Court of Justice has deemed that under the treaty and present law, we cannot do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1017.7", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "The armed forces do eat a good proportion of British beef. However, my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces has given me a great deal of information to enable me to take out to the British suppliers the figures on which the armed forces buy their beef to discover whether those figures can be matched competitively, and I regret to say that they cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1017.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cretary of State for Social Security yesterday. Those proposals will guarantee that everyone, whether in the new scheme or out of it, will continue to receive at least the basic state pension, increasing in line with inflation. I think that the response that we have heard from some quarters—including some, although not all, Labour Members—shows that those people do not understand what is proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman's questions, as he will discover when he hears the statement a little later, are based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " interest, he will be here for the statement; I am making an assumption. The right hon. Gentleman's questions are based on what he supposes is in a report which, I believe, he has not read. There is no suggestion of the report being suppressed. It was produced by officials. It was drawn up by the Meat Hygiene Service. It was very widely circulated. It was circulated around the trade and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "supposes is in a report which, I believe, he has not read. There is no suggestion of the report being suppressed. It was produced by officials. It was drawn up by the Meat Hygiene Service. It was very widely circulated. It was circulated around the trade and elsewhere. [Interruption.] I am sorry that somebody did not receive it. Ministers did not receive it—that is true. It was a working document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1018.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The point that the Labour leader perhaps genuinely does not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "morning. I think that the right hon. Gentleman may genuinely not understand, so I shall make the point again. The report was a working document, drawn up for the Meat Hygiene Service and circulated to its staff. The Meat Hygiene Service is implementing the recommendations in the report, as the right hon. Gentleman noted. This is the way in which such matters have been handled for a very long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When will the right hon. Gentleman realise that when he behaves in this fashion, what he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed the knowledgeable speech given in the House of Lords yesterday in which it was said that our economy is doing rather well, particularly in comparison to the last 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Meat Hygiene Service (Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1023.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Meat Hygiene Service (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "That is nonsense. Of course Professor Pennington is a man of the utmost distinction. If he says that he has not seen the report, I am not saying he has. However, people in his group knew of the existence of the review. It would have been passing strange if they did not, because it is referred to in the annual report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Meat Hygiene Service (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that, by explaining the process, I would have answered questions such as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Right, well let us therefore parade in evidence the right hon. Gentleman's election address of 1992. Very helpfully, he did something that is rare for the Labour party and costed the minimum wage. He argued for a statutory minimum wage of about £3.40 an hour. He will not deny that. It was in his election address. If there is any doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed that £3.40 an hour in 1992 would be £4.26 an hour now. Is that the figure, or was £3.40 in 1992 too high and therefore £3.40 today would be adequate, even allowing for inflation? Or is there another figure? Is there any figure? We saw the energetic nodding of the right hon. Gentleman's head—I think that even he knows that when he nods his head it means that he is agreeing with what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister will recall that, in that debate, I was asked by a person in the audience whether I believe, as he rightly reported, that eye and dental tests should be free in the health service. Those were not the exact words, but that was the intention of the question. I said that that should be the aim of a national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "or a large number of people. The shadow Chief Secretary is looking closely at his papers. It is embarrassing for the Opposition when the deputy leader of the Labour party does not even know the minimum rate of taxation. It is no wonder that they keep him under wraps for most of the time. However, the right hon. Gentleman has been extremely helpful and we must take his comments extremely seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ave the quotation from the BBC programme \"Close Up North\" on 20 February 1997. The words are here and I shall put them on the record. The right hon. Gentleman said: Yes. I think it should be a right. When he was told: You've got to find the money to finance it\", he said: I agree, and we have to deal with that particular argument. If you had been listening, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as an elderly person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "er for concern, but we have witnessed its terrible cost to our communities in the breakdown of social cohesion. We are clearly not a nation at ease with itself, although that might have been one of the declared aims in the early stages of the Government. It is a matter of fact that we have a record level of homelessness, that education and health standards have declined and that crime has doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "f fact that we have a record level of homelessness, that education and health standards have declined and that crime has doubled. [Interruption.] That is not in doubt, is it? I can understand that hon. Members do not want to believe such figures, but they are Government figures which I want to use for the purposes of this debate. Poverty has doubled and there is mass unemployment in Britain today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "s of the importance of public expenditure. What is important is not just how much is spent but how wisely and how fairly it is spent. Today we have seen in the newspapers alone issues that considerably affect public expenditure and reflect the Government's priorities. I take as one small example Gulf war syndrome, which was clearly due to public expenditure on insecticides to protect our soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "nditure on insecticides to protect our soldiers. [Interruption.] Yes, that was the judgment at that time, although the truth of the matter has been concealed by the Ministry of Defence. But the Government's treatment of those soldiers has been influenced more by the public expenditure consideration of the cost of compensation for the victims of Gulf war syndrome than by a judgment of what is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I assume that the Government would not want to put forward their record on the national debt. The Government have been responsible for a worse increase in the national debt than any local authority has in its debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Let me make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "diture savings of £40 billion by 2040? The record is clearly against him when he makes such projections. I shall come to some of the evidence in a moment. First, let us examine the other projections that have been made by the Chancellor and the Government, because they are relevant. I will take no lectures from Tory Governments about pensions. They are the ones who divorced pensions from earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a fact of life that the Conservatives made that break—and every Conservative Member voted for it. Make no mistake, we have not made a commitment to restore the link.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1061.6", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is still a fact that the Conservatives broke the link.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1061.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1062.7", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": ". The point that I am making is that that model saw a role for Government that accepted responsibility both for full employment and for dealing with the problems of inflation. The creation of wealth marched alongside social justice, whether the Government were German, Swedish or Danish. Throughout Europe the model was successful. Of course there are great difficulties for that model at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1062.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will come to the minimum wage, but I made the quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I know about this because I have lived it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "We have made it clear that the rate will be determined by the minimum wage commission that we will establish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No, I must wind up; I have been far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hunt", "preceding_text": "herited unemployment of 500,000, and trebled it to nearly 1.5 million, without tackling any of the economy's deep-seated problems. Inflation was rising fast towards 30 per cent. That was why Labour changed the link for pensioners from prices to earnings. It was done not to increase pensions, but so that pensioners would not get the increases they should have got for prices that were roaring ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ernment's decision on the royal yacht told us a lot about their strategy and their attitude to public spending. That decision was designed, as the Secretary of State for Defence said, to wrong-foot the Opposition, but that was something else that blew up in his face. The Government want to extend the number of cadet corps in schools, but that will cost £1.5 billion. Where will the money come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ant knockabout stuff about what someone said on Tuesday that was contradicted by someone three years before, and so on—but presented no underlying policy. The hon. Member for Kingswood (Mr. Berry) has a policy all right, because he, I believe, is a proper socialist. I guess that he wants the public sector to take a bigger role. I do not think that I would be putting words in his mouth to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-06", "file": "debates1997-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "609d335387277d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "e public sector to take a bigger role. I do not think that I would be putting words in his mouth to say that. [Interruption.] I just happened to notice the hon. Gentleman there, and I thought that I would record for his constituents the fact that he was there. I suspect—I may be wrong—that he is someone who actually believes in the public sector. Nobody knows what the policy of the Front Bench is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-06a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.5.6", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Railways and Roads (Mr. John Watts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Railways and Roads (Mr. John Watts)", "preceding_text": "The performance of franchised train operators is a matter for the franchising director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.5.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Goodson-Wickes", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend agree that the recent running, or rather re-running, of South West Trains by Stagecoach has been characterised by gross incompetence on the part of that company's management? However, does he further agree that that is an unacceptable exception to the general rule that privatisation has brought improved punctuality, reliability, information to passengers and, above all, investment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is no way in which I can keep track of all that Ministers say in the House, any more than I can keep track of what Back Benchers say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "licy? It is committed to renationalising Railtrack and similarly destroying Scotland's bus services. It would lose our seat at the top table everywhere: NATO, the G7, the UN Security Council. Our voice would be unheard in the councils of the world. How would that help the disadvantaged? The SNP would abolish the assisted places scheme—a kick in the teeth to every lad and lass o'pairts in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ingdom Government, and that, wherever appropriate, a distinctively Scottish approach, which reflects Scottish circumstances, is taken. The third principle to which we have been committed is to ensure that, wherever possible, we have moved government closer to the people. Our consistent approach has been to devolve power downwards from centralised bureaucracies to local consumers and the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "r them. That is the difference between us. Take, for example, the reforms that we have introduced into the health service to make it more effective. The clear distinction that we have made between the purchase of health services on behalf of the population in a given area and those organisations that provide those services has led to greater clarity about the respective roles and responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "end the Secretary of State for Health has answered that question on a number of occasions. The hon. Gentleman has not addressed the point that I put. He is writing to the chief executives of NHS trusts, telling them to sack staff in advance of Labour winning a general election. That is a piece of arrogance of enormous proportions, and we now know the hon. Gentleman's agenda for the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "em to sack staff in advance of Labour winning a general election. That is a piece of arrogance of enormous proportions, and we now know the hon. Gentleman's agenda for the health service. [Interruption] The hon. Gentleman says that it would save £30 million as a result of merging those NHS trusts. I have asked my officials to work out exactly how many people we would need to sack to save that sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "ital. Are they not part of the NHS team? Are those administrators to be swept away? Does he denounce as unimportant the people who look after patients' records? Where will the money be saved? Let us have the figures. If the hon. Gentleman cannot give them now, perhaps he will give them in his speech, after he has received the information from those in Islington who tell him what to say these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be distracted too much, but I suggest that, if the hon. Lady gives that answer again, she should begin it with \"Once upon a time\". Let me make another point about the consequences for Scotland's economic prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be called nasty by the Minister. Given his political creed, I would be distinctly worried if he did not describe me as nasty—I am opposed to everything that he stands for, dogmatically and philosophically. Nothing could be as juvenile as judging anybody by the school to which his parents sent him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "y (Mrs. Ewing) on her opening speech, setting the scene for the debate? I also congratulate the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (Sir R. Johnston) on an excellent and thoughtful speech that I enjoyed immensely and from which I learnt a great deal. I am pleased to be able to contribute to this important debate, and it is noteworthy that there are no Welsh Labour Members in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-10", "file": "debates1997-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "d8a3607783cb52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": " and the Labour leadership is going well beyond what is necessary to achieve it, given the current change in attitudes. In any case, there is a different consensus in Wales and Scotland; it is not a necessary exercise in our countries. What is happening shows how vital it is for the SNP and Plaid Cymru to take votes and seats from both Tories and Labour in Wales and Scotland on our kind of agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-10a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ms Rachel Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Rachel Squire", "preceding_text": "ment's policies for industry, especially in their approach to Europe and the single market. Does the Minister agree that during the lifetime of the Government, the number of jobs in Britain's defence industry has halved, the Government's contribution has been cut by a third, the industry's success has been due to the industry, in spite of the Government's attempts to wreck it and the Government's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rs. That series of meetings continues, which shows the extent of the Government's concern. I will, of course, look personally at what has happened about those meetings. I share the right hon. Gentleman's view on the need for independent advice. The point of distinction between us is whether it should come from an agency, or independent advice from scientific experts, but not necessarily an agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.140.8", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to point to the excellent performance of the Church primaries. About 60 of the 100 best-performing schools in the tables are either Church or grant maintained. They show the success of a policy of promoting choice and diversity in our education system if we wish to promote excellence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.140.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.143.5", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not during parliamentary questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.143.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "New clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "er is the Exchequer or the taxpayer. Although new clause 8 seems to be a sensible measure, I have several questions. Can the Minister say how many companies are taking advantage of the arrangement? Am I right in thinking that one particular insurance company has been at the forefront of this avoidance scam? What does he estimate the losses to the Exchequer to have been? What is the potential loss?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It means what it says: that the windfall levy will pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "She will write to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Primarolo", "preceding_text": " to be paid at 23 per cent. Therefore, anybody who is not paying income tax cannot access the relief. Then, having put forward a proposition that does not reach the objectives that Members set in the important speeches in tonight's debate, the get-out clause, \"If the Treasury does not like this, just reduce VAT on energy-saving materials,\" is no way to progress business in the House and to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.226.4", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The commitment to a review is of course a commitment. I do not mind being criticised by anyone for my party's reluctance to make promises unless we know that we can deliver on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ld have to apply to all objective 1 airports throughout the European Union. The cost would be £50 million—quite a substantial sum—but the effect might not be exactly what hon. Members intend. For example, on that basis, the exemption would apply to all flights from any United Kingdom airport to anywhere in Greece or any other objective 1 country, so flights from Heathrow to Greece would be exempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " Union. The cost would be £50 million—quite a substantial sum—but the effect might not be exactly what hon. Members intend. For example, on that basis, the exemption would apply to all flights from any United Kingdom airport to anywhere in Greece or any other objective 1 country, so flights from Heathrow to Greece would be exempt. [Interruption.] I am sorry; that is the effect of amendment No. 22.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-11", "file": "debates1997-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aa17f1be230c139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Schedule 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "In view of the late hour, I shall not detain the House for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-11a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his kind words and pay tribute to the hon. Member for South-East Cornwall (Sir R. Hicks)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.350.7", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ut that seems rather a lot of money to spend on royal clothes. I understand that, the year before, £47,000 was spent. Several members of the royal family, especially the Kents and Gloucesters, seem to visit countries with broadly similar climates but never seem to want to wear the same suit or dress twice. Why? Would it not save money for the taxpayer if there were a royal central pool of clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.350.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "function of the instrument before coming into the Chamber. I can have no objection to instruments that merely vibrate so as to attract the attention of the bearer. Clearly, many Members carry such instruments, and they can serve a useful and unobtrusive purpose. Yesterday, an hon. Member used an electronic device to raise a point of order. He appeared to be receiving information on a small screen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "JD, which is why it is so important to keep all the offal out of our food—the offal which can contain the BSE agent. We know that faecal contamination is a source of E. coli, which tragically resulted in more than 20 deaths in this country. I advise the Minister that the House wants to know today what he knew about bad practices in our abattoirs, when he knew about them and what he did about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly was not listening to what I said, or if he was, he steadfastly ignored it. The plain truth spelled out by the facts that I have given the House and the scoring to which I have referred is that there has been a substantial improvement in the past two years. Those are the facts. I do not particularly take credit for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.380.4", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has clearly—I rather like him, as a matter of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.380.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "It is for Professor Pennington, as the person presiding over the inquiry, to determine his lines of inquiry and the kind of information that he judges necessary. It has always been made plain to him that, if he needed specialist advice on meat hygiene, it was available to him. It is for him to ask for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. If there were a public inquiry, what would be decided is something like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Electronic Devices (Madam Speaker's Statement)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "istian Science practitioner who attests an application for an absent vote to confirm on the application form that he or she is treating or giving care to the applicant for the incapacity which forms the basis of the application. That change is not reflected in the relevant Northern Ireland draft regulations, as the procedure I have described is already in force there and is considered to work well", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": "ts. The clause contains nothing about consultation or about a report to Parliament. It could be said that it contains nothing much about evaluation, as it refers to the weaker and more problematic concept of a review. In Committee, we discussed this matter at great length, and the Minister was resistant to the concept of evaluation. He seemed to wilfully misrepresent or misunderstand our proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.449.10", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "e on the ability of the authority concerned to implement arrangements for the joint commissioning (with any social services authority) of personal medical services in combination with community care services.'. Amendment No. 1 is similar to an amendment that I moved in Committee, although it has been tabled in a somewhat simplified form—which will, I hope, help the Minister to decide to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.449.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-12", "file": "debates1997-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1d02685f28d11296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Primary Care) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "My single greatest reservation on the Bill is the extent to which it leaves open the door to commercialising services. That is a serious flaw in the Bill but I anticipate that in a few weeks' time the current Minister for Health will be on this side of the House and my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich (Ms Jowell) will be at the Government Dispatch Box. If that happens after the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-12a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ask the hon. Gentleman exactly the same question. Who speaks for new Labour on Europe? Is it the right hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook), the shadow Chancellor or the leader of the Labour party? For the hon. Gentleman to suggest that there are no divisions whatever in the Labour party, when 50 of his colleagues signed a letter condemning Labour's policy on Europe, is ridiculous. He has dodged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "It is certainly an attractive thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange for a statement or a debate before the general election is called so that we may ascertain precisely where parties get their money from to fight the general election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no question of Labour cutting the basic state pension. That is a scurrilous suggestion which the hon. Gentleman knows is untrue; it is unworthy of him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.526.6", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. and learned Gentleman. I have given way six times. Each time, I have been asked questions that were not sensible and each time Conservative Members have not listened to the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.526.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ment, has so far been about the continuing destruction of the universal welfare state and the promotion of the interests of private insurance companies and pension providers. That systematic theme has run through Government policy for the past 18 years, and I hope that 1 May will bring some liberation from the gobbledegook of market economics that has dominated this country throughout that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": " will be. Whatever the proposal's purpose, it has nothing to do with demography but everything to do with presenting a plausible scheme that is transparently unworkable before the election. There is no room anywhere—in this House or in any party—for those with an ideological view on this matter. We shall soon move away from the politics of ideology to the politics of reason under a new Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ply with the vacuum in the Opposition's thinking. They want something called a \"flexible decade of retirement\"—whatever that means. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has pointed out repeatedly that if people wanted to retire at 60 instead of 65, the state pension would have to be reduced by £20 a week. I do not know whether that figure is right, but the Government Actuary has checked it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "m making an important point, and the Labour party has been caught out. The hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) blushed when she tried to deal with it. Indeed, she became terribly ratty when anyone sought to challenge what she was saying. We know that either expenditure of £15 billion must be raised by taxation or, as the Government Actuary has made clear, pensions will decrease by £20. The reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "re is a choice between increasing taxation and reducing pensions. As the hon. Member for Peckham has made it clear that a Labour Government would not increase public expenditure by £15 billion, pensions for newly retired pensioners, all taking their pension at the earliest possible opportunity, which is common ground between us, would decrease by £20. That becomes Labour party policy. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " particularly interested in Australia's Industry-wide superannuation funds, which are administered jointly by employers and Trade Unions, giving the Unions power over how they are invested. That is what we shall see in future if there is a Labour Government. The funds that are delivering such good occupational and private pensions would be put into the hands of trade union barons to invest. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Oliver Heald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Oliver Heald)", "preceding_text": "h an important measure, and why they were introduced. We have now extended those arrangements to money purchase schemes. They deal with many of the concerns that the hon. Gentleman raised. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire said that this all seems precipitous. We have been working on the proposals for a year, going through the issues in detail to ensure that we could produce proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-13", "file": "debates1997-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdce35d2572b20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " the passage of the Pensions Bill and before that, and we know that it can contribute to making the proposals work. We therefore welcome its input into the debate. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire also asked about better-off pensioners not paying tax. Contributions made at the beginning have been taxed. They are taxed at that end and, concerning the new proposals, that would be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-13a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-17", "file": "debates1997-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3c0cc12607aaa34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-17a.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is my understanding that the Secretary of State is awaiting a report from the Welsh Development Agency on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-17a.615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.708.7", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Why does not the Minister tell us that real dental charges have gone up by 245 per cent. since 1979? Those are not just arid statistics, but are based on my experience. I have just paid £350 for a crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.708.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.5", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister yesterday made the uniquely personal decision not only to have a general election on 1 May and to dissolve Parliament on 8 April but that Parliament should be prorogued and sent away this Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.5", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister yesterday made the uniquely personal decision not only to have a general election on 1 May and to dissolve Parliament on 8 April but that Parliament should be prorogued and sent away this Friday. [Interruption.] Is it not obvious that one of the reasons for that decision and for the unprecedented gap between prorogation and dissolution is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.7", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.719.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sykes", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend comes to choose his new Cabinet on 2 May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-18", "file": "debates1997-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a238f4cf93027cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.777.2", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "of rickets and tuberculosis among the child population. The report's conclusions were not the generalisations of a politician or political party, but based on first-hand information provided by concerned professionals who have had to pick up the pieces after almost 20 years of Tory government and, in the process, have discovered the return of the diseases and social conditions of the 19th century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-18a.777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carbon dioxide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "arily driven by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, which are set to double within the next century compared to pre-industrial times. Therefore, halting and ultimately reversing those excessive CO 2 , concentrations is a critical goal for global ecology. On the key issue of climate change, Labour has set a target of a 20 per cent. reduction in carbon monoxide in the UK by 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sweeney", "preceding_text": "the electorate for Councillor Stringer to claim that the council is faced with massive budget cuts and to imply that the Welsh Office is to blame. Even allowing for inflation, there is only a tiny reduction in Welsh Office funding, which is entirely consistent with the Government's policies of expecting the public sector to achieve efficiency savings. Everyone in the private sector has to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.848.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nelson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. and learned Friend for his generous remarks. It has been a pleasure to keep this Treasury seat warm for him, so that he can take it up in the next Parliament. I entirely concur, without reservation, with all that my hon. and learned Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Short, we hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I have a loud point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.884.7", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have dealt with all those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.884.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.913.4", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "nt information. The need for such information to be available is vividly shown by the Dunblane experience and the case of Thomas Hamilton. The information known about Thomas Hamilton would have appeared on the enhanced criminal conviction certificate. All the organisations in the charity sector are extremely concerned about the cost of these certificates. The purpose of the amendment is to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.944.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to trespass in any way on the deliberations of the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges, would not the normal procedure for that Committee ensure that any report by the Commissioner could not possibly be published until the Committee had been given an opportunity to discuss and consider the points that the Commissioner had made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "All citizens of this kingdom have a right to protest against laws they do not agree with. If they are wrong, the law can take its course. It has taken its course with me on three occasions, when they locked me behind bars, to the hon. Gentleman's delight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ss conference, as has happened in Scotland, as the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Godman) said—even if it is the hon. Member for Redcar. It is interesting that the proposed 20-minute rule—20 minutes for the Government and 20 minutes for the other leaders—has been forgotten, so that Government members of the Committee can go on and on and then have their press conference afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Yet again, the Secretary of State is trying to rewrite the record. We proposed what the royal commission recommended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "nces for repeat burglars and-drug dealers? That is the issue before the House. When the Secretary of State made his speech at the 1995 Conservative party conference, his message was at least clear: If you don't want the time, don't do the crime. There were to be no exceptions of any sort. No exceptions were mentioned in any part of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech that October. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-19", "file": "debates1997-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b52e762319856e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "d he knows that well. He and I entered the House at the same time; he is now leaving the Chamber—although I do not think that he is leaving the House; he is going elsewhere and will still be seen in the Corridors as an ex-Member of Parliament. We wish him well. I used to tell him that, if he got married, I would do the marriage ceremony for nothing, but he never took up that offer. That is a pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-19a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1058.7", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister on her assiduousness in visiting so many prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1058.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "t but for the fact he does not much like private prisons, he would like every prison to be run like Blakenhurst. He is at odds with the findings on the Wolds, which is now regarded as a model for the service. He does not understand the achievements of private prisons and is about 10 years behind the times. He is driven by Labour ideology and would do well to look at the increase in rehabilitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on what I am sure will be his forthcoming retirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1069.6", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There has already been a Privy Council to determine Prorogation, and I have no intention of changing it. Prorogation always follows within days of an election announcement. When I announced the date of the election and Prorogation, the House was not surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1069.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1070.6", "colnum": "1070", "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 ever, the right hon. Gentleman quotes partially, but I shall deal with the substance of what he said. Of course I would have preferred to have had the matter finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1070.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1070.6", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "es finished. I would have liked to have had the inquiries into the funding of the Leader of the Opposition's office and the deputy leader's office finished. Sir Gordon Downey's report is not finished, and it has not yet gone to the Committee. When it gets to the Committee—as the right hon. Gentleman knows—that will be the start, not the conclusion, of the process. It is obviously a complex report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1070.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1071.7", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Justice demands that this report be published. That is what justice demands. Any members of the public watching that interchange will conclude that the Prime Minister simply does not want it published because he fears its publication. Has not this Parliament ended as it began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1071.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "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 stain, if stain there will be, is upon a Labour Front Bench that has smeared and smeared and smeared again. The Labour leader has traded in double standards from the moment he took up office. This is the Labour leader who sells policy to the trade unions for cash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "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 stain, if stain there will be, is upon a Labour Front Bench that has smeared and smeared and smeared again. The Labour leader has traded in double standards from the moment he took up office. This is the Labour leader who sells policy to the trade unions for cash—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]; who refuses to comply with the code of practice on party funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "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": " and smeared and smeared again. The Labour leader has traded in double standards from the moment he took up office. This is the Labour leader who sells policy to the trade unions for cash—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]; who refuses to comply with the code of practice on party funding—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]; who calls for party openness but will not publish the secret funds of his own office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Electoral Registration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 20, for the purpose of discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-03-20", "file": "debates1997-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "683bf257ab39668d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "my hon. and learned Friend that the answer is no—no fees will be payable. Opposition Members talked about the priority that they would accord to the protection of hedgerows. I must gently remind them, without being too partisan, that Labour's recent draft manifesto contained no mention of biodiversity, despite all the boasts from Opposition Members about the extent to which it would be a priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-03-20a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-07", "file": "debates1997-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "d2c16aa554322bb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "preceding_text": "Sir Edward, may I say how delighted we are that you are back as leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-07", "file": "debates1997-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "d2c16aa554322bb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ves orders to most people in the world with his industrial averages, which are drawn up long after we go to bed, and which are taken very seriously by the Chancellor. We will have to deal with the role of the media and their enormous power. In the old days they reported us. Now they occupy our Palace in order to interview each other to explain what it is we are supposed to be saying to each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-07", "file": "debates1997-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "d2c16aa554322bb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "position of such great importance. The nation elects a Government; every constituency elects a representative—each has quite a different function. The Government have to govern but we come here because we have been sent here from constituencies that have special problems. We come with our own convictions—believe it or not, we are all free men and women who can speak what we believe to be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-07a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "ive a response to the concerns that, understandably and genuinely, have been raised. With respect to changes in the days and times available for questioning Ministers, the responsibility for the rota of questions lies with Ministers. The rota is not governed by any Standing Order. It is not therefore a matter with which I as Speaker can interfere. My consent was therefore neither sought nor given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "cious Speech. This is the point at which to express my gratitude to the Chief Whip for giving me sufficient notice to enable me to transfer my suit from the north end of the country to the south in time for this occasion. It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend. It may be of comfort to him to know that I had the word \"socialist\" written on my election address and it did not do me any harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "minent advertising hoardings in the country exclusively to the Conservative party. Finally, I was heartened to see that the Government have chosen to highlight their commitment to tackling global poverty and to promote sustainable development. All civilised people are looking forward to our overseas aid budget increasing from the miserable level to which it has sunk under previous Administrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "to make their party electable again. This morning it was the turn of the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke). No doubt they will succeed one day—not too soon, I hope. Perhaps on the strength of 13 days in the party of Government, I could offer a word of advice: go back to one-nation politics. In the long run, it will be better for us all and better for the country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "interest, because the right hon. Gentleman stands to make rather a lot from the future sales of his book \"How to be a Minister\". I can thoroughly recommend it. When he wrote it, he had just left office and I thought that, having just lost an election, he had rather a cheek to write such a book. Now I am not so sure that that is the case. The book is in hot demand and I can thoroughly recommend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Sunderland, South was also burgled. Like me, he lived for a while in Brixton—of which we are both very fond—and, at one stage, he was burgled regularly there. He put a note on his door, with his customary humour, which allegedly said, \"I've been robbed so many times, if you find anything of value, you're welcome to it.\" I know how he feels. On policy, I almost put up a similar note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "ngs about it is the eulogy printed on its cover, which says: This is the one book I recommend to all my colleagues upon first taking office. It remains the best guide. Underneath is written: The right hon. Kenneth Clarke\". Now we know what went wrong under the previous Administration. If those are the precepts that the previous Government followed, I may have to forbid its being read by Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour councils.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y believe that the people had been so unreasonable as to put him out after all the good service that his Government had given. I will tell him what is wrong with the country today, and what we can do to put it right. I say that it is a betrayal of our future that in Britain, in 1997, almost half of our 11-year-olds cannot read or add up properly. In this Queen's Speech, we start to put that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In a moment. There was a lot of talk during the election campaign that there would be no difference between the parties. I think that, in 12 short days, that has been exposed as the nonsense that it always was. There will be one other difference. This Government will keep their promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oom and homework guidelines in primary and secondary schools. For years I have made clear our belief that information technology holds huge potential for our education system. We will be moving forward, with the help of the independent Stevenson committee, which we set up in opposition, on linking schools and colleges to the information superhighway; training teachers in the use of new technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "on, smart broadsheet newspaper columnists wrote that electing the Labour party would make no difference, but the Queen's Speech has answered that sentiment. It contains comprehensive and radical measures that will make a real difference to my constituents in North Durham. I am thinking particularly of the welfare-to-work programme and of the education measures, especially those to cut class sizes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "servatives governed not always 100 per cent. correctly, but to the best of our ability for everyone in the nation-rich and poor. Scots, Welsh, Irish and English. I recall that it was a Labour Chancellor, now a Labour peer, who said that he would squeeze the rich until the pips squeaked. That can hardly be termed governing for the benefit of the whole nation as even the rich are part of the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-14", "file": "debates1997-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f63e91015d3bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "campaign did the House no credit whatever. There is a huge Government majority, and if we want this place to be serious again, the attendance tonight is somewhat disappointing. Although we have only 164 seats, there are Conservatives here, and also an Ulster Unionist colleague, the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Rev. Martin Smyth). I had hoped to see more Labour Members in the Chamber on day one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-14a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "or a change of Government. We have a chance to give young and old alike some hope for the future. We have the opportunity to offer young people the sort of standards that others have taken for granted. We have the ability to give young and old alike the chance to work when, for so long, they have been dependent on others—to translate dependency into independence and to translate welfare into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "ongratulations to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett), on his appointment to the Cabinet. I am sure that he will fill his post with great distinction. I say that not as a mere formality: before the election, I was asked on a radio programme whom I most admired on the Labour Benches and I immediately mentioned his name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " heard during the general election campaign—but when they were questioned by Conservative Members about how these wish lists were to be paid for, there was no answer, only evasion. I welcome three particular measures announced in the Queen's Speech, and believe it is a shame that they were not introduced by a Conservative Government. The first is a freedom of information Bill. It is a great shame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "nd that when it was carried out it produced four extremely useful reports. We have to get our priorities right. I and Back Benchers in general, especially the 101 women who sit on the Government Benches, must ensure that we change the priorities of Government and of Parliament for the better. The task is very big, but many people are willing to help. One of the great things about hearing evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "an will be a redoubtable Member of Parliament for his constituents. He used to be the boss of the Cambridge Students Union, well before new Labour. If, when he was CSU president and I was president of my college union, I had predicted that he would be elected to Parliament on a wave of new Labour policies, he would have shown me the door. Even student politics have changed greatly since the 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "whether the Minister of State sets about his review with no preconditions or prior agenda, conducts the review using up-to-date facts and statistics—unlike the review under Tomlinson, which was out of date, partial and ignored some of the evidence—and delivers a set of proposals for the future of the health service in London which have been the subject and reflect the results of wide consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat sport has difficulties for a short period. The idea that a racing driver—or a snooker player or a darts player—gains success partly by being associated with smoking has to be hit on the head. Smoking kills you, and if it does not kill you, it debilitates you, puts you out of work and gives your family and friends a harder time. We have to be tough on smoking and tough on the causes of smoking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": "health brief if the Labour party won the election. The Liberal Democrat spokesman replied, \"No bet.\" I thought that that was an interesting comment on the way in which the issue of health played out in the dying days of the last Parliament. The new Secretary of State is the fourth Labour health spokesman whom I have faced in less than two years as the leader for the Conservatives on health issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "as a high-octane whinge. For me, she summed up new Labour. She was dressed by the hon. Member for Stevenage (Ms Follett), coached by the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), and educated at the best schools—schools that the Government want to deny to children whose parents cannot afford to pay the fees. She was a new label on an old and bitter vintage. The right hon. Lady moved on to apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "e the time to look at the evidence that is necessary to assess the issue in detail. Let us go on to the other questions about the Government's health policy that remain unanswered. Do the Government propose a major management upheaval in the national health service? That should not be a difficult question to answer. Does the hon. Member for Thurrock want a major health service management upheaval?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "lic-private partnerships fall into that category, as I will explain later. My hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) rightly claimed credit for his work in supporting the restoration of trade union rights at GCHQ. Today's statement and policy change are a credit to the new Government and will restore civil liberties that were roughly and unpleasantly set aside by the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "uld-be Leader of the Opposition this evening, but in relation to the health service his claim that the Tories were the breakers-up of bureaucracy took the biscuit. We had expected some recantation from those on the Opposition Benches, but they are apparently into denial. That breaker of bureaucracy presided over a health service which ended up with 20,000 extra bureaucrats and 50,000 fewer nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "on Benches, but they are apparently into denial. That breaker of bureaucracy presided over a health service which ended up with 20,000 extra bureaucrats and 50,000 fewer nurses. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] If that statement is rubbish, it is based on figures supplied by the Department of Health when it was in the control of Tory Ministers. I accept no responsibility for their accuracy or otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "All will become clear as my speech proceeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "All will become clear as my speech proceeds. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I will answer the question if Opposition Members wait a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It seems likely—but not certain—that in the light of our experience in assessing the pilot schemes the fundholding basis will disappear because I hope that most doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "s were deprived of capital, the Government finally got around to seeing some merit in, at least, the theory of public-private partnerships, but their record in promoting such partnerships is pathetic. They have obstructed more than they have achieved. Compared with the excellent record of many Labour local authorities in promoting public-private partnerships, the Government's record is a disgrace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You just said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I repeat exactly what I said when I was shadow Secretary of State for the Environment: except in the fantasies of the Tory party, we have never had any proposals to transfer capital receipts from one part of the country to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Secretary of State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "re capital receipts are available it will be financed from the capital receipts. Is that plain, straightforward and simple, or do I need to explain it again? I will explain it again if the right hon. Gentleman wishes. Our proposal to get 250,000 young people off the dole queues and into work will improve their health. They certainly need it. That Secretary of State is responsible for all sorts of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I must say that I regard that as an abject plea of guilty. The Secretary of State is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much will it cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I must say that I regard that as an abject plea of guilty. The Secretary of State is saying— [Interruption.] The former Secretary of State is saying that after 18 years of presiding over the health service he is proudly proclaiming that a lot of people working in it are on poverty wages. He is the one who has the explaining to do, not me. All the changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-15", "file": "debates1997-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "c179efbd100d4ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Until the Secretary of State tells me how many people are on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-15a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-16", "file": "debates1997-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e64971dcd8ff1994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "down that road and take such a Bill on board. We should ask the House, obviously with proper safeguards for national security, to put on to the statute book a freedom of information Act, which will do much for the public perception of government. We should not underestimate our own image problem in that respect and the image problem of the House. It is not just image; it is perhaps more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-16", "file": "debates1997-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e64971dcd8ff1994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "May I make it clear to the right hon. Gentleman that any Member of Parliament has a right to speak his or her mind as he or she sees fit. It is true that we offer advice", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-16", "file": "debates1997-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e64971dcd8ff1994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "olls in schools and the meanness of the benefits system. Those are the characteristics of a mean society, which has been bedevilled by cuts and economies for 18 years. Local government, the health service and social services need more money and cannot face and must not be asked to face another round of cuts such as the long round of cuts under the outgoing Government. That was wasting by anorexia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-16", "file": "debates1997-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e64971dcd8ff1994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Essex Fire Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess (Southend, West)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess (Southend, West)", "preceding_text": "It is my extremely good fortune to have secured my first Adjournment debate for my constituents in Southend, West in the first week of a new Session of a new Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-16a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "That was a question in two halves, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "hat the Tory leadership contest would intrude on questions to the Department of National Heritage. The former Minister at the Home Office deserves greater support from the right hon. Lady than she seems to have had this afternoon. With regard to the responsibilities of individual Departments, I want to pay the same tribute that voluntary organisations throughout the country paid to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "re whether to caution or charge a young offender, they must refer the case to an inter-agency panel. That can take weeks. It would be far better, perhaps, to commit the case to court straight away and let the court decide. Delays in the youth courts could be cut by removing 17-year-olds from their jurisdiction. The Narey report was written by a Home Office civil servant and had no political input—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No. It was developed by British lawyers, including a very distinguished British Conservative lawyer who later became Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir. It formed part of the Council of Europe not the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "rching of all staff and visitors, upgraded supervision of visits, the introduction of specialist arms and explosives search teams, local staff training, high-technology searching equipment, the introduction of personal alarms and volumetric control—but, of course, he did nothing in that couple of months. We all know that, when Ministers come before the House, they sometimes give us coded messages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ld be, but I formed the view that I could do no other. I reached my decision in the interests of giving very belated justice to Mr. Lewis, of giving some comfort to his wife Louise—who supported him faithfully while he gave us seven days a week looking after the Prison Service—partly of clearing my own conscience, although that is my problem, because I should have resigned at the time and did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Etherington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Etherington", "preceding_text": "cellor of the Exchequer will make it realistic. I hope that he will obtain enough funds to ensure that we start to make an impression on unemployment. My belief is based on Keynesian economics, which more or less worked for 50 years—until 1979. They will bring about an improvement in society, particularly for younger people, many of whom see no future. Of course, that matter is tied up with crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-19", "file": "debates1997-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "11d271a9eeb5b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ds with a custodial sentence. Prisons cannot solve crime on their own any more than the police can fight crime on their own. That is why effective action is needed for young offenders so that crime is nipped in the bud and why a range of measures to tackle violence and intimidation is so important. It is also vital to have effective partnerships between the priests and local authorities. Together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-19a.473.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I am being barracked by the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.507.4", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Bank of England and Financial Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ure that will cover the delivery of statements to the House in this Parliament. This will be the first statement in the present Parliament. In the past, the convention has been that advance copies of statements are made available to the Opposition about half an hour before their delivery. It has also been the convention that the annunciator shows a clear description of the contents of a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Bank of England and Financial Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ys in office that caused him so rapidly to change his mind? During the general election, why did he conceal from the electorate his obviously settled determination to make that important change within a few days of taking office? Why has the right hon. Gentleman so swiftly changed a system in which my decisions as Chancellor produced the United Kingdom's best performance on inflation for 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Bank of England and Financial Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "anges to a system in which the previous Conservative Government produced the lowest mortgage rates, and in which—as we now know—in the last month before the general election, I hit my inflation target of 2.5 per cent. on the button. Does he now accept, as he must—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"What a pile of paper.\"] No, this pile of paper is a copy of the Chancellor's statement. These papers are for my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Bank of England and Financial Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "int about inflation, it will be the Government who set the inflation target, and I have already said that we will follow the inflation target that has been set by the previous Government. I will announce the inflation target Budget by Budget, and that matter will be debated in the House, but the hon. Gentleman should consider modern economics in more detail. The causes of inflation and the causes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t Office will say, \"It is far worse than we expected; all bets are off.\" The Chancellor will say, \"I am sorry I said that I would not have to increase taxes.\" I shall look with interest to see how such matters are presented in the Budget. The Chancellor is struggling to produce a tax-raising, promise-breaking Budget, and it will damage the economy. I am taking too long, so I shall try to be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "o go to people who are not currently on the Opposition Benches to find the money. I hope that newly elected Members will forget what was said about health spending during the election. I regret that I missed my old friend the new Secretary of State for Health at the Dispatch Box. I hope that he did not repeat all the rubbish about £100 million to be taken from management to solve all the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "you need to find extra public money for the public services of health and education, what will you do?\" The Prime Minister, in the first flush of his new power and with all the pomp of his new office, acted as he had been acting for years because he was totally unable to answer the question. I emphasise the other mistake for which we shall hold the Government to account, and it takes me to Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s left-wing Governments have been joined by the new British Government, who have thrown their weight on the wrong side of the argument. The Government's decision has caused dismay throughout the business and commercial world in western Europe and among all those who are working out how to compete globally. I expect that they will sign up to a new employment chapter at the Amsterdam summit as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at home on full benefit, doing nothing. For the most vulnerable in our society—the homeless, the jobless young—we shall introduce proposals to deal with their problems of homelessness, unemployment and social vulnerability. We want to ensure that accommodation for the homeless young is matched by opportunities for them to acquire skills and to work, so that they are once again included in society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Two years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ty. Again, she has a deep pride in her constituency. In addition to the many maiden speeches, we had a resignation speech, from the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Foster), who must have created some record as being a ministerial office holder for the shortest time in the history of the Government. He made an interesting speech. He was Chief Whip of the Labour party only two months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"You are the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " less than that under a Labour Government. That still does not counter the argument that, in all the tables of major economies that we are discussing, Britain is in the bottom half and it has not improved its position a great deal. It has risen only two or three places in a number of the tables and remains in the bottom half. I find it a bit much when I hear the Government talk about unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy and European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Tonbridge and Mailing (Sir J. Stanley) made a great deal about the opt-out provision undermining Britain's sovereignty. It is difficult to listen to Opposition Members finding their voice on the opt-out clauses and the reduction of the vetoes on many of the measures in Europe. Those things happened under a Tory Government. We were taken in to the Common Market by a Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-20", "file": "debates1997-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a63ea552c7e528af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry (Dunstable)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Madel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Madel", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for this debate, and I welcome to the Front Bench for the first time the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Mrs. Roche). I congratulate the hon. Lady on her appointment. The object of the debate is to put to the House the industrial situation in Dunstable, and to explain why help is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-20a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Adjournment of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "Member for that constituency. The hon. Gentleman referred to John Patten as \"controversial\" although I am not sure what that means these days. I believe that John Patten came to the House because he believed in things: he was a conviction politician. Every Member of Parliament is entitled to express his or her views. John Patten is a great loss to this House. He added something to all our debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Electoral Fraud", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Torbay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.700.5", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I have to say that that is an extremely cheap point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.700.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister undertake a review of the somewhat curious arrangements for science policy that he has inherited?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.709.6", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". I should say two other things to my hon. Friend. The review of pensions that is being undertaken by the Department of Social Security will include how we help those pensioners in greatest poverty. In addition, I hope that he can say to his constituents, as I would say to the country, that previous Labour Governments have done well by Britain's pensioners—always—and we will do well by them again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.709.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We obviously want to do everything that we possibly can to encourage and bring about the lifting of the beef ban. I say to the hon. Gentleman with the greatest respect that I do not think that plucking out arbitrary timetables has a very good history in the matter. We remember what happened before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.713.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.716.4", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has referred to making government more open and accessible and to the \"whole constitutional package\". Would not it have been better to have held the Bill back until we could see the detail of the Government's constitutional proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.716.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.722.6", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is a new boy.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) should not keep trying to intervene when the Secretary of State has made it clear that he is unlikely to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "cking the local authority franchise also has the effect of excluding overseas voters. If we had gone for the parliamentary franchise, which is marginally smaller, we would have had to include overseas voters, which would have meant that the fine old peppery gentleman who has spent 17 years in Kuala Lumpur but who takes a great interest in what is happening in the old country would have had a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "It will not be legitimised, for the following reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "erent on 1 May. Another consideration relating to the extension of the consensus is how inclusive our campaign should be. The referendum is vital if it is about giving choice to Scots. We need a healthy contribution not only from the Conservatives but from the nationalists. I am slightly encouraged to note from speeches made tonight that the nationalists are having a debate within their own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Whipps Cross Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "w that he has considerable abilities and his appointment is well deserved, but he is in a tough job, especially after 18 years of damage to our health service by the Tories. I wish him success. I also congratulate you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and thank Madam Speaker for granting me this debate. In the election, the most common complaint raised by my constituents was: \"Do something about Whipps Cross.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-21", "file": "debates1997-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "995986cee64b8703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Whipps Cross Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "ong waits in the A and E department for patients on trolleys in corridors. For elderly people, left without regular nourishment, medical or nursing attention, physical deterioration is rapid, with the risk of pressure sores. There should be fast-track admission for elderly patients directly referred to the hospital by their general practitioner. They should not be repeatedly queuing for admission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-21a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for her normal courtesy and welcome her back to the Commons. I hope that I can return the courtesy that she paid me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.822.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "the Conservative party, when in government, sought to take Britain out of it. It now needs a British-led agenda on employability, not over-regulation. We need a strong ministerial presence in the ILO. Britain has not had that presence in recent years; such a presence will give the ILO new leadership from a new Government—leadership which it needs and to which he and other Ministers can contribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.826.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "After 18 years of Conservative rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that his reply represents tremendously good news for schools throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "e night on the Committee stage of the Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill? Would it not be more appropriate to take it at the beginning rather than at the end of a day? Will the right hon. Lady give time for a debate on the massive increase in political appointments in Whitehall, which is giving rise to increasing concern about the potential politicisation of the civil service by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "ce will not recur? Does the right hon. Lady accept that, following the Prime Minister's remarks at Question Time yesterday, there is now great uncertainty about the Government's proposed windfall tax, and will she confirm that it is the Government's intention to allow time for a proper debate in the House on that matter in advance of the Budget, so that some of those uncertainties can be resolved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.843.5", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will, I think, acknowledge that I have no responsibility for elections in other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.843.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "The first thing we can do is simple—so simple that even the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane), who claims to be a democrat but supports the European Union, will understand it. Will he accept a simple proposition, which I hope the Government will accept? If people are dead keen on this business, what could be lost by having a 40 per cent. rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, she is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ould agree absolutely with what she said if I believed that Scotland should be an independent sovereign state. I would then say, \"What the blazes are these guys in London doing deciding for us?\" However, we are part of the United Kingdom, so all United Kingdom Members of Parliament should determine those issues. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms Squire)—she must be one of the new arrivals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "e other side. That will be the real decision. I believe that I am the only remaining member of the gang of six Welsh Labour Members who argued against the Labour Government's devolution proposals in the 1970s. I shall support the present Government's proposals; I shall support them in the referendum and do what I can to persuade people to accept them. I shall not go into the reasons for my change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Of course we are against devolution for Wales and Scotland—that is what we fought the general election on, that is what we will say in the referendums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "y had lost the faith, the confidence and the good will of the electorate. I suppose that that is a small step in the right direction but, given the events of 1 May, it is not a startling proposition. He went on to say that his party was tainted with sleaze, greed, self-indulgence and division. The former Secretary of State for Wales should know. If ever there was sleaze, greed and self-indulgence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Procedure (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Ann Taylor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Ann Taylor)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, thank you for calling me to open this debate during which we shall discuss some of the ideas that have been advanced for modernising the procedures of the House of Commons. I am pleased that the Government have been able to provide time for the debate during only the second full week of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-05-22", "file": "debates1997-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "1466bc098f0a48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.909.5", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Procedure (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ss of ceremony or dignity. Many practical problems arise with new Members not knowing colleagues or Members from other parties or the names of their constituencies, and ideas have been put forward on that. It would be unfortunate for the Committee to get bogged down in that matter at the expense of examining the basic role of Parliament, but it would be right at least to consider it in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-05-22a.909.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "One crucial part of the speech that was trailed, rather inaccurately, over the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "d to the Labour Benches. My own confusion was great when I was in the Members Lobby and the hon. Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Ross) rushed up to me, himself in a state of some confusion, and encouraged me to put my name on the list for the ballot for private Members' Bills. He was astounded when I looked at him and said, \"Why?\" Obviously, he had mistaken me for one of the ladies on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "arriage of old Labour prejudices and new Labour aspirations. There are some interesting questions to be asked about class sizes. Whatever the hon. Member for Barking says about other measures to improve standards, which we would welcome if they were constructive, the Labour party has isolated the issue of class sizes and exalted it above everything else. It has presented it as an article of faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " I do not want to get too involved in the controversy of whether class sizes are the key ingredient, but I note with interest that Mr. Woodhead, who has now been appointed as joint head of the Government's task force on standards, examined the issue and that an analysis by Ofsted concluded that there was no clear link between the size of a class and the quality of teaching and learning within it\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ould realise that many of the proposals made by the Secretary of State and his colleagues are building on foundations that are already in place, such as the national curriculum, testing and inspection. Indeed, Ofsted itself was created by the previous Government, and Mr. Woodhead was defended through thick and thin. I welcome his promotion and also the interesting promotion of Professor Brigstock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "heme is designed for the many. It is designed to give opportunity to the many, so that parents who are not necessarily part of what Labour would call the privileged few, with the resources to participate in independent education if that is their choice, are able to have choice through the medium of the assisted places scheme. I want to make a couple of points about how that choice exhibits itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "have choice through the medium of the assisted places scheme. I want to make a couple of points about how that choice exhibits itself. [Interruption.] In South Cambridgeshire, there are a substantial number of assisted places in four schools. In St. Mary's, many parents—in fact, a higher percentage than the 40 per cent. Quoted—benefiting from assisted places have an income of under £10,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "preceding_text": "the House confirm that an offer was made through the usual channels to agree a timetable for the Bill? Does it not beggar belief that, before the Bill's Committee stage has even been started, the right hon. Lady proposes that the House can properly consider under a guillotine a Bill that will affect our constitution and have a fundamental effect on the future of every person in the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "preceding_text": "n effect. We will note his comment, from a sedentary position, that it does not have an effect on this country. Has the right hon. Lady considered the amendments that have been tabled? Does she not deduce from them that there will be much which right hon. and hon. Members of all parties, including her own, will wish to raise? Does she or does she not consider that their opinions are worth hearing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "preceding_text": "unheeded and that, in effect, she lost the battle and has had to bow to the unelected forces—otherwise known as the secret seven, or is it the secret seventy—of the gauleiters who now run the Government and the Labour party? Is it not ironic that the Government should choose on this, their first Bill, to move a guillotine motion and take an anti-democratic approach to a Bill, the purpose of which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "are to be consulted in the referendums, vote for them. As for the time that has been allowed for the Bill, we had one day of the debate on the Queen's Speech to examine constitutional issues, and we offered a day and a half on Second Reading. It is a simple, straightforward Bill with only six clauses. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is misleading the House when he talks about its complexity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Gentleman is refusing to withdraw the statement that he has just made about the right hon. Lady misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am not sure, but I do not think that the hon. Gentleman spoke in the debate on Second Reading, although I am sure that he has told his constituents his view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "It does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-02", "file": "debates1997-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "e9e708fd73dddd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Entry to Negotiations)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Chairperson.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "If the North resolution is passed, it will be the law; but what is it for? It is to hand over to a body—not elected—the power of the police. Moreover, one of the members of that body is an officer in the constituency party of the hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume)—the chairman, I believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-02a.154.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.171.5", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I think that that was supplementary question No.2 in the document that was given to Conservative Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that I agree with much of what he said and also to confirm my earlier tribute. I was interested to discover that the Darwin initiative is, as we speak, exporting British knowledge and expertise. For example, it is currently involved in a scheme for the sustainable support of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Those are serious questions in any transport policy review and the connection between aviation, rail and road—the aspects of any integrated policy—must be considered. I hope soon to make a statement on what we mean by an integrated transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "retary may have saved me some time, because I was about to read out an enormous list of occasions when, under the Conservative Government, a timetable motion to guarantee progress during Committee stage was tabled before that Committee stage started. I am thinking, for example, of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, the Local Government Finance Bill, the Further and Higher Education Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "For one hopeful happy moment, I thought that I was about to be compared with the late J. Stalin. As a former Chief Whip, I might have thought that a compliment. May I say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The first duty of the House is to debate legislation. It is by discharging that duty that we hold Government to account and serve our constituents. A delicate system of checks and balances has grown up in Parliament over centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " the right of the majority against that of minorities; the call of party discipline against the conscience of individual Members. Those arrangements rest, to a large extent, on convention, compromise and fair play. Observers from abroad, where government depends on codified constitutional arrangements, are often astounded by the spirit of fair-mindedness that permeates our parliamentary procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "on of a referendum. If we have a Labour Party elected on its manifesto, it will have a very clear and precise mandate and, in compliance with the Salisbury convention, the next Labour government will brook no interference from people who speak for no one but themselves and their own vested interests. The House should notice the language. It is the language of the Lord Protector, the control freak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " been passed by the House can we go to the people and say to them, \"Is this what you said you wanted? Because it does not work—or at least, some of us think that it does not—and here are the reasons why.\" That must be the right device. The reason why there was so much outrage—it was not synthetic outrage—about what happened last night was because, behind closed doors there was a debate in Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another part of England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "as a result of the measures that we shall pass in the next few weeks. There are many unanswered questions about thresholds, and about the disfranchisement of people such as my parents. Until five years ago, they lived in Scotland, and they voted in the previous devolution referendum. For reasons of ill health, they had to move to another part of England, but their hearts still lie in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point completely. I am warning about the arrogance of a Government, bolstered by an enormous majority, who feel that they can act as a juggernaut or steamroller and push everything through this place without adequate debate. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ly passage of business with adequate debate, why did she not discuss the terms of the timetable with the Opposition? The excuses that the right hon. Lady gave last night were pathetic. She said: It is a simple, straightforward Bill with only six clauses. If it is so simple and straightforward, how come Ministers have not yet managed to answer most of the simple, straightforward questions about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Ron Davies)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Ron Davies)", "preceding_text": "Despite the last comments of the shadow Secretary of State for Wales, I am sure that there is a general understanding in the House that the Government are proceeding in the correct way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "stion. I understand the position of many of those in the Scottish Liberal Democrat party and the Scottish National party who do not share the Government's view that there should be a second question dealing with tax-raising powers. When the timetable motion is accepted, there will be an opportunity for that debate, so that hon. Members can put their case and a Division can take place. If and when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "of the binding qualities that keep us here arguing so coherently. I have some useful advice for the Opposition. It is only four weeks since the rout, but, at some time, they will have to acknowledge the debate that is taking place in their party in Scotland. That is friendly advice. As has been said, in Wales and Scotland the Tories need some nurturing by the Westminster-based parliamentary party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": ". I have some useful advice for the Opposition. It is only four weeks since the rout, but, at some time, they will have to acknowledge the debate that is taking place in their party in Scotland. That is friendly advice. As has been said, in Wales and Scotland the Tories need some nurturing by the Westminster-based parliamentary party. [Interruption.] It is my style to be helpful to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "The amendment would adapt the Scottish referendum. It would no longer involve two separate ballot papers, one asking the electorate whether they agreed with the Government's proposals for a Scottish Parliament and the other asking whether they agreed that that Parliament should have tax-varying powers. The purpose of the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-03", "file": "debates1997-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e497bc136fdf9642", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " the Government are fudging the issue is that at the last referendum, despite the fact that for years the opinion polls appeared to show great demand for devolution in Scotland, when the relevant legislation was introduced and examined and its implications for Scotland became known, support for devolution dropped dramatically and opposition to it increased dramatically. It is to avoid that danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-03a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy Love", "preceding_text": "rs that he served in the House, he built up an unrivalled reputation as a campaigner on issues affecting the constituency. He was, and to some extent still is, known as the voice of Edmonton. I wish him well, in the knowledge that he will be playing an active part in this Parliament in another place. I have it on good authority from the Fees Office that Edmonton lies nine miles north of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Doug Henderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Doug Henderson)", "preceding_text": "e Cyprus issue. He referred to my pending grey hairs. One learns one or two secrets in opposition in that regard and I shall be happy to see him afterwards to give him some advice which he may wish to follow. I can assure him that being an Opposition spokesperson is a tiring business. There is a lot of campaigning to do which can result in more grey hairs than might be acquired even in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "hip is between the police, the local authority and the local community, which includes not only the resident community, but voluntary organisations and the business community. I join the hon. Gentleman in saying that it is appropriate that we are discussing this issue during volunteers week. Yesterday, I took the opportunity to join the Women's Royal Voluntary Service for a session of pouring tea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.371.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The proposals to which I referred are the proposals in the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "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/1997-06-04a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may deal with each of the right hon. Gentleman's points in turn. First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.8", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eir mandate to propose a referendum to allow the Scottish and Welsh people to have their say, or a Conservative party that wants to prevent the Government from carrying out that mandate? As for the use of the guillotine—since the Leader of the Opposition raised that—I have done a little research. The last Conservative Government used the guillotine 59 times—six times in advance of Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.388.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that a minimum wage will increase unemployment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "Officials have consulted widely on these issues. Indeed, there is an association—this was news to me—that brings together people who are experts in the field. I can reassure my hon. Friend that a great deal of thought has gone into the matter. Amendment Nos.111 and 112 seek to amend the proposition on which the people in Scotland will be consulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "In a sense, I should not dignify the questions that have been asked. I shall spell it out. We are moving to the publication of a White Paper, which will be published before the House rises for the summer recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.418.3", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "Like the Labour party did after the general elections in 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1992? All democratic parties accept the result of a referendum or election. If they lose, they do not disband. They try to win another referendum in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I would be here all night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I would be here all night. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is a joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "proposals for a two-question referendum, and the SNP candidate who stood against me gave an assurance from the platform during the election that, if elected, the SNP would hold a multi-option referendum and stand by the result. I took that to be SNP policy until today, when I examined the SNP general election manifesto. It shows a picture of Fergus Ewing—described as the \"Cabinet Chief Secretary\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment—I will make one exception—as I am attacking his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " more general sort had some merit, although we could not persuade the then Government of that. We are now in the very different circumstances that I have outlined, so my position is consistent and justified. I do not intend to follow the hon. Gentleman into international comparisons, although I am always intrigued by the hard work put in by the Scottish National party, looking at the most obscure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "The defence is clear: we did not give in our election manifesto a commitment to give tax-raising powers to the Welsh Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodri Morgan", "preceding_text": "Clause 2 commits the Government to holding a referendum in Wales on the Government's proposals. Many people have talked about a referendum in the past, but the clause actually commits the Government to providing one. Before going any further, I want to pay tribute to the new Member for Gower (Mr. Caton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "they belong—in many cases, with local government. When that is done, we must then consider the role of other institutions. We have heard so much about the principle of subsidiarity. This country is being torn apart constitutionally by people who want to set up new structures, so-called devolved structures. We are being torn apart because powers and functions are being given to Europe and Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "The answer quite simply is no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alastair Goodlad", "preceding_text": "tive comment on the Government's proposals in that area. I begin with the Government's suggestion that the first responsibility of the new Committee should be to produce a report on improving procedures for examining legislative proposals. Clearly that is a helpful subject for the Committee to address, and I hope that we can agree that all Members should seek to improve the quality of legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "Am I going too fast for the hon. Gentleman? It has become clear that to the Government, modernisation may mean changes to the House's procedures in the interests of government and the small, secretive and unelected group of political appointees at their heart, rather than the interests of this House and our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "ear that to the Government, modernisation may mean changes to the House's procedures in the interests of government and the small, secretive and unelected group of political appointees at their heart, rather than the interests of this House and our constituents. [Interruption.] Our constituents are far from the mind of the Secretary of State for Scotland, who is growling from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-04", "file": "debates1997-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fcd2a4a03b3efee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a public school boy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may enjoy the feeling of a bumpy saddle beneath him when he cycles in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-04a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "firm that that is the situation, and that a statement will be made to the House. The proposals on works councils that are currently being discussed are ones that have not found favour. My right hon. Friends have made it clear that they will want to consider very carefully any proposals on that matter. On the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "delayed in coming here because he felt it necessary to monitor that statement. In view of the important position that transport and the environment allegedly have in the Labour party's manifesto, does not the Leader of the House believe that the Deputy Prime Minister's announcement should have been made in the House, thus allowing hon. Members to be here rather than having their attention divided?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Of course, we want to get our business through—that is one of the responsibilities of a Government. I must correct the hon. Gentleman: I was not shadow Leader of the Opposition, but shadow Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State, from a sedentary position, says that I am filibustering. I am certainly not filibustering. I have never filibustered in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "e time that would be given to them if they accepted the amendments, and should reflect on the fact that it is not schools that benefit from the assisted places scheme, but pupils from ordinary families. During the election campaign, I met many parents who should have been natural Labour voters but who voted Conservative because they wanted to protect the benefits that they receive from the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "st it, but lost it completely. Is there not a certain irony in the fact that, in the past two or three weeks, Minister after Minister has offered a review whenever an issue appears complex or difficult? We have more reviews in the House and in Westminster than Brian Rix was ever able to put on. Some time, the Deputy Prime Minister or the Minister without Portfolio will produce a review of reviews.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "s size is of diminishing importance. I said in the previous debate that although the Government—and, by implication, the Bill—focus on class size, it is of diminishing importance due to the changing nature of teaching and learning. Some hon. Members looked a little mystified at that. I know that not all hon. Members, especially Labour Members, are fully briefed on and acquainted with such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.609.5", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "dren. As I said earlier, however, that aspect of the scheme does not justify its abolition. The appeal of the assisted places scheme was that, for 37,000 children, it offered diversity and choice. The Bill's passage will eliminate that choice, and that is undesirable. Although only a small number benefited, I celebrate the fact that that small number had such extended opportunities. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.609.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "re the election campaign. They said that the assisted places scheme was a subsidy to the private sector, making it appear that profiteering organisations were making money out of the scheme. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that that remark was made out of simple ignorance and was not a deliberate distortion of the truth. The Minister will correct me if I am being too generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ther schools, but there is no point in considering that, for two reasons. The first is that the money is not there and the second is that it was never intended that it should be. The explanation for the introduction of the legislation does not lie in class sizes or money, but in one particular word. I hope that it is not unparliamentary and I shall stand corrected if it is. That word is socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.627.7", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "Indeed it is, Mr. Martin. May I seek your advice, on the figures that the Minister has put before the Committee as to the cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ugh. Mrs. Anna James has a son on an assisted place, studying for his GCSEs at Haberdasher's Aske's boys school. She has a daughter aged 10 who has set her heart on attending the sister school, Haberdasher's Aske's girls school, in September 1998. I hope that the Minister will be able to look that child in the eye and explain to her why she cannot join her brother. That is the effect of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.634.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "going to remind her of the words of the Secretary of State when he was asked about the sibling connection and existing places in the debate on the Queen's Speech. The right hon. Gentleman said: The hallmark of this Government will be to put children before dogma. It will be to ensure that the interests of our children come first on every occasion.\"—[ Official Report, 15 May 1997; Vol. 294. c.183.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "ause it reduces the number of car journeys at peak hours at each end of the school day. Forcing siblings to go to different schools will increase the amount of peak-hour traffic on our roads. Interruption.] On a day when the Deputy Prime Minister has allegedly been making great strides towards reducing traffic, it is ironic that the Government are proposing a measure that will increase congestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "ends, but that can never be the case. The Tories were the party that left the education system with £3 billion of school repairs outstanding, with half our 11-year-olds failing to reach the necessary levels of literacy and numeracy and with many of our four, five and six-year-olds in classes of more than 30. How dare the hon. Lady claim that she is concerned about children's education and welfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.665.8", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.665.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind both the Minister and the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) that the subject of the debate is an amendment about siblings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Martin. Once again the Government have sought to use a closure motion to stifle the debate of Conservation Member. Can you tell me whether that is right, when they have turned out in such large Numbers after showing no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Martin, does my right hon. Friend agree that we cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. The very next sentence of the letter from the chairman of the IAPS reads: On that basis we, in common with a large number of preparatory schools, have offered places to seven and 11-year-olds\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend is suggesting that my remarks will provoke a cacophony of speeches from Labour Members, I am in two minds about that. My hon. Friend may be surprised to hear that a part of me would welcome that. I would welcome some sign of life from Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "on. Friend is suggesting that my remarks will provoke a cacophony of speeches from Labour Members, I am in two minds about that. My hon. Friend may be surprised to hear that a part of me would welcome that. I would welcome some sign of life from Labour Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We have had the disgraceful experience of considering this important Bill in proper detail, scrutinising it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.6", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "As he is an attentive attender in the House, my right hon. Friend knows that every time that we challenge the Government on why they are doing something, they tell us that they have a mandate. They say that they set out clearly what they would do if elected and that they received an overwhelming vote, so they will implement the policy. Surely this is the policy for which they have the mandate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.676.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise in the Committee. [Interruption.] I am glad that hon. Members agree that there is far too much noise. The Minister and those who intervene must address their remarks to the amendments before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.6", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.677.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what he is doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear about the amendments, not the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-05", "file": "debates1997-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "f334ea4b6f1178e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "The subject of my Adjournment debate is Orsett hospital, which is situated in the borough of Thurrock. I speak on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela Smith), who has yet to make her maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-05a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "nothing. We intend to ensure that the new authority works to support the business life of London and that it works closely with the business community. London needs strong leadership to tackle its problems and to seize the opportunities. For the past 11 years, there has been no answer to the question, \"Who runs London?\" What a demeaning position for one of the greatest cities in the western world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.693.7", "colnum": "693", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the right hon. Gentleman did not listen carefully to my response to his earlier geographical question. We shall consult the people of London because we see the new body as a London-wide authority. It will not be a duplication of the boroughs. We certainly do not want all the focus to be on the delivery of services by boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.693.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "chest communities in the world—we see areas of the deepest deprivation to be found anywhere in the western world. I pay tribute to the excellent campaigning work by the Evening Standard , which a couple of years ago drew attention in a series of in-depth articles to the appalling quality of life endured by far too many people in east London. These divisions are unacceptable in a civilised society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.702.6", "colnum": "702", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I was going to come to that important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.702.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Governance Of London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_text": "the United Kingdom, but we can make up our own minds about what sort of government we want. We need a multiple choice referendum: do Londoners want a mayor and an elected authority? Do they simply want an elected authority without a mayor? Do they want it to have revenue-raising powers? Do they want—I offer this in a cross-party spirit—proportional representation? I would see no objection to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Governance Of London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " adopt PR for a reformed House of Lords, so why not for a strategic London authority? Sooner than that, in all probability we will have to introduce PR for European elections, so why not for a Londonwide authority? As a party and as a Government, we evidently have no principled objection to PR. For excellent reasons, we have stipulated that the strategic London authority should be a lean and mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Governance Of London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": " Dagenham, has said: The whole point of a new strategic authority for London was to give power back to elected members. This would take it away. It would be a retrograde step for democracy. Just imagine if someone like Dame Shirley Porter got the job. Mr. Brooker obviously does not share the view of the majority of the electorate of Westminster that Shirley Porter did a superb job for Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Bed Blocking (Essex)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "y my arguments in my own way. There is a huge divide between the Conservative party and the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties on the management of the national health service, but I am very proud of the achievements of the previous Government during their 18 years in office. Anyone who wants to judge the success of the health service should look at the increased life expectancy of women and men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-06", "file": "debates1997-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "00557280e7b1e6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Bed Blocking (Essex)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "There we have it—part of the authentic voice of Essex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-06a.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-09", "file": "debates1997-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ede7ae311f18d48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have answered the hon. Gentleman and I must continue my speech. If he listens, he may find it interesting. The NatWest bank has a European works council under the social chapter. Lord Howe is director of BICC plc, which has a European works council under the social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-09", "file": "debates1997-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ede7ae311f18d48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "It is not a veto: the matter is determined by qualified majority voting. I did not mention the word veto: I said that we should cast our vote against those countries proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-09", "file": "debates1997-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ede7ae311f18d48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Firearms (Compensation Scheme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Graham", "preceding_text": "mbers arguing for compensation for the workers in meat and leather factories, who survived only because they worked in the meat industry. They have lost their jobs, but they have received no compensation apart from redundancy pay. That was tragic, and the Tory Government were wrong not to compensate the workers who lost their jobs. I will support the Tory—the Government action to give compensation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-09a.911.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.— [ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes her point tellingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I hope that our embassy in Berlin will be open in time for the transfer of government. It will be a prestigious building—one of the prime architectural designs of the century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twelve?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "ve mostly concentrated on the issue of transfer at age 13. I am not aware of any individuals in my constituency who are affected by that matter, although I suspect that there are some. The hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough teased me about the \"hundreds\" of parents who approached me on the general matter raised by the Bill. There were not hundreds, but it may have run into double figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady seems to forget that I do not have to answer the questions now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Tyneside, North (Mr. Byers) gave us the benefit of advice that he had received at an early stage from his father about Conservatives. That set me thinking about the lessons that I had learnt at an early stage about the difference between socialism and Conservatism. Socialism is about levelling down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Tyneside, North (Mr. Byers) gave us the benefit of advice that he had received at an early stage from his father about Conservatives. That set me thinking about the lessons that I had learnt at an early stage about the difference between socialism and Conservatism. Socialism is about levelling down. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Conservatism is about levelling up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \": \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " and the remarks that hon. Members are making from a sedentary position are extremely unfortunate. As Mrs. Ewan is a primary school teacher in my constituency, I spoke to her about class sizes. She is worried about primary school class sizes, especially because she is concerned with the needs of gifted children and believes that they can be given the challenge that they need only in small classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": ", especially because she is concerned with the needs of gifted children and believes that they can be given the challenge that they need only in small classes. [HON. MEMBERS: \": \"Oh.\"] She, and the head teacher of the primary school at which she teaches, do not believe that the Bill will reduce classes at that school, because they do not believe that the money is sufficient to improve class sizes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "hard and try to buy one myself? Do I feel happy that he has worked hard enough to buy the car? No—I work to ensure that that Rolls-Royce is removed from him. That is what the Bill does: it takes a type of education which suits certain children away from those of limited means. We have learnt that the Government will not even listen to reasoned argument. They believe that they are absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-10", "file": "debates1997-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebe99ea6f1e2d3bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "No, I have very little time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-10a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1126.5", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Beggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Beggs", "preceding_text": "ter accept that public bodies and the private sector, through the appointment of recruitment officers and monitoring officers, have gone a long way to ensure fair employment and that appointments are made on merit? Will the Minister examine and publish the cost to the public sector over the past five years of out-of-court settlements following allegations of discrimination? Will the Minister also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beggs", "preceding_text": "Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1136.4", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Heal", "preceding_text": "Could my right hon. Friend tell me the answer to the sum 203 minus 5? Is he aware that half the nine-year-olds in England are unable to do that sum and that a recent survey revealed that we lie tenth out of 17 countries? What will his Government do to ensure that basic literacy is not an optional extra for our school children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1139.4", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me, inequality and poor health. It is important to address that issue, and we are doing so. The purpose of the windfall tax is to address that matter on behalf of young people and the long-term unemployed. We are also addressing the issue by introducing the minimum wage, which will help those on low incomes, and with welfare measures, particularly those designed to get single parents back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "the BSE scandal to which the previous Government contributed through their short-sighted decisions. As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's question about whether we would keep the share of public spending below 40 per cent., every year the Conservative party announced a total, and every year they failed to meet that total. It is therefore in no position to lecture us on keeping to promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "cisions. As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's question about whether we would keep the share of public spending below 40 per cent., every year the Conservative party announced a total, and every year they failed to meet that total. It is therefore in no position to lecture us on keeping to promises. [Interruption.] The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked a number of specific questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1149.4", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that there is an inconsistency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting question, of which I should have liked to have notice. I suspect, however, that the hon. Lady will find that various so-called self-defence clubs, such as judo clubs, require regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "I will come to it. I can talk with my colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "dguns should be removed from our society, so I hope that I was not misquoting or misrepresenting her. The strangest irony is that, ever since the trend that is now culminating in the destruction of shooting clubs began, the level of violence with handguns and all forms of weaponry has been rising. I believe that the two are linked. The more we get down to selfish, individualistic forms of society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Alun Michael)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Alun Michael)", "preceding_text": "nnot be stopped from committing murder by getting rid of guns. No, but one can reduce their access to guns and the Bill will reduce their access to. 22 pistols. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray), although I disagree with his description of the Bill as distasteful. I wonder whether he would apply that description to the 1997 Act introduced by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Berwickupon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) accepted that the 1997 Act deals with compensation in the same way as this Bill does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-11", "file": "debates1997-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "85a9ac74ce2f57c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman and the right hon. Gentleman should make up their minds what they want to do, because there are only a few minutes left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-11a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1261.8", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1261.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1261.9", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the welcome that I received from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1261.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for supporting the principle of a minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for supporting the principle of a minimum wage. [Interruption.] I should have thought that Conservative Members would be listening to the electorate more by supporting the case for a minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for supporting the principle of a minimum wage. [Interruption.] I should have thought that Conservative Members would be listening to the electorate more by supporting the case for a minimum wage— [Interruption.] —than by defending huge salary rises in the privatised utilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "There the Opposition go again, getting bogged down in a whole lot of details and losing sight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1271.10", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Organ", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Organ", "preceding_text": "larly delighted with that excellent news. Does my hon. Friend remember the former Prime Minister making a pledge, before the 1992 election, that he would not put VAT on fuel? Does she also remember that, after the 1992 election, the Conservative party immediately broke that pledge and imposed VAT on fuel at 8 per cent? Will she confirm whether the Labour party will keep its election pledge on VAT?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1271.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Under the Finance Act 1997, a review is being conducted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "UK Beef Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that beef farmers throughout Scotland, Wales and England are now facing serious problems as a cumulative result of the dire consequences of mismanagement over that period, mostly under Conservative rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "UK Beef Exports", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ve found in the public finances since the general election. The costs to the meat industry have also been catastrophic: some £800 million. The cost to farmers is almost incalculable. The financial consequences alone are truly horrendous. The incidence of BSE, at the latest count on 4 June—my hon. Friend the Minister of State and I now have a weekly update of the figures—showed that there had been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-12", "file": "debates1997-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "1de9faaf826c48b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady was a Minister. She will know that, when decisions of that kind are made, many factors must be taken into account, including all the representations that are made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-12a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome and may I be the first to welcome him to his new role as a shadow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "ntertaining—although it rarely was when Blackburn Rovers came to Middlesbrough. I wonder whether he has thought about whether the people sitting in those wheelchairs, or people with prostheses or arthritic callipers, take part in target shooting for the sake of a sense of sporting achievement, because many of them do. It might not have gained the attention of the Home Secretary on those occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "an give my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary some comfort, because I regret that after this evening's proceedings I shall not be able to continue with my arguments because of parliamentary duties elsewhere. I want to be sure that my arguments are clearly understood tonight. All reasonable proposals, for which my right hon. Friend pleaded, have been ignored without any response or justification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "d, it defies all logic. Perhaps we should draw a comparison between .22 shooting and archery. I happen to be an honorary member of the Romsey Archers. I know that someone with a bow and arrow can fire more accurate shots, over a longer range, at greater speed and with a more lethal effect than could ever be the case with a .22 single-shot pistol. I am not trying to make a case for banning archery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "Another element of this procedure is blight. Some of these Bills are used to promote serious construction works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-16", "file": "debates1997-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "31f3b73c85005e9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.85.2", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Private Bills (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Brooke), I need say no more other than to point out the interesting fact that under clause 10 nobody may pick up the names of the Charing Cross and Westminster medical school, the Royal postgraduate medical school or the National Heart and Lung Institute until 25 years have lapsed, without the approval of Imperial college. At this late hour, to allow hon. Members to go to dinner, I shall sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-16a.85.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement about the implications of the forthcoming public expenditure survey for Scottish Office spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "That is one of the several real difficulties that the former Administration left us, but I can assure my hon. Friend that we shall bear it in mind, and that this initiative—contrary to the claims of some Conservative Members—will not lead to the raising of rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "leman, whom I welcome to the Chamber. I thought that he might be otherwise preoccupied. I had not explained, because I thought that matters were getting too complex, that at this stage we are not taking LSVT receipts into account. Bromley will be treated like other local authorities, except that, because it has got rid of all its housing stock, it will not have the same level of need as elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "resh thinking. The Bill does not give local authorities cash: it merely increases their opportunities to borrow. I am reluctant to support that. The real reason behind that—the Minister did not refer to this—is that local authorities, through the mechanisms of central Government, do not want to increase their overall borrowing because by doing so they would bump up against the Maastricht criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "s effectively as the private sector. Instead of encouraging an increase in the public sector borrowing requirement, we should be encouraging more investment by housing associations in order to get the extra housing that we need. We should also be encouraging new investors in housing. The previous Government ensured that the rent laws became more even handed and fairer, and enabled great expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-17", "file": "debates1997-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "68c368fe5e3a20e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Thursday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " am the first to express admiration for my hon. Friend and her great skills, but I do not believe that the image of Salome is appropriate. If the right hon. Gentleman had thought about it as he unravelled that image, he would know that Salome's only real claim to fame in history and literature is that her opponent managed to lose his head. I hope that no such fate befalls the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-17a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.301.8", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": " to manage a complex organization, management and administrative costs should be reduced to the minimum possible. We are committed to ensuring that savings can be identified and used for patient care; NHS trusts will contribute their share. In so doing, we have already announced the suspension of the extension of the GP fundholding scheme, pointed to practical ways of changing the internal market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.301.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks why I could not answer his question straight. He asked me whether I agreed with the words of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education, and I said yes. I cannot get much straighter than that. I do agree with my right hon. Friend. Who introduced charges for eye tests? The Conservatives did. Who introduced dental charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " words of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education, and I said yes. I cannot get much straighter than that. I do agree with my right hon. Friend. Who introduced charges for eye tests? The Conservatives did. Who introduced dental charges? [HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"] Who ran the national health service in such a way that in many parts of the country there is no NHS dental treatment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.310.7", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat reason that we do not see additional expenditure on education as enough in itself. It must be accompanied by measures that reduce the huge and appalling burden of social and economic failure that is the product of the past 18 years. It is both those things going together that allows us to get as much money as possible into the areas of productive investment and to get us out of social failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.310.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that he spent three years answering questions in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "European Council (Amsterdam)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "t agreement he has reached with his colleagues as to the areas in which he would permit this new flexibility to proceed by unanimity? On common foreign policy where the Prime Minister's statement was particularly unclear, can he tell the House what is meant by common strategies? To what extent will decisions of the Council on common foreign and security policy be made by qualified majority voting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "European Council (Amsterdam)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dream on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Spaniards may take us to court—but, for the first time, we will have the Commission's support in defeating them. That is what is important. It is considerably better than tabling a protocol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "European Council (Amsterdam)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "not actually propose anything that the Council has not agreed to. What I announced in my statement was an enhanced way in which national parliaments, and this Parliament in particular, can study European documents. As for being outvoted through QMV on research and development, the problem is the opposite of that: it is that we will often want measures to be put through by the Commission using QMV—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "European Council (Amsterdam)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he slightest prospect of ever being negotiated, did not deal with the problem of existing quota hopping. It is easy for the hon. Gentleman to get up and pretend to people that there is some easy answer in relation to quota hopping. There is not, and he should know that. People may get up and say, \"I could have gone to Amsterdam and got the whole thing stopped overnight\", but that is simply untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "s. How can an exchange of letters between the United Kingdom Government and the Commission be binding on anyone else? What possible status in Community law does such an exchange of letters have? What is even more curious is that the Minister said that he would be consulting the fishing industry about the new rules before asking the Commission for a formal opinion on them. What is in those letters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "nsulting the fishing industry about the new rules before asking the Commission for a formal opinion on them. What is in those letters? [Interruption.] Perhaps they can be put in the Library so that we can all read them. How can such measures be binding on the Spanish and others? Given the Factortame judgment, any such proposals will almost certainly be struck down by the European Court of Justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "erruption.] Perhaps they can be put in the Library so that we can all read them. How can such measures be binding on the Spanish and others? Given the Factortame judgment, any such proposals will almost certainly be struck down by the European Court of Justice. [Interruption.] It is little wonder that the Spanish Government have poured scorn on those proposals, as meaningless and devoid of effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He is right to say that the problem stems from the complete neglect of the UK fishing industry at the time of our entry into the European Community in 1972, and has flowed on from there. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.335.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Joan Humble", "preceding_text": "aiden speech and urged the Government to include quota hopping in their discussions on Europe. Therefore, I am pleased that today we have the proofs of those discussions. My constituents will be pleased that fishing is at long last at the forefront of Government policy. For many years, it was ignored or pushed behind other issues that were seen as more important. I represent an area that was once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "of fashion so it was felt by the organisers of the Olympics that such a competition might offend some more sensitive members of the public. There was also a competition for miniature rifles—highly dangerous weapons. I know that animal rights are much on the minds of my hon. Friends at the moment. There used to be a competition of live pigeon shooting. That, too, has been abandoned by the Olympics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "of order, Mr. Martin. As you know, and as the Government know, we could force new clause 4 to a vote. The Opposition wish to make it absolutely clear that we support the principle and the intention behind the new clause, but, as it is clear that the Government are unwilling to listen, and as they have voted down new clause 3, we shall not take up the time of the House with an unnecessary Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "ection on 1 May. It is obvious that many people who voted knew that a change of Government would mean tougher gun laws. I do not believe that there is a peer of the realm who could claim that he was not aware of that inevitability. For Conservative Members to threaten that their colleagues in the other place might ambush and overturn the Bill shows a cynical disregard for the democratic processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-18", "file": "debates1997-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "4a6249394a2a2d70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " did not put medals in front of children's lives. If the Bill were a matter of choice between medals and children's lives, the medals would never come into the equation. Children's lives come first. However, we believe that the 1997 Act has ensured that the likes of Hamilton and Dunblane will not happen again. The Bill does not add to the public safety imperative that we enshrined in the 1997 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-18a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.445.4", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister understand that the position is now desperate? Yesterday, prices in Oswestry and Market Drayton hit a 16-year low, bumping around the 90p mark. He cannot keep hiding behind the actions of the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the reality is that the mishandling of the BSE crisis in this country has been a scandal that has cost the taxpayer approaching £2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Gentleman for his kind words. In all the time that he held the office that I now have the honour to hold, he was unfailing in his courtesy and in the assistance that he gave me over the years, for which I thank him. As regards the absence of another Law Officer, I am confident that the other place will be exceedingly well served by my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.466.4", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "roducts? Those meat products are not contaminated, but have apparently been on sale. That would give the House an opportunity to examine the concerns of my constituents, who found dumped on one site food which seems in every sense to be fit for public consumption. Perhaps the hon. Lady could find time for a debate on that, because it would be of interest to hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.466.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "in the farming press that we might be considering relaxing the ban on the feeding of meat and bonemeal to pigs and poultry. Such action is out of the question. We have no intention of revoking the measures that were rightly introduced by the previous Administration, and we shall uphold them firmly and effectively. I refer to the amendment tabled by the Opposition, which Madam Speaker has selected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.474.6", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ents. The amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition need detain the House only briefly. It is a piece of remarkable effrontery. To suggest that, after seven weeks in office, the Government should be criticised for not making sufficient progress in the lifting of the export ban, which is the result of the Conservative Government's ineptitude, can be described only as vacuous effrontery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.474.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "d terms that he is seeking a market-driven economy in which farmers produce what the market wants and at a price that the market is prepared to pay. I share his view. I make a further point. We should incorporate an agricultural policy into an overarching policy for the rural areas. Agriculture and agricultural policy is a critical element in any policy for rural areas. It is not to be underrated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rs produce what the market wants and at a price that the market is prepared to pay. I share his view. I make a further point. We should incorporate an agricultural policy into an overarching policy for the rural areas. Agriculture and agricultural policy is a critical element in any policy for rural areas. It is not to be underrated. [Interruption.] I shall explain why I did not do it in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "that context—I hope the Minister will forgive me for making a less gracious remark—I strongly deprecate the right hon. Gentleman's decision to do away with the regional panels. I found them valuable. They were a good source of advice and information and information gathering will be impoverished by their destruction. The farming community is worried and troubled. It feels unsafe in Labour's hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Pickthall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Pickthall", "preceding_text": " falls way behind some of our EU partners, as the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker) said in Question Time. Organic growers need help with rapid transportation and distribution if organic produce is to seize a proportion of the market. Vegetables, for example, soon lose their attractiveness alongside mass-produced, rapidly distributed vegetables on supermarket shelves, if they begin to dry out and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-19", "file": "debates1997-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ded3cdc7ba24a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "preceding_text": "arly when in my previous occupation. I was previously a railway civil engineer, an occupation which found me occasionally working with farmers. I was regularly in contact with many landowners whose crops or stock had been damaged or killed owing to the alleged failure of railway fencing to keep out \"railway rabbits\" and badgers from the best crops of wheat, beet or other vegetables due for market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-19a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-20", "file": "debates1997-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ca8cee322646882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, the only thing that the Government have said is that they will seek an improvement in the telephone service. Whether that improvement was already in the pipeline we shall undoubtedly elicit in due course. The Labour party's most substantive pre-election commitment was to introduce a maintenance disregard so that people could keep some of the income support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-20", "file": "debates1997-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ca8cee322646882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": " House, looking after the affairs of their constituents? Is it because the right hon. Gentleman recognises that it is yet another review of London's health care which, frankly, is the very last thing that the national health service in London needs? The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman recognises that this is a cheap election gimmick that is best put out of its misery as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-20", "file": "debates1997-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ca8cee322646882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin), but it is in flat contradiction to the central point made by the Secretary of State, which was that proper targets had not been set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-20a.593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-23", "file": "debates1997-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e3b818a58237b50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-23", "file": "debates1997-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e3b818a58237b50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Contracts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ects that are under way and in process as a result of Conservative Government policies. From recollection, I think that the value of those projects extends beyond £700 million, which is a large investment and a tribute to the previous Government's work. We know that there was a hiccup over some of the NHS projects, which was why a special Bill was drafted and brought in by the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-23", "file": "debates1997-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e3b818a58237b50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Contracts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "preceding_text": "here is an appropriate period for the contract. A period of 20 to 30 years is often needed, but it would be wrong to be too prescriptive and to insist that the maximum period should be 30 years. The matter must be examined properly and scrupulously, in consultation with private sector partners. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley, North (Mr. Cranston) on an excellent maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-23a.642.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on!", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have called Question 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Denver Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to an integrated transport system, working with the rail operators to ensure that they make sure that more is done to integrate their services by introducing such things as through ticketing, giving people the real choice of being able to use public transport where they wish to do so and, in relation to improved energy efficiency in firms and the public sector, the energy efficiency best practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Denver Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I join the Prime Minister, first, in welcoming the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) to leadership of the Conservative party. I think that I am right in saying that he is the sixth leader of one or other of the two parties, Conservative and Labour, that I have seen since becoming leader of mine. I wish him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Denver Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "In the attempt to combat international crime, has my right hon. Friend considered using the services of George Carman? As for the problem of the hole in the ozone layer, will he remember that he will not be able to solve it by market forces, nor by using a man with a bike, a ladder and an enterprise allowance? It can be solved only by intervention, planning and organization—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Denver Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I may so to my hon. Friend, there is some truth in what he says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Plant Varieties Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "preceding_text": "exploitation. A vibrant and successful plant breeding industry, committed to investment in developing new, improved varieties, is vital to the success of UK agriculture and of the nursery trade. A robust system of plant variety protection is essential to provide the necessary incentives to investment in plant breeding. In many ways, I would describe the Bill as a one-nation Bill, where old Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-24", "file": "debates1997-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "62172a232c06094f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Solicitor-General (Salary)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "f these two jobs is accurate and justified. Finally, although I never did national service, there used to be an observation that applied to people who did not enjoy their national service, to the effect that, if they could not take a joke, they should not have joined up. If, on I May, the Solicitor-General did not consider that the salary was good enough, he need not have accepted the appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-24a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Conduct of Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "he parliamentary process into disrepute, but that person paid his money and took his choice, as did the electors. I do not object to such characters popping up at election time for reasons best known to themselves. During the election, there were no fewer than 19 constituencies in which the Labour party name was misused by candidates. In six cases, the misleading description \"New Labour\" was used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Conduct of Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Although I cannot join my hon. Friend in willingly going along with a list system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "The Whip is hear-hearing. He needs to hear-hear, because there is no one sitting behind him to hear-hear on behalf of the Labour party. If education were Labour's No. 1 priority, one would have expected the Government Benches to be packed today, but, as other hon. Members have pointed out, the speeches in this debate have come exclusively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Pre-school Education", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "lace for their rising five at the primary school. From a sedentary position, the Whip asked me to name names. In the absence of any support from his Back Benchers, he was compelled to make a contribution on behalf of his party, something to which we look forward. I have already received correspondence from people in Cullompton in my constituency who are concerned about the pressure put on parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely right. I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that I have asked for an investigation into this matter, and I am told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have just made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.838.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "portant. Waiting lists are getting longer again. The number of emergency operations that have been cancelled at the last minute is increasing again. The hospital trusts are £300 million, and more, in debt, and sinking further into debt at the rate of £1 million a day. If something is not done about that, there will be mayhem in the NHS this winter, and the longer it is left, the worse it will get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.841.6", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has made clear, a working party has been established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.841.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I went through that matter last week with the Leader of the Opposition's predecessor. The review will be carried out. We are not getting into the business of ruling in or ruling out every single thing. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman wait for the outcome of the review, before attacking us. I suggest that he also bear in mind the fact that the party of charges in the health service is his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "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 absolutely right to draw attention to the problems that many people face in the inner cities. That is precisely why we have introduced programmes to tackle long-term unemployment and inner-city regeneration programmes—including the release of capital receipts and other measures that will help people to find work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The position is that we have always said that we will await the outcome of the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.861.8", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "e problems of investment have come about in the past 15 years. We only have to look at the evidence given by London Transport to the Select Committee on Transport to understand that that is not true. That evidence shows the picture since 1960—not only the excellent record of the last Conservative Government, but how investment recovered from the capital spending cuts of the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.861.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "hose options were set out—and which has evidently been seen not only by The Guardian , but by a range of newspapers—described the timing of the decision process as \"urgent.\" It added, in terms which are becoming sadly typical of the Government, that the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions would brief selected journalists who are likely to report this story in a positive light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Dr. Gavin Strang)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Dr. Gavin Strang)", "preceding_text": " threatened. Labour plans a new public-private partnership to improve the Underground, safeguard its commitment to the public interest and guarantee value for money to taxpayers and passengers. We stand by that. Nothing that we have done or said since is inconsistent with that manifesto commitment. It will continue to be the framework within which our policy develops. Let us have a bit of history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "r that to happen, but they will finally run. Unfortunately, the service will not be any faster; in fact, it may be slower because we have not modernised the track, and signalling work has been put back three years because of the previous Government's cuts. I hope that I have said enough to convince anyone listening who does not already know that the blame for the mess lies at the Government's door", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": " far for the first statement. During the election, the then shadow Health Secretary, the right hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith), said: A fifth Tory term will make hospitals and GP practices profit centres\". It seems that at that time his party was thinking about doing exactly that. Going back a little further to February 1996, the then shadow Secretary of State for Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I think that what is under discussion now is whether the patient will have to pay hotel charges following the review. Those are all quotes from what the present Government said about us. It is staggering hypocrisy, in the light of what is now being considered. The truth is that not we but the Government have been considering a massive extension of charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "aggering hypocrisy, in the light of what is now being considered. The truth is that not we but the Government have been considering a massive extension of charges. [Interruption.] Labour Members sigh. If they want to deny that any of those proposals is on the agenda, I shall be happy to give way to them, but until they do I think that we are entitled to assume that the proposals are on the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But long-winded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was getting carried away by the novelty of being able to make an intervention, but his point was valid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "y been thought of. In conclusion, I offer the Minister some suggestions. Tell the Chancellor to raise some taxes in the Budget next week. For example, about £500 million would be relatively painless, and I gave two suggestions earlier on how that could be done. Fund a moratorium on London and outside London reductions in service, so that we can see what is going on before planning what we do next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A very important paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": " incompatible with the principles set out in the manifesto. I urge them to give a commitment tonight, not only to Opposition Members but to Government Back Benchers and people who are extremely worried by statements that they have heard from the Secretary of State for Health on those issues. Last Friday, this issue hit the front page of the Maidenhead Advertiser, the main paper in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "us because he is unable to understand what it means to define, in money terms, the sort of meaningless rhetoric that he puts forward. Perhaps I should refresh the Secretary of State's memory of what he said earlier today. He went to the seaside for an away-day and made a speech on health, in which he went even further. Not content now just with London, he is promising us top-quality primary scare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A scare.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": " unable to understand what it means to define, in money terms, the sort of meaningless rhetoric that he puts forward. Perhaps I should refresh the Secretary of State's memory of what he said earlier today. He went to the seaside for an away-day and made a speech on health, in which he went even further. Not content now just with London, he is promising us top-quality primary scare— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "ay and made a speech on health, in which he went even further. Not content now just with London, he is promising us top-quality primary scare— [Interruption.] [HON. MEMBERS: \"A scare.\"] My hon. Friends have flushed out Ministers, who talk about top-quality continuing care and top-quality mental health. In his speech in Brighton, the Secretary of State ruled out any closures of any local hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "access to the NHS based on need. \"Access\" is an interesting word. Access refers to the way in. No Labour Member has talked about what happens on the way out. On the way out is where one pays the bills—the new bills from the Labour Government. The Minister of State puts his head in his hands, but that is just a simple way of trying to hide the fact that we have flushed out the truth of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-25", "file": "debates1997-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1ef1c244ef59d595", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "e-class NHS—a first-class NHS. I deal briefly with the two other maiden speeches we have heard this evening, which were made by Opposition Front Benchers. I am sorry for the Opposition health team's having to make their debut on the NHS because they have been forced to defend the indefensible—the Tories' record on health and their running down of the NHS. The Tories leave a quite appalling legacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-25a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Lady knows more about croissants than I do. Unfortunately, although I was there on time I did not manage to get one. It just goes to show how much I am likely to get out of No. 11 in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.975.7", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Did not the previous Government create a dangerous divide between the funding of non-vocational and vocational education which often led to non-vocational education being priced out of the market? I spent 21 years in adult education and always thought that there was a clear connection between vocational and non-vocational education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.975.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my Liberal Democrat colleagues, I warmly welcome the Government's second thoughts on the arrangements for the Budget debate. We are grateful. May I draw attention to the difficulty that would have been caused—I hope that it will not happen in future—by having very important Divisions late on a Thursday evening for hon. Members with far-flung constituencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.986.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Thank you. We shall now move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.994.5", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The Leader of the House asked why I did not object to the formation of the Standards and Privileges Committee last night. I did not object because the motion was not debatable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.994.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.994.6", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The Leader of the House asked why I did not object to the formation of the Standards and Privileges Committee last night. I did not object because the motion was not debatable. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.994.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Forsythe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Forsythe", "preceding_text": "at, unfortunately, they oppose this or that planning application. I like to think that the \"new broom\" will consider such matters carefully, and perhaps do something about them. Perhaps, in passing, the Minister would tell me what legislation governs the opening of the road for gas and cable. I could probably speak for much longer, but I know that my right hon. and hon. Friends want to contribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-26", "file": "debates1997-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d655da3556a7399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Appropriation (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Martin Smyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was a Lancashire man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Martin Smyth", "preceding_text": "e must face the fact that, as the Minister said when he opened the debate, other factors have an impact on the economy. My hon. Friend the Member for West Tyrone spoke with passion about his experiences in west Tyrone. There is no need for the hon. Member for Tewkesbury to apologise for being a Yorkshire man. One of the best Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland happened to be a Yorkshire man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-26a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-27", "file": "debates1997-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd608a6fa747859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Sport for All", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "We will know how much reliance we can place on that, when we know the result. We all look forward to an announcement very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-27", "file": "debates1997-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd608a6fa747859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Sport for All", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " We all look forward to an announcement very soon. [Interruption.] I do not want to over-excite Labour Members and arouse their competitive spirit, but we know that three options are available and we hope that the decision will be taken purely on the basis of what is the right place—the place that will provide the best access, not the best stimulus to an area that is important to the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-27", "file": "debates1997-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd608a6fa747859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Sport for All", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "their abolition. I want to ask the Secretary of State two related questions. In France, where sport is not run from schools, there is a different system, based on a connection between the school and the local authority sports centre. We are asking a physical education teacher to be a gold medal specialist in 18 to 20 sports. How can he do that? The answer is to connect schools to the local centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-27", "file": "debates1997-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1fd608a6fa747859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Sport for All", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": " is not run from schools, there is a different system, based on a connection between the school and the local authority sports centre. We are asking a physical education teacher to be a gold medal specialist in 18 to 20 sports. How can he do that? The answer is to connect schools to the local centre. [Interruption.] I am being thwarted here. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I have much more that I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-27a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-30", "file": "debates1997-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "169a296aa6ecf076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-30a.36.7", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good try.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member has not done so. Nor is that a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-30a.36.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-06-30", "file": "debates1997-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "169a296aa6ecf076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-30a.64.6", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": " a timetable for the talks. As evidence that they do, are they prepared to commit themselves to a timetable for the ending of direct rule and to give a clear undertaking today that this will be the last time that direct rule is extended? There will be time between the end of the talks and the expiry of direct rule for the reinstatement, perhaps in an amended form, of the Northern Ireland Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-06-30a.64.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.98.6", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "The new Government have made some very encouraging sounds about reducing dependence on private motor cars and motor cars in general, which I generally welcome. Will the Minister therefore take on board a suggestion that I made to his predecessors that we should look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.98.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.109.8", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I did know about Water Aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "It is the truth. It should not be thought that such a tiny contribution, perhaps prompted by social guilt, is enough to provide for all the people in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ophisticated transport projects. Regardless of how we approach the matter, some projects are unlikely to be included if we are to redirect our efforts towards poverty elimination. Discussions will continue, however, and a full review will be conducted. The firms in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) will, of course, be able to make representation s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "Both my hon. Friend and the Minister are right. I was a volunteer, and it was a long time ago. The hon. Gentleman at the back of the Government side of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodlad", "preceding_text": "erence between free trade and fair trade. She will know that \"fair trade\" can sometimes, although not always, be a cover for protectionism—a policy which harms consumers and protects inefficient producers. It is our belief that aggressive, politically correct and almost imperialist social legislation is not the best way to reduce poverty and increase the standard of living in developing countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernie Grant", "preceding_text": "countries in the south to access. Strings have been attached—for example, consultants, arms sales and so on—and I was pleased when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said today that tied aid will be discontinued. Also, in some instances, the ODA has given capital funding but not running costs, thereby causing projects to fall into disrepair and abandonment. In the past, aid has been used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "e and that the majority of their countrywomen left behind in developing countries faced a different future—a nightmare. About 600,000 women a year die while giving birth. Many of them are teenagers. I say to hon. Members: imagine if they were their children or grandchildren. The suffering of those women is no less because they are in the third world. Of those 600,000 women, 140,000 bleed to death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "k for more money. I remind Conservative Members that, when Labour left office in 1979, the aid budget stood at 0.51 per cent. of gross national product and rising; but when we took over from the discredited Conservative Government, it was 0.27 per cent. of GNP and falling. Let us hear no more lectures from Conservative Members. Several hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Richmond Park and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-01", "file": "debates1997-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "ef8fa61aecc7baf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Thank you. Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am not actually too bothered by them, but I am grateful to you. I shall add to what I said about UNESCO in an intervention, because some people did not seem to hear what was being said. Like my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, I am becoming frustrated by people not listening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-01a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "seemed to be no precedent to prevent us from doing so, my colleagues and I put green cards on a number of spaces in preparation for this afternoon's Budget debate. My colleagues came here this morning to pray in those places, expecting that that would establish their position for the business of the House today. I seek your guidance, Madam Speaker. It is not my intention to cause difficulty today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "ished with their points of order? Good. It is custom and practice that the Opposition Front Bench is reserved for the official Opposition, and I shall see that that is maintained. It is also custom and practice that the area below the Gangway is for the minority parties. I shall look at all the points of order that have been put to me this morning, but I have never known grown-up people to behave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "o behave in such a crass and childish manner. I think that it is time that Members of this House grew up. If they do not, I shall want to see the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties very soon. I hope that those Members now on the Opposition Front Bench who are not members of the official Opposition will do me the courtesy of removing themselves right now while I am on my feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.218.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Small Retail Shops", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "First of all, it is not the responsibility of the Chair to rule on matters which occurred in the past. As to the present matter, it seems to me that it is a Government matter and not one on which the Chair can rule as to what has happened. Ministers will have heard what has been said and doubtless there will be opportunities, today or subsequently, for further comment on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Exchange Rate", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "sm and dogma-driven lust will lead him to maintain rates at higher levels than can be justified. It will leave us in an uncompetitive position compared with other countries in Europe and in other parts of the world. The hon. Member for Great Grimsby referred at some length to the European Union, and some interventions related to Europe. The majority of our trade is done outside the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the food and farming industries are among the most successful in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.282.7", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his answer. Although I am interested to hear of the progress on the timetable for the setting up of the food standards agency, will my right hon. Friend say something about any interim measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.282.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "eputation, especially in view of his many statements that he would aim, as we all hope that he will, for the maintenance of the highest possible standards in public life? Is he aware that the alleged statements by Ministers, which were circulating as rumours throughout the City for the whole of yesterday, resulted in the largest rise in the FTSE index for five years? This is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Speculation about what is in the Budget occurs every year to my certain knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Budget Statement (Advance Disclosure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "( by private notice ): To ask the President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons if she will move to set up a Select Committee to investigate advance disclosure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Budget Statement (Advance Disclosure)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Call Kenneth Clarke!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Budget day would not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.300.9", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Budget Statement (Advance Disclosure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.300.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.300.11", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Budget Statement (Advance Disclosure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.300.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "he British economy is in extraordinarily good shape. We have a high rate of growth, both historically and compared with other countries—3.5 per cent. and projected to go forward at that rate—and a very low inflation rate, again historically and compared with other countries. Presumably, therefore, there is only one point to the Budget—to stamp socialism back on to our economy and into our society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-02", "file": "debates1997-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "88c5cc8d80f3776b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifteen per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Government will consciously increase them: it happens every time. As a result, the pound will not strengthen. The reason why the pound will be under pressure at that point will have nothing to do with interest rates. We all saw what happened in the last days under the exchange rate mechanism. On that ghastly morning, we increased interest rates to 25 per cent. I think—I cannot remember the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-02a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.408.8", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the speed with which she has moved to deal with the inherently weak economy which she has inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.408.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.414.7", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "Do you think I might have a little rest, Madam Speaker? I have been up and down, up and down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.414.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is the food industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman regards himself as an expert on the food industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Betty Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Betty Williams", "preceding_text": "While I hope that the whole House welcomes the announcement in the Budget yesterday of much-needed support for the British film industry, I am especially interested in the Welsh film industry. Can we hope to have a statement soon on the Welsh film industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is only four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "udget go beyond his windfall tax plan? No. Would Labour implement my lone-parent benefit reforms? No. Would Labour leave a £1.5 billion black hole by refusing to privatise assets? No. Would Labour alter Conservative departmental spending plans? No. Only two months ago, Labour answered no five times. Yesterday, however, we learned that the true answers to those questions were yes, yes, yes and yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.433.5", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "LAUGHTER.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ld Labour implement my lone-parent benefit reforms? No. Would Labour leave a £1.5 billion black hole by refusing to privatise assets? No. Would Labour alter Conservative departmental spending plans? No. Only two months ago, Labour answered no five times. Yesterday, however, we learned that the true answers to those questions were yes, yes, yes and yes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is only four.\"] And yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. Does he have any thoughts on why Conservative Members are signally failing to endorse and welcome the measures in the Budget that have been welcomed by schools, parents and local education authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I sense from the right hon. and learned Gentleman's indignant tone when he speaks about what he did in the past that he still finds it hard to accept being in opposition. I have three questions for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "ing the phrase \"a new Europe\" because someone obviously had the sense to look it up and found that Hitler had used it first. I an genuinely surprised that we have not heard about the new woman. It is alleged that the length of ladies' skirts reflects economic prosperity and recession. At times of economic prosperity, skirt lengths rise and when we are about to go into recession skirt lengths fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-03", "file": "debates1997-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0ba6790e80ea38f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "n introduced in such a short period has been rammed through in haste, often with Committee stages being taken on the Floor of the House and therefore with highly truncated consideration. Bills are being rammed through on the back of the Government's current handsome majority. We are also deeply concerned about the ill-concealed attempts by Treasury Ministers to leak the Budget contents in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-03a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-04", "file": "debates1997-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "52c6676b1599e6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "is that, too often, they train people for inappropriate jobs. One of the schemes at which the Secretary of State and her hon. Friends will have looked is the JET scheme in Australia. One of the biggest criticisms of that scheme was that it ended up training many people as hairdressers. When they finished their training, they went back into unemployment, because no hairdressing jobs were available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-04", "file": "debates1997-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "52c6676b1599e6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "nd the pension fund industry. As the proposals unfold, they will become even more difficult to sustain. I fully support the proposals to replace welfare with work and I look forward to working with the Secretary of State. It is refreshing to have the opportunity to talk easily with Ministers and to be invited to come in and share thoughts with them. That offer was never extended to us in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-04", "file": "debates1997-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "52c6676b1599e6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "hon. Members of all political persuasions; indeed, he still is. He served Epping Forest well in his inimitable and high-profile way. He was, and still is, accomplished not only as a politician and a successful Under-Secretary of State for Transport, but as a successful business man, media personality, bon viveur and author. I was flattered to have been mentioned three times in Steve's famous book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-04", "file": "debates1997-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "52c6676b1599e6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "d on the long-term savings plans of many people, especially all those who do not have large savings and to whom the TESSA or PEP is the most important part of their worldly wealth and their future security. I do not know whether the Chief Secretary wanted to answer that point immediately. He seemed to indicate that he wanted to intervene; now he seems rather lost as to whether he knows the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-04", "file": "debates1997-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "52c6676b1599e6e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "t is a small matter of ensuring that our policy of using post-privatisation profits to derive a taxable value is implemented as intended, and that the legislation does not inadvertently take into account profits that arose while companies were in the public sector, in circumstances where profits for the financial year straddling flotation have to be apportioned. It is quite clear what is intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-04a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "preceding_text": "I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "School Standards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "l be no more than a wish list. In the current financial year, schools will find in their coffers £200 million less than they need. In 1998–99, there will be no additional resources to pay for the 55,000 extra students in our schools. By 1999, we must provide 100 per cent. funding for all four-year-olds, for which there will be no additional resources. Our question to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "For a start, I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman that. If they have to spend any more, no doubt we will be able to supply that information in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "y in which people were encouraged to look to their homes as investments. Advantage upon advantage was given to the purchase of houses. Schedule A, which was a way of taxing the notional rent of the house, has been abolished. Capital transfer tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and mortgage relief all gave advantages that were not available to those who made what I would call a true investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "re was introduced by a Government who are supposed to believe in the long term. One of the saddest items in the Budget is the removal of tax relief on the contributions of those who have taken out private medical insurance. It is a nasty, spiteful tax in which the Government can have no pride. It is little wonder that those on the Treasury Bench are looking away from me while I make these remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "dding an extra £1.8 billion in higher inflationary revenues in the current financial year and £3 billion in the next financial year. The Chancellor has taken full credit in his Red Book forecasts for his failure to control inflation, while allowing no extra expenditure for health, education, transport, the environment, law and order or anything else. When the Chief Secretary replies to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-07", "file": "debates1997-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "bfcdd489ca48b871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Paedophiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie O'Hara", "preceding_text": "In this short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-07a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Film Classification Accountability and Openness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "n alone knows when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland last visited his local cinema—I am not sure that he even saw \"Braveheart\". The British film board works well. Its members, under the stewardship of Lord Harewood, are not devotees of pornography or violent films. Perhaps unlike the hon. Member for Canterbury, I have not seen the film \"Crash\" and I have no desire to see it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ister's response, because the new clause was tabled to try to help the Government. The Minister demonstrates the Government's inability to come to terms with the fact that there is more than one way to have a debt reduction strategy. She talks about phasing the payments and ensuring that local authorities pay so much capital back each year, but another debt reduction strategy is asset realisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "accept the purpose behind it. The hon. Lady's response was that it would create too much bureaucracy. She said that it would be too burdensome on local authorities to produce a debt redemption strategy, yet we know that any local authority worth its salt could produce such a strategy and should already have an asset realisation strategy, if it is to deliver what its rate and charge payers deserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "c. 90.] When the Minister replies to the debate, will he confirm that he shares the view expressed by his ministerial colleague? Will he confirm that he and his right hon. Friend will resign from the Government in October if the Treasury report does not support their view or will he merely confirm that his views on this issue, as on all other issues, are of no consequence whatever to the Treasury?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "preceding_text": "tary credit approvals. That compares with new build between 1945 and 1951 of 850,000. The Labour Government of 1965 to 1970 built 1,100,000 new homes. The Labour Government of 1974 to 1979 built 850,000. The new Labour Government's proposals are peanuts. The best that one can say is that some extra money is better than no money. It is with some sadness that we shall support the Government tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "preceding_text": "ay is that some extra money is better than no money. It is with some sadness that we shall support the Government tonight— [Laughter.] it is with some sadness, because there was a possibility of doing a great deal more than has been proposed in the Budget. When one is in a hole, as the Government are over housing, one does not carry on digging. That is the problem. The Bill does not go far enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-08", "file": "debates1997-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "bac92f21b2b91bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Contracts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "I am still on a learning curve in respect of the procedures of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Please forgive me for not being aware of that. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-08a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of jobs\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) on his lucid presentation. For a new Member, he has an effective insight into the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": "o Prosperity\" and the A47 Alliance have already consistently lobbied for improvements to the A47, and will make a major contribution to the review. They see an improved A47 doing for the north of East Anglia what the A14 has done for the south. However, others consider that Norfolk's central attraction is not only its countryside, coast and broads but its remoteness from major roads and motorways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly shall. It is the largest cash injection into schools that has been made by any Government ever, and it has been made in part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "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 like the cheek of a Conservative party person telling us that we should pay more money to local government. As a matter of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me about prudence. Let me tell him what prudence means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.8", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Prudence also means that we tackle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.929.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly shall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. That is not correct. The right hon. Gentleman keeps getting confused about the prediction on forward inflation, which we have revised as a result of the problems that we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the British manufacturing sector believes that the recent Budget is the best in living memory for that sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady is merely making a debating point, we can move on. If she is making a serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " of the Government to encourage people to save and invest and to make provision for themselves. We intend to create an economic climate where we have growth and investment that will create the wealth that will enable everyone to enjoy a higher standard of living now and in their retirement. The pensions industry plays an important part in that. I want to return to our proposals on corporation tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.972.3", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The point is that the then Chancellor told the House in clear terms that the purpose of his adjustments in the taxation of dividends was to raise money for the Exchequer—£1 billion of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.972.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ho are not taxpayers, in a way that does minimum economic damage, recognising the substantial tax benefits available to pension funds as collective savings vehicles. I wonder whether Opposition Members would like me to read that again. It tends to suggest that what the then Government were about was a raid on pension funds and that they were not proposing any other measures to compensate for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "at today the principal investors in the companies that they have just taxed are the very pension funds that they are already robbing by abolishing ACT. Before the general election, one of the aims of the Labour party was to persuade the country that it had changed—that, in its approach to business and to the personal ambitions of ordinary people, it was now more like the Conservatives, only nicer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": "stituency? Bespak has just reported a 26 per cent. jump in profits; its dividend is up by 13 per cent., and it has an eight-week investment programme in King's Lynn, in my constituency. As a result of its ownership of that company, the pension company's ACT will be 0.5 per cent. of its capital value. Are we not ignoring the main arguments and dwelling on minor issues, given that the capital value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "told us, they consulted. Therefore, there must have been costings. Could they be made available to the House? Of course, there is an alternative strategy. It is simply to leave the rebates unaltered, which would drive people into a decision about returning to SERPS. The tax on personal pensions has reduced the incentive to opt out, and many people will look again at SERPS with a view to opting in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ublic back into SERPS? It did not say that. The Prime Minister said that he and the Government would govern as new Labour, having been elected as new Labour, yet when we look back at the way in which they have behaved, far from governing as new Labour, the Government intend to govern as old Labour, hiding tax changes from the public, sneaking them in and forcing the public to pay up in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"SERPS\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "ld be a necessity for the Government because of the legacy that we would inherit. Some of the issues that we shall have to address arise directly from the failures of the previous Government. We shall have to—and we want to—talk directly to pensioners and to their organisations. The Chancellor has already taken action to cut VAT on domestic fuel and to make available better and cheaper insulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"SERPS?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"SERPS\"] That action will be supported by the new deal for young people. He has also taken action to make further cuts in some fuel bills. All those actions will help older citizens to keep their homes warm in the winter. Unlike the previous Government, we shall retain the basic state pension as the foundation of pension provision and ensure that it is increased at least in line with prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"SERPS\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "upport to which they are entitled. We are committed to examining ways of delivering more automatic help to the poorest of today's pensioners. For most people, security in retirement depends on two pensions—the essential foundation of the basic state pension and an adequate second pension. Occupational pensions are one of the best ways of providing the second pension that people need in retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "roviding the second pension that people need in retirement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"SERPS\"] Unlike the previous Government, who were prepared to say goodbye to occupational pensions, we shall work with the pensions industry to examine ways in which the framework for occupational schemes can be strengthened and made more effective. We shall of course retain SERPS for those who wish to remain members of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-09", "file": "debates1997-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef4c01b475637d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "This petition is presented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-09a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. First, we shall deal harshly with tax avoidance in any sector of the economy. That is why we have set up a review within the Treasury to examine the very issues that he has raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is absolutely essential for home owners and businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is absolutely essential for home owners and businesses—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—that there is no return to the boom and bust economy of the 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is absolutely essential for home owners and businesses—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—that there is no return to the boom and bust economy of the 1980s—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—as we experienced under the Tory Government? Does he also agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1079.6", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "Indeed, there are some advantages. One can ensure proper opportunity to debate all sections of important legislation and obtain proper consultation with outside interests, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1079.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Ann Taylor)", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"They are the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Ann Taylor)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. I was asked about advance corporation tax. I was not aware that that was one of the issues on which a debate had been requested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "ermuda or it can become the subject of a foreign takeover. Perhaps the hon. Lady would like to inform me. Is she encouraging British, blue-chip FTSE companies to change their domicile and taxation status to Bermuda or would she like them all to be taken over by foreign companies? I am genuinely interested to know because that is the implication of what the Government are advocating. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Helen Liddell)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Helen Liddell)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to reply to the debate, which has been interesting in parts. It has sometimes seemed a little lonely in the Chamber given the emptiness of the Conservative Benches for much of the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1162.2", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "t point. I could not work out what was happening on the Opposition Benches because Conservative Members were all over the place. Basically, the penny has not yet dropped—the Conservative party suffered a humiliating defeat at the general election. Indeed, some humility might not have gone amiss this evening in some of the speeches by Conservative Members. We have been in government for two months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1162.6", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "Monetary stability, over time, will become—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "e Members are behaving this evening—young people have in some cases lost faith in the ability of the Government to do something for them. We must reverse that for the good of society. That is why the Chancellor has invited hon. Members from all parts of the House to act as ambassadors to ensure that young people are encouraged to go from welfare into employment. It is a life-enhancing opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-10", "file": "debates1997-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cddd7e63b7d7859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "The petition comes from citizens of the United Kingdom and was brought forward by a constituent of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-10a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-11", "file": "debates1997-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "29558412c53394ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Information Society", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "oice of grant-maintained schools, selection in existing schools or new grammar schools. All schools will be reallocated to specified new categories—not by parents, but by the Government. The debate comes at the end of a week in the middle of which the Government published our performance league tables for the national health service. These tables would never have been published by this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-11", "file": "debates1997-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "29558412c53394ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Information Society", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "Had my hon. Friend come to the PITCOM meeting, which dealt specifically with encryption and which the Minister might have been able to attend, she would have heard almost everyone from British industry criticise the Americans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-11", "file": "debates1997-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "29558412c53394ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Information Society", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady has a little patience—I know that it has been a whirlwind two and a half months and she is still recovering from her party's defeat at the last election—all will come to her in time. A little patience and humility from the hon. Lady would be extremely welcome. We also have a project to help physically disabled people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-11", "file": "debates1997-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "29558412c53394ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Information Society", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": " people— [Interruption.] If the hon. Lady would listen, she would learn what is happening out there for disabled people and could then make a more substantial contribution to the debate. As I was saying, the project will help physically disabled people who cannot speak to communicate by developing a device with pre-stored conversational sequences, which can be tailored to the individual over time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-11a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.85.5", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ut it appears that the Secretary of State plans the ultimate in commercialisation, although he may choose to deny it. According to the 9 July issue of BMA News Review, as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the NHS, Supermarkets will be allowed to print the NHS logo on carrier bags under government plans\". \"Expressions of interest\" have been invited from Safeway, Kwik Save, Boots\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.85.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "t is not interested in local solutions or local entrepreneurship. The advice to those who run trusts is, \"Do not bother thinking up original ways to do things because if they do not fit Ministers' concepts of health service need, you can forget it.\" Matters are dictated by Ministers' views of health service need, which is an appalling way to attempt to motivate local trusts and health authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.89.4", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "hings from the private sector and private sector employees. It buys in all its drugs, all its supplies and quite a lot of waiting-list surgery. An answer to a parliamentary question in January contained a figure that surprised me: expenditure on the purchase of health care from non-NHS providers in England for 1995–96 amounted to £800 million. We are talking about operations and procedures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.89.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "As a doctor, perhaps the hon. Gentleman could help me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "n the Bill as drafted. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that there should be a list, the way to proceed is to draft a Bill that contains a general definition and includes a schedule which we can amend by orders under secondary legislation. He knows that as well as I do. Two categories have already been defined—his colleague in another place mentioned radiology and pathology, which are straightforward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "e in July with proposals to include them in the PFI. Finally, consultation must be built into the Bill. It may be that there was widespread, local consultation in Dartford, Gravesham or anywhere else. That is very helpful, but there is nothing in the Bill to require it; there is no guarantee. Health authorities are not the most democratic of institutions, and health trust boards certainly are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "hemselves in Wakefield. The Secretary of State and the Minister are aware that my constituents are in the main served by Pinderfields district general hospital. They may also be aware that a substantial part of that hospital provides care in huts constructed to care for soldiers injured in the second world war, before I was born and, I imagine, before most, if not all, hon. Members here were born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.110.4", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "arden, which I very much regret, it is sensible for the Bill to complete all its stages in one evening, because it is the type of simple Bill, with all-party support, broadly speaking, which should be pushed through quickly. It is totally different from the Finance Bill, which my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench rightly made a lot of fuss about earlier. The Bill is needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "my task to explain that to the House; it is the Minister's task—but I am glad to see him nodding in agreement. My hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Horam) put his finger on why we are here this evening. He rightly reminded us of Hammersmith and Fulham, a Labour local authority that walked away from its obligations. Hammersmith and Fulham sowed the seeds of doubt in the financial community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Private Finance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "ojects under the PFI. We are taking an important step to remove doubt, and it is a pity that the banks did not express their reservations earlier. If they had, we would have been able to bring more projects to fruition quicker. I am glad to be able to welcome the Bill. The Minister chastised us when he said that the nasty Tories had made a complete mess. He said that all the delays were due to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "e reconsiders the amendment, I am sure that he will agree that its wording—where it calls for \"adequate prior consultation\"—is inadequate. As I said, as part of our PFI review, we shall certainly want to look again at consultation arrangements to secure the right balance between the maximum public openness and the minimum risk to commercial confidentiality. I shall turn finally to amendment No. 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-14", "file": "debates1997-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5c0a9af097fb3bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "preceding_text": "his place, an hour ago I was called to attend a visitor to the House who had collapsed outside the Chamber. I sent him to St. Thomas's hospital, and I am sure that all hon. Members wish him a speedy recovery. It is important to take note that I passed on his care to an NHS paramedic, who passed it on to an NHS ambulance worker. I spoke to an NHS doctor in the company of NHS nurses at the hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-14a.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.191.7", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pictures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I certainly hope that a redesigned Order Paper does not win a booby prize. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have expressed concern about the Order Paper's current format. We want to make it more comprehensible, and we think that there is a strong case for applying plain English principles to every document, including the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.191.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many people inside and outside the House believe that the current procedure for Prime Minister's Question Time is a significant improvement on the old procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "The windfall tax, by its very definition—I do not think that Labour Members will be able to quibble with this—is arbitrary, discriminatory as only some companies will pay it, and retrospective. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "r and, with time, it will be seen not to be fair. The whole windfall idea is another clever piece of rhetoric from Labour's spin doctors. There is no such thing as a windfall tax or a free tax; this is a tax, pure and simple. It is a tax on success, on profits, on incentives to create wealth and, ultimately, on jobs. I would like to remind hon. Members of what Adam Smith had to say about taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "I would be more than happy to comment on that. One must look at the successes of the water companies since privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "hey can hardly afford to hold shares. In constituencies like mine, there is no division over the windfall tax. On the contrary, there is a unity of aspiration. People voted for a Government who would look for solutions. Sometimes those solutions involve imaginative but hard decisions. I ask hon. Members of all parties to join us, after this pantomime debate is over, in the work that is to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can pick out particular months, but if he sits down later in a reflective mood he will see that when we adjusted MIRAS there was a downward trend in interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " very poor to raise themselves above the level of municipal serfdom and get into the property market. What is so awful about the changes to MIRAS is not the £10 a month that it will cost people—because that is eminently affordable by Prime Ministers, Chancellors of the Exchequer and hon. Members such as the hon. Member for Workington and me—it is the effect that such a sum has on the working poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "That is not an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "le (Mr. Collins) 23 minutes to offer his murmurings and protestations on the 23-word amendment to the Labour Budget. He offered no analysis of what Conservative Members would do to improve the economy and bring long-term stability. Until Opposition Members are able to do that, they will be found wanting, and I suspect that they may, as a consequence of that and other things, lose the vote tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Turning to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ening drinking and eating. I was about to deal with affordable housing and who benefits in the housing market. I should remind hon. Members that most lenders have special schemes for first-time buyers and that interest rates are still extremely low compared to the record levels reached under the Conservative Government, when a typical mortgage of £50,000 would have cost £250 more than it does now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I realise that it is a good sport to trade across the Dispatch Box, particularly at this time of the evening, but as the hon. Gentleman knows, what is most important for those who own their own homes is stability and security in the housing market, and a prospect that they will manage to keep their houses. Referring specifically to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Do you agree that your comments about the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Do you agree that your comments about the Prime Minister— [Interruption.] I am sorry. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that his comments about the Prime Minister were out of context, and that what Tony Blair was referring to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-15", "file": "debates1997-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c310e534c7d6545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Do you agree that your comments about the Prime Minister— [Interruption.] I am sorry. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that his comments about the Prime Minister were out of context, and that what Tony Blair was referring to— [Interruption.] Does the hon. Gentleman agree that what the Prime Minister was referring to was a housing market that had been crucified by your Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-15a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Rural Policies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": " Eagle), will address those problems. There is also the farm crisis fiasco of BSE, which has cost billions of pounds of taxpayers' money and has destroyed many rural incomes and rural communities. It has put great pressure on the people whom some Conservative Members purport to represent. One reason why there are 164 Conservative Members and 418 Labour Members is the previous Government's failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Rural Policies", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "mbers—in fact, where were the members of the public who were in Hyde park last week?—when the right hon. Gentleman decimated the coal industry and destroyed 55,000 jobs in rural areas? The Conservative Members were in the Lobbies voting for it, so we shall take no lectures on hypocrisy from them. In the time left to me, I should like to ask Conservative Members to take this opportunity to condemn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Rural Policies", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Will Conservative Members take this opportunity to condemn the threats received by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster)? A snare was recently sent to him in the post. He received a letter saying that the writer would like to throw your entrails to the dogs. Another said: You will not live to see the end of your Bill\". A third said: You and your family ought to find bolt holes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I do not recognise any truth in that. The real question that must be asked is, where is the no campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If that were the case, I would indeed be worried, but let me assure the hon. Gentleman and every Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.387.7", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. and learned Gentleman on asking a different question from those of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.387.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What would put people's jobs at risk is a return to Tory boom and bust: a return to the days when, under the Government that the right hon. Gentleman supported, interest rates were higher than 15 per cent.—as they were during the last recession—and borrowing was running at more than £40 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "Given the answer that the Prime Minister gave my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, and given that the Prime Minister now has responsibility for employment, is he prepared to say whether he believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said to the right hon. Gentleman last week, we have made the single largest investment in education that any Government have ever made. Before the Budget, he asked for a £500 million programme of school repairs over the Government's lifetime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.392.6", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llew Smith", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.392.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "Why does the Prime Minister think that there are more people in work here and fewer jobless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "Well, the chairman of the Association of Fundholding Practitioners for one, because he did so on the radio this morning. Perhaps the Secretary of State has got at him since, but this morning on the radio he was expressing considerable reservations. What we have just heard is a prologue to the slow death of fundholding in the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ked at the last wave. Doctors have voted the scheme a success. We believe that the Secretary of State plans a slow death for fundholding because it does not fit his model. He knows best, and he plans to direct everything from Whitehall. The idea that individuals should be trusted to make decisions or take initiatives is anathema to him and his party. It is the beginning of the end for fundholding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ed savings. Professor Glennerster, a former member of the Labour research department, said: All the dire predictions … were unfounded.. efficiency gains had more than outweighed costs. By any standard, fundholding has been a great success. The Secretary of State's excuse for beginning to dismantle it is that it has produced a so-called two tier NHS. Let us be clear that it is an allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.403.4", "colnum": "403", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Ms Julia Drown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Julia Drown", "preceding_text": "f they had the most urgent need, they would be first to be seen by the doctor. It was deeply destructive to doctors, nurses and administrative staff who dealt with patients to turn that round and to have to say, \"I am sorry, but it now depends who your doctor is.\" I welcome with open arms the return of a national health service in which, once again, patients are seen in order of clinical priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to recognise that, until the Conservative party made its changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "GP Fundholding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept the point made by my hon. Friend in her excellent question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the most important testament is that of the voters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": " pensioners have private medical cover with BUPA. That is a lot of people, just in the borough of Worthing. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb)—just up the coast from me—said, cataract and hip replacement operations are some of the most frequent treatments required by pensioners. The waiting list for those operations has gone up to 18 months and is worsening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "anagement in Britain is not inspiring. Many pension funds and managers are characterised by excessive fees and charges and by salaries and bonuses to managers who are incapable of increasing their fund value above the FTSE average. Most funds do worse than the average. I was on a pension fund board, and anyone who knows anything about the distribution of numbers will realise that that is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The Economic Secretary is entitled to come back on such points, but the fact remains that she was deciding the agenda with Mr. Naughtie. She switched the argument to a subject on which she felt she was on safer ground—she was not responding to the question that he specifically asked her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "e is, I shall be more than happy to give way to the Economic Secretary so that she can tell me where I can find it. Out of nowhere, the Labour party will produce a bonanza to fund its spending programme by abolishing the ACT credit. The aim is, of course, laudable. There cannot be one hon. Member who does not think that one of the most important tasks of anyone in politics is to create employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "m are distinguished Members in their own right. I recognise that I am a junior Member and it is not for me to criticise, but I have to admit that I feel that there is still an inability to come to terms with the scale of the defeat that the Conservative party suffered on 1 May. I was surprised at some of the remarks that were made. I shall deal with the points raised by the shadow Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-16", "file": "debates1997-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1174057807a29a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisons (Drug and Alcohol Abuse)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-16a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "he Leader of the House remember telling us that she hoped to provide a programme looking a fortnight ahead? May I remind her that she has just tantalised us by giving us the business for Monday and Tuesday in the final week? Could she break her duck and go for the second week now, so as to give us some advance warning? Could she even tell us when she expects us to come back after taking our break?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "hen there is a change of policy to be announced, to announce it in the House, preferably from the Dispatch Box, so that that policy can be questioned. That can also be done by means of a written question, which happened on a number of occasions with previous Governments. Only when there is a change of policy must the House be kept informed. The Clerk will now proceed to read the Orders of the Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "t necessary to come to the House to announce—the Chancellor introduced an ill-judged Budget that attacked the corporate sector and penalised long-term saving but did nothing to curb consumer spending. As a direct result of that Budget, interest rates have risen, thus adding further to the costs that local authorities must bear. Thirdly, the Chancellor's smash-and-grab raid on pension funds, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that there will be no impact on local government until April 1999 at the earliest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has placed on record a most important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "One of the legitimate criticisms of the capping system is that it has a substantial arbitrary element.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the amendment put forward by the Conservative group, which would have enabled the waste of £250,000 to be avoided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "No—county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-17", "file": "debates1997-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "872ef3c2e4590d00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.560.4", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I will deal with all those issues in my speech, but I am worried about the right hon. Gentleman. Will he tell me when he has to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-17a.560.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-21", "file": "debates1997-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "67f162a29e25d7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-21a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Student Loans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Dr. Kim Howells)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Dr. Kim Howells)", "preceding_text": "We have had a short but very interesting debate in which we have heard some interesting speeches. I should like to highlight especially the speech made by the hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Welsh), who raised some points about which I, too, am very concerned. When I was pursuing my career in higher education, back in 1965—like the hon. Member for Angus, who is two years older than I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-21a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that excellent reply. Does he agree with the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that, by March 1997, there had been an increase of 580 per cent. in the number of NHS patients waiting for hospital treatment. In the year to March 1979, there had been an increase of rather less than that. We have certainly set some records concerning the NHS waiting list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "o hide in. From talking to many head teachers, it is apparent that the problem has arisen because the school nurse became an almost extinct species under the previous Government. Will my right hon. Friend talk with our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to see what can be done to ensure that school nurses are brought back and children's hair is properly examined?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Direct—ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has raised, the Bill will provide for the transfer of my functions to the Assembly. I do not have responsibility for the police at the moment—although, of course, the Assembly will be able to debate such matters and to make representations. He has raised the question of tax-raising powers. We have made it absolutely clear that the Assembly will not have any direct tax-raising powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "les? How does the Secretary of State intend to restructure health provision to try to alleviate the desperate health crisis, especially in the context of the cottage hospitals? There are also questions about local government, and within that also the reassurance, which I know is in the document, but specifically in terms of the appraisal of exactly what the local authorities will be allowed to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the hon. Gentleman's announcement that he intends to campaign in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comments. I understand that there is an organisation in Wales called the \"Say No to Wales\" campaign. It is a front organisation, behind which the Conservative party, which is frightened to campaign for a no vote, hides. It is bankrolled by a 92-year-old recluse living in tax exile in Jersey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "les\" campaign. It is a front organisation, behind which the Conservative party, which is frightened to campaign for a no vote, hides. It is bankrolled by a 92-year-old recluse living in tax exile in Jersey. [Interruption.] If it is a question of open debate, I would rather that the democratically elected representatives of the people of Wales put the case honestly and openly to their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "That is correct. The Secretary of State talked about steps being taken to demonstrate a radical new approach to welfare. I agree, except on the point as to who actually raised the matter. The point about the streamlining and speeding up of appeals is well taken and well made. I do not think that any hon. Member would want to differ with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "We put the asylum proposal forward, then this other, and we did not manage to enact the second. However, the Secretary of State is now taking it through. As I said earlier, we shall not oppose the measures because we originated them, before our departure from government on 1 May. None the less, they were endlessly and constantly opposed by the right hon. and hon. Members who are now in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ginated them, before our departure from government on 1 May. None the less, they were endlessly and constantly opposed by the right hon. and hon. Members who are now in government. [Interruption.] I do not necessarily draw the Minister for Welfare Reform into all my comments. I may come to that later. The Secretary of State and many of her right hon. and hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.798.4", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "should examine that difference carefully. The measure was added because, as the Secretary of State admitted, the Labour Government do not intend to implement some of our proposed changes to housing benefit. The measure is designed in part to fund that reversal. It will affect the people whom hon. Members have said that it will, because of the decision not to change the housing benefit regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": " It may interest the House to learn that, last week, I made my debut in what my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) calls \"the people's game\". The occasion was a match between the House of Commons and the under-16 Yorkshire rugby league team, held to publicise the fact that the team was anxious to raise money to enable it to visit South Africa to act as ambassadors for the sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "That is a remarkable intervention because, in a most remarkable way, it allows me to illustrate the very point that I am trying to raise. It is perfectly true that certain cosmetic measures have been implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": " we have taken parts of the Conservative Government's initiatives as a starting point. However, the philosophy of our approach to social security is very different. We want to take as many people as possible out of the system and put them back into work rather than consign large sections of the population to a claimant culture and think that we can ignore them, which is what the Conservatives did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "themselves. That is wrong. For many years the system has not delivered what was needed for our people. We recognised that it required long-term renewal and we are starting by examining some of the procedures for first-tier decision making, but that is merely the beginning. Some hon. Members who sought a more radical approach to social security felt rather let down. I urge them to hold on and wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "preceding_text": "tional insurance in relation to share options. I support the Bill simply because, like the rest of my party, I believe that the social security system needs revising and modernising. It is not delivering a fair deal; it is not delivering to the people of this country what a social security system is supposed to deliver. The previous Administration were content to leave people in benefit dependency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": " mentioned in the debate. Before I discuss that, however, let me say that I will take no lessons from Conservative Members as to the ownership of the Bill, because my constituents well recognise that Conservative Members' cards were marked at the general election. They were rejected—as was their approach to the Bill—at the general election, and my constituents are very pleased that these measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-22", "file": "debates1997-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5047d817dd094bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "d not find any measures of that nature. Such things happen all too often, regardless of the Government of the day. I suspect that some sharp cookie looked for a way of avoiding national insurance or tax, and his attempt was discovered. To her credit, the right hon. Lady has announced that she will amend the legislation and mop it up. In the circumstances, that is probably the right way to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-22a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Fishing Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "tical decisions, doling out paper fish and limiting catches by quota, cannot work. It is the enemy of conservation, because it puts fishermen in direct competition with each other. There is no point in the British industry conserving fish and introducing more effective conservation measures, because the fish that are saved by the British fishing industry will be scooped up by European competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.938.4", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "As I hope that I have already made clear, it is our purpose, in signing up so firmly to the international poverty eradication targets, to look for partner Governments in the least developed countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.938.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No you have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said last Friday—I have just explained this to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I repeat my answer for the third time. The Leader of the Opposition quoted one part of my remarks in relation to law and order and not the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The question is about Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the Opposition quoted one part of my remarks in relation to law and order and not the other. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aah.\"] If he reads my comments, he will see that that is so. As to devolution more generally, the Conservative party has just agreed that there should be a Londonwide body, with an elected mayor, to oversee the governance of London. Let me quote the leader of Wandsworth council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Prime Minister is having such a bad day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reeding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reeding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reeding.\"] I think that Opposition Members should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.6", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is precisely for that reason and because of the difficulties experienced by many hospitals throughout the country that we have pledged to put £1.2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "With permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Gorrie", "preceding_text": " have no doubt that equal opportunities were given to the London and English press. I do not object to members of the press having an advance copy so that they can write a sensible article about it; I am suggesting that Members of Parliament are equally trustworthy and that we could get embargoed copies, so that we could make intelligent comments and so that when, for example, I am asked to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-23", "file": "debates1997-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e80683f3a14e5a84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Access to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "I thank all my colleagues for coming to the Chamber to listen to me this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-23a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the positive reception that our new deal proposals are receiving from the business community, just as they are from the people of this country as a whole. If this country is to become, as it should, a one-nation Britain, that requires a whole-nation effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Including Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "preceding_text": " the fear was that minorities, geographical or political, would be less than fairly represented. The changes in the electoral system now proposed have ended that possibility. The composition of the Parliament will fairly reflect opinion throughout Scotland. The Government want to see people who represent the widest possible range of interests coming forward for election to the Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "Today is a sombre day for Scotland and for the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is outraged. I hope that I may be able to tell him to look at the matter more reasonably, even if we continue to disagree in the future. There will be no classes of parliamentarians here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "ut, the Secretary of State and the Westminster Parliament will be blamed, not the Scottish Parliament. That is a recipe for instability. We have heard nothing from Labour and Liberal Democrat Members who were elected on 1 May on the issues of health, education and housing. They said that those were the most important issues because they had been done to death by 20 years of wicked Tory government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "s what I say, that, if the House is sovereign, and decides to order its business, because it believes that that will increase the democratic content of British politics, by devolving some of its powers to a Scottish Parliament, that is perfectly legitimate and constitutionally proper. I repeat that that needs to be seen in the context of a balanced package, which I believe will be widely accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you give him notice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I seek your guidance on a document, a copy of which I have sent to you in advance? It is a letter written by the hon. Member for Eastwood (Mr. Murphy), who, I understand from the document, is the co-ordinator of the campaign activity among Labour Members in the build-up to the Uxbridge by-election for the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker is always most concerned to ensure that the correct documents are before the House and I have no doubt will note what has been said. I repeat what I said earlier: the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-24", "file": "debates1997-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "98352cf2bdb525c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "That is a cheap remark. Does the right hon. Gentleman believe that there should be no revision; no opportunity for the decisions of this House to be revised? The hon. Member for Bristol, East (Ms Corston) is nodding. If this House is to be the sole authority, why have another Chamber? Why not abolish it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-24a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I could not find the paragraph to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but I shall ask the Under- Secretary of State for Wales, my hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain), who will be winding up, to reply to the hon. Gentleman's point if he is not satisfied with my reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "hift that we have to recognise and either reject or accept, depending on our point of view. I am sorry to bring the subject of Europe into the debate, but there is a difference with 1979. Europe was not such an issue in 1979. Over the past few years, I have detected that Welsh politicians have looked far more to Europe than they did during the 1979 referendum. Indeed, the Welsh chattering classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "as a great man, who built the enormous construction right down the length of the Welsh border. The boundary should evoke horrible memories for Labour Members who represent Welsh constituencies. King Edgar said that, if any Welshman was caught on the wrong side of it, he would be put to death. Harold Harefoot, who was obviously a softy, said that any Welshman caught would have his hand chopped off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I looked the Secretary of State in the eye, which provoked the use of the word \"you\". That is my final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1170.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Some people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks how many teachers' jobs will be equivalent to the expenditure to which I have referred. That is enormous cheek when we remember that the Conservative Government over the past year cut 600 teaching jobs. They cut also hundreds of nursing jobs. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-25", "file": "debates1997-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "9f811c2eb3850146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Welsh Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks how many teachers' jobs will be equivalent to the expenditure to which I have referred. That is enormous cheek when we remember that the Conservative Government over the past year cut 600 teaching jobs. They cut also hundreds of nursing jobs. It is— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman lectures us about council tax. The Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-25a.1194.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.150.10", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "mary justification that the Government have subsequently given for the tax is that the bulk will come from the surpluses of occupational pension schemes. There could not be a clearer example of breach of promise, and one for which I hope we will have a formal apology from the hon. Member for Itchen. If that is not forthcoming, we shall certainly be calling for his resignation as a junior Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.150.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "preceding_text": "I am not commenting one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked me a series of questions, many of which are irrelevant to the issue that we are discussing. I think, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you would rapidly halt me if I embarked on a disquisition about the American tax system. We are talking about the British tax system. As for the question of equity between basic-rate and higher-rate taxpayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to say that she would take no lectures from us on the subject. I shall certainly take no lectures from a former public affairs director of the Maxwell group during the four crucial years when Maxwell was ripping off surpluses throughout the country in a way that the Government now seek to emulate. When I became Secretary of State for Social Security, the biggest issue that I faced was the Maxwell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "ates went by without any Liberal Democrat representative, so the burden fell on my hon. Friends. I can safely say on behalf of my hon. Friends that they did a great deal to try to improve the Bill but, despite their efforts, 14 clauses and three long schedules were left entirely undiscussed in Committee—24 pages of a Bill of slightly more than 100 pages went unexamined. There was no filibustering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Schedule 8", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-29", "file": "debates1997-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e9234dbd1870889", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "A1 (Dualling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "The debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-29a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "re missing from the electoral register and we need an up-to-date, modern system that will bring about a full franchise—for example, homeless people should be placed on the electoral register. Parliament must be jealous of the operation of its powers. Labour Members are moving into a new situation and, as it develops, Back Benchers will start to flex their muscles and prod the Executive a bit more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, it is not a fair statement, for the reason that I have just given. I asked the right hon. Gentleman, quite specifically, to state what rule had been broken—three times I asked him and he failed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.334.5", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have already said, we have inherited the spending plans of the previous Administration. We are sticking to those, but we are putting in the colossal sum of £1.2 billion extra next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept the thanks of my constituents for a job well started, and their wish that he should enjoy a well-deserved summer break—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.338.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Guilty or not guilty?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman expect to be required for his millennium project? As for youth sentencing, does the Home Secretary intend to provide more boot camps such as the one in Colchester, bearing in mind the fact that the average cost per inmate per year is £31,500, as opposed to £17,500 in a typical institution? My question is: is it money or is it sentencing that the right hon. Gentleman is after?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Companies (Political Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "The answer is self-evident. Labour Members do not call it the tartan tax. The Scots will be given the opportunity in the referendum on 11 September to choose whether the Parliament should have a tax-varying power. Of course, if costs are incurred via the Departments, they will come from the Scottish block.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) speaks for England; we would have expected no less of him. When he was the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, he used to act for England, even though he had responsibilities that covered the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment if he is fortunate. The noble Lords could not have considered the amendments of such momentous importance that they were willing to come in droves from the shires to debate and vote on the future of the United Kingdom, or to bring some wisdom to this House to enable us to consider the matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "hows that the Lords amendments are not particularly important. Members of the House of Lords did not turn up to vote for them, and Members of the House of Commons have not turned up to vote them down. We should draw the conclusion that the amendments do not constitute points of substance. I regret that. I hold no brief for the House of Lords or for the Labour party, but we have a revising Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": " on Scotland … In consequence the distinctive Welsh case for devolution was never fully understood by the Welsh public … The case for holding the two referendums on different days … is persuasive and is an additional argument for an informed debate\". That is the evidence presented by the Institute of Welsh Affairs in support of the Government's policy for separate referendums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.386.6", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman represents Essex. He is not a Member for a Welsh constituency, and knows nothing about the Institute of Welsh Affairs, yet he presumes to ask such questions. I should be happy to give way to him all the evening if he continued to ask that sort of question. The Institute of Welsh Affairs is an independent study group, which produced the dispassionate document from which I quoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.386.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "If the House of Lords had made the sort of amendments that the hon. Gentleman suggested, which a cursory thought suggests might have been beyond the scope of the Bill in any case—if they were not, why did he not table them himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's point about a hatred for Scotland and Wales among my hon. Friends is entirely false. He will know, if he has studied his Dod, that most of those who are speaking in this debate—even if, like me, they represent English constituencies—are 100 per cent. Scottish. I love Scotland more than he does, if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.410.7", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "ld be specific difficulties with EU rules; corporation tax would place an unreasonable burden on companies operating in Scotland; National Insurance is inappropriate because of its direct link with the social security system; and council tax and non-domestic rates would over-burden the local government finance system and undermine the accountability of local government to its electorate. I submit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.410.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "le who live in Scotland all the time, who are much closer to Scottish businesses and who understand the Scottish dimension much more than people in this Chamber ever can. My hon. Friend should start to realise that Scotland is a nation with national rights, which is every bit as good as any other part of the United Kingdom and can come to decisions that are in the interests of the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-30", "file": "debates1997-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56f0ea7efcaec49c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Closed Circuit Television", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "cameras, and they would have been funded through public-private partnerships. Central Government, local authorities, the police, businesses and individuals would all contribute, as they want to do in Tenterden. That seems to me the ideal non-partisan scheme. It is widely agreed on both sides of the House. As this is an Adjournment debate, perhaps we can lower the normal temperature in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-30a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman ought to be aware that a range of different issues can be described under the heading of trusts, many of which are held in Jersey. It is not true, as he and some of his hon. Friends have attempted to imply, that the trust in which my noble Friend, with others, has some shares held is a trust which avoids tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "When I sat down after answering the main question, I thought that the only way in which hon. Members could relate it to my noble Friend Lord Simon was by doing a bit of gender bending—and that is what has happened. I think that occasionally we ought to acknowledge that my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade is herself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "When I sat down after answering the main question, I thought that the only way in which hon. Members could relate it to my noble Friend Lord Simon was by doing a bit of gender bending—and that is what has happened. I think that occasionally we ought to acknowledge that my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade is herself—[HON. MEMBERS: \"A woman.\"]—a scientist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.8", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "Is not the real reason to do with profits for the brewers? Is there not a £9 profit on every keg that is brewed, which means excess profits for the breweries? Although we are new Labour, we are not really against profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.440.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I am astounded by the second part of the hon. Gentleman's reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.446.5", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.446.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Given that we have had a single, unitary Parliament in the United Kingdom for the past 300 years and the rich and separate legal tradition in Scotland has prospered, has not the right hon. Gentleman talked himself out of the need for a separate Parliament in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.461.8", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Indeed he may, Madam Speaker, and I hope to be here—Oh well, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.461.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That is ingenious. I would want to write to the hon. Lady about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Young.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend has been talking to Ernst and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "ment of the sort that we are now discussing. I stood alongside him then, I agreed with him, and his arguments remain true today. Since then, the Conservative Government had made some changes in the development of the Scottish Grand Committee. I was involved in discussions on those changes from 1979 onwards. On the point about the dynamic of devolution and what it would do to a Scottish Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "we can get some facts today. Previously, I have been singularly unsuccessful in getting any answers, and I fear that I am again pursuing the triumph of hope over experience. Will the Secretary of State start by confirming that, contrary to the impression given so far, income tax is not the only element of the tax-varying powers being made available to a Scottish Parliament? In particular, will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.480.7", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": " the design. I welcome the prospect of an open competition for the design if we choose to have a new building. I have a specific request for the Secretary of State and the Minister. The design should be chosen not just by an architectural hierarchy and politicians. It is important to try to involve the people of Scotland in choosing the building. Perhaps they could choose from a short list of six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.480.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"She is not addressing the issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members are being extremely unfair to the hon. Lady. She is addressing the House and she should not be interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have a referendum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Michie", "preceding_text": "I am not sure why Conservative Members are trying to interrupt. I am addressing what is in the White Paper and trying to make some constructive proposals, which I have not heard from any of them. The Scottish people should be involved in choosing whatever building is put forward from the competition. How can we do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Ms Squire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Squire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady demonstrates the blinkered tunnel vision so characteristic of Conservative Members. The White Paper is the first step in a process of constitutional change that will give a much greater voice to the constituents of Epping Forest, Elgin and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I see the right hon. Gentleman nodding his assent. We have the final confirmation from the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "oming almost as long as my speech, and the clarity that the hon. Lady acknowledged cannot be found in the interventions. She compliments me—beware Greeks bearing gifts and Tories proffering compliments is sensible advice. The former Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands used to refer to the concept well, when he described the possible advent of Scottish independence as being like leaving a bowling club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "that this House is the equivalent of an AGM—to propose a change in the rules. If one got a majority, the rules were changed. That was his analogy for devolution. If someone wanted to leave the bowling club—that was his analogy for independence—they should tear up their membership card. The decision would be for them, and for them alone. Independence means a decision for Scots, and for Scots alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "gicality. He should take two matters into account. First, the Barnett formula is an equalisation formula, not a formula that is preferential to Scotland. Secondly, that formula was devised, in the 1970s, in preparation for devolution. It is somewhat surprising to hear the hon. Gentleman argue that a formula that was devised for devolution in the 1970s should be undercut by devolution in the 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " an elementary democratic right. It is the principle of reciprocity, and we in England have a right to proclaim it. I say to the Scottish people: as the years go by, we will proclaim it with increasing force. The first union that this country was involved in was with the United States, and it broke up more than 200 years ago on the cry, \"No taxation without representation,\" so England shall awake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "n a few minutes. As a retread, giving his first speech on returning to the House of Commons, I am one of those biological improbabilities—twice a maiden. Nothing has more convinced me that I am back in the House than listening to the hon. Member for Greenock and Inverclyde (Mr. Godman). We found out that he reads books, likes architecture and wants federation—and it took him 19 minutes to tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "nion, risk destroying the Union by not looking at what the public want, especially in Scotland, but also in England. Basically, the Conservatives do not trust the Scots. They have an extraordinary idea that the Scots will legislate in an anti-British spirit, and that we are a bunch of peasants who are not to be trusted. That is simply not true. That is the thinking behind the Conservatives' views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "e their own countries. Conservatives are true Scottish patriots, true British patriots and true English patriots. We love our nation and we are not prepared to see it destroyed, which is what Labour and the SNP would have us accept. I am proud to speak as a Scot. I was born, bred and educated at primary and secondary school and at university in Scotland and I never left its borders until I was 21.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-07-31", "file": "debates1997-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b3c4902361cffaf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Scottish Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "No. I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-07-31a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The steps that the Government are taking are intended to halve the time that it takes for persistent offenders to come before the courts. As the Audit Commission showed last year, it currently takes, on average, a ludicrous four-and-a-half months to get young offenders before the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Viscount Tonypandy", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "All Members of the House have heard with sorrow of the death of Viscount Tonypandy, who was our Speaker from February 1976 to June 1983. I wish, on behalf of all parties and of each and every right hon. and hon. Member of this House, to pay a tribute to the memory of one of my most distinguished predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.581.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Viscount Tonypandy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "later president of the National Children's Home. But the place where he liked most to be in his later years was in his beloved south Wales. In saluting Viscount Tonypandy's memory, I know that I speak for the whole House in thanking God for his distinctive life of service to this House, to the country at large and to all his fellow men and women. We offer our condolences to his family and friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": " EMU launch\", which caused the biggest movement in financial markets in recent times? Who was he? Has the right hon. Gentleman inquired? Does he know? Why did the Chancellor allow a false market to persist for some three weeks before effectively repudiating that story? Does he realise that, if any private individual did that, they would be guilty of a very serious offence? Is the Chancellor aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "nancial markets in recent times? Who was he? Has the right hon. Gentleman inquired? Does he know? Why did the Chancellor allow a false market to persist for some three weeks before effectively repudiating that story? Does he realise that, if any private individual did that, they would be guilty of a very serious offence? Is the Chancellor aware— [Interruption.] Is the Chancellor aware of anything?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " that this was Government policy? Did the President of the Board of Trade know that it was policy? Clearly not. We know that the Deputy Prime Minister had no idea that it was Government policy; we are pretty certain that the Secretary of State for Health did not know, when he appeared on television to defend it. Was the Prime Minister himself fully aware of what his Chancellor intended to release?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "when he said that his priority was ensuring a \"period of stability\" in the financial markets? Can he now give the House a cast-iron assurance that, in future, the release of all market-sensitive information of this kind will be carried out by democratically accountable Ministers in the House, not by unelected spin doctors in secret briefings? Now we turn to the substance of this belated statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "s. The fact is, however, that, although we were promised an unambiguous and totally clear statement, even today's statement by the Chancellor allows the possibility of entry during the current Parliament, in the light of what the Chancellor calls a possible unexpected or \"unforeseen change in … circumstances\". Can he give us examples of circumstances that might cause him to change his mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "statement, even today's statement by the Chancellor allows the possibility of entry during the current Parliament, in the light of what the Chancellor calls a possible unexpected or \"unforeseen change in … circumstances\". Can he give us examples of circumstances that might cause him to change his mind? [Laughter.] Can he tell us the type of thing of which he is thinking? Is it not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "rom my mind the recollection of the ghastly blunder made by Mr. Attlee and his Chancellor of the Exchequer when they refused to have anything to do with the initial negotiations over the Coal and Steel Community. The result was that we were left outside all the institutions for 22 years, until I signed the treaties in Brussels in 1972. During those 22 wasted years, we had not a scrap of influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Thank you. We shall now move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.628.4", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": " conclusion that the ghosts at this feast are Whelan, Balls and Brown. They sound more like a Dublin firm of pawnbrokers than those who might be responsible for the future of Britain's defence effort. There are not three balls but three posts in this defence review. First, the Government say that they are committed to the Eurofighter—costing about £16.5 billion—with the support of the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.628.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "resting that some 10 per cent. of the crew of Invincible are women. It was clear that that was not seen as a problem by the commanders or by the men and women who serve on Invincible. There was a period when that might have been novel, and when those women would have been pioneers, and there might have been some difficulties, but once one gets over the problem and embraces it, the issue goes away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-27", "file": "debates1997-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "241a30279207323b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "eir own era and who are used to dealing with high technology are often presented with military technology that is a generation older than the technology with which they are familiar in civilian life. They are all too often told by patronising voices from the Ministry of Defence that the technology is too complicated for reservists to use. The Americans sent 90,000 volunteer reservists to the Gulf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-27a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No spin doctor and no official at the Foreign Office has uttered any hostile word to David Gore-Booth, who behaved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "European Court of Justice jurisdiction in the third pillar is conferred on a case-by-case basis in respect of certain conventions. When the Amsterdam treaty comes into force, the ECJ's jurisdiction within the third pillar will be extended, but will remain limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": " his colleagues who said that we need to base our defence policy on foreign policy. The hon. Gentleman said that we need what he called foreign policy base lines. He is absolutely right about that, but he and his friends have not been listening. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence has spelt out the basis of our defence policy—the Government's defence review—in several speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.756.6", "colnum": "756", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "ll benefit from any review and are entitled to other benefits that are already available about which the Minister talked. Many civilians who served the three services are not being given the option of being included. Sadly, many of them have had a very swift brush off from the MoD. What about the Chinese laundry men who worked on Her Majesty's ships who, with a cavalier sweep, have been dismissed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.756.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "t in the House, I spent a year working for the Russian aircraft design bureau, Sukhoi, manufacturers of the Su-27 fighter aircraft; and a fascinating time it was. I met Konstantin Marbachev, the chief designer of the Su-27, arguably one of the most potent aircraft in the world, and asked him, through the interpreter, \"If we are all friends, who is the enemy?\" He looked up and said, \"Mussulmanski.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "vite the retort that for years Labour spokesmen have urged a reduction to the average level of other NATO countries, which is well below 2.7 per cent. We are not the highest spender, but the criticism that expenditure has been reduced does not sit well coming from Labour. If the Government will lay off bleating about our expenditure, I promise to lay off referring to their past involvement in CND.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-28", "file": "debates1997-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a293429cfdb75ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "leating about our expenditure, I promise to lay off referring to their past involvement in CND. [Interruption.] I gather that some of my hon. Friends will not; I understand. I suppose that we should not pay too much attention to such bleating because it is another example of the typical Blairite-Mandelsonian rubbishing of previous Government policies that is so often the prelude to their adoption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-28a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": "number of such operations from regional airports into Gatwick and Stansted. From the point of view of the customer, such services are visually indistinguishable from BA services, using the same livery and uniforms and continuing the ease of through-booking for transfer passengers. However, BA itself admits that the switch to franchise operations on the Scottish islands route has not gone smoothly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "arades and elsewhere in the Province, would be for the Secretary of State to state categorically today that we have absolutely no political prisoners in this country and that she will never again do the sort of shabby deal that she did with David Irvine of the Progressive Unionists, which would have led to a very evil murderer in Jason Campbell leaving prison in Scotland and going to the Province.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister see that it is he who is walking away from those recommendations and that this is a matter of whom people can trust?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.893.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.896.3", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I see the Foreign Secretary nodding his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.896.5", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I always knew that the hon. Gentleman was a man of judgment. What is important about that issue is that it repatriates decisions to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.896.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Hare Coursing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way because I have only a short time to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "t of at least 28 days during which representations may be made. There is also an obligation on the Secretary of State to consider any representations that are made to her within that time. We have introduced this provision in response to concerns. However, I emphasise that we see it as supplementary to, and in no way a substitute for, the non-statutory consultation to which we are fully committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "aving approved it, has now washed her hands of it. She does that for practically everything going on in the Department. I am amazed that she bothered to pop into the House this afternoon, although I note that she did not hear most of her Minister's speech and has now disappeared again. She has no speaking part in launching the most important Bill that she has chosen for this Session of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "some time in future they may—perhaps in the third or fourth Labour Government after this one, about 10 or 15 years from now. I am glad to see that the Opposition still have a sense of humour—they will need it in years to come. The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) has a reasonable majority, so he may well still be in the House then, remembering these remarks; I may be here myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "ment. The most effective system of management is through price, and I cannot understand how the Conservative party can reject a pricing mechanism for establishing a market in a service. It strikes me as basic economics and common sense. When we cannot think of another way of doing it effectively, there is no alternative. I wonder where I have heard that phrase before. Come on; we are slow tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-29", "file": "debates1997-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "f834d5378df6e921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "ndustries and for our country. Under our proposals, the fee increases that radio users in congested areas face will in all probability be far outweighed by the economic benefits of making more spectrum available. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Wokingham is not in his place, because he suggested that the Bill would be unnecessary if the Government managed their spectrum more effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-29a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-30", "file": "debates1997-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "ab4e1ffa394aaf96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I am not sure how that question arises, but let me assure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-30", "file": "debates1997-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "ab4e1ffa394aaf96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Here we see the Conservative party in action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-30", "file": "debates1997-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "ab4e1ffa394aaf96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I take it that we have the answer to at least one of my questions: the hon. Gentleman is opposed to the principle of a single currency. On Monday I made it clear that there was a pooling of economic sovereignty involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-30", "file": "debates1997-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "ab4e1ffa394aaf96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Counter-terrorism Legislation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": " about sniping from Conservative Front Benchers? At the same time as lecturing us some years ago on the prevention of terrorism Act, they were engaged in secret talks with the Provisional IRA—although, of course, they denied that until forced to admit it. I think that a little less hypocrisy in general on the issue is welcome, as is the reassertion of British values, democracy and the rule of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-10-30", "file": "debates1997-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "ab4e1ffa394aaf96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not your hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "use mechanisms that require a short circuit of the rules. Of course, in some circumstances those who are before a tribunal will not know the full case against them, because that could endanger national security. I am glad that the special advocate has been put in place to take care of them. I want to refer to some of the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Mr. Wardle)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-10-30a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is too early in the financial year to establish the precise cost of the Bosnia operation to the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that, as Eurofighter is exempt from the strategic defence review, which is the Ministry of Defence's contribution to the Government's fundamental expenditure review, should there be any cost overruns on that £14 billion project—the most expensive procurement project ever undertaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "ld at home. The amendment would not introduce a widespread exemption. The exemption relates to a small and particularly deserving group of people for whom it is not possible to transfer to other forms of shooting from which they can gain the same satisfaction and the same levels of skill. The Bill is a free-vote issue throughout the House; my right hon. and hon. Friends certainly have a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ied, because everybody is not the same. The Bill will stop me, as the captain of the Palace of Westminster rifle club, going elsewhere to shoot. In fact, the law of the land does not apply here. We do not abide by licensing rules in Crown buildings. The rifle club will continue because it is Black Rod's property. Once the ban applies, if I go elsewhere, I will have to do something like gymnastics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "d cogent, the Lords amendment seeks to allow people who would not otherwise be able to do so to enjoy a legitimate sport. I detect that the hon. and learned Member for Medway is thinking, \"Ah ha! But I do not like the cultural values underpinning it.\" However, it is no place of the House to look at people's cultural values. That is the same road that would take us to the Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "t takes a long time, but I am told that Laura Collins of The Sun, who had no official range licence, who was not licensed to use a section 1 firearm and who therefore held the gun illegally, apparently used one to shoot at a melon. Her article tells how quickly she was able to load the gun, but that has to be an untruth. Furthermore, the melon at which she pointed the gun was an unlicensed target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " to find this a serious matter and not be facetious. I am talking about someone who broke the law. Indeed, she was not the only one who broke the law. So did the person who lent her the weapon to perform the foul deed, and her editor, who was either an accessory before the fact, in instructing her to perform the deed, or an accessory after the fact, in allowing her to report it. There is no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-03", "file": "debates1997-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb5ec1ef5f2092c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — After Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " my thunder by asking whether the Minister for Sport is even here. Will he be here for the vote? We shall have to check the voting record in tomorrow's Hansard. This is a bipartisan issue. More than one former Minister for Sport in the other place clearly supports the amendment. My noble Friend Lord Moynihan joined forces with Lord Howell to ensure that the amendment was passed in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-03a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'scheme.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that high-quality training opportunities should be made available also to young people in rural areas? Will he assure the House that the £300 million programme—which is welcome for a scheme that we support so far as it goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who loses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chisholm", "preceding_text": "social work changes to which my hon. Friend refers are an important component of the distributional changes. It is right to recognise that there has been controversy about that, but the consensus view is that the changes should be introduced, but further reviewed. We will continue to review and monitor the social work changes and we will continue to review distributional formulas across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": "olicy was to reject Dearing and substitute his own, or perhaps I should say the Treasury's, policy instead. His branding of that policy as Dearing-plus has fooled almost no one. I say \"almost no one\"; a week ago I would have said it had fooled no one, but it appears to have fooled the Prime Minister. We saw last week, when my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition asked the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.118.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "ntirety, including the £1,000 non-means-tested fees, regardless of income, for all parents. For the sake, therefore, of Tory party unity, will the right hon. Gentleman condemn the Tory party candidate in the Winchester by-election, who has just produced a leaflet which says: Gerry Malone has thrown his weight behind Winchester's students in their campaign against the introduction of tuition fees ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "give way to my hon. Friend. When the Secretary of State has finished giving the answers to my first two questions, he may then explain why the course that costs the Scottish student £3,000 and the student from England, Wales or Northern Ireland £4,000 is available to the citizens of southern Ireland and every other European Union country for £3,000. That is the pièce de ré00sistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "ed to go into higher education. However, she will not benefit from the concession the Government have announced. There is no intellectual justification for the arbitrary distinction that Ministers have drawn. The Government should have the guts, the political dexterity and the will to stand up to the Treasury, and to secure the outcome that they need and that the interests of our students warrant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "niel Cohn-Bendit and promising to stand four square to back the student fight. It says that a vote for Gerry Malone will ensure that the issue is not allowed to go away. Presumably, if Gerry Malone had been here today, there would have been six rather than five Tory Back Benchers behind the shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment. That is a true measure of Tory concern for students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nsure that the issue is not allowed to go away. Presumably, if Gerry Malone had been here today, there would have been six rather than five Tory Back Benchers behind the shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment. That is a true measure of Tory concern for students— [Interruption.] There were only five behind the shadow Secretary of State when he opened the debate. I can count and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about gap funding. There was a statement on gap funding at the conclusion of the discussions on it. However, there was no U-turn because there was no initial statement of the opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "n, but even he need not accept as biblical prophesy every word that comes from the principal of St. Andrews university. If he is aware of the geography of Scotland, may I suggest that he goes a little further south and listens to the much more reasoned, rational and measured comments of the principal of Edinburgh university, which has an even higher proportion of English students than St. Andrews?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly wants to use up part of the three minutes that remain. I shall not give way to the silly man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "acts? On 28 May, the Minister who wants to be in touch with the countryside scrapped the MAFF regional panels—the one lifeline of communication with the countryside. He replaced it with Ministers having to go hither and thither, the length and breadth of England, listening to farmers and talking to the food industry. They will be breathless if they try to carry out the work of the regional panels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Is that the best that the right hon. Gentleman can do when it comes to dealing with those on the lowest incomes, such as the hill farmers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "Is that the best that the right hon. Gentleman can do when it comes to dealing with those on the lowest incomes, such as the hill farmers? [Interruption.] That is the real substance of the debate and the right hon. Gentleman had better get to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the environment. Surely it is most important for the rural environment to remain inhabited. Neither the Government nor the official Opposition have expressed concern about family farms and smallholdings, which are under great threat. Geraint Jones, a farmer, wrote to me and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "We know there are problems. I would be the first to acknowledge that there are pretty serious problems, because I represent hill farmers. The idea that we can resolve those problems within six months of taking office, or provide the resources on the scale that the right hon. Gentleman pretends is possible, is frankly absurd, and people know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well which right hon. Friend I am referring to. He knows as well as I do that Liberal Democrat party policy on the countryside depends entirely on the constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "fied of further scrutiny of its failure to serve the countryside? Is it that the Government know full well that by publishing regular updates of the White Paper they would expose the cuts in resources that they are planning and the consequences of those cuts? The House has learnt today what many outside have begun to suspect, and that is that the Labour Government, with their urban-based majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Angela Eagle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Angela Eagle)", "preceding_text": " It is no wonder that the swings against them in the rural areas were nearly 10.5 per cent. It is no wonder that they do not represent so much as a tree or a blade of grass in Scotland and Wales. The people gave them their verdict on 1 May, after 18 years of Conservative stewardship in our rural areas, and it was a damning verdict. I will now deal with specific points that were made in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-04", "file": "debates1997-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7173e46310cb5e44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.213.6", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Retread.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. Is that clear enough? In my usual polite way, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I was going to give way to the hon. Gentleman. I then realised that he had not even done the House the courtesy of being here for the debate. He may be a new Member, but he must not expect to walk in at the end of a debate and be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-04a.213.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I do not think that I have ever heard such nonsense. I am rather surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not make a case for a referendum on the Amsterdam treaty, but perhaps that is because, a couple of days ago, Lord Howe said: Fortunately, the public has reacted to this proposal with complete indifference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have already made clear to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have already made it clear that this is a Commission proposal and that we do not believe that it should be extended. The right hon. Gentleman is making a pretty transparent attempt to hide the fact that his party is hopelessly divided on the issue. Indeed, just a few weeks ago, the Leader of the Opposition said: The days of disunity, factions and wings, groups within groups … is over\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "The small and medium businesses in this country have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "The small and medium businesses in this country have— [Interruption.] It is worth trying the question a different way round. Small and medium businesses in this country have already faced four interest rate rises and a raid on pensions under this Government. Will my right hon. Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ready faced four interest rate rises and a raid on pensions under this Government. Will my right hon. Friend confirm—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over, then.\"]Will the right hon. Gentleman-it is tough on this side—confirm that, under the Labour Government, those businesses, as well as having to deal with millennium compliance and prepare for the euro, will have to take on board the working time directive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ons under this Government. Will my right hon. Friend confirm—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over, then.\"]Will the right hon. Gentleman-it is tough on this side—confirm that, under the Labour Government, those businesses, as well as having to deal with millennium compliance and prepare for the euro, will have to take on board the working time directive—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—the parental leave directive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "nfirm—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over, then.\"]Will the right hon. Gentleman-it is tough on this side—confirm that, under the Labour Government, those businesses, as well as having to deal with millennium compliance and prepare for the euro, will have to take on board the working time directive—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—the parental leave directive—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]part—time rights for workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": " hurts and we must all do what we can to eliminate it. The right hon. Gentleman asked me to endorse the praise for British aid administration. Let there be no doubt that my Department is second to none. We have high-quality civil servants and the quality of the administration of our aid programme is admired internationally. It is sad that the programme was halved under the previous Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "e commitment there is to establishing processes to put proposals into practice. The White Paper announces that there will be a welcome end to the aid and trade provision, which achieved such notoriety under the previous Government. So far, however, the signs have not been encouraging. The Government's ethical foreign policy sits uncomfortably with arms contracts recently negotiated with Indonesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Madam Speaker; I misunderstood the purpose of the statement. I should like to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-05", "file": "debates1997-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "529ff0da35fe7add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"World poverty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "The House will welcome the Secretary of State's noble imperative of attacking world trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-05a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. The last Administration's decision to establish the Meat Hygiene Service was a good one. It has worked: it has improved the efficiency of the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supreme Court (Offices) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Obviously, procedure is a matter for the House to decide, but in due course I shall invite the House, if it considers it appropriate, to deal with all stages of the Bill. As I say, that is clearly a matter for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest in that, over the years, I have sat as an acting metropolitan stipendiary magistrate and I now sit occasionally—I might like to sit rather more often—as a recorder of the Crown court. I have a fair amount of notes in front of me on points that I intend to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " hear his explanations at the outset. The Minister has said that he wishes all the Bill's stages taken in the House to be taken in one go. Subsequently, it will go to the Lords for formal rubber stamping. I do not share that view and I would like to explain why. First, I wish to refer to the nature of the office. A great deal has been said by my hon. Friends on the subject, but it bears repeating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "inister for veterans. I was doubtful if such an appointment would bring them the advantages that they worthily desired, because such a Minister would inevitably represent the Government to them, not them to the Government. At this point, I will not digress on what I consider to be the anomalous position of the Attorney-General, who is a very senior member of the Government and also head of the Bar", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "e legalities, in the knowledge that, as holder of the office, it is his duty to act a watchdog. If we were debating this issue with the Lord Chancellor now, I am sure that he would say that he could do a great deal of that for himself; but he would not be so arrogant as to say that he could do it all. The Minister, on the Lord Chancellor's behalf, should not be so arrogant as to suggest otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-06", "file": "debates1997-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "ed5b66baa3463e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " is not the case with most of his colleagues. In winding-up speeches, we are frequently treated to cheap moments of invective, the sidelining of points and a little bit of propaganda, after which the Minister sits down. I make that point because in Committee two pertinent questions were asked by the hon. Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Burnett) which the Minister made no attempt to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-06a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-07", "file": "debates1997-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "2d611f8eef664032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-07a.488.2", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Innovation (Small Firms)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "at gap. They can also help in other ways. Because so many business angels have a business background, they can often provide hands-on assistance in the running and management of the business. To many small businesses, such help is invaluable. We are now seeing the creation of technology angels, too. It is important to breach the empathy gap and ensure that everybody understands the new technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-07a.488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "It is a bit rich for Conservative Members to talk about doing down pensioners. I received a letter from the hon. Gentleman on 6 July about the BBC licence fee, in the course of which he mis-spelt the word \"licence\" not once but four times. That, I suppose, is the result of 18 years of Tory education policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.564.10", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "Those sports were never going to be excluded. There has been considerable misunderstanding over the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.564.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I do, indeed, listen, and since I became Minister for Sport, I have opened the special Olympic games at Portsmouth, the world blind sailing championships at Weymouth and the British disabled water-skiing facility at Heron lake. I have attended disabled rugby, volleyball, cricket, football, skiing and archery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "n visitors in 2000—they have a once-in-a-lifetime experience, full of excitement and enjoyment, without delay or frustration in travelling to and moving around the millennium dome. That is why the New Millennium Experience Company has developed an operational plan that, through pre-booking of tickets, will guarantee access to attractions in the dome, ensure minimal queuing for the attractions and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.570.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.584.5", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "us. On 19 March this year, the House agreed a resolution on ministerial accountability, the third paragraph of which specifically stated: Ministers should be as open as possible with Parliament, refusing to provide information only when disclosure would not be in the public interest\". Those terms were reproduced in subsection 4 of the first paragraph of the ministerial code, which was republished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "en someone who has been following the plans as closely as the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge) cannot tell us what the legislation will specify about a range of issues. She cannot tell us because the Government cannot tell us. As my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, South (Mr. Ottaway) has already made clear, the Government cannot tell us what method will be used for the election of the mayor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes we did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Not in the manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I want to put one matter on the record. I have a copy of the Labour manifesto in front of me. It did, indeed, commit Labour to a referendum and it proposed a directly elected mayor and an assembly, but it said nothing about how many questions would be asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "then Government to believe that a directly elected Greater London authority was not necessary. The main reason was that London boroughs embraced most—but not all—of the powers and responsibilities of local government. Incidentally, from Labour Members' remarks, the attitude that comes over to Conservative Members is, \"We are the masters now; we have won the election and so we can do what we want.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "he referendum? Secondly, on clause 3, will the result of the referendum be announced on a ward-by-ward basis or a borough-by-borough basis, or will it be announced only as a result without any breakdowns? Thirdly, on clause 4, will there be two ballot boxes in each polling station—one for the London borough elections and the other for the referendum—or will all the ballot papers be put in one box?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for your guidance on the use of the word \"your\". As regards the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. McDonnell), I did not recall that. It is an illuminating story about the way in which the former Government used to behave, and is another reason why only three Conservative Members are present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " and I made a significant contribution to that and I make no apology for that. We listened to our local councils, London boroughs and, above all, we listened to the people of London to find out what they wanted. The Government may elaborately dig an elephant trap for the Conservative party, but we have no obligation to fall into it and repeatedly impale ourselves on the sharp sticks waiting there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ove all, we listened to the people of London to find out what they wanted. The Government may elaborately dig an elephant trap for the Conservative party, but we have no obligation to fall into it and repeatedly impale ourselves on the sharp sticks waiting there. [Interruption.] The Minister makes a sedentary intervention, but I explained the position to him in a television studio not so long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "hich, as my hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir S. Chapman) has rightly said, is arguably defective. London is a city which hon. Members are proud to represent and it does not deserve this. One of the Conservative party's proudest achievements in government was to see Londoners turn their city into one of the world's greatest cities. That success has become apparent not just since May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "posal. That is rich coming from the Labour party, which has changed its mind on every fundamental issue of the past two decades and a fair few since the general election. Let us hear no criticism from the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg): as president of the National Union of Students, he advocated resistance to tuition fees, but he seems to have gone strangely silent on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister insists that we are in a giving age, so why does not he give the people of London a two-question referendum? Anything less would be a deliberate and calculated slap in the face of democracy. Two simple, straightforward questions that would reveal the true views of Londoners about their future—that is all it would take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": " open mind than for empty minds. Of the responses that we have managed to analyse, only 10 per cent. have put in a request for an additional question. However, the responses are still being considered and analysed. It is clear that the people of London do not want simply to re-create the old GLC, the abolition of which made Londoners particularly determined to have their democratic voice restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons Members' Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "dy, which represents the interests of Members in the widest possible context. We are used to deputing colleagues with certain specialist knowledge of to deal with various matters, but here we have a matter that touches on the interests of Members themselves. I am seeking an explanation because I am puzzled that the proposed Labour Members dealing with the House of Commons Members' fund all appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.677.7", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons Members' Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman wish to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.677.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-10", "file": "debates1997-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "763efdf77c8d726f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons Members' Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman can contain himself for a moment, I have it in mind to come to exactly that point. In due course, I will no doubt solve his worries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-10a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "In May 1997, the new Government inherited from the Tory Government the longest hospital waiting lists in the history of the national health service after 18 years of Tory rule. Inevitably, those waiting lists have continued to grow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "hoped that there would be an amendment before us today that spelled out the Conservative party's position, but there is nothing. When the shadow Chancellor replies to the debate, perhaps he will answer the two central questions relating to this issue that any respectable Opposition must answer. First, does he support the decision to give operational responsibility to the Bank of England—yes or no?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " periods of hyper-inflation. That has created an inflationary culture. It is worth remembering that the Reichsbank had independence in the early 1920s, but that did not prevent the hyper-inflation then. Britain has now developed an anti-inflationary culture. That is partly a reaction to the near-hyper-inflation under the previous Government, when money lost a quarter of its value in a single year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "The logic of our position is that we can influence only one Parliament—the next Parliament—at a time. The logic of the right hon. Gentleman's position is that, by signing a treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "sions. The hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke) alleged that after Christmas of last year I had somehow suspended economic judgment and was simply being driven by politics in not following the Bank's advice. I totally refute that. I printed the minutes. I do not believe that putting up interest rates by a quarter per cent. between Christmas and the general election would have cost one vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "e Bank, we shall take evidence from him. We shall also take evidence from the non-executive members of the court on their assessment of the Bank and the Monetary Policy Committee. So the Select Committee will have an enhanced role and a much greater programme of hearings and reports to the House on the performance of the Monetary Policy Committee. In a sense, the Select Committee is also on trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is entitled to his opinion. He has declared it robustly and the next 18 months may test it out. He also said in his speech, and has just repeated it, that he might have made adjustments earlier. Had he done so, the situation might have been different now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady to her own legislation, which says quite clearly, on page 5, clause 11, that the maintenance of price stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "reiterate what my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said about having an open mind on the recommendations, while taking up the points about three-year appointments. There is a good precedent for appointments based on three years. The Hempel report suggests that, for corporate governance, there is logic in company directors being appointed for three years, because that increases accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-11", "file": "debates1997-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "597157394bf9f08b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.810.7", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Local Government (Contracts) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Clause 1(2) provides that a local authority may make arrangements with financiers for step-in rights; that is, rights to intervene where the contractor is unable to meet his obligations to the authority or to the financier. The amendment provides that these arrangements can also involve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-11a.810.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent intervention, and we will consider those issues when we consult on the modernisation of the plan-led system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.892.4", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I agree with her that it is very good that the House will now consume ethical coffee which has been produced without abusing labour or pesticides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.892.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "de liberalisation extends to agriculture. Although industrialised countries frequently lecture developing countries about the need to open their markets to trade, we have highly protected and highly subsidised agriculture—dumping lots of agricultural produce on world markets and undermining the capacity of those countries to develop. I am against such subsidies in principle, including for tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.898.12", "colnum": "898", "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 shall set out our position for the hon. Gentleman with enthusiasm and relish. It was a collective decision, made in the normal way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.898.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "preceding_text": "I am sure that many people in Scarborough and Whitby, and indeed in the rest of the nation, will support the Government's intention to introduce legislation on foreign donations to political parties. Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only should the terms of reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Committee on Standards in Public Life should not only be given the widest terms of reference but be asked to deliver its deliberations at the earliest opportunity, not only from the point of view of the people in the country, but with the widest support of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman understands. In the directive there is already a temporary derogation for sport. The question is whether it is long enough and right for formula one, which is in a special position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because the papers have been referred to Sir Patrick Neill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.902.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because the papers have been referred to Sir Patrick Neill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] At the end of last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.902.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "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 know whether this will do more damage to me or to my hon. Friend, but I must admit that I agree with the broad outline of what he says. We have fought general elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "Might I change the subject and ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware that I recently visited Southern Derbyshire health authority to discuss preparations for the winter crisis in health and the appalling state of the health service in my area? Will he tell the House how much Southern Derbyshire health authority has been allocated from the £300 million that has been set aside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Douglas Garven Alexander Esq., for Paisley, South", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "st weekend after the general election, we said that we would join the social chapter, and my hon. Friend the Minister of State went to Brussels to say so on the Monday after polling day. In the six months since we stated that intention, unemployment has fallen by 190,000. I invite the shadow Foreign Secretary to name one person who has lost his job through our intention to join the social chapter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ternational criminals. The progress made at Amsterdam on that important issue is one of the main reasons why I support the Bill. People who are as old as I am and many who are not so old can remember the days of \"Dixon of Dock Green\" when crime was a local issue. The good, honest local criminal burgled only the next street. Then criminals got bicycles or Minis, and inter-city gangs sped up the M1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "individuals who, as the shadow Foreign Secretary, the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard), showed us, are still capable of artificial hysteria about this modest treaty. That was the description used by the Liberal Democrat spokesman, the hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell). The Amsterdam treaty is modest, but it represents a major achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "The treaty is modest, but it is positive, too, and only a change of Government made it possible to achieve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "r small step by small step, we are close to becoming part of that nation called Europe, we should measure it against Labour's own benchmark— Our vision of Europe is of an alliance of independent nations. That has to be the key test, and it causes many hon. Members great concern. I say that as someone who was a member of the previous Government, and who was here and voted for the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "ng with what would have been before us if the Conservatives had won the general election. We would have had a view of the United Kingdom belonging to an age gone by. We would have had policies that were out of touch with the people of the United Kingdom and more in touch with the views of the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor). Instead. we are discussing a people's agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " I have been Member for a bit more than 10 years and have heard many bold assertions. That assertion, however, was one of the most challenging that I have heard in that time. My hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) is a good friend of mine on many political issues. I did not expect huge support from him in this debate, and I was not disappointed. There were other sound speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By and large!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is worried about my health, he is welcome to come with me for 10,000 m around Hyde park tomorrow lunchtime. We can talk about it while we are running. There are areas in which qualified majority voting is not appropriate. It is not appropriate for foreign policy decisions, by and large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By and large.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ision, any nation can raise that at the full Council, effectively providing them with a veto. Since taking office, the Government have been determined to adopt a constructive but robust approach in Europe, protecting the national interest. The Amsterdam treaty shows that that approach can, and does, deliver results. At Amsterdam, all the United Kingdom's major negotiating priorities were achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By and large.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " were able to secure for the first time—not by and large—explicit legal security for our border controls and to protect essential interests on immigration and asylum policies. That was a major achievement. We have agreed measures to improve police and judicial co-operation in the fight against crime. We have agreed measures that will improve the effectiveness of common foreign and security policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-12", "file": "debates1997-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "724fe2c4e0a09134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "by and large—explicit legal security for our border controls and to protect essential interests on immigration and asylum policies. That was a major achievement. We have agreed measures to improve police and judicial co-operation in the fight against crime. We have agreed measures that will improve the effectiveness of common foreign and security policy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"By and large.\"] We managed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-12a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for School Standards (Mr. Stephen Byers)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1050.4", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the second opportunity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I confess that I am disappointed that, given that this is the first opportunity that the House has had to debate this important matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1050.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "' activities should be in the hands of those who had no experience of the House. It was not a particularly partisan point, but I would not claim to be completely green on that issue. The issue arose to even greater extent when nominations as trustees for the pension fund appeared on the Order Paper to be rushed through on Monday night. Not one Government nominee had served in the House before May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": " is why we will continue to encourage hon. Members to feed in information and to keep in touch with members of the Committee. We have had many suggestions about the Chamber that I know will interest you, Madam Speaker, and your Deputy Speakers and Chairmen. There have been suggestions that Question Time should be in the morning rather than the afternoon and that the House should rise at 7 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] There have been suggestions that the House should never sit on Fridays and that we should use Tuesday and Thursday mornings for Committees of the whole House. All those suggestions have some logic and my hon. Friends are saying \"Hear, hear.\" to some of them. If we did all of them, we would get no business through at all, especially if we had constituency weeks as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1091.3", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "ing that process to Northern Ireland legislation, although it would mean a different way of going about things. There will be some difficulty in making the transition, but it can be made. That would not involve a significant addition to the time that is taken in this place producing legislation. It would not involve the time implications to which the Leader of the House referred. I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-13", "file": "debates1997-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a0d9144db0f4d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Taylor", "preceding_text": "because we have heard from a mixture of experienced Members and new Members. It is sometimes said that it is only new Members who want to see change in this Chamber. We have seen today that, with one or two exceptions, that is not the case. There are many hon. Members who have spent many years in the House and who do not feel that the best use has always been made of the time they have spent here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-13a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-14", "file": "debates1997-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ae3d1a445a33e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1137.7", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Policing of London", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "n and launched the firearms amnesty in Lambeth. Last week, I had the sad duty of attending the funeral of Police Constable Nina Mackay, who paid the ultimate price for trying to make London safer for the rest of us. Nina Mackay died following a stabbing in Stratford last month. I am sure that I speak for the whole House and for all Londoners in saying that we all salute her courage and dedication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-14", "file": "debates1997-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ae3d1a445a33e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Policing of London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "first occasion on which a local amnesty has been held. My hon. Friend said that I had launched it. I should explain that I simply had a walk-on part for the launch, which was undertaken by someone much more distinguished than I could ever aim to be—the England and Arsenal striker Ian Wright. On the basis that my enemy's enemy is my friend, I commend Arsenal on their amazing victory at the weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-14", "file": "debates1997-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "73ae3d1a445a33e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Policing of London", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "munity and junior, Hounslow town primary, St. Mark's catholic, Holland park, St. Thomas's, St. Mary's, St. Francis Cumberland, Eastlea, Sarah Bonnell, Whitton and Sir James Barrie—all schools—have benefited from the partnership, and from Government money, in the provision of CCTV. Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals have also benefited. What has come from this Government? Nothing. Not a penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-14a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) will deal with those points in more detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "l barely be an increase for the health service over what the Tories planned. When the hon. Member for Halifax and her hon. Friends were in opposition in years gone by, they said how greatly underfunded the health service was, but the Labour Government have provided the health service with the lowest increase for five years. Patients waiting for operations, doctors and nurses will not be satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " like to elicit a favourable response from the Secretary of State, it is difficult for me to address my comments in a positive frame of mind when dealing with the matter of the huge number of non-executives who have entered the NHS, adding their skills and leadership to health authorities or trusts. There is despair over the total shambles in the NHS appointments system. A vast number were due to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has also intervened as I thought that he might. He might like to read Lord Nolan's report. Lord Nolan said that there was no evidence of widespread political appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "t the legacy of neglect. During the election, they told us that we needed an extra penny on income tax to spend £1.8 billion on education—or did they? The briefings that they put out during their party conference neither confirmed nor denied where they stand on this issue. It is unfortunate that the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce), the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, is not in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No he has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "n income tax to spend £1.8 billion on education—or did they? The briefings that they put out during their party conference neither confirmed nor denied where they stand on this issue. It is unfortunate that the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce), the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, is not in the Chamber— [Interruption.] I am sorry, he is here. I am grateful. He has just arrived in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On the case of Mr. Hamilton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "is perfectly capable of considering recommendations from Sir Patrick Neill, as we did from the Nolan report. We are capable of coming to conclusions and, if necessary, taking further evidence for the Committee after investigation by the Commissioner. The number of cases where Members or former Members seriously dispute facts after inquiries by the Commissioner will be non-existent or very limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should be glad if hon. Members would desist from arguing with me at this time simply because it is doubtful whether they are going to be called. They are challenging the hon. Members whom I have called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does not need to get too excited because I was about to deal with whether that evidence was compelling or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does not need to get too excited because I was about to deal with whether that evidence was compelling or not. [Interruption.] Perhaps the hon. Lady would be interested in considering what was the corroborative evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.7", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I will give way to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.111.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "he Grylls inquiry of 1990 was interfered with. Why? Because I was there and I watched it happen. I called for him to give evidence to the Select Committee on Members' Interests. I was blocked by a Conservative majority on the Committee, yet that evidence was critical during the libel case of Mr. Hamilton; indeed, it was one of the reasons why the Hamilton trial collapsed. That is well established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " Madam Speaker, can advise me on some way in which I can have redress on this matter or at least find out precisely of what he is accusing me. The hon. Gentleman's emotional attack on me may possibly have something to do with the fact that he put down 55 early-day motions on behalf of Mr. Al Fayed and vociferously and vituperously tried to prevent me from calling Mr. Al Fayed before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-17", "file": "debates1997-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "8fb44eb49f24eed5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Merchant Fleet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Henderson", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker, may I take this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-17a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Personal Pensions (Mis-selling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome the statement. I am sure that, like the rest of the House, my hon. Friend will be aware of the public apology made by Peter Davis, the chief executive of the Prudential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Personal Pensions (Mis-selling)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's thanks. The Government will really be thanked when all the cases of mis-selling have been resolved. Yes, the climate at the time did encourage it to happen. The devil-may-care, get-rich-quick days of the Thatcher Government certainly encouraged the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Formula One", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker, of which I have given you notice. I should stress that it does not deal with a cheap or party political point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Formula One", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "rty political point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If it did, I would not have raised it on an afternoon when the House was bound to be three quarters empty. It deals with a subject that will concern hon. Members from both sides of the House, and with a matter that undermines the rules of the House. The matter strikes at the entire purpose—it negates the purpose—of having a Register of Members' Interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "t they see no purpose in its remaining, so the logic would be to remove it. We are doing that very thing and so sending a significant message, based on what I have said about respect for the rule of law and the way in which internment could exacerbate, rather than help, the situation. I do not know whether my hon. Friend the Member for Greenock and Inverclyde (Mr. Godman) still wants to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-18", "file": "debates1997-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "762ce61e2134a9a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " Essex got a 2.2 per cent. real-terms increase, compared with the English average of 1.9 per cent., and I can give the hon. Gentleman the historical context. Our allocations for next year, giving a cash increase of 5 per cent., as opposed to the 2.2 per cent. in real terms, are higher than the average for the previous five years. So, the argument that Opposition Members are advancing that somehow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-18a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Able.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "n to participate at every level within what is commonly known as the quangocracy. The commissioner for appointments has set out a code of practice in which equal opportunity is a central element. In addition, the public appointments unit is actively seeking more women nominations to its list—it currently stands at 31 per cent. of its total—so that Departments have a ready reservoir of willing and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.318.10", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. That is precisely why the terms of reference for Sir Patrick Neill should be as broad as possible. I also believe, to take up the point that my hon. Friend made, that it is important—and I have proposed this—that Sir Patrick Neill is able to look at all the donations that have been made, the names of the donors and the amounts, going back to 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.318.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have said that we will give the money back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have said that we will give the money back. [Interruption.] We have already made arrangements to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that, in this week of all weeks, even this Prime Minister would not be on his high horse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.8", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Well, we can take it from that that the Minister without Portfolio was not telling the truth in his statement. Let us explore this a little further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.319.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t he would publish a full list of donors to the Conservative party. As far as I am aware, he has not published a single name. In August, the Conservative party said that it would publish its accounts, but it has not so far done so. It said that it would give back the money that it received from Asil Nadir, but it has so far not given it back. The leader of the Liberal Democrats has agreed with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The leader of the Liberal Democrats has agreed with me that we should disclose the names of donors and the amounts going back to 1992.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend inform the House of the status and progress of his social exclusion unit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "[15123] Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nineteen years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "[15123] Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that despite 19 years of fiddled figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "For the very reason that I have just given, which is that, having taken the decision to refuse further donations, it was important that we got his advice as to whether we had taken the right decision. We got his advice and we followed that advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister had decided on 5 November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, of course-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We will fulfil our pre-election pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We will fulfil our pre-election pledge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Opposition Members shout out, \"When?\", but they are the people who put up the waiting lists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the next two years, we will put more money into the national health service than the Liberal Democrats wanted us to before the general election. Waiting lists have increased because of the situation that we inherited. Our pledge is that, at the next general election—when we again stand before the British people—we will have reduced waiting lists by 100,000 or more. We will deliver on that pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to before the general election. Waiting lists have increased because of the situation that we inherited. Our pledge is that, at the next general election—when we again stand before the British people—we will have reduced waiting lists by 100,000 or more. We will deliver on that pledge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"] As for Opposition Members, they are the people who undermined the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.326.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "preceding_text": "overnment committee that authorises the drafting of Bills. He knows well enough that he would not secure the agreement of his colleagues. They would say, \"You have not got the referendum through, and we therefore do not know whether the legislation will be passed. How can we justify the expense of constructing a Bill, and all that goes with that—the time of the Parliamentary Counsel, for example?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cliché.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": " agree with my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley). Why not produce a draft Bill? The whole point of producing a Bill is that it is a necessary intellectual exercise, in which those involved must go into the minutiae. As has been said repeatedly, the devil is in the detail. The point is well made: as Disraeli said, if you have a good point repeat it, repeat it, repeat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "ome and are crucial to our prosperity. London citizens need to know the proposals for the City corporation. That is fundamental in several key areas. Will the authority have tax powers, will it make the City uncompetitive, will it have planning powers and will it be relevant to the efficient operation of the most capitalist part of our economy? 6.45 pm It is not good enough to seek a blank cheque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "s—and trying to reassure themselves that the world had not changed on 1 May. The world did change, and the Conservatives are in opposition. Labour is in government and we have positive proposals to give the people of London the right once again to determine who governs their city. The Conservative party took away from the people of London the democratic right to elect their own citywide authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No. The Government are committed to ensuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I will come to that. He is terribly impatient. I assure him that I will give him the answer that he is looking for. We intend to publish the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "nment in this respect—that the authority should have tax-varying powers. We do not back off from that; we think that that is proper. Tax raised from London taxpayers goes into a national kitty. It is allocated by central Government to the regions, and spent on services in the regions. We hope that, in time, taxes raised from Londoners for services given to Londoners should be decided by Londoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.393.7", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Simon Hughes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Cabinet table the next day. The alternative is equally dangerous—I say that as one of the people who has featured on this problematic road. If a mayor is to be directly elected, most of the debate will concern not policy issues or the structure of local government but who the mayor will be. Will it be Jeffrey Archer; will it be Ken Livingstone; will it be Richard Branson or one of the Spice Girls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.393.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "These are newspapers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-19", "file": "debates1997-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db0e66006e3d6b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "We are putting forward the proposition that we spelled out in our manifesto for a package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-19a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-20", "file": "debates1997-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d12404e163eaa7db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Buy it back.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "Did not the previous Government privatise the coal industry and the electricity industry? If there are difficulties with the new contracts expiring on 31 March, is not the problem the fact that the whole industry is in the private sector and the Minister has very limited opportunities to intervene to save the coal industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-20", "file": "debates1997-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d12404e163eaa7db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Home Detention Curfew", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend—I am sorry, I mean my hon. Friend; I do not want to elevate him at this stage—is absolutely right. The success of the electronic media goes well beyond the treatment and care of offenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-20", "file": "debates1997-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d12404e163eaa7db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Home Detention Curfew", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I welcome the statement. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that public confidence-building measures, which are crucial to all effective community sentences, are in place? Does he agree that we might be better served by far by the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-20", "file": "debates1997-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d12404e163eaa7db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Home Detention Curfew", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I welcome the statement. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that public confidence-building measures, which are crucial to all effective community sentences, are in place? Does he agree that we might be better served by far by the Conservative party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] What am I reading? The floor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-20a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-21", "file": "debates1997-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "fb966ce764b3ef26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": " funds for a community legal service or for areas such as industrial tribunals. There we have it: the result of the consultation is announced in The Times before we have even had this debate. The Minister attracts opprobrium not only from The Times and The Mail on Sunday. An editorial in the November 1997 edition of Legal Action, not a magazine which naturally favours the Conservative party, says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-21", "file": "debates1997-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "fb966ce764b3ef26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "lawyer and I suppose that I should declare that as an interest. I took a law degree, but at that juncture I decided that it was not a bearable proposition to enter such an unpopular profession and I resolved instead to enter the House of Commons. As I am not a lawyer I am not used to being paid by the minute, and as I am not a journalist I am not used to being paid by the word, so I will be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-21", "file": "debates1997-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "fb966ce764b3ef26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "gal aid system for years and have made it more difficult for genuine litigants and lawyers with good intentions to bring serious cases before the courts. My greatest concern is about the Government's proposals for introducing conditional fees. My first concern is the effect that this would have on the legal profession, for which I have every respect. I am not here to indulge in any lawyer-bashing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-21", "file": "debates1997-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "fb966ce764b3ef26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": " few people are eligible for legal aid that the very principles that he so eloquently set out are being undermined. My hon. and learned Friend makes his criticisms now, but if we continued with the status quo, he would have to make them at some stage—if not against the present Minister, against whoever will be standing at the Dispatch Box in a few years' time—when tough decisions have to be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-21a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.616.5", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. George Howarth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. George Howarth)", "preceding_text": "The House will be aware that my hon. Friend has a distinguished record in the House on raising electoral register issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that prison institutions for young people are rather like an old school tie: a costly way of confirming a young person's identity for life? Although those who have committed the most grievous offences will need to be imprisoned, will he build—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "g proposals that he announced to the House last week? Perhaps the Home Secretary might also care to answer the question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) about whether tagging will cover those guilty of drug offences, because his frantic briefing did not quite make it to the Under-Secretary, his hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.630.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Jobs Summit", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "s one of the aims of the jobs summit, which is to encourage previously excluded groups to go back to work, why are the Government introducing cuts in child benefit to single mothers, proposed by the Conservatives when they were in government? Because they affect single mothers who are out of work, as well as those who are in work, they will tend to act as a disincentive to their returning to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Jobs Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "Did the jobs summit deal with the paradox of investment: it is required to create new jobs, but it can, on occasions, get rid of old jobs? It is needed for competitive purposes, but, unless it takes place within a framework of intervention, there will be problems about whether the investment delivers more jobs in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "submissions made to the Government about its plans also include a demand—from Mr. Raynsford's own Greenwich constituency local government committee—for the new assembly to be given tax-raising powers. Another from Ms Jackson's Hampstead and Highgate expresses 'considerable unease about the … role of the mayor' and calls for separate questions. There is a consensus that there are two issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The submission deals with the consultation conference on 12 October 1997, and refers to Workshop 1—The Mayor and Assembly. The submission says that there were \"indicative votes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only a sentence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I must say just a sentence or two in support of the amendment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " for Moray will concede that, although distances may be greater, the time taken to travel them is much less because of the lack of congestion. When I spent some time in Glasgow recently, I was amused to find that the Glaswegian definition of \"traffic gridlock\" was quite alien to me. I found driving in Glasgow to be a joyous experience because one could make progress easily and move around readily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The Minister is trying to persuade us why we are wrong in putting forward the amendment. We put forward some perfectly valid arguments to which she failed to come up with a reasonable response. She described Scotland and Wales as some sort of outer land where people come down from the mountains, taking several hours trekking through the snow, to get to the polling stations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Even a casual perusal of the clause would lead the Committee to conclude that it is either a bit of a tease or deliberately obscure. The very first word of the clause, \"If, leaves us in some doubt about the Government's intentions. We might expect their intentions to be somewhat clearer at this stage, the Green Paper notwithstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "asual perusal of the clause would lead the Committee to conclude that it is either a bit of a tease or deliberately obscure. The very first word of the clause, \"If, leaves us in some doubt about the Government's intentions. We might expect their intentions to be somewhat clearer at this stage, the Green Paper notwithstanding. [Interruption.] We are immediately confronted with the possibility that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ides of the Chamber should be concerned with the promotion of London. Unless we promote London to the wider world, what on earth is the point of the Bill? We are about promoting the excellence of London for tourism and trade and for the benefit of the general standard of living for the people of London. What on earth does encouraging minorities do for that? I have only a few minutes left to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "I trust that the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) is not disappointed that it is a she and not a he who rises to respond. The speech of the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), in support of the clause, was in the main complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "I trust that the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) is not disappointed that it is a she and not a he who rises to respond. The speech of the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), in support of the clause, was in the main complete. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] I regret that he is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-24", "file": "debates1997-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "085ac1ee0a803727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.743.6", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "mitted under clause 8, to direct the commission to review the recommendations made in the report, and to submit a further report making revised recommendations. It is a fail-safe provision, designed to ensure that the Local Government Commission can be asked to look again at its recommendations or any part of its recommendations, once it has delivered its report. The provision is well precedented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-24a.743.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.762.6", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "preceding_text": "In relation to the promotion of Scotch whisky experts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.762.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "or 18 years? It is not the Labour party that is not trusted on tax: it is the Conservative party that will never be trusted on tax again. The shadow Chancellor should think again about his proposals before the election, which he has not withdrawn, to remove tax relief from pension contributions paid by millions of people. Finally, I shall deal with the other points that the shadow Chancellor made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "£300 million this year. We have transferred resources from the assisted places scheme to school class sizes. We are transferring resources next year to education, along with £1.2 billion to the health service. The Liberal Democrats proposed £1 billion over two years for health. We have put in £1.5 billion— £500 million more. The Liberal Democrat proposals for the schools capital investment scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "p rate of tax or their new environmental taxes? They have suddenly become coy about the means by which they would pay for their programme, and we do not see it in their election manifestos. It is all very well to will the end, but if the Liberal Democrats are not prepared to will the means, by taking tough decisions about the use of resources as the leader of their party suggested he wanted to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"ERM.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the position, interest rates should have risen. I was not prepared to go back to a situation, as in the late 1980s, where interest rates had to rise late because the action to tackle inflation had not been taken, forcing the country into the stop-go instability of recession. Let us remind the Conservatives that, in 1990, interest rates went up to 15 per cent. and wages had gone up by 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "nto work rather than remaining on benefits for the rest of their life. I recently visited a centre in Doncaster for young mothers under 16 that enables them to continue their studies by providing support in child care and transport. What young parents need post-16 is policies of the future, not a re-hash of the policies of the past. I remind my right hon. Friend that it was the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I disagree entirely with what the right hon. Lady says about the national lottery. As she perfectly well knows, the mid-week lottery increased the amount of money that the lottery was able to provide for good causes by about £1 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " appears to enjoy wide support, so we do not propose to change it. England will continue to return 71 MEPs. It will be divided into nine regions. The regions, which are set out in schedule 2 to the Bill, will be the regions that are currently used by the Government offices for the regions. We have chosen those regions because they are well established and understood by the people who live in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me get on; I hope to give some comfort to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "ut the loss of constituency identity by going for a regional list of candidates. It is a pity that he is not in his place today. He would have found that more of his colleagues than he realised share that concern. According to The Guardian , the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) is opposed to centralism and people being barred from voting for individuals. If he were in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": "stituencies, depending on the type of council, consist of only a couple of thousand people. I served on a local authority for eight years, and I am proud of the two years that I served as its leader. In the three local government elections that I faced, however, the highest—not the lowest—turnout was 36 per cent. Despite all my personal appeal and charm and constituency work, that was the turnout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": " doing very hard constituency work in a very small constituency, where many electors knew who we were, it did not lead to participation or to good democracy. Why? Because too many seats were perceived to be safe for one party or the other, and that was a deterrent to voting and to participating in the political process. In my glorious past, I was an executive member of the Scunthorpe Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": " added three executive members to make the meeting quorate. The three executive members immediately asked the two members whom they wanted. They said, \"John's doing all right; we'll stick with him.\" John was selected as the candidate, but the seat was so safe that the Conservatives and the Liberals—and even the Monster Raving Loony party—did not bother putting up a candidate and it was a walkover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ncere about consultation and debate, will they allow longer debate, and put off the Committee stage until after Christmas? I bear in mind the comment of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham about the way that the Government rushed in. As recently as June, Lord Williams of Mostyn told the Lords that the Government had no plans to bring forward this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-25", "file": "debates1997-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3782377b2f4ab7b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "e in Europe at Commission level, at Parliament level and at other levels is based on regions—the common characteristics of regions, deprivation and difficulties in regions, and subsidiarity. Of course, business has already responded to that. Probably in every region of the country, there is a regional Confederation of British Industry spokesperson or some kind of organisation representing the CBI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-25a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": " would be sensible to allow existing contracts to run while the review continues and to impose a moratorium on mine closures in the interim. Such action may involve a cost. The hon. Member for Sherwood said that no one expects a Labour Government to subsidise a privatised industry. I suspect that many miners in his constituency and elsewhere are not interested in ideological niceties of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.966.4", "colnum": "966", "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 I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that he wants on that road scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.966.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "rime Minister's commitment to maintaining pre-election promises, how does he justify the extra £3 billion made available to schools and the extra £1.5 billion made available to the national health service in the first six months of his Government, when that money was not even mentioned in our pre-election promises? Does he accept that the term \"value added\" could well be applied to his Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.968.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "preceding_text": "d agree that teachers are the most valuable resource in education? May I report from schools in my constituency that teachers greatly welcome the £2.3 billion extra money allocated to schools, and also the ideas in the education White Paper? However, as they were disparaged, undermined and blamed for most of the ills of society for so many years by the previous Government, teachers' morale is low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": "f finance for the past five years? Does he agree that the Neill committee will, at worst, be crippled in its investigation of party finance unless it has full information and disclosure? In those circumstances, will my right hon. Friend carefully consider making sure that the House has the opportunity to ensure that all parties are made to disclose their sources of finance and to open their books?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.987.4", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "efore the House at different times. There will be a directly elected mayor, a directly elected assembly, a regional development agency appointed by the Department, a Government office for London, 32 borough councils, and, under another Bill that will probably be introduced in the House of Lords—the so-called local democracy innovations Bill—there is the prospect of directly elected borough mayors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.987.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Buck", "preceding_text": "s. Earlier in the year I carried out a survey, in which we sent a questionnaire to 10,000 members of the electorate with whom we had not had previous contact, asking them about their local priorities. To my mixed delight and horror, 1,000 of them replied. The horror was because I then had to write 1,000 personal replies. The single overwhelming priority, apart from very specific and local matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Buck", "preceding_text": "is the number of questions. Give people a specific opportunity to comment on the subject, as I did and as the Government have done, and people will respond very positively and welcome the proposal. As several of my colleagues have said, we have to thank the Greater London council for some of that positive response. I do not want the Greater London council recreated. Ten years on, life has changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not present for most of the debates on Second Reading and in Committee. If he had been, he would have heard such calls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "After that short speech, I will go through the list of the London boroughs that are in favour of a two-question referendum. I shall do it slowly, in case the hon. Gentleman wishes to write the names down and go round to Old Queen street and check them. The boroughs are Barnet, Brent, Bromley, Hackney, Harrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "How would the hon. Gentleman know, when he did not allow a vote to find out what the members present thought? He will have to discuss the matter with the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Transport in London (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": " Again, the Labour party was strongly represented in the bulk of his speech, which was devoted to re-quoting what my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) said on Second Reading. The right hon. Gentleman was not alone in dubbing my right hon. and hon. Friends \"Lobby fodder\". It was an insult levelled at my hon. Friends by the hon. Member for Croydon, South (Mr. Ottaway) as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be able to tell the right hon. Gentleman that that is totally incorrect. However, my point in raising the matter was to observe how the mighty are fallen, in that, in a debate that he believes to be important about the restoration of government for London, the right hon. Gentleman is reduced to quoting my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "As I began by saying, nothing can be further from the truth. My point, however, is that the right hon. Gentleman has no arguments to present for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BlOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker) referred to the history of the Department. Civil servants are professional, dedicated people who serve this Government in the same professional, dedicated way in which they have served other Governments. They act on the instructions of Ministers, and it is the current Ministers who have decided to be open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-26", "file": "debates1997-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "89862e1f0f699218", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BlOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ntroduced. Indeed, some are travelling shorter distances. The anecdotal evidence that I have shows that, much to my amazement, animals have always travelled hundreds of miles to slaughter. They have never gone to the nearest abattoir. Nevertheless, we do not seek to force farmers and animals to travel further than is good for the health of the animals on their final journey to death and rendering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-26a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1070.6", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s at all. The corporation tax cut will give business an extra £1.5 billion a year. The transitional costs having been met, business will be £1.8 billion a year better off. I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his good wishes on The Spectator award, but if he is going to pursue this course of action, he had better explain why Adair Turner, secretary general of the Confederation of British Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1070.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is going to read out that document, perhaps he will remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is going to read out that document, perhaps he will remind the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am about to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, fiscal stability means ensuring that we get stability in public spending and stability in taxation. The hon. Gentleman is referring to the Bank's monetary policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1078.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1083.6", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "It is a bit rich for Opposition Members to lecture us on patient care after their record for 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1083.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1114.3", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Computers (Century Date Change)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "We have had a revelation this afternoon. Whenever the Opposition are on weak ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1114.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-27", "file": "debates1997-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "a34cced32f345ac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "Parliament but the European Commission that tells our fisherman what he should catch—by species and size—where he should catch it and in what quantity? That is not democracy but collectivism. It amazes me that even some Conservative Members who have opposed Communism all their lives have apparently found it in themselves to support these policies which are nothing if not collectivist. To this day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-27a.1165.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Foster", "preceding_text": " the form of administrative, legal and research assistance paid for by the Campaign for the Protection of Hunted Animals in support of the Bill. I have a further declaration. I have also received support from thousands upon thousands of ordinary British people who want hunting with dogs banned. I have known for some time that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister would not be in the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1199.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " if we adopt the techniques of snaring, trapping, gassing, poisoning or shooting, there will be casualties that will enable future generations to portray those techniques with all the graphic indignation that we have heard today. They are all flawed, and that is why, as long as we accept that there will be culling—and the hon. Gentleman does—culling by hunting is the one certain approach. We know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1211.5", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ot for the activities of the hunt. Labour Members largely represent urban constituencies. Let them take care as they see their communities dissipated by the pressures of modern life before they destroy the cohesion of the rural countryside. How is it that a party that spends most of its life arguing about the creation of jobs can decide that, in one piece of legislation, it will decimate the jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": " happened to the hare in his account happened after it was dead. Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman is one of those people who live in a world in which death has become so unacceptable that it cannot be described in reality. Secondly, there is the question of man's position in the predatory chain. The fox has its own prey, and we prey on the fox; we need to perform our role in that predatory chain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Norris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Norris", "preceding_text": " for the constituency and was a good constituency Member of Parliament. Unfortunately, he was best remembered by many members of the public for injuring his back in a charity parachute jump, as some hon. Members may recall. Also, two years ago, he was terribly ill and close to death. I am sure that all hon. Members will support me in giving him their best wishes for a happy and healthy retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ture animals for amusement—but in the pursuit of profit and so-called knowledge. The repetitious and brutal experiments and the conditions in stockyards across the country are such that the hon. Member for Worcester would never take a party of schoolchildren from his constituency there to see what really happens. The real danger of the Bill is that it distracts attention from all that and focuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1226.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "that there may be an attempt to stop it in another place. The only hope that fox hunters have for the survival of their sport is to use parliamentary procedures. Right is on our side. We have a majority in the House and, if the House expresses its will and if a majority of hon. Members support the Bill today, it should not be obstructed in another place. We have a mission to modernise the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1248.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " not destroy the rural economy or change the face of Britain as we know it. It is a sensible measure that has the support of most of the British public and, I suspect, the overwhelming support of the House. I shall deal with the town versus country argument of some Opposition Members. They seem to suggest that because they represent deeply rural constituencies only they have the right to speak up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I have received the same correspondence from the British Horseracing Board, which makes the point that development of certain types of horse racing—such as hunting point-to-point and national hunt racing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1264.7", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So the answer is no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "he Government agree that that is quite right. If those procedures are followed, and if those Conservative Members who have expressed concern about the Bill continue to do so but in a way that does not delay the Bill's progress in Committee or on Report— in other words, if they do not deliberately use delaying tactics—there is no reason why the Bill should not complete all its stages in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1264.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "We are now at the heart of the matter. The hon. Gentleman has made it clear that, no matter how much time the Bill had, he and his colleagues would not support it in any circumstances but would use the procedures of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-11-28", "file": "debates1997-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "dd7807e9ce555af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1265.5", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "elaying tactic available to them to stop the Bill passing all its stages in this House and moving to another place. They are already deeply unpopular in this country, and if they thwart the will of the House which is to support a Bill that has been given a Second Reading and which has the overwhelming support of the British public, they will sink into even greater unpopularity. The same condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-11-28a.1265.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He was the author of a notorious pamphlet in 1993, which struck a chill into the heart of every pensioner in the country, for the No Turning Back group, that ultra-rightwing, reactionary Thatcherite group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "overnment now, we would, without question, have implemented the changes. I have told the Government that. I can tell the Liberal Democrats that the simple position is that we certainly shall not oppose any such changes if the Government introduce them. That is straightforward and our position is clear. We have not broken a pledge, unlike the Labour party—the party of the hon. Member for Rotherham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "them. That is straightforward and our position is clear. We have not broken a pledge, unlike the Labour party—the party of the hon. Member for Rotherham. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman should calm down—he is obviously being vibrated too much by his Whips Office. He and his hon. Friends have broken a pledge—the Secretary of State has broken it more than anyone else. In the interests of clarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.29.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ave witnessed this afternoon again. It is what we witnessed time and again when you were in power during the past 18 years. You did nothing for disabled people or for lone parents; you certainly did nothing for pensioners. Over the past six months, however, the nation has been asked to believe in a Damascene conversion of your party: you are now the friends of the pensioner and of the lone parent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I do apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I fell asleep while Opposition Members were speaking. They certainly tried the patience of all of us this afternoon, but I tried to stay awake, and yes I do agree with my hon. Friend on this side, thank you very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I do apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I fell asleep while Opposition Members were speaking. They certainly tried the patience of all of us this afternoon, but I tried to stay awake, and yes I do agree with my hon. Friend on this side, thank you very much. [Interruption.] I agree on this side, that we are going to make these proposals work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "he National Autistic Society, I am national vice-president of the Alzheimer's Disease Society and I have a dependent relative in receipt of disability living allowance for life. The Labour party manifesto has been waved about a lot during the debate, especially from the Treasury Bench. Labour Back Benchers have referred to it, and I want to quote a few passages, because if this is to be our bible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "I have every idea, and I say to the hon. Gentleman, as a carer for someone with this benefit, I will fight it, fight it and fight it on behalf of people who are vulnerable and who depend on that benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "I have every idea, and I say to the hon. Gentleman, as a carer for someone with this benefit, I will fight it, fight it and fight it on behalf of people who are vulnerable and who depend on that benefit. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady may say that I did not fight it, but I assure her that I did. Anyone who looks at my track record on what I have said and fought for in the House will see that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "Those benefits are there now. Labour Members should take a careful look at the benefits that were introduced and secured up until 1 May. Now, we are receiving letter after letter from worried, frightened people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "with disabilities and will cause them a great deal of distress. Having heard from those organisations and having read out a small sample of letters from, I remind the Government, the people—not the people's banquet or the people's lottery, but the real people who have very real needs—I will conclude with some final words from the Labour manifesto. It claims: Britain will be better with new Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "in vain—such as the pursuit of economic and policy stability and of policies to set the right framework for the long term, an attack on skill shortages and on the neglect of infrastructure, and action to tackle tax avoidance, to simplify and to cut corporation tax and to offer temporary capital allowances to small business. Those are just a few among the 10 tax cuts that this Government have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "simple fact is that the Federation of Small Businesses is opposed to a statutory minimum wage. If the hon. Gentleman is not aware of that important fact, frankly it is high time that he became so. I should like to move on from the subject of the national minimum wage about which one can tell that Labour Members are deeply embarrassed—witness the departure from the Chamber of the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.104.5", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "of official bargaining agents on behalf of the work force. That can spread like a contagion right across British industry and commerce. I do not suggest that it is the intention to return to the dark days of the winter of discontent of the late 1970s, but that could be the outcome. We could return to those grim days, when the streets went unswept, the sick went untended and the dead went unburied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Gentleman to be suggesting that there should be a large-scale energy tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "te that time is short. We believe that tax should be switched from the good things—employment—to the things that consume our finite energy resources. The latter form of tax is commonly called the carbon tax. The whole thrust of that taxation policy is that it is a neutral tax. When national insurance contributions are cut, taxation is switched from employment to the use of finite energy resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.114.8", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "or reduction in labour costs. It enables small business to make one-off, critical mass growth, and a breakthrough in terms of size and prosperity. That is why the proposal has been welcomed so widely. The advent of regional development agencies is cherished by the business community. Only the other evening, I was having dinner with senior members of the Confederation of British Industry in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.114.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-01", "file": "debates1997-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9fc5f11f398361e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Burdens on Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr.McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.McCartney", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), the former Secretary of State for Wales, is the wannabe of British politics. He said, \"I wannabe the leader of the Tory party,\" but when he first tried, he got 27 per cent. of the vote of the parliamentary party. He lost, but he tried again. He got 16 per cent. of the vote. After his performance tonight, I doubt that he would even get off the starting line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-01a.122.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wild Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for that reply. I welcome the advance publication of certain Bills, which is helpful. To return to a previous point, however, is the right hon. Lady aware that, following the Jopling recommendations, there is less and less time for Back Benchers to debate issues in the House? A case in point was the wild mammals Bill last Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "he Department for Education and Employment. That is just one element of the national child care strategy, of which after-school clubs form another part. Secondly, I propose to tackle a piece of nonsense in the present formula. Currently some authorities have an incredible ranking on the measure of neediness. It is hard to believe that leafy Kingston upon Thames is as needy as beleaguered Barnsley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "had a choice. They could use capital receipts to pay off debt or they could use them to finance new capital expenditure. However, in 1990, the previous Government decided to penalise those which had chosen new capital expenditure during the previous decade. The previous Government treated everyone as if they had chosen to repay debt, whether they had or not. I am proposing to put that right wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "ld use them to finance new capital expenditure. However, in 1990, the previous Government decided to penalise those which had chosen new capital expenditure during the previous decade. The previous Government treated everyone as if they had chosen to repay debt, whether they had or not. I am proposing to put that right wrong. [Laughter.] Just for the record, I am proposing to put that wrong right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": " term, while retaining that reassurance. I know that if we can make the whole exercise simpler, it will be much appreciated by Members of the House, local authorities, the general public and especially me. For the immediate future, I plan to provide the House, before the revenue support grant report is debated in the new year, with a plain English guide to these aspects of local authority finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.157.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "HON MEMBER: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "man confirm that this is the last year of capping? Does he accept that capping distorts local priorities and undermines local accountability? Will he admit that because of capping and Labour's decision to stick to Tory spending plans, the responsibility for cuts and council tax rises this year rests with Whitehall, not with the town halls?. Local council tax payers will recognise in the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The assessments, for example, of people in Westminster who are staying as commuters or visitors will now be considered at half the rate that applied before", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "My question is straightforward. Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s that the more Commissioners there are, the more they try to do. There is the continual attempt to extend their competence and jurisdiction to areas where subsidiarity should prevail. That problem should have been tackled at Amsterdam; it will have to be tackled again. 6 pm I realise that many of the speeches by my colleagues in the debate have not always taken exactly the same approach as mine —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "an everyday situation. It is a political decision which would have to be taken by a 15 minus one majority. Every country other than the country involved would have to agree. The power would not be used in a trifling way, to take revenge on an existing member because one country or a group of countries disagreed with it. If that happened, the future of the European Union would be in great jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way now. There is also no question of the ECJ's having any role in the maintenance of law and order in this country or our internal security. I have given the Committee a fair opportunity to debate the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "democracy? Democracy means the rights of the people. What can the people do? Say, for example, Mr. Martin, your constituents said, \"I am upset that £1.2 billion is spent on subsidising the growing of high-tar tobacco. I want to do something about it.\" I am sure that, with the splendid Member of Parliament that they have, they would ask, \"What can you do about it?\" The answer is absolutely nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-02", "file": "debates1997-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "87c6c8020c48351e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "ar. The fact that the Conservatives went down to an election defeat and that the British people overwhelmingly rejected the party that was opposed to the social chapter seems to have escaped him. He did not seem aware of the fact that a majority of people in this country wanted us to join the social chapter. The majority wanted the right to consultation for workers and the right to parental leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-02a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "At the moment, more than half of all housing being financed by Tai Cymru—Housing in Wales—is being built on brown-field sites. Earlier this year, I asked local authorities in Wales to consider creating green belts where they had particular evidence of urban sprawl. We are doing everything possible to ensure that brown-field sites in Wales are utilised to the full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.346.7", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "preceding_text": "If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 3 December. Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.346.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "Question 3, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.348.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "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 I can give no guarantee on the latter point. The circumstances in Scotland are obviously different because there are fewer big football clubs, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman understand the anger and distaste of existing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Regional Development Agencies (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "pporting our proposals for the rural areas, including the National Farmers Union, the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the local authorities in those areas and the environmental groups. We have to judge the interests of those groups against what Lord Shuttleworth has said. Still, he has gone; happy retirement to him. Frankly, I think that the rural areas will be better off without him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Regional Development Agencies (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e Protection of Rural England, the local authorities in those areas and the environmental groups. We have to judge the interests of those groups against what Lord Shuttleworth has said. Still, he has gone; happy retirement to him. Frankly, I think that the rural areas will be better off without him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"] All planning matters will go through the normal planning procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Regional Development Agencies (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "he Welsh Assembly, and English regions to discuss any perceived unfairness. At this stage, however, we have made it clear that we have no intention of conducting such a review. On inward investment, I am sure that all Members would agree that the current situation is not a happy one because the Government have wasted a lot of money when parts of the country have been played off against each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Regional Development Agencies (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " other. Therefore, we must be flexible and adjust to that. That is why we want a regional body rather than a Whitehall organisation. The subsidies given to Scotland and Wales reflected the high levels of unemployment when the agencies were established. The agencies were one way of responding to that. But after 18 years of a Tory Government, all regions of the United Kingdom have mass unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Good man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.412.9", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": "is not my understanding of the current position of the CBI. I am confident that after the port and cigars have been passed around tonight and we have had the opportunity to discuss the matter the CBI will be as much in favour of the social chapter as I am. The two main subjects under discussion—the social chapter and the employment title—have been described as empty boxes. Various other metaphors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.412.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": "We have not exercised that opt-out in discussions on the employment title and the social chapter. I have a personal view on the Schengen situation that is shared by many hon. Members on both sides of the House. As a loyal supporter of the Government, however, it would not be appropriate for me to mention that view now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "hat is devastatingly bad news. If the Government want to challenge the Liverpool model and the arguments of Professor Minford, I have no doubt that he would be only too delighted to take them on. He says: In the case of the weakest combination, the damage to output is estimated at 9 per cent. and unemployment increases by 3 million (10 per cent. of the labour force). That is published information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-03", "file": "debates1997-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4c196ab6cf072c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I thought that it was going to be one of those ratchet-effect arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-03a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "preceding_text": "Although I congratulate the Government on their commitment to biodiversity, which is in stark contrast to the almost lack of interest shown by former Conservative Ministers, I urge my hon. Friend to take particular account of the rapid decline in certain species of bird. In particular, the skylark population has declined by 54 per cent. in the past 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "preceding_text": "sity, which is in stark contrast to the almost lack of interest shown by former Conservative Ministers, I urge my hon. Friend to take particular account of the rapid decline in certain species of bird. In particular, the skylark population has declined by 54 per cent. in the past 20 years. [Interruption.] What further plans do the Government have to protect endangered species, so that bird lovers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms McCafferty", "preceding_text": "vative Ministers, I urge my hon. Friend to take particular account of the rapid decline in certain species of bird. In particular, the skylark population has declined by 54 per cent. in the past 20 years. [Interruption.] What further plans do the Government have to protect endangered species, so that bird lovers— [Interruption.] —can continue to enjoy all the species that are found in our country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "I wish the right hon. Gentleman well. Does he agree that birdlife is being damaged by the intensive practices that are encouraged by the CAP? Gentlemen farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Contrary to what the Minister said a few moments ago, if there is an underspend on European programmes leading to an increased rebate, using the increased rebate to support agriculture will not be an increase in public expenditure. On yesterday's statement, now that the Minister has admitted that there will have to be consultation on the deboning issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "We plead guilty to choosing safest options. I do not know the specifics of the hon. Gentleman's farmers—he seems to claim ownership of them—but the fact is that dairy farming is one of the most profitable sectors of British agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman either was not listening or is hard of hearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Robin Cook)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Robin Cook)", "preceding_text": "mine the walls we build around the fortress. It is because we want those countries to join, to create that stronger Union, that repeatedly those whom I met in central Europe welcomed the fact that Britain is now back in Europe, playing the part that they want us to play as a leading partner in Europe—with influence, not isolation in Brussels and with respect, not resentment in other member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "sister party in the whole of Europe, but it is no service to Britain to offer it the policies of the mid-20th century for the world of the early 21st century. Britain needs a Government who understand the modern world, who can command respect and influence in Europe and who can relate Britain to the world outside. That is what we offer Britain—a Government who offer active leadership in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ic expenditure over which a Chancellor, and ultimately the House, has control would thereby be reduced. That is contrary to the democratic control that we like to think we have over expenditure. We are a modernising Government: we are modernising the constitution, the welfare state and the electoral system. Let us have a bit of modernisation of the European Union. I know that it will be difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-04", "file": "debates1997-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "578112af6f0bfa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " European level. In addition, there is the right to advance arguments, as sometimes the Government will. It is better to decide some things, however, at a local or national level. The right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe has had a specific reply on information about the euro currency. The Government may seek support from the Commission, to provide information. Money is available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-04a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I welcome the very positive way in which my right hon. Friend has gone about this matter in his statement today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.659.9", "colnum": "659", "heading": "MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my hon. Friend is aware that the millennium dome is already a spectacular site from my constituency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.659.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nd we shall now legislate on that basis. None the less, I recognise the closeness of the outcome—the point made by the hon. Gentleman. Since the referendum, we have striven to ensure that the detailed legislation for the assembly will provide a response to the concerns raised during the referendum campaign, as well as meet the aspirations of the majority who supported the creation of the assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The problem is that, when I write to my shadow spokesman, I never get a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " no doubt that, when I announce the name later this week, the right hon. Gentleman will be the first to endorse him. The advisory group will debate and seek views on the key principles concerning the assembly's working arrangements. It will consult widely, and I hope that a wide range of views will be expressed and that consensus will be developed on the best working arrangements for the assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " advisory group. When established, the assembly will become responsible for the £7 billion annual budget that is currently controlled by the holder of my office. Those moneys are allocated to Wales, principally under the block and formula rules. As the explanatory and financial memorandum makes clear, annual changes to the Welsh block will continue to be determined by the population-based formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "es, principally under the block and formula rules. As the explanatory and financial memorandum makes clear, annual changes to the Welsh block will continue to be determined by the population-based formula. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) is again trying to intervene from a sedentary position. The explanatory and financial memorandum makes the position absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting his point clearly, so that we can understand it. He wants the Barnett formula arrangements to be included in the Bill. He is nodding, so at least we agree on the question. The Barnett formula is not currently enshrined in legislation. It is a practice that has been adhered to by both the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "without question by successive Conservative Governments from 1979 to this year, and it is this Government's policy to retain it. Is the hon. Gentleman saying that a question mark hangs over the continuation of the Barnett formula? If so, perhaps he should say that it is Conservative party policy to do away with the Barnett formula, if we in Wales have the. temerity to have our own local democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman saying that a question mark hangs over the continuation of the Barnett formula? If so, perhaps he should say that it is Conservative party policy to do away with the Barnett formula, if we in Wales have the. temerity to have our own local democracy. [Interruption.] I will give way to the hon. Gentleman if he wishes to pursue the matter. My right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am happy to take advice and to read the section to which the right hon. Gentleman refers, but will he answer this central question? How is it possible for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was achieved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "The percentages were first raised by the Secretary of State. I am merely responding to the debate, as I should. I accept that a simple majority may have been achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " the lackadaisical timetable which, despite 18 years in the preparation, has brought us the Bill some seven months after the election and nearly three months after the referendum. Indeed, there are still amendments to come. Surely there cannot be anything more serious than the fundamental reform of the constitution of Wales and the United Kingdom, requiring priority time on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": " taxes raised in Wales or on behalf of Wales should be channelled through a Welsh treasury department, but that clearly goes beyond what the Government have in mind. We need some assurance, in the Bill or outside it, about the Government's intentions in regard to the Barnett formula. We need to know that in future Wales will have a more generous deal than that formula has provided in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to have that clarification from my right hon. Friend. The proof of the pudding will be in the working out of the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "rty rather than having the opportunity to vote for a preferred candidate within the list. I understand that argument as it relates to the European elections. However, with the assembly elections, people will not be coerced into voting only once, because they will have two votes. They will be able to vote for their preferred candidate under the first-past-the-post system, so it is not unreasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "We certainly discussed the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Barnett.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I did not see the interview to which the right hon. Gentleman refers, but I have no doubt that that is true. Who better than Mr. Barnett—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I want to make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": " to represent the interests of Wales in the European forum—which to a greater or lesser extent is the case—there is no doubt that, if we were to achieve a phased lifting of the beef ban across the United Kingdom, not only would Northern Ireland have a good chance of being first in such phasing, but Wales would have a good chance of having its ban lifted earlier than the rest of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no, he isn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting question, but I have made my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-08", "file": "debates1997-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "87bfa4b4b5340620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caton", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting question, but I have made my case. [Interruption] That would indeed be my position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-08a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.792.6", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Well, we had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.792.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "d? The Tory internal market is being abolished, and we welcome that, but, if there are purchasers and providers, and if there are contracts—even if they are called service agreements—the reality is that there is a market. Or is the right hon. Gentleman saying, as he did in the Rugby example, that there will be no opportunity for a purchasing doctor to choose to go outside his area if he so wished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like new Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": " an amendment calling for a referendum when the treaty was put before the House. The new Tory leader's motto is, \"U-turn if you want to, this man's definitely for turning.\" I see from yesterday's The Daily Telegraph that the Leader of the Opposition is now trying to get Scottish Tories to break with the past and reinvent themselves by changing their name following their disastrous election result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.816.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "iticism. It is a matter of pride that Wales produces fine Members of Parliament, who have brought Wales to the centre of the union in our national history. The Under-Secretary's speech was so trivial it was shocking. He was an illusionist, as the proposal has the backing of just 25 per cent. of the vote in Wales. Those are all the people who turned out to vote for his proposals in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I am told that 55.6 per cent. voted no, so it is difficult to reach that conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "There will be more direct representation. At present, the Under-Secretary of State for Wales, my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend (Mr. Griffiths) is not involved in negotiations in Brussels in the same way as my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture. The Welsh Assembly will provide stronger representation in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. My role in this House is precious. I support this United Kingdom, and the assembly will not contradict its unity and the Union. If I have any say in it, I will try to sustain my role in the defence of this nation for some time; it is a role that I am proud to have. I see no contradiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "Indeed. If people had felt strongly about devolution during those 18 years, they would have marched to Parliament to protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Win Griffiths)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Win Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "ther day of wide-ranging, interesting debate. It is striking that the Opposition have played the same old gramophone, which does not enable them to face reality. The reality is that there is not a single person on the Conservative Benches who can stand up as an elected Member from Wales. All we had was a diatribe against the general election result in May and the referendum result on 18 September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "One or two members of the CBI have said that, but let me make it clear that many other business people in Wales take exactly the opposite view. It is all right for one Member from north Shropshire to call in aid one or two members of the CBI, but there are dozens of others who take an opposite view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.7", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my right hon. Friend raised that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.7", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rs for them to decide, and there will be no compulsion about them. It will be a question of seeking agreement, to ensure that the machinery of government continues working smoothly. The explanatory and financial memorandum clearly explains that the Barnett formula will continue to be used. The hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) did not even understand how the Barnett formula works, or that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.890.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It might not be simple for the right hon. Gentleman, but it is quite simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It might not be simple for the right hon. Gentleman, but it is quite simple. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have explained it to him, and that is all he needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Standing Committee. From the outset, it was the Government's proposition that consideration of the Bill would be split between a Committee of the whole House and Standing Committee. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made it clear yesterday that we intended that the clauses which raised key points of principle would be debated by a Committee of the whole House. That remains our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "intended that the clauses which raised key points of principle would be debated by a Committee of the whole House. That remains our position. [Interruption.] We appreciate that a great number of technical matters were raised in yesterday's and today's debates. We believe that it is more appropriate that those matters are dealt with upstairs in Committee, where detailed scrutiny can be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ed out. [Interruption.] Report and Third Reading will of course be taken on the Floor of the House. None the less, the Government recognise the concerns raised by the official Opposition, and the motion responds to that. I regret, however, that it was not possible to reach agreement through the usual channels on a reasonable timetable to consider the Bill in its entirety on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.900.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-09", "file": "debates1997-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "4859fe915a4b689d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition for the reform of the British Board of Film Classification and the introduction of a system of classification for television programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-09a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.937.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend— [Interruption.] I am sorry, my hon. and learned Friend— [Interruption.] It is good to get something out of constructive opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "the pound. They have introduced cattle passport charges, new Meat Hygiene Service charges and extra abattoir waste costs. They have cut over-30-months scheme cattle compensation and the hill livestock compensatory allowance. The Government seem to serve no one's interest but their own. They are there to serve the cult of the Prime Minister's ego, not the people in the countryside. The question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Cycling", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": ", but I am so tall that when I ride such bicycles they wobble all over the place, because the saddle and the handlebars are so extended. It is like riding a jelly—or perhaps I am the jelly. Nevertheless, portable bicycles are very useful, as are bicycles with facilities for carrying things. When I was cycling from Kilburn, I lost the manuscript of a book that set out the whole case for new Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ries must have the top priority for resource transfers and investment to enable them to work their way out of poverty, but many middle-income countries have serious problems. As our White Paper says, those areas do not need big resource transfers, but need support for changes that will protect the neediest people. We are committed to that work, including work with street children in Latin America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1002.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1004.4", "colnum": "1004", "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, but once again the right hon. Gentleman is reading out only one part of the sentence. I said before the election: We will stick within the existing budget…but we can offer better and different ways of getting single parents back into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1004.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is simply not right. The right hon. Gentleman says that he fully supports our welfare-to-work programme, and the arrangements for single parents under that programme, but his party refused to support the windfall tax that brings it about. As I explained to one of his hon. Friends last week, the Liberal Democrats will sit there and ask for more money for everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1006.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1006.7", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, the hon. Gentleman is wrong in what he said about the Paymaster General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1006.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many of our youngsters are facing a serious crisis. One in 10 children who are absent from school are supposedly on GCSE courses but feel confident neither about being on those courses nor about their success. Many of them who are in youth courts—some 42 per cent.—are excluded from schools. The previous Administration excluded those youngsters and put them in this position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "absent from school are supposedly on GCSE courses but feel confident neither about being on those courses nor about their success. Many of them who are in youth courts—some 42 per cent.—are excluded from schools. The previous Administration excluded those youngsters and put them in this position. [Interruption.] Will our social exclusion unit embrace them and ensure that they do not feel excluded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1007.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, as I said in answer to an earlier question, the tax promises of the Labour party were clear before the election and we have kept every single one of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "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 absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Mental Incapacity", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Mr. Geoffrey Hoon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Mr. Geoffrey Hoon)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I should like to repeat a statement on mental incapacity, which has been made in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Doctor Assisted Dying", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "le of the state? How do we govern ourselves and our society? We have already outlawed capital punishment and said that it is wrong. It is now being proposed that the state should regulate a death industry in another way by passing such legislation. I immediately concede that the motive is entirely different, but we would be legislating on how people should die, and that is a dangerous thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by the Liberal Democrat Member, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": " avoid that situation within the existing budgets. I repeat that he said \"within the existing budgets.\" The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Social Security have both given personal pledges that the cuts would not be introduced. Both are guilty of breaking personal pledges and are condemned by that breach of faith. Recently I read an extremely interesting article in the Morning Star .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1043.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I am awfully sorry, but the hon. Gentleman seems to be under a misunderstanding. I shall explain towards the end of my speech why he has misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1047.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wokingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": ". Surely any single parent who is bringing up children on benefits must be in the most difficult financial position. The strategy is not working and it is counter-productive. In addition, we are penalising some of the most vulnerable people in our community. I feel that that is an indicator of an approach to society. A few years ago, we had the right hon. Member for somewhere in the Thames valley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She works here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "overnment who kicked out that lot who misgoverned us for 18 years decide to pursue the same approach. 6 pm This morning, sitting in the No. 44 bus on Battersea Park road, I was tapped on the shoulder by a lady sitting behind me on the top deck. She said, \"You will be voting against the Government's proposals tonight, won't you, Mr. Wigley?\" I hardly expected to be recognised on the bus, but I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "e pleasure of speaking at three universities. I have not seen such anger among students for a long time. Students believe that they were blatantly and completely misled about student finance. All new students could end up with a debt of about £10,000 at the end of their studies. I predict that there will be a collapse in the number of students at university and some universities may be threatened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "e from Glasgow and lived in Southend for 17 years, I have a high regard for the integrity, devotion and commitment of the Labour party. As hon. Members are well aware—even if they live in Eastwood, which is a rather more affluent part of Glasgow—although I have fundamental disagreements with the Labour party, it is represented by people of integrity who are respected for being straight and honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman, who is making an interesting and fascinating speech, accept that the root problem with this matter is that the proposals are Treasury driven? Why are they Treasury driven? Is it not because Government Members know perfectly well that the Maastricht criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": " health and education, and that is what the Government are doing. We promised to provide extra help to the poorest elderly people, and that is what we are doing. We promised to reform the shambles of the social security system to enable people to move from welfare to work, and that is what we are doing. We did not promise to reverse the cut that the previous Government made in lone-parent benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": " belief that we would wave a magic wand to solve all these problems overnight. I have no doubt that many of my constituents, and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends, would have liked us to promise more than we did. It was only at the beginning of this year that we were being criticised for not making more promises. We were criticised for not promising to spend billions or to reverse every cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "Are we to assume from the hon. Gentleman's last remarks that the headlines are more important than the issues? Are we to assume that the Daily Express is more important to him than the lone parents? If that is the case, the Labour Government are in a sorry state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has welcomed the extra help through the child care disregard, but says that it does not go far enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "ir families through work. It is the best way forward. Again, my answer to the question whether lone parents have extra costs in work beyond those experienced by couple families is yes, but they are child care costs and we are helping to meet them. The second question that many hon. Members have raised is whether the measure will discourage lone parents from taking up work. My answer to that is no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1091.6", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Member for North Tayside (Mr. Swinney) because I am about to conclude my comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House will want to move promptly to the vote on amendment No. 1, so I shall be as brief as possible. New clause 2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1099.5", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": " months if one had good cause for not making a claim on time. From April 1997, the Conservatives introduced a cut. They removed the idea of good cause and restricted backdating to a maximum of three months. That took £120 million from some of the poorest people in the country, including £50 million from pensioners and £50 from the sick and disabled. Clause 72, which new clause 2 seeks to overturn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1099.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1122.10", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I detect that the House wants to move on quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1122.10", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "e Executive to direct how members of the judiciary or quasi-judiciary shall deal with appeals that are before them in certain circumstances. That is a new power, and one that is unprecedented and the Government should be careful about the circumstances in which that sort of power is used. The amendments would require that suitable arrangements are made for identification and hearing of test cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "levelling married couples and lone parents. They say that somehow they were left with a budget problem, but we know that the Prime Minister made it clear just before the election that the existing budgets would have allowed them to drop the legislation and still survive the two-year constraint. They could still do that, but they have decided not to. The fiscal excuse is absolute nonsense, rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is Labour Members who should dream on, for they will have many nightmares in the next few weeks and months. Even today's editorial in The Times said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "sals have been non-existent. On Monday, we heard from the Treasury through a planted leak in The Times that it was to make a series of cuts. Treasury-driven cuts: that is the Government's big welfare reform. The Minister of State is completely ruled out and the Secretary of State does not even have any comment to make. No one from the Treasury or from the Cabinet is present tonight. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "leak in The Times that it was to make a series of cuts. Treasury-driven cuts: that is the Government's big welfare reform. The Minister of State is completely ruled out and the Secretary of State does not even have any comment to make. No one from the Treasury or from the Cabinet is present tonight. In conclusion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"] I know that pain hurts, so I shall not prolong it too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "hearing. We all know that many claimants do not turn up for their hearings; the reasons for that are varied and complex. I believe that social security law is so complicated that claimants often give up when they are faced by a mass of Department of Social Security papers. The Bill will mean that claimants will be forced to resort to judicial reviews to protect their own interests. My final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "ught they had of receiving that amount, they laughed—they thought it was like Alice in Wonderland. One woman said to me that if anyone there said they were receiving that money, they would know what work they were doing and what the game was—they would be on the game. The reality is that, for many women, a job providing a wage on which they could survive is not one that they could do legitimately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I will detain the House for two minutes. First, I pay tribute to the former Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mr. Chisholm), to the parliamentary private secretaries, and to those Labour Members who have been willing to vote according to their consciences and their beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-10", "file": "debates1997-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "50dba6bec5c31ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must come to order. There are far too many private conversations going on in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-10a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-11", "file": "debates1997-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d6b9ed01e795e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1193.5", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Leak inquiries are nothing to do with the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-11", "file": "debates1997-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d6b9ed01e795e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1193.5", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Leak inquiries are nothing to do with the White Paper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Let me just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-11", "file": "debates1997-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d6b9ed01e795e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for what she said about a statement on Kyoto, and urge her to go further and to impress on Ministers the need for a debate in Government time on climate change. That issue concerns members of all parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-11", "file": "debates1997-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d6b9ed01e795e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan (Blaby)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan (Blaby)", "preceding_text": "I welcome the fact that the right hon. Lady has said that there may be a statement on BSE next week, but can she find time for a full-blown debate on agriculture, as previously requested? There was a short debate on the rural economy yesterday, but no sooner had the Minister spoken than he resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-11", "file": "debates1997-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d6b9ed01e795e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "preceding_text": "ster explain why the Chief Constable is now said to be in favour of audio recordings being admitted as evidence—and why he has apparently suggested that that will not prejudice the investigations or hamper the collection of evidence—when that did not appear to be the case on previous occasions when the subject was considered? What has brought about that tremendous metamorphosis in police thinking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-11a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1263.6", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "'s futuristic nightmare novel \"1984\" will never forget the last two chapters. In the penultimate chapter, the central character, Winston Smith, is still unbroken. He has been tortured, imprisoned and abused, and has said anything, more or less, that his torturers wanted him to say. Finally, he is sent to room 101, where the torturer, O'Brien, tells him that the worst thing in the world awaits him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1263.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1263.8", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "peaker shall cause the member to whom the notification relates to be visited and examined by two registered medical practitioners … The registered medical practitioners shall be appointed by the … Royal College of Psychiatrists and … shall report to the Speaker whether the member is suffering from mental illness and is authorised to be detained as such. And so on and so forth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1263.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Minister, who is a solicitor—as are the hon. Gentleman on the Conservative Front Bench, the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls), and the hon. Member for Warrington, North—should know that the Bill does not require a great expenditure of money. That is the great joy of it. The Bill effectively requires the spending of no money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": " a duty to provide for the fitting if appropriate security devices to all room and ward doors in all existing psychiatric units\". We have already redefined what a hospital is, and we are now redefining expenditure. I do not see how one can propose a strategy for provision without providing; nor can an authority have a duty to provide locks without paying for them. The two notions are incompatible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " accommodation, but it should be available, and it might be a therapeutic and safer setting for some. I went to the United States a couple of years ago to investigate health provision on the east coast. Very few hospitals there have wards, and most have separate rooms for all patients. Our thinking is out-dated, in that we are still discussing wards—the NHS is miles behind best practice elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "difference of opinion across the Floor of the House on the need to consider the appropriate provision for people with mental health needs, and the dignity with which they need to be treated in overnight institutions? The point is whether that can be dealt with by a Government commitment. I suggest that the lack of commitment over the past 18 years is the reason why we are debating the issue today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1291.8", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is foreseeing what the Minister will say, we would certainly welcome such support for clauses 2 and 3. But I reiterate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1291.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did he get a word in edgeways?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks from a sedentary position whether I got a word in edgeways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "n forward to protect some of the most frail and vulnerable women in society. The idea that we did nothing is absolutely wrong. Today, we are entitled to tell the Minister that the previous Government followed a creditable agenda, and we are asking him to build on it. It would be accepted by those hon. Members who have heard me before that I never indulge unnecessarily in party political exchanges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "d have come to clause 2 later, but I will explain my views now. Important points have been raised. I share the hon. Gentleman's view that, if people are taken out of the community, either voluntarily or involuntarily—as the hon. Gentleman says, it is voluntarily in most cases—they must have a strong expectation that they are going to an environment that is safe and \"therapeutic\", as the Bill says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1319.4", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ng that people in those institutions feel that they are in a genuinely therapeutic environment and will benefit from their stay. That issue has properly been raised today. The reason why I answered yes to the question put by the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) is that of course I believe that security is important for women in long-stay mental hospitals, just as it is for everyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1323.5", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ken to rehabilitate and return life chances to someone who has a multiplicity of problems is often not taken on board. If the Bill were to be given a Second Reading—I return to the criteria that I mentioned when I first rose—the criteria that we have to bear in mind, one of the criterion is, or one of the criteria is—I am sorry. A criterion that we should be concerned about—one of the criteria is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-12", "file": "debates1997-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f9c4107f24df5997", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1327.4", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Mental Health (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "that spirit, I hope that, after today, all hon. Members, if they are serious, will work with the Government on this. It was disgraceful for the hon. Member for Teignbridge to suggest that the absence of female Labour Members meant that they do not care about the vulnerability of women in mental health institutions to rape and assault. Anyone, including jumped-up lawyers sitting on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-12a.1327.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "As the Secretary of State will know, I used to run an employment agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": " not feel that their applications are on the back burner. The Prime Minister has said that reform of the common agricultural policy is desperately needed, and he is right. But will he ensure that proposals for CAP reform do not hit the British farmer disproportionately, since the farming community is now facing intense and mounting difficulties, partly as a result of the actions of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "policies consistent with it. We have consistently said that, unless and until the Government do that, their own bargaining hand and influence in Europe will be weaker, and the consequences will be felt in investment and jobs in due course. If the Prime Minister is to respond by saying that this is just a typical example of the Liberal Democrats' overblown enthusiasm for Europe, I would remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that at all—unless I accept the hon. Gentleman's view of what is in the British national economic interest. In my view, it would be very foolish for Britain to rule out, as a matter of principle, monetary union. That is his position, and it is a perfectly honourable one. However, I believe that that would be mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "er countries in Europe are beginning to understand that if they do not start to ease, in an entirely legitimate way, people's fears about BSE and beef, it will hit all European beef. There is something utterly absurd about a situation in which British people are eating British beef—Northern Ireland people are eating Northern Ireland beef—yet it is impossible for us to export it to third countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows very well, the chief medical officer gave his advice, and gave it in strong terms. If we had not followed that advice, we would have been subject to equal criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure what impact that will have on the Gibraltar economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, but not primacy—ECOFIN is to remain the sole decision-making body. As I have said to some of the hon. Gentleman's right hon. and hon. Friends, that is important. It is somewhat bizarre that those who are anti-monetary union, as I know the hon. Gentleman is, should say that this does not matter. It matters more if one dislikes monetary union than if one likes it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.37.6", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, no—we are not having a debate on these matters. I must answer serious points of order. The sort of language that hon. Members use outside the House is not my concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.37.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": " has to do with where power over the Chief Constable and his police force in Northern Ireland actually rests. The police will no longer be insulated, and we should remember that if our talks progress successfully, there could be devolved government in Northern Ireland. The hon. Member for Newry and Armagh or the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone may be in charge of policing in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "are interfering and giving assurances that they are not mandated to give in respect of extradition cases between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and whether they have considered what effect that might have on the good relationship that exists between the RUC and the Garda Siochana. I could rehearse these follies until the hour of midnight, if that were permitted. I do not intend to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "As my coughing throughout the past four hours will have shown, I put the health of Northern Ireland before my own tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-15", "file": "debates1997-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "648263a85a7b2b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "ing remarks. The Government have changed their mind about the procedure through which they would introduce the legislation. We welcome the fact that, instead of taking it through as an Order in Council, they have taken the Bill on the Floor of the House. By extension, that presumably means that the Government are prepared in Committee to have the Bill taken apart line by line and clause by clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-15a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " answer programme, it was asked: Is Labour right to claim that the Chancellor is paying for national tax cuts by increasing local taxes? The Conservative research department answered: No. The Chancellor does not set local taxes: that is a job for local authorities. For its part, the Government has provided a fair settlement. This year, an even fairer and more generous settlement has been provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.115.7", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, following this year's local government settlement, the two very different shire district authorities that form part of my constituency of Reading, East—urban, Labour-controlled Reading, which has a number of social need and deprivation indicators, and suburban and semi-rural Wokingham, which has few—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.115.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman obviously has not been able to keep up with the level of on-going negotiations between central and local government. The Local Government Association is currently conducting a survey to establish what the precise cost will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.120.5", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Rail Fares", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the success of the privatised railways represents the best way of getting passengers off the roads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "atisation was mentioned, but although the Government have the power to reverse the previous Government's railway privatisation they have not done so. Does that not implicitly tell us that the Government have changed their policies and their principles in relation to the railways, as they have on many other policies and principles that they held before the general election? Given that that is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "y privatisation they have not done so. Does that not implicitly tell us that the Government have changed their policies and their principles in relation to the railways, as they have on many other policies and principles that they held before the general election? Given that that is true— [Interruption.] Given that that is true, why will they not give up their dogma in relation to the Underground?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Kyoto Summit", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " should do all we can to preserve the green belt in this country and put energy and resources into developing the brown-field sites in our towns and cities? Can the right hon. Gentleman tell the House—he touched on this—how Britain intends to use its presidency of the European Union and exactly what policies and measures he intends to propose for the detailed implementation of the Kyoto agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Kyoto Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "0 nations to come together on an issue on which there were very difficult differences between countries. I certainly want to make it clear that his contribution was very considerable indeed. I agree with my right hon. Member—with the hon. Friend; forgive me, the niceties of the House are lost on me from time to time. As long as you understand the point, Madam Speaker, and I am sure my hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Water Industry (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman uses not so much a pen as a broad brush in his approach to these problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the President of the Board of Trade is in her place for once and has done us the courtesy of coming here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "abour Reform. He makes it clear that the speeches made at the Labour party conference were \"triumphs of mental vacuity\"—many Conservatives would agree with that wise judgment. He goes on to say that he thinks that the Government will let down the values that the left believes in, and that he is prepared to split the party if necessary because he has no faith in those on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Godsiff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Godsiff", "preceding_text": " more employment. As has been said by other hon. Members, the one wages council that was not abolished was the Agricultural Wages Board. I should be interested to hear whether Opposition Members, most of whom since 1 May represent rural, rather than urban, constituencies—I say that with no disrespect—support the Agricultural Wages Board's minimum wage, which it has now laid down at £4.12 per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": " and that bit of extra money means a lot to many families. The Labour party will not shed any tears if people cannot bring in that extra money, which means the difference between buying a pair of plimsolls for the children or getting them a prized pair of Reeboks, or taking the children to Disneyworld rather than to the local funfair. People go to work for all sorts of reasons, not just the wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "preceding_text": "with the more loyal or ambitious of them being dragged through the Lobby supporting Government policies that they think are fundamentally immoral. That being so, they clearly feel good about themselves tonight. They feel that they are on the side of good. I want to puncture that illusion. The Bill is actively immoral because its implementation will knowingly cause people to lose their jobs. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Smith", "preceding_text": "I find it ironic that for 18 years I watched the Conservative party, which was supposed to roll back the nanny state, foster unemployment in Britain, causing millions of people to live in poverty through benefit dependency. During those 18 years, we had the poll tax, North sea oil revenues were squandered, and old-age pensions were eroded. Some people still live on welfare in poverty and misery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Smith", "preceding_text": "in Britain, causing millions of people to live in poverty through benefit dependency. During those 18 years, we had the poll tax, North sea oil revenues were squandered, and old-age pensions were eroded. Some people still live on welfare in poverty and misery. [Interruption.] We are trying to do something about that. We want to get people back into employment through our welfare-to-work programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. The right hon. Gentleman will have plenty of time to speak in January, if he wants to join us in the Bill's Committee stage. This has been one of the happiest days of my life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": ". The low paid are excluded from the mainstream. They cannot afford school trips for their kids, family outings or days out and sometimes cannot afford a present for their children on their birthday. That is the reality—that is what it is about. This is about feeling valued and having personal dignity when an employer is treating you no better than a dog. We want to introduce respect and fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-16", "file": "debates1997-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "459eecda5479aeac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "h-west, 87,000 people earn less than £2.50 an hour. In London, 55,000 families require in-work benefits at the end of the week. The figure is the same for the south-west. It is not regional rates that we need, but the quick introduction of a national minimum wage to help end poverty in the workplace. The hon. Member for Sevenoaks said that there was no support among business for the minimum wagep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-16a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "oncern about the vindictive settlement in the rate support grant for Surrey, which has had millions of pounds wiped away. I ask the Leader of the House to use her good offices to ensure that her colleagues receive delegations, because one aspect of what is becoming an increasingly high-handed and arrogant Government is Ministers' refusal to see delegations, except apparently by video conferencing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the letter from Sir Patrick Neill's inquiry to the treasurers of all political parties which asks all parties to supply information from 1992, from home and abroad, on all donations and from whom they come? Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the Labour party complies with that request?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.320.9", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "On the first part of his answer, I thank the Prime Minister for his kind words. They give me the opportunity to thank hon. Members in all parts of the House who have been so kind to my fiancée and to me. I am delighted that you, Madam Speaker, will be joining us at our wedding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.320.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, that is not correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e announced better treatment for cervical cancer screening and help for the homeless. There is lots of good news. Can we do more next year? Yes, of course we can, especially on waiting lists and class sizes. We will do more. We were not elected for just seven months; we were elected for longer than that. We will do more and we can achieve more. As for the right hon. Gentleman's end-of-year report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister regret the lack of consideration given to the proposals for individual savings accounts and the way they were handled? Does he realise the fierce resentment that he has aroused in middle England, not only because the playing field has been changed but because people in middle England who have completed their tax planning will be hit with a £50,000 limit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "ise that it will be impossible to regulate individual savings accounts because they fall into three different areas and, as all regulators will tell him, there cannot be three different financial products in one? Does the Prime Minister further realise that ISAs offer nothing to the lower income groups that was not available through personal equity plans and tax-efficient special savings accounts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "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 absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.327.7", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is correct, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "I really do want to help the Prime Minister. Let us pretend for a moment that the Paymaster General is a model taxpayer. Let us cast aside all the questions about trustees and the Channel Islands. Does he agree that it would be better if the Paymaster General, any Labour Member or any member of the British public simply held their assets and their money in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House has never required any Member to declare an interest during Question Time. I can well imagine—as I am sure the House can—that, if Members had to declare interests at Prime Minister's Question Time and other Question Times, we would not get past Questions 3 or 4. I know that the hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes) is making a very serious point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "t issue also requires a great deal of care. I should like to raise two matters, one connected with herring and the other with horse mackerel. The Parliamentary Secretary said nothing about a significant change that resulted from discussions between the European Union and Norway. For the first time, the Norwegians have secured a permanent stock share of 29 per cent. of the herring in the North sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for confirming to the House that there is no guarantee that these measures will work. That is very significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "e. It would have been helpful if we could have spent a little more time hearing how the United Kingdom will pursue various priorities, because one of those could be the build-up to the reform of the common fisheries policy in 2002. Crucial issues are to be decided in the coming years, on the retention of the six and 12-mile limits; on the Shetland box; and on access to waters. I seek an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the right hon. Gentleman after the debate. This is not an opportunity to advertise specific restaurants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.409.7", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have it all here. There were times when Tory Members appeared more enthusiastic about scrutinising each other' s views than about scrutinising the legislation before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.409.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your colleagues?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "rything that the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) said, in outraged tones redolent of his previous practice, seemed to me to be things that I had heard before—if not from him, from the phalanx of eager-faced young men recently elected to the House of Commons and anxious to make their mark on the Benches of the Conservative party. Those of us who have sat through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "e powers of this sovereign state to veto legislation and it will extend to the procedures which allow for QMV in a range of areas. Perhaps those areas could be judged frivolous or marginal. Let us test them. Is employment policy frivolous and marginal? Is public health policy frivolous? What about equal opportunities—perhaps that is a little more frivolous, but I will not comment too much on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "y frivolous and marginal? Is customs policy frivolous and marginal? Of course not. None of those policies is frivolous or marginal. We have already heard a great deal about the treaty in respect of those policies, but I want to explore the fundamental truth about the treaty—it is a significant attack on British sovereignty. The Daily Telegraph —which I imagine is not widely read by Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ll remember what happened at the time. As a young Conservative, I campaigned for a yes vote. I am prepared to bare my soul now and admit that. I was duped along with all the rest. Indeed, I am still in favour of an association of sovereign nations, a free-trade Europe with countries combining and co-operating to get the best possible deal for their citizens. Of course Conservatives are pro-Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS.\"Go on, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "re engaging. This guillotine motion is an important instance of that. It adds to the distressing and unfortunate public view that Parliament is worthless, that it no longer represents the people of this country or has a genuine democratic function. I am pleased to see the Foreign Secretary in his place again—almost by magic—because I am about to refer to a point that he made in his opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises the point, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-17", "file": "debates1997-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9818e5948287717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Dilatory Motions", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "The trigger for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-17a.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-18", "file": "debates1997-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "dec2e34fd43db013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must really think of some better points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-18", "file": "debates1997-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "dec2e34fd43db013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "preceding_text": "I fully support the renewable energy policy and commend the work that my hon. Friend has done, but does he agree that subsidising wind turbines in upland areas of high landscape value with public money is an outrage? Should we not be looking at Danish models—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-18", "file": "debates1997-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "dec2e34fd43db013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "r the issues unless and until Britain made a decision to join. That was a profoundly mistaken way of conducting the debate and has left many small businesses at the mercy of misinformation and lack of planning. The hon. Gentleman says that there is evidence of hostility. I am well aware that the Institute of Directors, for example, has expressed concern about the potential costs to small business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-18a.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-19", "file": "debates1997-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "4be7dbf951059d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "he best possible use of roughly £3.75 billion and whether it represents good value for money. They are the issues we should be focusing on. In answering those questions, I repeat that I agree with the Government about the benefit that can come from active labour market measures. I am prepared to be straight and say that they do involve some public expenditure. That was why the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-19", "file": "debates1997-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "4be7dbf951059d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "dency, about which we have all worried for years—we may exacerbate the cycle of deprivation experienced by children, who need and want at least one parent, but preferably both, involved with them all or most of the time. After all, children do not choose their parents, and they are not responsible for the actions of their parent or parents. Melanie Phillips, a well-known left-of-centre journalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-19", "file": "debates1997-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "4be7dbf951059d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keetch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keetch", "preceding_text": "ch would have helped thousands of lone parents, as well as being an investment in our country's future. We would have shifted the tax burden from jobs to pollution. We would have introduced a new low-income benefit and a remissible training levy. We have many other policies, for example, on how we would have introduced training, which I am more than happy to discuss at length if hon. Members want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-19a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.642.5", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": "I welcome the comments of my hon. Friend the Minister. In any review of licensing hours, will he take into account the night club industry? I say straight away that I have no personal interest in the industry. Those days are long gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.642.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.646.5", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "As I made clear at the last Home Department questions, we are not against that principle. This would appear to be a severe case of repeat questioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.646.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.651.4", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his responsible and statesmanlike approach to a difficult problem for the people of Dover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. If anyone is wondering where the beef is, it is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "iscussing.\" I was a Treasury Minister in the last Government at one point, and any Treasury Minister is familiar with the Secretary of State's argument. Since the dawn of time, colleagues throughout Whitehall have written to Treasury Ministers, \"We agree wholeheartedly with the general principle that you are trying to pursue, but we disagree with the specific proposition that is being considered.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "rds in education. The Bill delivers centralisation of power on the local education authority and on the office of the Secretary of State. It also delivers tier upon tier of new bureaucracy—education development plans, plans to reduce class sizes, early years development plans and school organisation plans. The piece de resistance at the end of the Bill is the home-school contract for every school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dr. John Cunningham)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dr. John Cunningham)", "preceding_text": "count of the state of knowledge at the time; and to report on these matters by 31 December 1998 to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I am setting out fuller details of the inquiry in a separate written answer today. Let me emphasise again that the aim is not to reopen old wounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It is absurd for the Conservative party to pretend that giving an industrial sector such as the beef sector another £85 million will somehow damage its interests or will not be generally welcomed by people in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " is absurd for the Conservative party to pretend that giving an industrial sector such as the beef sector another £85 million will somehow damage its interests or will not be generally welcomed by people in the industry. [Interruption.] We hear it again: too little, too late. We are proposing to give the beef industry more money in this financial year than the previous Conservative Government did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Madam Speaker.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "welcome the references to maximum class sizes, the safeguarding of the religious ethic, school meals, nutritional standards and work-related learning, among other provisions. I particularly welcome the strengthening of ministerial powers. So far as I can see, the Bill is a centralising measure. The able Minister for School Standards now has his hands on the levers of power in an unprecedented way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "hink for local education authorities. I strongly support that. In the past, LEAs have intervened, often on a daily basis, in the detailed running of schools. The Bill demands that they change and recognise that the days of the all-powerful interfering LEA are over. LEAs have a new and different task which is vital to our purpose. They must become an integral part of the crusade to raise standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": "ost-16 qualification in Wales. I was disappointed by the Welsh Office's refusal to fund a pilot for the Welsh bac. That sprung, I am afraid, from the terror of doing things differently in Wales from what happens in England. I am confident that the Assembly will not make the same mistake. There is much that is good in the Bill, but I am afraid that there is much that gives profound concern as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shadow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Davey", "preceding_text": "e Bill in general and especially the education action zones, linked as they are to the concepts of innovation and raising standards. There is widespread support for them, and I was pleased to hear the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) commenting enthusiastically and amazed to hear the Secretary of State adding his support—a conversion, I feel, from the dogma of competition to that of co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "ion service. Where there is real disadvantage—I speak as a former leader of Southwark council where many of the children were extremely disadvantaged—one characteristic is that parents are frequently not involved in the school, or are hostile to it. Getting individual parents involved in their children's education will be a key element. I wish to deal with two points of advantage and disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.736.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "Perhaps someone would like to bid that it will be. If the Bill is to be about standards, not structures, the Government will have to make significant changes to it in Committee. At present, it is all about structure. Almost 100 extra powers are given to the Secretary of State alone. That does not even include the additional powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "t scale, yet all the way through the debate, we have heard the word \"partnership\"—another marketing term that we recognise. If the word means anything, it means sharing. The Government cannot share if they have taken all the power to themselves. We shall seek considerable changes to the Bill through amendments in Committee. The Liberal Democrats say that they will vote with the Government tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.744.7", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "orandum to Government Departments, including the Department of Education, the DSS says: As you know, DSS—in common with all other Departments—is conducting a Comprehensive Spending Review. The Government has made clear its aim to release resources from social security in order to spend more on health and education and it is likely that a high proportion of the necessary savings will have to come\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.744.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.744.7", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "ries. Either the right hon. Gentleman has not squared his departmental budget with the Chancellor, or the Government have only just discovered the additional costs inherent in the Bill—particularly those associated with the administration and bureaucracy that the new powers will require. The Government must now consider taking money from disability benefit in order to meet the departmental budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.744.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": ". For the first time in many years—certainly since the hon. Member for South Dorset was elected in 1987—new money is coming into schools in his constituency and in Dorset. The shadow Secretary of State attacked the basic principle that he felt underpinned the Bill—a greater degree of centralisation. We believe that the basic principle is not centralisation but, in fact, decisive Government action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1997-12-22", "file": "debates1997-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "6f6811d4b33cf6e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Withernsea and South-East Holderness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful indeed to have the opportunity to raise what I consider to be a matter of some importance to my constituency: the difficulties of the town of Withernsea and of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1997-12-22a.755.2"}