{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for those comments. Of course, the first decision on Eurofighter was taken in 1982, but it has taken this Government to bring it to completion and to sign the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "When the costs are finally established, the Ministry of Defence, as has been the practice, will determine how much of the costs can be absorbed within its budget. If there is a difference between what can be absorbed and the cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. He above all argues for the sovereignty of Parliament. If Parliament uses its power and sovereignty to dispose of business in the way in which we are suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " and the legal system is at the heart of the Scottish difference that justifies devolution. Safeguards to protect the position of the judiciary have been built in. For example, dismissal of a judge will be possible on the recommendation of the First Minister if two thirds of the Members of the Parliament vote in favour of it. That is an important safeguard to ensure that no judge can simply go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "years it has been Conservative Governments who have developed the system of government in Scotland and, in particular, the devolution of administration. Our positive aims, which we shall bring to our consideration of the Bill, are the improvement of Scottish government and the strengthening, rather than the weakening, of the United Kingdom. I hope that the Government will respond to our arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "able in a way that I believe it is not at the moment. They are our positive aims which we shall bring to the legislation. I harbour no great hopes that we shall get a hearing from the Government. The haphazard and curiously arrogant way in which they have approached the legislation has at times bordered on the irresponsible. The path to this legislation has been strewn with delay and incompetence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " at times bordered on the irresponsible. The path to this legislation has been strewn with delay and incompetence— [Interruption.] Labour Members laugh, but why, given the mad rush of the summer when we were told that there was such urgency for devolution that there was no time for proper debate before the referendum, are we only now, four months after the referendum, starting on this legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "of them share the Secretary of State's enthusiasm for this historic adventure. Most, apparently, feel historically adventurous enough here at Westminster. Most Labour Back Benchers appear quite happy to abandon their responsibilities for the education, health, housing and local problems of their constituents and to become, effectively, part-time Members of Parliament here. So much for bravehearts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Swinney", "preceding_text": "ed out in different parts of the United Kingdom, does not he recognise that some of the unidentified aspects of public expenditure that seem to find their way into spending in the south-east of England would also be exposed in the analysis? Over the decades of a Conservative Administration, the Treasury confirmed that Scotland was a net contributor to the United Kingdom to the tune of £27 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "That federalist solution has been the policy of the Liberal party and the Liberal Democrats for the greater part of this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I reinforce the point that the hon. Gentleman makes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "tary of State. There were a number of reasons, the most important of which was that the financial powers proposed in 1992 were stronger than those suggested in the 1997 devolution proposal. In 1992, the Secretary of State argued for assigned revenues in additional to the tax-varying power. It was suggested that there should be a broader base of taxation on which the Scottish Parliament could draw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "al action prohibited party political broadcasting during the devolution referendum campaign. I read in today's newspapers that the BBC and the Independent Television Commission want to do away with party political broadcasts altogether—perhaps that will be the subject of some discussion later on. There is, in any case, a clear difference between what was in the White Paper and what is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "Well, Bruce did smash a few bosses' systems in his time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "for Orkney, with an electorate of 15,500, to have one Member of the Scottish Parliament and for Shetland, with 17,500, to have one Member, when other, much larger, constituencies will also have only one Member? Perhaps it is a scheme to preserve the hon. and learned Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) for the nation. I understand that some people might consider that a desirable objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "n of Comrade Trotsky, although it is a proposal that I did not necessarily expect to hear from that party. I understand that the SNP will abolish the antiquated form of language known as a point of order. Henceforth, \"Jings! Crivens! Help ma Bob!\" will be shouted to the Presiding Officer who will, as I understand it, be seated on an upturned bucket. That is an extremely uncomfortable place to sit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " will be shouted to the Presiding Officer who will, as I understand it, be seated on an upturned bucket. That is an extremely uncomfortable place to sit. [Laughter.] Translations will be provided later. In addition, we will no longer have a registrar of Members' interests. Instead, we shall have a \"Hon\" man who will serve the same purpose and to whom submissions will have to be made in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "he broader context of Scotland and constitutional arrangements for the United Kingdom generally. We should have had a royal commission or a Speaker's Conference. There also should have been a general national debate about how to balance the new powers of a Scottish Parliament. I have two proposals. They are not set in concrete; there may be variations. I personally believe in the federal approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "preceding_text": "though, like the rest of that industry in the UK, it has reduced in recent years and we are concerned about our largest private manufacturer, Richards, which has been producing textiles in the Broadford works in Aberdeen for nearly 200 years. There is much concern about the future of jobs in the company, mainly because of recent boardroom squabbles about the direction that the company should take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.101.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "ers will do. To whom will they be accountable? The question has not been answered. I was vehemently opposed to the Bill in the first place. I accept, however, as most of my colleagues do, that the result of the referendum was clear, although the people who voted had not seen the Bill. I hope, as we are now to have a Parliament in Edinburgh, that many of my friends and family will be elected to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": " My main concern is not only for the people of Scotland, but for the people of Epping Forest and the rest of the United Kingdom. As my right hon. and hon. Friends have eloquently explained this evening, the Bill most certainly affects the whole of the United Kingdom. My concern is that whatever transpires, the Union should not be weakened. There is already too much factionalism. I see no conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.7", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "guments about the future representation of Scotland and of the United Kingdom in Europe. All those conflicts exist now. Are the Government suggesting that the Bill will resolve them? I am also concerned about the protection of the Scottish legal system. I have no interest to declare, but I am a qualified Scottish solicitor. I do not make any money from it. In fact, I never made much money from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Yes, a democratic party—in fact, the world's oldest democratic party. We accept the result of the Scottish referendum, but it is right, as the Secretary of State said, that we should look at every eventuality when considering the proposals. I shall make three points and then ask the Minister six questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " take account of scrutiny, but that is not referred to anywhere in the Bill. We are entitled to ask why the promises were made but are not being kept in the Bill. My third point is about funding. There is a lack of clarity on resources which threatens Scottish business, Scottish people and jobs. There is no commitment in the Bill, for example, to provide a particular level of funding for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " debate was that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. He properly made the point that there is no provision for accountability to the UK Parliament. Although £14.6 billion is to be remitted to the Scottish Parliament, there is no mechanism for the Comptroller and Auditor General to look properly into it and see the documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-12", "file": "debates1998-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d608dc77d0a4b1a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "t clause. What would the Scottish Parliament be saying if it were to use the tax-varying power to reduce the basic rate of income tax by 3p? It would be saying that it did not need all the block grant. On some occasions, the Scottish Parliament may want to express that. If it did, it would be unthinkable if the Treasury did not take account of such information and cut the grant the following year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-12a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.129.5", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "We have repeatedly pressed the importance of reform of the common agricultural policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.129.6", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighteen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Is not the real reason why the Prime Minister did not mention CAP reform that he knows full well that it is not only unachievable in the six months of the presidency, but that it is highly unlikely to be achievable in a longer time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not familiar with that individual case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "aw to your attention the \"Agenda\" programme, broadcast on Radio 4 last Saturday, which dealt principally with the tobacco industry and problems of the circumvention of British tobacco duty. During that programme, the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe), who I understand is Chairman of the Select Committee on Health, and to whom I apologise for not having given notice in raising this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "As I recall, the right hon. Gentleman supported that legislation. He, too, will remember the substantial differences between that measure and this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) said yesterday: there is something improper in the new arrangement if the hon. Member for Linlithgow may vote on matters in relation to Lincolnshire but, in relation to Linlithgow, he cannot. How long can that go on? I say to any of my hon. Friends that that cannot endure.\"—[ Official Report, 12 January 1998; Vol. 304, c. 83.] Some arrangement must be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "preceding_text": "I have a simple question. I do not want a detailed answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "r is still a United Kingdom Minister, but, under the Bill, such a Minister would not be a United Kingdom Minister, answerable to the House as a Minister representing all the United Kingdom. That simply would not be the case. I do not believe that the authority exists to allow for such representation, and it is something which the Government must address. At present, Scottish farmers and fishermen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "entleman should ask the voters of Paisley, Govan and Monklands what they think about the calibre of the local government that they have. They will tell him that it is rotten to the core: almost nobody in those areas does not know someone who could not get a job because he did not know a member of the Labour council, or could not get a house because he did not know someone on the housing committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "bers of the Conservative Front-Bench team. The right hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) said: On 11 September 1997, the Scottish people endorsed the concept of a Scottish Parliament with tax-varying powers, and I respect that democratically expressed view\"— but we have heard nothing constructive from the Conservatives as to how that should be brought about—just carping, criticism and complaints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "der Campbell Christie and others, with the Transport and General Workers Union; ASLEF; the Fire Brigades Union; what is now known as the RMT; the General and Municipal; the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union; and Unison. I must not forget my own union, the National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish area, and the role of Mick McGahey and other colleagues. They were the people who campaigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "And how many kinks are left? If the hon. Member for Falkirk, East (Mr. Connarty) can quote from The Doors, I can quote from The Kinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "out the risks and oddities. The Bill represents a major constitutional proposal, yet I have noticed over the past 48 hours that hardly any Labour Members who represent an English constituency have spoken. I find that extraordinary. If the measure is to work, it must be a United Kingdom measure. The Conservative party may not have any Scots Members of Parliament, but that is the electorate's fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " pre-1707 Parliament. He reiterated: it is unashamedly a settlement within the United Kingdom\".—[ Official Report, 12 January 1998; Vol. 304, c. 34.] We have never doubted the commitment of the Scottish people to the United Kingdom, but when the Secretary of State signed the Claim of Right it was fair to doubt his because there is nothing in the Scottish Constitutional Convention's Claim of Right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "nity law for Scotland; similarly, Scottish Ministers will be able to make regulations or otherwise take any necessary action to give effect to Community obligations. Scottish Ministers will be able, by virtue of schedule 5, to take part in negotiations with the UK's European partners and otherwise assist UK Ministers to work constructively for the common interests of Scotland and the UK in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-13", "file": "debates1998-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "57f71738cbc15cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Gentleman resume his seat for a moment? Will hon. Members please leave as quickly and quietly as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-13a.255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " countryside. That is one of the problems. Why have we all been conditioned to want to live in detached houses, when terraced houses—as anyone who lives in one knows—are much warmer because they have only two outside walls rather than four? This is a serious point. There is nothing wrong with living in a terraced house. After all, extremely rich people want to live in terraced houses in Belgravia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "National Hunt Racing", "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": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr. Robertson) on his account of the industry's problems, and his description of its contribution to our national life. I may be corrected, but I do not remember a similar debate in the House over the past decade, so it is all the more important for us to take as much advantage of today's debate as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "National Hunt Racing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman. In any event, his general point deserves to be considered. The British Horseracing Board's off-course betting development group has shown what can be achieved. Last year, prize money in Britain topped a record £60 million. The case of the hon. Member for Tewkesbury is that the prize money is inadequate in many lesser races, but I repeat that the total has reached a record level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Social Security did talk about the extension of means testing. Two Ministers are engaged in warfare over welfare and everybody knows it—everybody in Whitehall knows it and everybody in Westminster knows it. It is as good a well-kept secret as a grudge borne by the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What is absolutely clear is that the right hon. Gentleman has nothing whatever of substance to say on the issue of the welfare state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " and a Secretary of State who wants more; the Minister wants expensive reforms and the Chancellor wants cheap ones; the Minister wants to increase national insurance contributions, which the Prime Minister has already ruled out; and the Minister wants to abolish the state earnings-related pension scheme while other Ministers have already said that they would not do it. Will the Prime Minister now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, last night what happened was not merely that the hereditary peers pushed through an amendment that has the effect of depriving Londoners of the chance on 8 May to vote on their authority, but that they did so with the full support of the Conservative Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The code of practice has not changed in any way since the previous Government were in office. I have reflected on the hon. Gentleman, as I knew that he would be asking a question today. The person of whom he reminds me most is a Mr. David Shaw. His hallmark, which the hon. Gentleman shares, was to be nasty and ineffectual in equal quantities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits (Colchester)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not have any plans at the moment. I am making many visits, but not to that particular place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits (Colchester)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Opposition Members are impossibly badly behaved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits (Colchester)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Time is up. We now come to a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits (Colchester)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Time is up. We now come to a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [Interruption.] Order. Will hon. Members who are leaving do so quietly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits (Colchester)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Time is up. We now come to a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [Interruption.] Order. Will hon. Members who are leaving do so quietly? [Interruption.] Order. Will hon. Members have their conversations outside the Chamber, please?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.350.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Food Standards Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "r such actions? How would the agency have reacted if it had received from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee the advice about beef on the bone? Would it have implemented the ban, or would it have followed the line taken in the Minister's statement and ensured that the public had the knowledge to make up their own minds? The Opposition welcome the arrival of the Food Standards Agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Labelling of Products", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I do not care which side the hon. Gentleman is on; he can join me as a Teller to make sure that there is a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. Last week, the UnderSecretary of State, and I went around the English regions and met the staff of English Partnerships and the Rural Development Commission. There is obviously uncertainty at a time of change, but they have been reassured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "There is no uncertainty about what you have done to the Rural Development Commission. You have taken away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": " its work in the short time available, but I hope that, like me, it feels that its inquiry was useful. The report will be helpful to the Government as we take the policy forward. The debate will continue in the weeks ahead, but, as it gets under way, I stress that no one is more enthusiastic than I am for RDAs, except, perhaps, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "He does not—he said that he did not want to be on the board. He said that now that the IOD understood what the RDAs were about, it would support the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "The point is not irrelevant. It shows just what the Government will do. It shows that, even when a public inquiry finds for local people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Stanley", "preceding_text": "war period has given such wide powers to the Secretary of State to override and supplant the democratic planning process. That is the reality. The powers are given not merely on a wide geographical basis but with the maximum discretion as to how they can be used. The House will be aware that in legislation the phrase in the opinion of the Secretary of State should always set the alarm bells going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "preceding_text": " assurance that those who are appointed to the RDA governing boards as rural representatives will be genuinely rural people with their roots in rural areas? We are not interested in people who happen to have a holiday home in a rural area, where they spend a little time. We want people who were born and brought up on farms or who spend a large proportion of their lives in rural areas and villages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "aw the most massive investment in industrial and manufacturing jobs in the United Kingdom, including, for example, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. None of those required an RDA to bring them to the United Kingdom. What brought them here were the policies pursued by central Government for labour market flexibility, control of inflation and for good infrastructure and the best communications in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"West Lothian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": " role of central Government, and erodes the powers of local authorities. It is a Bill which reflects the Government's continuing hostility to the countryside. It is also a Bill which—as my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) and other Conservative Members pointed out—has been presented solely because the Government remain totally unable to answer the East Lothian question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ng and Urban Development Act 1993 severely circumscribes the kind of land over which English Partnerships may exercise those powers? Will she amend the Bill so that it contains similar limits on regional development agencies, and will she admit that the Minister of State was misleading the House when he claimed that the powers to be given to RDAs were the same as those that were already exercised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "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": "ts of the Back Benches. The hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Collins) was quite hysterical—he made Baroness Thatcher look like a wet liberal. He and the hon. Members for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Ruffley), for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) and for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady) demonstrated a Eurosceptical paranoia of epic proportions, putting all sorts of connotations on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "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": " but it has to resolve its own difficulties—by the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler) and, as ever, the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo). We should contrast the hysterical meanderings of those hon. Members with the extremely interesting and thoughtful speech by the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry), who brings a great deal of expertise to these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-14", "file": "debates1998-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "acd4cba54aaa5173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teesside Development Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "roposals for their funding; and that the TDC produce for the committee a list of liabilities, a programme for the transfer of liability and proposals for the amelioration of the total weight of the potential debt burden. I also ask that the TDC produce a complete list of files concerning key sites with information on ground conditions, means of access, financial evaluation and financial proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-14a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-15", "file": "debates1998-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "f3dda29543a1141c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Is that not a typical reaction from this bossy, authoritarian Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-15", "file": "debates1998-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "f3dda29543a1141c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hypocrisy is people saying that they want to take action on such matters when they refused to do so when they were in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-15", "file": "debates1998-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "f3dda29543a1141c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ch matters when they refused to do so when they were in government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I remind the right hon. Gentleman that when he was Financial Secretary to the Treasury and was asked to take action on offshore trusts, he said that it would impose a substantial and unreasonable burden on business.\"—[ Official Report , 11 January 1990; Vol. 164, c. 706.] That was his action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-15", "file": "debates1998-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "f3dda29543a1141c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.538.2", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": " power of decision; nor have they been asked to deliver opinions or initiate legislation. The Commission has not been, was not conceived as and is not intended to be a mere civil service. On the contrary, it is one of the fundamental pillars of the European Union; its nature and how it conducts its affairs are critical to the development of the European Community and the European Union as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-15", "file": "debates1998-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "f3dda29543a1141c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.585.9", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ntleman himself. He has said that there will be a £200 million loss to the Scottish economy. In order to retain a shred of credibility, he now has to link that specific prediction to the fact that applications for the coming session from English students to St. Andrews are up by 6 per cent. If he can do that, it will be a worthy achievement indeed. There is a slight decrease overall in the number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-15a.585.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-16", "file": "debates1998-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0d10a450cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Referendum (English Parliament) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "And, of course, there is Mr. Humphrys, who is a Welsh gentleman. So there are two of them. Perhaps that is why they would not have me on the \"Today\" programme this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-16", "file": "debates1998-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0d10a450cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.592.5", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Referendum (English Parliament) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "our party thinks that, through the legislation, it will establish itself in the main metropolitan centres. That is to say that it will, so to speak, take over the politics in the main cities throughout the regions. It will build its political power base from there. Everyone knows that England is the heartland of the Conservative vote, and this is the Labour party's way of trying to undermine that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-16", "file": "debates1998-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0d10a450cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Referendum (English Parliament) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "y to their country. We hear wonderful songs such as \"Jerusalem\" and—one of my favourites—\"There'll always be an England\". I love that song. There'll always be an England And England shall be free If England means as much to you As England means to me. I wonder what that song would sound like, if we had to sing: There'll always be nine regional assemblies And nine regional assemblies will be free\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-16", "file": "debates1998-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0d10a450cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Referendum (English Parliament) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "tity. There are some strong regional actors, and the setting up of regional development agencies and ultimately, one hopes, regional assemblies will underline that regional identity and make it work for the benefit not just of that region, but of England as a whole. The inclusion of differences is to the advantage of the entire economy and is not destructive of it. To return for a moment to Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-16", "file": "debates1998-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0d10a450cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Referendum (English Parliament) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " Department, the hon. Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) today, I hope that the Minister will take the opportunity to answer them. I particularly look forward to the answers to the new question about the Kilbrandon commission, but all the issues raised by the Scotland Bill deserve to be treated seriously. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-16a.641.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The reason for the delay was so that we could get it right. We went along with the idea of an academy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "isability or racism; or a question of one or another of those. Hundreds of directives, regulations and communications can be brought in under the provisions; there will not be one specific directive dealing with combating religious discrimination. All those regulations are potentially subject to the Court of Justice if they are brought in and the Government decide to agree to a particular measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I might have known. There is no subsidiarity in the Whips Office, but one is told that the hon. Member for Hyndburn (Mr. Pope) is in the Blairite faction, as opposed to the Chief Whip, the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, East and Wallsend (Mr. Brown), who is in the Brown faction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "col of the treaty. He alluded to many other points, and attempted to sell it as a great deal for Britain. Whether, in skipping through the subsidiarity provision, he accidentally missed the significance of pages 84 to 86, we are none the wiser. Whether it was the broad-brush approach, or whether he was so anxious to say, \"I have to say,\" that he did not manage to focus on subsidiarity, I know not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.720.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have no complaint about the notion of a federal Europe. Federalism, as properly defined, is a system of government that devolves power, rather than aggregating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Funeral.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman said, he has come late to the wedding feast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-19", "file": "debates1998-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b468e47e485d331f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": " European Union. Those are three serious allegations. It is an extraordinary state of affairs when, throughout the proceedings in Committee, the Minister ostensibly responsible for Europe has not denied, referred to or refuted any of those allegations, but has merely passed them over in silence. Those allegations may be false. I am but a new Member of this House, earnestly striving for truth, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-19a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "Of course. The hon. Gentleman was a Minister at that time. I may be the only remaining Member who sat on that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "We can forget the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "That is not what is behind our amendment. I want later to refer to the White Paper the Government published and sent out to people's homes during the referendum campaign. The Liberal Democrats' amendments are more subtle than their new clauses, the contents of which border on self-delusion. The Liberal Democrats want to call the assembly a senedd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your welcome protection, Mr. Martin. It is nice to see the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Smith) revisiting the House to make his contribution. He should refer to the Government's White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Member finished off his comparison. After crematorium became crem, I thought that assembly might become something completely different", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "If the sovereignty of this Parliament is complete, what is there to prevent the amendment from being accepted? If it is an assertion, as I have said it is, and if it is in line with what the hon. Gentleman and the Secretary of State believe to be the case anyway, what have they got against inserting it into the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "We do not know. That is one of the interesting elements of our debate. We can be fairly sure from what happened on 1 May that people voted tactically to help remove the Government. Few would question that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-20", "file": "debates1998-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "4a70de532de1ae7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Test Match Cricket", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce this Adjournment debate. It is timely, given the current review of listed events and the attempt by the England and Wales Cricket Board to get test match cricket and live test match cricket de-listed. My purpose in seeking the debate and the purpose of Members of Parliament of all parties who signed my early-day motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-20a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "itted the possibility of a need to cure mistakes and deficiencies in the process to which the accused had been subjected. I shall quote one more time from the judgment. It says that in such cases one should select and concentrate on the points of real significance and … discard the rest as dross\". I suggest that we do the same with the speech by the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Bradley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Tax Avoidance (Offshore Trusts)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dawn Primarolo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dawn Primarolo)", "preceding_text": " direct us away from the debate by making points against other Ministers. I am surprised that the Conservatives want to bring up the poll tax again. I am happy for them to remind the country that they introduced that unfair tax, they wasted £14 billion and they had to change the legislation. They do not want scrutiny of that. As the Minister responsible, I am replying to a debate on tax avoidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "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 thought that there was something of the night about that question. I shall tell the right hon. Lady what I take personal responsibility for: the extra money that we have put into schools and hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "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 thought that there was something of the night about that question. I shall tell the right hon. Lady what I take personal responsibility for: the extra money that we have put into schools and hospitals—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—cutting VAT on fuel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "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 thought that there was something of the night about that question. I shall tell the right hon. Lady what I take personal responsibility for: the extra money that we have put into schools and hospitals—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—cutting VAT on fuel—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the welfare-to-work programme of £3.5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and I may differ in our hopes for the outcome of the Stevenage v Newcastle match this Sunday, but will he join me in welcoming the report produced this morning by the numeracy task force?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and I may differ in our hopes for the outcome of the Stevenage v Newcastle match this Sunday, but will he join me in welcoming the report produced this morning by the numeracy task force? [Interruption.] Through its emphasis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1010.4", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I asked whether it is Government policy that the Leader of the Opposition should return the money. May I ask the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1010.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Several?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree that there is a serious situation for farmers at present, which is why the Government, before Christmas, gave several million pounds in help to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting scenario. Democracy requires competition and therefore choice, as described by my hon. Friend, but we are creating a system in which two people will claim equal right to express the opinions of the same constituency, drawing from the same well of democratic choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " Member of Parliament, their Member of the Assembly and their regional Members. I suspect that that will be great news for PC World, which will sell many more computers so that electors can write to everybody, but it will not be such good news for the quality and clarity of representation that people get. I believe that people in Wales are currently well represented by their Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has finished.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "e that has arisen in recent years—the contrast between the positions of the Czechs and of the Slovaks. For years, the Slovaks built up a grievance and claimed that they were done down, although the Czechs were paying the bills and subsidising them. For years, the Slovaks pushed them, and eventually they pushed the Czechs too far. I can see that happening with Wales. We must look at the worst case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "ew Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) gave us the example of America, where there is a carefully balanced system, yet there are continual problems with transfers of federal funds to make that arrangement work. The Bill has not been thought through. It is a muddled compromise between trying to assuage the limited number of nationalists, who scored only about 10 per cent. of the poll in the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "elsh intelligentsia. The Secretary of State has not produced a workable compromise. We are right to propose the amendments. The Bill is a woolly experiment disappearing into the future—we do not know where—whereas it should go forth on a firm basis, with clearly defined powers. Any further powers should be passed through a fresh Act, as suggested by the right hon. Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "d attempt to strengthen the Union. The first of those motives would exacerbate the problem rather than solve it. Hon. Members may say that the fire of independence has already been lit, but I am reminded that for most of the first part of its history Plaid Cymru was more concerned with eisteddfods than with assemblies. Its first leader was principally concerned with the cultural identity of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "that is not an admission that the Conservatives have been converted to proportional representation, because we will fight that tooth and nail. We all know why the right hon. Gentleman wishes to pursue that line of argument, but it deviates from the subject of our amendments and I shall not join him. However, he must concede that circumstances could arise, such as public health scares or epidemics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is not what I said. I made it clear that clause 21 is a free-standing provision which allows powers to be transferred to the assembly by definition at some point in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is the case, but the hon. Gentleman made great play of section 157—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Because as I said, that matter is the responsibility of Her Majesty the Queen, and it would require changes of another kind. I know that the hon. Gentleman shares my view of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-21", "file": "debates1998-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "3f9e50bb4d006010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " are not exhaustive, and furthermore that the powers can be transferred only one way at the behest of Parliament, and cannot be transferred the other way without the consent of the assembly. We have the prospect of unlimited transfers. I do not know whether the Secretary of State realised what he was saying in his winding-up speech. He implied that tax-raising powers could be transferred by order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-21a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1136.5", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "s a result of the Government's policy want to know when they will receive the money under the package. Has the Minister of State yet obtained Commission approval for the hill livestock compensatory allowance package? Is it possible for the Commission, in determining its agreement to that package, to change its contents, namely, the division of moneys between sheep and livestock, between the hills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "e them. I should be grateful if the right hon. Lady would convey to the Prime Minister the concern felt in many parts of the House at his increasingly arrogant disregard for Parliament. He continues to refuse to answer the simplest of questions at Prime Minister's Question Time. It is one thing to halve at a stroke the number of times a week that the Prime Minister consents to appear in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1146.0", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hat debate, much though we should like to be able to boast about our achievements and the money that the Government are putting into health. I reject the right hon. Lady's comments about the Prime Minister's answers at Question Time. As one of my hon. Friends said, there is no diminution in the total time available. Indeed, the figures show that more questions get asked and more answers are given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "m. Following a request by the Treasury Committee for reconsideration, the Chancellor would have to give reasons for continuing with the nomination of the person whom he wanted to have appointed or reappointed to the Monetary Policy Committee. That is a good model and should receive the Government's support. My right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, whose abilities I greatly admire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": "just had from the whole House, everybody in the Chamber did too. I agreed with much of what she said about new clause 1, but I particularly enjoyed listening to her obvious positive concern about her constituency. Newark is my wife's home town. She retains an enormous affection for it and, over the years, through many visits, I have come to share her affection, so the hon. Lady is extremely lucky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-22", "file": "debates1998-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "3cf13cdf2de845a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "a major process of consultation, which is going on at the present time and which will be extended throughout this year. When we reach the next stage of reform of the financial services sector, the Government will publish the Bill in draft. It will be published in spring or summer this year so as to give the financial services community an opportunity to comment on the structure of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-22a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-23", "file": "debates1998-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7288d273c100880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Private Hire Vehicles (London) 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": " like to express my gratitude. I was tempted to make—indeed, I toyed with the possibility of making—some minor party political pleasantries, but I have decided in the spirit of this morning's debate, with the clear cross-party co-operation that we have heard, not to do so. On mature reflection, I decided that they were rather feeble jokes, anyway. I have no doubt that the entire House is relieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-23", "file": "debates1998-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7288d273c100880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins), and for Cheadle (Mr. Day), and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier), who is also in his place. Other supporters include the hon. Members for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore), for Ipswich (Mr. Cann), for Swansea, East (Mr. Anderson), and for Moray (Mrs. Ewing), and the hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-23", "file": "debates1998-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7288d273c100880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely right to insulate homes to conserve energy, and to keep pensioners warm. However, how many pensioners is the hon. Gentleman prepared to see die over the next several years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-23a.1316.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am answering the question, Madam Speaker. I think the answer to that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s the primary concern. I should be grateful if the Secretary of State could give examples of the functions he envisages, which he is incapable of defining in the Bill. If those functions were defined in the Bill, it would considerably reduce the scope for misunderstanding and dispute between Westminster and the Welsh assembly later. I am happy to comment on amendment No. 244 tabled by Plaid Cymru—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "eveloping Department. One of the reasons for the success of the Welsh Office is that is grew progressively, absorbing each function and making it work before collecting the next one. That procedure was followed between 1964 and 1978. After a transfer order in April 1978, there was not another one until 29 January 1991. That is a huge gap and I was curious to discover the reason for it. The answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ment No. 144 would exclude social security and home affairs functions from transfer to the assembly. At the moment, I have no social security functions, and the White Paper made it clear that such UK-wide functions would continue to be delivered on the current basis, by the unitary Government. The Government have no plans to transfer such functions to the assembly, so the amendment is unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.64.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman's input. Although sense is not all that common in politics, surely there is enough common sense in this Committee to recognise when the Welsh people would be prepared to accept an extension of powers, without the need for a referendum. I shall state the obvious and put an end to this spurious debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "ing or for anything else, can pass to the assembly without the consent of Parliament. As I have said, powers for the assembly on personal and corporate taxation form no part of the proposals. I do not think that any future Government who propose a tax-varying power for the assembly will present legislation without the express consent of the Welsh people. It is inconceivable that that could happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.87.6", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I am not saying that at all, and if the right hon. Gentleman asked me to say it, I would have to decline his invitation. Wednesday's debate was in an entirely different context and he was asking theoretical questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.87.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I shall not be drawn into hypothetical constructions. The hon. Gentleman could equally say that, if it were the Government's policy to make rockets to fly to the moon, the power to build those rockets could be transferred to the Welsh assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ised by the right hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram). I have heard the speech that he made this evening at least half a dozen times before. There are genuine matters that need to be debated, but such tedious repetition time after time does not do his case any good and does not help the Committee explore the real issues. Our debate last week was an interesting precursor of what was to come today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "at he made this evening at least half a dozen times before. There are genuine matters that need to be debated, but such tedious repetition time after time does not do his case any good and does not help the Committee explore the real issues. Our debate last week was an interesting precursor of what was to come today. [Interruption.] I am replying to the points that the right hon. Gentleman raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "as the hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and others when, during our last debate, my right hon. Friend said that it was possible to transfer taxation powers by order. I always thought that that needed primary legislation somewhere along the way. I think that, in his reply this evening, my right hon. Friend is now saying that, but intertwined with statements such as \"theoretically possible\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.91.7", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "yed\", which appeared in the Western Mail as early as 15 January 1998—but we should consider why farmers in Wales have felt that they had to resort to them. My concern is that some will think that Welsh agriculture has been demoted at Westminster if it is made a responsibility of the assembly—where, undoubtedly, agriculture will be talked about at length. However, talking will not help the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.91.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "State for Wales is trying to give to the assembly. If it were my responsibility—and looking at what the people of Wales are saying—I would not transfer any of the powers from the Secretary of State to the assembly. We ought to make some progress before we deviate too far from the amendments. My comments seem to have caused the Secretary of State much excitement, as he rose to his feet three times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "ent—another manifestation of the Opposition's inability to come to terms with the fact that there will be devolution, that the Bill lays down the process by which legislation will take place, and that schedule 2 highlights the areas that I will consider for transfer of power to the assembly. I shall try to assist the hon. Member for Ribble Valley and his colleagues. Agriculture is partly devolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.99.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "s important that we get that absolutely right. This group of amendments deals with broadcasting, the Welsh language, and Welsh arts and culture. Our friendly probing amendments seek clarification. Apparently broadcasting will not be the responsibility of the Welsh assembly, and we want to know the thinking behind that. We have been accused of trying to take responsibilities away from the assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "erts about five hours ago, and he was delighted when I told him that I intended to pay him that tribute. Yes, he agrees with the amendment. The Welsh language was afforded protection under the current arrangements without the help of a Welsh assembly. Lord Roberts supports the amendment that we have tabled, and is happy with the way in which the House has promoted and protected the Welsh language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-26", "file": "debates1998-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "87a7a8d527c2342e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.116.4", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "There will be a general power to invite any bodies or persons that the assembly sees fit to invite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-26a.116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Indeed I can. I heard the hon. Gentleman out because I believe that he is not raising a so-called point of order facetiously but is quite serious, whereas most points of order that I hear are not serious. I want to tell him very clearly that it was not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "rom all parties currently have large postbags about the Road Traffic Reduction (United Kingdom Targets) Bill and the Breeding and Sale of Dogs Bill, both of which are to be debated on Friday this week. I have been trying for some time to get copies of those Bills, so that I can write to my constituents about my views on them. Unfortunately, neither has been printed yet—the Bills are not available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "al achievement. For half a century, the choice of where to build new homes has been shaped by a planning system understood by builders, implemented by local councils, accepted by the public and respected by Ministers. In just nine short months, the Secretary of State has undermined that system. He has attacked the role of local authorities and condemned huge tracts of countryside to the bulldozer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.153.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.162.9", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.162.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "It is not because we do not know, Tim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.164.6", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend describes extremely well the previous situation, which epitomises the previous Government's hypocrisy. I remind the House that—in contrast to what Conservative Members have been saying in this debate—88 per cent. of England's population live on only 12 per cent. of the land mass, and that 90 per cent. of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman quite understands the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"\"Yes, you do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "preceding_text": "That proves who is in charge and who is responsible for the environment. We say that we do not want any more heavy goods lorries, and the hon. Gentleman says that he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "preceding_text": "Well if he was, he certainly did not contribute. The CPRE was being used by the Tories for their own ends. The House must stand up against such action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": " do 75 per cent. and produced the figures, I said that if that stood up I would go for 75 per cent. It is on the record that that is what the Conservative Government said. I am happy for Labour Members to say that we did not achieve that, but it does not help their case because, until the article in The Times, they said that they would not even try. They did not have a policy of 60 or 75 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": "servative Government would not have done and did not do. The Government have changed the policy. But the situation is worse than that. The Minister for London and Construction gave it away. He will talk as if protecting the green belt and the countryside is a selfish activity by people who are lucky enough to benefit from it. That is what he has said and his articles have shown it again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for London and Construction (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for London and Construction (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.208.6", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. Sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.208.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ted £3 billion in the underground. Even earlier than that—at the time I took over as Secretary of State for Transport—we managed substantially to improve the investment programme left by the previous Labour Government. We take no lessons from the Labour party on capital investment. Anyone who can remember anything about politics will remember the capital cuts imposed by the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-27", "file": "debates1998-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a366496e118cf192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "One could have said that about any of the privatisations that successive Conservative Governments initiated from 1979 onwards. I can remember it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-27a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " a tremendous idea. He tells the House of his inspired idea of a \"junior council\" of children and teenagers to advise on what is \"cool\". Does it not seem odd that, given the amount of money being poured into consultancy fees in this £780 million project, with fewer than 500 working days to go before the millennium, all he can do is to turn to children for advice on the contents of the centrepiece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "t that most people support, but not to that extent. Where is the strategic thinking? If there has been some, it has not been shared with us. The Minister has attempted to keep information from the media whenever possible. We cannot be confident that there has been any strategic direction to the concept of the dome. That is Mr. Bayley's view in his pieces in The Spectator and in the national press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.278.4", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "thout a gibe at it, and no stand-up comedian's routine ends without a jeer at it? How could a project that carried such high hopes, and on whose success so much national prestige rides, have been allowed to fall so low? The Minister Without Portfolio is someone whom Conservative Members, at any rate, admire—even respect. He is perhaps the foremost master of the art of presentation in this century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "g cut. There has recently been serious concern about the safety of construction workers on the site, and fears have been expressed that there is so much pressure on them to work quickly that precautions are being neglected. I am sure that the Minister saw that story in the Sunday newspapers. One quotes a worker as saying: there seemed to be a drive to complete the Dome in time for the Millennium\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "2025, which will be a serious problem. We need an international programme of action in respect of the world's shrinking water resources. That has been a priority since the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly special session on environment and development. If we fail to get such an international agreement, as well as pain and suffering, there will be conflict across the world over water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the hon. Gentleman's question, as we discussed the subject at the last Question Time, when I made it clear to him that we have said that we think that there is a need for land redistribution in Zimbabwe, but it needs to be properly organised, transparent, relocated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Prime Minister is so tetchy today. Let me ask him another question. He said that his Government believe in high standards. Let us get this straight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Blears", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has reiterated today his belief that education is the foundation for success in life. Will he join me in congratulating Lowry high school, an inner-city school in Salford that was virtually written off by the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Blears", "preceding_text": "at education is the foundation for success in life. Will he join me in congratulating Lowry high school, an inner-city school in Salford that was virtually written off by the Tories— [Interruption] —where school attendance has improved by a massive 20 per cent. in the past 12 months? Does that not show that, with confidence, determination and the support of a Labour Government, we can all succeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, in Northamptonshire, the decision to switch funding from the assisted places scheme to primary schools means switching the equivalent of £949,000, which is enough to employ more than 50 extra teachers? Does he agree that that is a powerful sign of the Government's determination to improve education for all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There they go again—it is unbelievable. What about Cheltenham Ladies college? That is the Conservatives' education priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "e to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs. It has an historic resonance, from the declaration of Arbroath, the 1689 Claim of Right, through to today. It is a practical form of considering how sovereignty should operate. I think that it was Lord Howe who said that it is not like virginity—it is not something that one does or does not have; it is quite capable of being pooled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "e. I did not begin my speech by saying that I accept the House's sovereignty. I do not believe that the House is sovereign over even the English people, never mind the Scottish people. I believe in popular sovereignty. All sovereignty rests not with us and not with this building—with these bricks, mortar and timber—as admirable it is, and as much as I love it—I do love it, and I hope to stay here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "very time a Conservative Member gets to his or her feet to make a speech in such a manner, and tries to look upon Scotland as property, a thing, a possession of the unblemished sovereignty of Parliament. I want particularly to speak to amendment Nos. 79 and 23, which were tabled by the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats. The amendments could offer a middle way out of the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I will give way to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say to the hon. Gentleman, \"Come on, then,\" but I shall resist that temptation. He talked about going back to the dark ages. If a time traveller from 1707 came here, he would immediately recognise all the essentials of this Chamber and this Parliament. Nothing much has changed. We have the same Speaker and Deputy Speaker in the Chair and the same red line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "ration of Arbroath, in which the Scottish people said that they fully supported Robert the Bruce—he was a great man, who had driven out Edward II and freed the country—but, if Robert the Bruce went wrong and sold out to the English Government, they would remove him and set up their own Government. The power was handed in trust to the king, and it could be taken back. That is a classical statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "I have recently been reading Professor Barrow on precisely this subject. The fact is that most of the best political statements have been made by complete villains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "he reality of the way in which the Bill has been presented to us. All that my right hon. Friend's amendment does is to restate in plain language the truth about the legislation. As it is unlikely that the amendment will be accepted, it is effectively a probing amendment, but its use as a probing amendment has been extremely revealing and, I have to say to the Secretary of State, rather depressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; Dundee, East. I am not intimately familiar with Dundee, but I of course apologise. I meant the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. McAllion).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.398.5", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "tutions as part of our democratic political system, yet Parliament remains supreme. However, once one divides sovereignty in the way that has been suggested from the Liberal Democrat Benches and from the Labour Benches, one must face up to the threat that that poses to the integrity of this House of Commons, and the people of the United Kingdom through this House of Commons. John Stuart Mill said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.398.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wars of independence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " can always rely on the hon. and learned Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace). It is an old friend revisited. Lord Cooper would never have imagined, I hope, the deification of his views on the matter, which have become a mark of the Liberal Democrat party. I also thought that we would revisit the Wars of the Roses, and the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Mr. Gorrie) did not disappoint me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "n, beguiling though it was. I began to pale, if not swoon away, when the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) began to speak about Shelley and Dryden. The one piece of information that I got from the debate was details of the proposed funeral arrangements for my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Kelvin (Mr. Galloway). I hope that I am there to see the box being carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.406.8", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "For the second time this evening—probably for the second time in my life—I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Linlithgow. I wish to make one more point before I allow the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) to sum up on behalf of the Conservative party—a courtesy which Conservative Members have not always extended to me under similar circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.406.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "The Scottish nationalists got there pretty quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.414.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "We undertook wide consultations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "ould be possible to avoid the mechanism of proportionality in the Bill. I am coming to what is perhaps the more dangerous prospect, because I do not think that the Liberal Democrats will do well. If Labour fielded constituency candidates and allowed the Co-operative party to field regional candidates, there could be a similar effect. Can the Minister assure the Committee that that is not the plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "Although I was kind about the hon. Gentleman's amendments, he is living in the past. The terms that he used—Europhile and Europhobe—went out at least six months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot seriously argue that, in the past few years, the Conservative party did not make its case clear to the people in its election manifestos; it certainly did. It is all very well for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "Constituency sizes must have certain parameters. There has to be a degree of variation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "What you are failing to recognise is that many people will vote for the individual whom they believe will best serve their area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "d people would say that there was no point voting Liberal Democrat in the list section. Particularly in Highlands and Islands, votes are very much cast on the personalities of the candidates. Indeed, in the borders, where I originate, the seat in Galashiels and the surrounding area was held by the Liberal Democrats largely on the basis of personalities—the Tories who were put up were so appalling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "larly in Highlands and Islands, votes are very much cast on the personalities of the candidates. Indeed, in the borders, where I originate, the seat in Galashiels and the surrounding area was held by the Liberal Democrats largely on the basis of personalities—the Tories who were put up were so appalling. [Laughter.] The decision was nothing to do with the merits of the good Member who was elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "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": " discussions to reassess the situation and explore any revised proposals for completing the current agreement on the agreed route. I have assured the board that my Department stands ready to discuss, at the earliest opportunity, any revised proposals that it may have to complete the agreement. At the same time, preparations will be made for an orderly handover of the business to the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "act, 6 million. LCR made a wrong judgment about passenger numbers. That is why the deal is in real difficulty. It is not the intention of the Government—I do not know whether it would have been the Opposition's intention—to provide the £3 billion that LCR is asking for. If it can complete the contract, I will, of course, discuss with it public-private contracts, whatever. What is absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.462.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.463.4", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.464.4", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "patch Box is much more appropriate to the gravity of his announcement than the jollity of those on the Benches behind him? The announcement is very serious, and is extremely bad news for east London. It holds out the prospect that we will not get a channel tunnel rail link. We will continue with the existing rail communications to the channel tunnel, whereas the French have a high-speed rail link—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.464.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ve been deeply offended by the manifest glee with which Labour Members greeted his statement? Does he agree that that reaction was wholly inappropriate? Furthermore, does he agree that the cheers at the mere mention of nationalisation and public ownership—almost like the reaction of Pavlov's dogs—brings into disrepute any claims that the Labour party may have to be approaching the issue seriously?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-28", "file": "debates1998-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d9b2a5bcddc64f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It was your Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "aims that the Labour party may have to be approaching the issue seriously? [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"] The right hon. Gentleman should indeed apologise, and I hope that he will do so at the Dispatch Box. Thousands of people in Kent, including some of my constituents and those of my hon. Friends—who I hope will catch your eye, Madam Speaker—have been affected by blight, and have been made anxious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-28a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Members will already be aware that a wooden moulding fell from the ceiling of our Chamber during the night. This morning, our staff checked to see whether there were similar defects in any other mouldings, and one further moulding has been removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister join me in congratulating the governors and teachers of Kinnerley primary school, which came top of the league in Shropshire this year? That included attendance figures. Will she ask how on earth the teachers and governors of Shropshire schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Bloody Sunday", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "rces, and I believe that to be sincere. I believe that he does recognise the particular difficulties faced by young men in having to make split-second decisions, but does he not recognise that his decision today in some sense threatens to put counter-terrorist operations at risk if the front-line soldier feels that he does not have the support of his political master, whose orders he carries out?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Bloody Sunday", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ung men in having to make split-second decisions, but does he not recognise that his decision today in some sense threatens to put counter-terrorist operations at risk if the front-line soldier feels that he does not have the support of his political master, whose orders he carries out?— [Interruption.] These are questions which deserve answers. I represent men who are serving in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "uld have said that it was an absurd proposition. It seems nonsense to me, particularly in a Parliament which will have not four parties, but six, seven or eight. That would give tremendous influence to smaller parties, which could block any agreement because of their strength in a particular part of Scotland. The Tories expect to be a very small party, embedded in only one little part of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Home Affairs and Devolution, Scottish Office (Mr. Henry McLeish)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Home Affairs and Devolution, Scottish Office (Mr. Henry McLeish)", "preceding_text": "hrough successive Sessions of the new Parliament. The Government are well aware of the speculation about what other titles might be used to describe the First Minister and his ministerial colleagues. We believe that the titles used in the Bill suit the purpose. We recognise that the Scottish public may well develop their own description for the First Minister and members of the Scottish Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.542.4", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Clause 19", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "When the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body starts the process of selecting a Clerk and Deputy Clerk, will they be head-hunted from those who have expertise in the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.542.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Proper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "I support the speaking of Gaelic. I encourage it, and if it is expensive, so be it. When I was youngster, I was annoyed that I was taught by teachers who told me—battered it into me—to speak properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": " \"Proper.\"] Not proper, properly. One of those teachers was a highlander and a Gaelic speaker. She did not accept that, as far as we were concerned, we were speaking the Doric, the local language. I was bilingual. What I said at home and what I said in the playground were totally different from what I said to the teachers, because I learn the hard way—if we did not speak properly, we were thumped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I think it pretty churlish of the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mrs. Michie) not to mention all those famous conferences of the Scottish Labour party that have taken place at Rothesay. Those of us who have braved the boat back in choppy waters feel quite strongly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "uple of years ago, I was falsely accused on such matters, and entirely cleared by the Standards and Privileges Committee. I am extremely sensitive to such false or reckless allegations or imputations that we have a huge problem. I do not believe that we have a huge problem. In so far as we have a problem at all, it is certainly made worse by people carelessly, recklessly, tossing around such talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.567.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-01-29", "file": "debates1998-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "9096ff234fb81474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.601.9", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": " An Act of the Scottish Parliament is not law only to the extent that any provision of the Act is outside the legislative competence of the Parliament. The purpose of that is to make it clear that, if an Act had 20 sections, one of which went beyond the legislative competence of the Parliament, the whole Act would not fall. Instead, it would not be operative only to the extent of that one section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-01-29a.601.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I hear what my hon. Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Let me make it very clear that we have already taken substantial action to assist pensioners with heating costs this winter and next winter, and that, for the period after that, we will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": "I chair the walking steering group which is introducing a national walking strategy and good practice guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shameful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady has read many of the studies from around the world on examples of large amounts of money being concentrated on ways to get wheelchairs on and off public transport. Has it not been shown that very few people use such facilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": " but let no Labour Member kid himself that Bart's has been saved for the people of east London. We welcome the tertiary referral centre—it will no doubt provide wonderful services for cancer and cardiac patients from throughout the country—but Bart's hospital will not provide any of the local services usually provided by a district general hospital. May I ask the Secretary of State some questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Health Services (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "id that if the rate of emergency admissions increased, more beds would be needed, and that has clearly happened; but they are most needed in long-term care, and that problem results largely from Labour local authorities' appalling performance in providing nursing home beds. We cannot let this decision pass without reminding the House of some of the Government's broken promises on London hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You are the sixth Speaker whom I have had the privilege of serving, and the one about whom there has been the least complaint—not least because you have permitted two private notice questions on Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "l areas, justified a significantly greater injection of money there. Had there been that injection, the economy would by now have been much stronger than it is. Mention was made earlier of the fact that countries cannot balance their books. There is one country that is balancing its books—the Irish Republic—no doubt because of the munificence of the English taxpayer, who has paid money to Brussels", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "To come back to Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": " continue to be determined by a formula, not by annual negotiations, as the amendments would require. I remind the Committee that the formula and block rules have operated for nearly two decades without being included in legislation. During that period, they have operated entirely satisfactorily in terms of their mechanical operation, even under a Conservative Government who were hostile to Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "he council are likely to cover the key strategic issues that face the assembly and the major quangos in Wales, which provide an important interface for local authorities. We have to look ahead a little further. The Government have separate proposals for strengthening local government that, this summer, will be the subject of a White Paper for Wales. I cannot reveal the contents of the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.931.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.935.5", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "Would it not be preferable if, as the Opposition amendments state, the Partnership Council did not meet at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.935.6", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.935.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-03", "file": "debates1998-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1b742a423654c91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "To which local authorities in Wales has the hon. Gentleman spoken about this proposal? I have already emphasised that they are all totally behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-03a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Rural Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The Government's attitude can perhaps be explained by the fact that the majority of their support comes from predominantly urban areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see so many Members on the Treasury Benches, which somewhat belies the spin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1013.6", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I shall not give way as I have only six minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1013.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "y in that nine-day period, an official telephoned Ms Regan to discuss her appointment. We are also told on the record by the Foreign Secretary that, during those nine days, he never informed officials about his relationship with Ms Regan; indeed, they were not so informed until August. We are also told on the record that Ms Bullen was induced by officials to agree that the terms of her departure\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1014.6", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Letwin", "preceding_text": "s later, when it came to light that these events had transpired, the Foreign Secretary found himself in the presence of a Foreign Minister and high officials from a foreign Government in a foreign land. He did not take the opportunity to defend himself, as was his right. He took the opportunity, like some Labour Members from a sedentary position, to abuse the diary secretary whom he had displaced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1014.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I shall answer. The appointment of Ms Regan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.9", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Did the hon. Gentleman say that the Foreign Secretary was deceiving the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.10", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I did not mention the term \"deceit\" in the context of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1015.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ches in deference to your specific ruling on this point, that I do not intend to accept any interventions so that the Minister may have the maximum amount of time to respond to this important if brief debate, and that the world will draw its own conclusions from the ludicrous attempts by Labour Members to disrupt this debate, and will ask what they have to hide. Let me make it clear at the outset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "h Mrs. Gaynor Regan. It is admitted that he did not tell officials in the Foreign Office that she was his mistress. It is admitted that the taxpayer picked up the bill for the sacked civil servant's compensation. It is a measure of the lack of any moral sense among Labour Members that they behave as they do this afternoon. In every respect, the charge against the Foreign Secretary has been proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Anne Bullen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "suggested. More than half the members of the better regulation task force are drawn from small businesses. They have been broken up into various working parties led by experts and they have recently produced a good set of principles for good regulations which have been broadly welcomed in Britain and in the European Union, to the extent that I intend to have them translated into French and German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. Indeed, last week I spent a day with Members of the European Parliament in Brussels trying to explore ways in which to tackle this particularly difficult issue, because it is important that rules and regulations emanating from Governments should be clear and understandable to our citizens. We also took the initiative of launching citizen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1037.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It would be very strange if the Freedom of Information Act brought in restrictions on the role of journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1038.4", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will not have such noise from Government Members either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1038.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a national health service dentist in my constituency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Hertfordshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, that is not what is being said, but in any event let me make one thing clear again. There is an idea that the present Government are in some way implementing a policy that was no part of the last Government's policy. It is completely in line, apart from the fact that we are trying to tighten it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has fallen in the past year as a result of a number of factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The payments to hill farmers that the right hon. Gentleman mentions are payments that we inherited from the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What a load of rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend turned up at the event to which the hon. Gentleman referred, but she did not beat a hasty retreat. The hon. Gentleman should not believe everything he reads in The Newsletter. I accept, of course, that sometimes The Newsletter can be accurate. My right hon. Friend's intention was to see the turnout. She wished to get a feel for it and then go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "the community\", yet it is unlawful to place restrictions on a parade on the grounds that it will have some kind of adverse effect on the community. The provision could not be upheld in the Court of Human Rights, because it does away with the right to march—although I know that the Minister refuses to accept that. The hon. Member whose constituency I do not know, who referred to the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I know the case that the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Stott) mentioned. There was a lot of trouble at the strike and the police were of the opinion, whether rightly or wrongly it is not for me to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1140.8", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "The new clause is a replacement provision for clause 10, which deals with the Secretary of State's powers in relation to parades. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1140.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " training session is a procession. Therefore, band sessions account for many of the so-called processions and parades that occur every year. Some bands never bother to apply for 11/1 forms, but all bands will have to do that when this legislation starts to bite. Instead of 3,000 processions, we shall be presented with a grossly inflated figure that does not reflect what is happening on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ds will have to do that when this legislation starts to bite. Instead of 3,000 processions, we shall be presented with a grossly inflated figure that does not reflect what is happening on the ground. [Interruption.] The Government should consider that point. If every band—some of which hold training sessions at fairly short notice—must submit an 11/1 form to the police, it will not be long before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1151.6", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "the Bill would give the commission the flexibility to act as it believes most appropriate in the circumstances. However, many people have made representations on this point and believe that the mediation function is incompatible with the adjudicatory function. I do not believe that the commission would in practice be faced with conflicting duties in this regard. In fact, the commission would only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "trip away any powers. To take that argument forward and say that what the amendment proposes is the most insidious aspect of the whole Bill stretches my imagination. Perhaps the lateness of the hour is causing me difficulty in understanding the logic that is being presented to us. On attacks on individuals who serve on public bodies and implied attacks on civil servants in the police division who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-04", "file": "debates1998-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "ef1e110120207f24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1169.5", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-04a.1169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about public health?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "o pay every year for one day's headlines for the Secretary of State. On today's announcement, we entirely share the Government's objectives. Health policy must seek to improve health, not just treat ill health. In fact, much ill health has nothing to do with health services; it has more to with life style, environment and the genes that we inherit. The Government are building on previous policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "the evidence of the link between poverty and ill health, but I do not believe that the relationship is as simple as he makes out. If the Government think that all inequalities are caused by poverty, they will not only fail to correct them, but fail at huge cost. Where there is a link, I believe that it is through unemployment and depressing housing conditions. The previous Government tackled both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Peter Brand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Peter Brand", "preceding_text": "e are 70,000 each year and which affect women, predominantly? Will the Government look at the effectiveness of the Health and Safety Executive in investigating accidents in the workplace? Will local government be funded to make cycling on our public highways safer for children? On cancer services, will there be the resources fully to introduce the Calman/Hine proposals? Will the Government extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Is not that because the lives of some have not changed? Is not that the lesson that we learn both from Keith Joseph's studies following his \"Cycle of Deprivation\" speech and from the Black report—of which there are two copies in our household?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "otesting and seeking emergency debates. I have waited patiently to see when my questions would be answered; only one has been. What can be done to ensure that Ministers answer questions from Opposition Members? We rarely put down priority written questions, but when we do it is not for fun or amusement—it is because a serious issue is at stake. We should like Ministers to answer them occasionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1258.2", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "Wiltshire is run by a Lib-Lab pact. Half a dozen Labour councillors keep the Liberals in control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "Why was there a £300 million bill for local authority pension funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1263.5", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "the impact. A 10 per cent. rise in council tax is equivalent to an average of £69 for a family in a band D house. As we heard again today, the Government claim that none of the council tax rises have anything whatever to do with them, so in areas in the country that have a Labour council, under a Labour Government, it is entirely logical to blame any rises in council tax on the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "s, Leicester's problems arise from decisions made by the previous Government. As I have said, methodology changes in the SSA have had an impact on Leicester over the past four or five years. Nevertheless, I hope that, even at this late stage—I know that only another three hours and 50 minutes remain before the final decision is made—the Government will take steps to alleviate Leicester's problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "ns made by the previous Government. As I have said, methodology changes in the SSA have had an impact on Leicester over the past four or five years. Nevertheless, I hope that, even at this late stage—I know that only another three hours and 50 minutes remain before the final decision is made—the Government will take steps to alleviate Leicester's problems. [Interruption.] Did I get the time wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "fact that the council has lost out because of the introduction and subsequent abolition of nursery vouchers. Let me make two final suggestions that the Government should consider in their review of local government finance. First, education data changes can have a profound impact on the budget. The Government should consider introducing a clamping mechanism—I am sorry; I meant a damping mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "The same penny being applied to the same purpose yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": " local business tax. A buoyant and independent source of revenue would do much to rejuvenate local government. It would strengthen local accountability. The funding of local government must be seen in the context of its powers and accountability. Is the future of local government to be a mere administrative unit of the Government or will it be about being autonomous decision makers? In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "would be the last people to make business rates prohibitively high. They need that control to help create jobs. The statement is a beginning. It is a step in the right direction and it should be welcomed by all hon. Members. It is no good Opposition Members criticising it because their boroughs have the least increase, which is what one hon. Member said. Of course there will be winners and losers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " factors and the method of distribution. Mention has been made of the area cost adjustment, but in Gloucestershire it is a particularly sore point. We have a 30-mile common boundary with Oxfordshire. Last year, Oxfordshire received £12.9 million in area cost adjustment, and this year it will receive an estimated £15 million, whereas Gloucestershire receives nothing. There is no rationale for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the council tax reduction should be related to council spending if it exceeds the level of inflation. That would put some fairness into the system, and would provide accountability for every council tax payer, whether or not they received a council tax reduction. The Government's declared policy is to return the non-domestic rate—the uniform business rate—to local authority control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "from my border, an extra £15 million—which amounts to £1.5 million per mile. I do not understand why. The standard spending assessment formula consistently discriminates against Worcestershire. There is absolutely no fairness in the settlement, only further discrimination. Linking the SSA to capping limits—which is what we are dealing with in Worcestershire—means that the SSA is the capping limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1320.3", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler) and the hon. Members for Mole Valley (Sir P. Beresford) and for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo). The resulting standard spending assessment formulas are not motivated by politics but by fairness. They are the product of much discussion with local government and are applied equally to all authorities regardless of political control. A number of rural issues were raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-05", "file": "debates1998-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6507b6ea85a43a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "r for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Burstow) demanded an extra £800 million for local government Today, that figure has risen to £1 billion. All of it will be paid for by the Liberal's flexible friend, the 1p on income tax. But the Liberal spokesman's figures do not add up. They bleat about the Government sticking to previous spending plans, which is their excuse for voting against the Government tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-05a.1326.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-06", "file": "debates1998-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "998550bac6018688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-06a.1421.2", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [23 January], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-06a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-06", "file": "debates1998-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "998550bac6018688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-06a.1421.6", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-06a.1421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-09", "file": "debates1998-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "d5fb3a989c77be52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.9.8", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "There are great issues involved, so I shall be as gentle as I possibly can with the right hon. Lady. After all, I am trying to make sense of the arrangements that I inherited from the previous Administration in respect of that valuable site. Of course, the right hon. Lady was one of the two Secretaries of State involved in those arrangements. I make no criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.9.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-09", "file": "debates1998-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "d5fb3a989c77be52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"North-west.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is here representing a seat that is a Labour gain partly because of the record of the former Government in the north-east of England—the area which my hon. Friend represents and which will benefit so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.14.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-09", "file": "debates1998-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "d5fb3a989c77be52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill O'Brien (Normanton)", "preceding_text": "ces to explain why parents with care are not co-operating with the CSA? In the case of one of my constituents, I received a statement of assessment on 13 January, and my constituent received a statement directly on 14 and 15 January. Three different statements were sent in three days. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that parents often do not co-operate because they cannot understand the procedures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-09", "file": "debates1998-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "d5fb3a989c77be52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.61.4", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "gue is what is so often lacking—that is what we need more of, not the shutting of benefit offices. I am grateful to the Minister of State for his kind remarks. He has been something of a sponsor of my involvement in these Corridors in that, while he was Chairman of the Select Committee on Social Security, I took on the role of specialist adviser. I think of him as a sponsor, or almost a godfather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.61.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-09", "file": "debates1998-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "d5fb3a989c77be52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats are grubbing around to make interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-09a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.132.5", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Just for the record, one of those visits was cancelled because of religious holidays in the middle east and the other because of the previous Iraqi crisis. To respond to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's points about the presidency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.132.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Diary Secretary", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " Advocate was not devolved for very much those reasons. I know that the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) remembers some of the debates that took place at that time. It may be useful to illustrate the point with hypothetical examples. There could be a case where a Westminster Member of Parliament from a Scottish constituency was to be prosecuted for electoral improprieties after devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "d a rule in the parliamentary Labour party that, if someone was an elected member of the shadow Cabinet, he or she would automatically become a Cabinet member when Labour was elected to government. In at least two cases that I know of, that did not happen after 1 May. Furthermore, I know of at least one Minister whose appointment might not have been accepted had it required parliamentary approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "tomatically become a Cabinet member when Labour was elected to government. In at least two cases that I know of, that did not happen after 1 May. Furthermore, I know of at least one Minister whose appointment might not have been accepted had it required parliamentary approval. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"] I forget his constituency, but I believe that he has something to do with the millennium dome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stone always has a good innings. It is always redeemed by the fact that he grins at his own efforts at the end, in the most pleasant and genuine of ways, and we all forgive him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "inisters will have difficulty in defending and explaining their activities to their European counterparts. A procedure such as this can only add to Ministers' difficulties and to our difficulties as a House. The purpose of our prayer is to give the Government in particular and the House in general an opportunity to agree, on Division, that it is never too late to think again about the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "iberal Democrats to the measure—here we part company and I shall leave the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) to make his own case—is both practical and philosophical. It is not what has been characterised in certain newspapers such as the Evening Standard as a personalised attack on the Minister of Agriculture. I note that he has been described as \"Dr. Jack Boot\" in certain editorial columns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ever, arise first from the fact—as the Minister said in his original statement before Christmas—that SEAC, the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, as well as giving him the evidence and the medical advice from the chief medical officer, set out three options, which the Minister outlined in his statement. The Government decided on the toughest, the most radical or the most extreme option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ch is conveniently ignored by most commentators. To return to the risk to consumers, SEAC emphasised that the risk is very small; however, it is very real. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a terrible disease. The first signs of new variant CJD are often psychiatric, including anxiety, depression and behavioural change which progresses. After a period of weeks or months, difficulties in walking appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I take that point on board. If and when the Food Standards Agency and its officials know what I do not know and what nobody in the House or outside knows—the incubation period of new variant CJD—a proper decision can be taken. Until that is known, we cannot proceed on that basis. Opposition Front Benchers may wish to infect the population, but the Government will not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "action in the House tonight in approving the regulations, Ministers can go to Brussels, look the Ministers of other member states in the eye and say, \"Our beef does not contain infectivity.\" Without the regulations, we cannot say that. The controls are fully justified by the need to protect public health and enhance consumer confidence. In doing so, we are doing the farming industry a real favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.261.6", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The answer to the second question is, I do not know. It might be early days. I am unaware of any successful prosecution—I am unaware of any prosecutions taking place. One reason for that is probably the fact that very few people are not obeying the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.261.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "No. Time is very short, and I have many important things to say. I wanted to intervene on the Minister. I tried nine or 10 times, but he would not give way. I am glad that I have now been called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-10", "file": "debates1998-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "4f47dec80347b596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "nsparency, accountability and proper regulation of a range of establishments in this country. We must also ensure that in this field—or, indeed, in any other—we do not abrogate the proper parental responsibility to take care and make sure that they are informed about the arrangements that they make for their children. If the hon. Gentleman suggests that we must assume responsibility for that area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-10a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "As we begin to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.362.9", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor, when asked whether the Bill would lead the courts to develop a law of privacy, said yes. He said that in black and white. Now the Prime Minister contradicts him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.362.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Frankly, it was not that great a question the first time the right hon. Gentleman asked it, and it has now been asked six times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ause I did not believe that the balance was right and that that was leading to problems in the more deprived areas. I take the points that the hon. Gentleman has made, but it is for local authorities themselves to decide, through the WLGA, the review's terms of reference. However, his points will be taken into account. Conwy has had an increase of 4.7 per cent. this year, so it has not done badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " is recognised as the authoritative voice of local government. I have made it clear that I should like to see the two authorities that are currently outside the association return and play their full part in the partnership process. The final decision, of course, is a matter for them, but I know of absolutely no advantage to them in remaining outside. I shall deal now with my settlement proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "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": " where was Lord Hattersley, who had only recently been made a working peer? I could hazard a guess. I am told by those who know in the other place that 52 Labour peers failed to vote, including three Ministers. If that is so, the Minister should ask the forgiveness of the House. The real problem, which the Minister touched on, was that the Government expected the Liberal Democrats to support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "No. It is better than the Green Paper, but the devil is in the detail. One must see the Bill. Everyone understands that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "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": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We accept your ruling, but can it be stated explicitly so that Ministers understand that the document has not been made available to hon. Members. I had to get in touch with the Deputy Prime Minister's office to get a copy. That is no way to treat the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.440.6", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. The Minister's argument was twofold. First, he said that the Lords amendment was a \"wrecking\" amendment. Secondly, he said that we should be \"ashamed\" of supporting the Lords amendment. That is complete nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.440.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "oney. It is amazing for the Labour party to level at the Conservatives the charge that we are spendthrift—that was the word used. It is suggested that we are needlessly wasting Government money. In fact, about £2 million to £3 million is involved. Why are the Government holding the referendum on 7 May? They are doing so because they wish to conceal the spending record of Labour councils in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ver, as my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir P. Beresford) said in one or two interventions, the real issue is that the Government are showing their lack of trust in parliamentarians and the people of London. There is a difference between a White Paper and a Bill. Hon. Members of long standing have seen the difference between a White Paper and a Bill. I do not make a partisan point here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": " changes in the detail of the Bill. My right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield is right about that. Prudence is wise in that respect. It is a pity, from the viewpoint, once again, of parliamentary rectitude and common sense, that we are taking this path. If I may say so, as a London Member, who represents a constituency on the very edge of London, in Bromley, I have a particular concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "s right about that. Prudence is wise in that respect. It is a pity, from the viewpoint, once again, of parliamentary rectitude and common sense, that we are taking this path. If I may say so, as a London Member, who represents a constituency on the very edge of London, in Bromley, I have a particular concern— [Laughter.] I do not know what the hon. Member for Eltham (Mr. Efford) is laughing about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "another place. It has been interesting to watch and listen to the debate. Until now, Opposition Members have bobbed up and down as though they had pins on their seats, and Government Members have appeared to be \"Blutacked\" to their seats. I look forward to hearing from Government Back Benchers whether they have questions for the Government on how the Greater London authority will work in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "ting, but everyone can and should have his or her say. I am astonished to hear about the mystical properties that are now attributed to a Bill, as though a Bill were entirely immutable and cast in stone—HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is the gist of what Opposition Members have been saying. Apparently White Papers can be changed completely, willy-nilly, but Bills are cast in stone. That is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that brilliantly illustrated point. It is certainly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "t a Bill was a highly complex piece of legislation. She said that a Bill would be drafted in a highly technical style. Her implication was that what she called the ordinary voters of London would have a chance of understanding a White Paper, but that they would not understand a Bill. Well, I have news for the Government, many of the ordinary voters of London are lawyers, and they understand Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "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": "The mayor will appoint the development agency for London, but we are correct in saying that it will be an entirely appointed body. There is no question of its being elected democratically—in other words, it will be a major quango.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "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": "a of a directly elected assembly. If an assembly is required as a checking measure, we propose that it should comprise borough leaders—it could even include executive mayors, if power has passed to them by that stage. The Minister challenges me on that point. We seek an assurance—which is one of the reasons why I was so sad not to hear the winding-up speech of the Minister for Transport in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.4", "colnum": "489", "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": "The Minister is totally erroneous and he is certainly out of order. It is a great pity that he does not calm down and listen to the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was in the manifesto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " not a bold and radical proposal. Only one thing appears to be a huge totem pole of machismo and conviction for the Government: we have to have both a directly elected mayor and an assembly, whether people like it or not. The Government appear to be wedded to that proposal. The Green Paper asked 62 questions to elicit opinions. The one question that most people wanted to answer was not even asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much later.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman says, it is traditionally known as Hobson's choice. In this case it is Blair's choice—we get Blair's choice or we get no choice. We can vote only for or against what the Government want. I have two final points that open the issue out. We are going down a dangerous constitutional road. At the moment, the Government want us and their colleagues to vote later tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": " flows in its sorry history. If that happened, the Government would be culpable because of their failure to seize the opportunity to provide proper legitimacy for the structure of government in London once and for all. That arrangement should not be a political football. The Minister said that the referendum should pose just one question, because that is the only way in which the people of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "No. Never have so many forelocks been tugged with such regularity as they have been tonight by Opposition Members, bending the knee to those tired, dusty, flea-bitten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.516.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "for, interest in or concern about the democratic voice of the people of London and that they increasingly have no concern about, respect for or commitment to the primacy and supremacy of this Chamber as the decision-making voice in Parliament. I have little doubt that the House will vote against this wrecking amendment, as it should. It is shameful that Opposition Members considered supporting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.516.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-11", "file": "debates1998-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "ae5455c7d6a363bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-11a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.537.7", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Merron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Merron", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply, which shows that, if Britain takes a lead and the European Union countries follow, we shall at last ensure that the EU tackles the youth unemployment challenges that lie ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.537.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will of course accept that the price for that has often been high unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.544.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.545.4", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. Geoffrey Robinson)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "It is a terrible indictment of 18 years of Conservative rule and bashing of local councils that the hon. Gentleman admits that that is the case. What we are doing through the release of receipts will enable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well, answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "It is an odd question. I heard it earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "preceding_text": "take roads expenditure, for example. The present Government are decimating roads expenditure in England. However, let us suppose that they decided, like the previous Government, to spend more on roads in line with the needs in particular English regions. It is well known to people who travel frequently around the United Kingdom that the roads in Scotland are very much better than those in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "d for Tower Hamlets, £864 per head for Westminster, and £368 per head for Barnsley. That is a greater differential in spending per head than the differential between Scotland and England. When making an accurate and fair assessment of spending per head in Scotland compared with England, we should take account of the huge geographical differences between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": " of spending per head in Scotland compared with England, we should take account of the huge geographical differences between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst groans, but he cannot run away from the fact that Scotland contains 59 per cent. of the surface area of the United Kingdom and has 10.6 per cent. of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.625.5", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "arliament which has been criticised is not an SNP proposal. The SNP proposal was distinct and clear. It would have set up the clear line of accountability that hon. Members want. It is fascinating that we should be attacked for arrangements that are not of our making. The hon. Member for Woodspring claimed that, in the referendum, the question of the SNP being an independence party was not raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.642.7", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "There are no Labour Members present representing English or Welsh constituencies. As it is a United Kingdom issue, if the Conservative party had Scottish Members of Parliament, every single one of them would be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.642.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I assure you, Mr. Martin, that I shall not be drawn down that path, but I give an example of the way in which money can be withdrawn from Scottish expenditure programmes. The objective 1 status of the highlands and islands is under threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "saying that with a straight face. We tabled them because we wanted to explore the nature and implications of the Parliament's borrowing powers. As the relationship between London and Edinburgh degenerates—unlike the Scottish National party, Conservative Members do not want that to happen; we want a good relationship—what is likely to occur? The structural funds for building roads may be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.644.9", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is a well-known fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.644.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-12", "file": "debates1998-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4705b46336d1336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "No, it is the Secretary of State, so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-12a.648.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-13", "file": "debates1998-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a57b27dcf0ea398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.736.25", "colnum": "736", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [6 February], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.736.24"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-13", "file": "debates1998-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a57b27dcf0ea398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Third Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.737.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-13", "file": "debates1998-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0a57b27dcf0ea398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.737.10", "colnum": "737", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-13a.737.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-16", "file": "debates1998-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "73f0c7f546feb00e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "fering the project for professional management and funding by a leisure company such as Walt Disney, which has a track record and expertise in this area, rather than depending to such a large extent on lottery funds, so that the million visitors a month he envisages enticing for a meander around the internal organs of a 150-foot silver representation of the Madonna can do so safe in the knowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.757.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-16", "file": "debates1998-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "73f0c7f546feb00e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.757.4", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was the question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-16", "file": "debates1998-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "73f0c7f546feb00e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.765.7", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can do nothing about questions that are withdrawn, but I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman tabled a question about East Anglia. Is that the point that he is making?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-16", "file": "debates1998-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "73f0c7f546feb00e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he two Bills is that this one gives far greater protection to the sovereignty of Parliament. There is another matter that the Opposition may have forgotten in tabling their amendment. In 1977, the architect of modern Conservatism, Lady Thatcher, supported the incorporation of the European convention on human rights. She had the then Mr. Leon Brittan move amendments to the Scotland Bill to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-16a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-17", "file": "debates1998-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ee96c3c3d038a5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.878.6", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I think that COSLA was probably relieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.878.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-17", "file": "debates1998-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ee96c3c3d038a5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Electronic Tagging", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wray", "preceding_text": "Given that the question deals with prisoners and crime, I wish to ask a specific question relating to two prisoners, T. C. Campbell and Joseph Steele. Will my hon. Friend answer a question regarding section 124 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-17", "file": "debates1998-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ee96c3c3d038a5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": "e reality is that the Iraqi people have suffered long enough. It is sheer sophistry to talk about there being no sanctions on food and medicine. My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) and I have walked in the hospitals where the children are expiring for want of medicines in Iraq. Of course there is a food-for-oil deal now, but for many years under sanctions there was no such deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-17", "file": "debates1998-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "ee96c3c3d038a5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": " support of the Government Front Bench, the Opposition Front Bench and Bill Clinton's discredited Administration in Washington, that cannot count on the support of the Arab countries, of the European countries or of a majority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Everyone is out of step except Uncle Sam and Johnnie Bull. Well, it is just not credible. I shall close on this point. So far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-17a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": " if job offers are plentiful and the number of opportunities—particularly in the private sector—is growing, the relative advantages or attractions of teaching unfortunately tend to shrink. If the Government now have a problem that they inherited, it results from the strength of our economy, which is causing students who might otherwise have taken education courses to take jobs of a different kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "hing because, although the starting salary in the private sector may be similar to that in teaching, it offers better salary prospects. Our report could have put more emphasis on the changing workplace, on how people no longer embrace the idea of a single career for life. We should do more to encourage late entrants from, for example, banking. That sector contains many people with numeracy skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "May I say in the nicest possible way to the right hon. Gentleman that it comes ill from a Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1069.8", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I made a statement last week that questions must be put. The hon. Gentleman did not put a question; he made a statement. I shall be careful not to call him again for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1069.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "It is precisely on that matter of doing what we can to get those waiting lists down that I think there is some doubt. I remind the Prime Minister that he fought the general election nine months ago on a card—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that 90 per cent, of lone mothers would like the opportunity to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " I hope that my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the rest of the Cabinet, most of whom are spending Ministers, will be able to take part in an exercise that will take us further and further away from the discredited policies of the previous Government and their Tory spending plans. We must wean ourselves away from those in order to save a little for a rainy day and elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-18", "file": "debates1998-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "78a14d028c6049c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stop now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " on that issue. I am determined that, as part of the new NHS, general dental services should contribute increasingly to the improvements in public health that we seek. We are thinking how best to use the resources available to meet those objectives and improve the responsiveness, efficiency and fairness of the service. So far, so good. I think that there is unanimity across the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-18a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1176.10", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "People who already had frozen T-bones or ribs of beef in their freezers at home should, frankly, be treated as adults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1176.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very odd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "May I reassure the Leader of the House that some Conservative Members are still pager-free, and therefore still able to express the odd personal opinion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "for the Opposition than for the Government, because I can ask the questions and the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Western Isles (Mr. Macdonald), who is responsible for local government, will have to answer them. I remember being told that the formulas are very exclusive. They are understood by three people—one is dead, one is mad and one advises the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "Metaphors about pump priming and seed money should be banned. I know that the Minister did not use them, but that was the thought process involved. The idea is that, if a little money is put into something for a few years, it will pay for itself ever after. That is rubbish, and a major cause of problems in our society. He should address that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": " He may want to sleep on bare floorboards to set the Lord Chancellor an example, but there is a £4 billion windfall excess. Although the Conservatives have always believed—as we have shown—in tight economic control, there is a point to economic growth in public expenditure terms. Public expenditure is bad when it runs out of control and damages the rest of the economy, but it is not bad in itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-19", "file": "debates1998-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "fe23765783c34019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "w long will the rest of Scotland have to go on funding Glasgow to the present extent? It is time that its house was put in order. In reply to my question earlier, the Secretary of State said that the police settlement was not as bad as it looked. No matter how one looks at it, the Government are failing to provide the police with adequate income. I am sorry that the Secretary of State is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-19a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "ding the review. She has met many people already, as I have done. I am grateful for the critical faculties that Members bring to the outline proposals, which we debated the other day. I make a plea to Members on both sides of the House: when the proposals are published, let us have the most detailed and critical discussion. Last time round, we sleepwalked many of our constituents into a nightmare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "reen Paper, \"Household Growth: Where Shall We Live?\". I hope that we can refocus the debate and, in doing so, change some of the language that we use in it. To my mind, much of the debate so far has been clouded by unhelpful language, crude figures and confused statistics. For example, the term \"brown-field\" is not helpful. I propose to talk about recycled land, which, of course, can be in cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.21.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "ive. We want to replace the top-down, \"predict and provide\" mentality of the past with a more responsive and accountable system that is better able to revitalise our towns and cities and protect a living countryside that we all enjoy. I believe that the proposals will help us to achieve our twin aims of urban renaissance and ensuring that we hand on a green and pleasant land to future generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " wrote back to ask him whether that was his party's policy. The shadow Cabinet was then immediately convened, and the figure changed to 66 per cent.—all in a matter of weeks. I do not think that we can treat the Opposition spokesman's claims with any seriousness. I want to have a serious debate. I did not slag off the Opposition in my statement; I did not think that there was a necessity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ms. In 12 months, I hope to have more information about where brown-field sites are. I find it amazing that the previous Government had not found out. In order to make a judgment, it is important to find out the amount of recycled land or brown-field sites we have. We are going to do that, and I hope that the House will be better informed as a result, so that we may have a more intelligent debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right about the different policies pursued by the previous Administration. I may have omitted to answer the point about whether there has been a U-turn. Indeed, I challenge the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield to show that anything I have said today differs from what I have said before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "by the previous Administration. I may have omitted to answer the point about whether there has been a U-turn. Indeed, I challenge the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield to show that anything I have said today differs from what I have said before. [Laughter.] It is no good saying, \"Ho, ho, ho!\" I will need more evidence than Opposition laughter before I will accept that there has been a U-turn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. The fact that there are some 700,000 empty properties today is a major problem for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Planning for Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It was not inviolate under the previous Administration. I can give the hon. Gentleman the figures, if he tables a parliamentary question. Previous Secretaries of State had to make balanced judgments. I do not criticise that. The green belt became an issue only because we were told that we were cutting it, and the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Again in respect of clause 69, will payments to charity be under a Scottish or a United Kingdom rate? The Bill defines a Scottish taxpayer as someone who, in any tax year, is resident in the United Kingdom, and Scotland is the part of the United Kingdom with which he has the closest connection\". That description appears in a number of clauses. However, generally speaking, \"the closest connection\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "tland is the part of the United Kingdom with which he has the closest connection\". That description appears in a number of clauses. However, generally speaking, \"the closest connection\"— [Interruption.] It is no good my hon. Friends getting impatient. We are dealing with matters of great importance to the lawyers' firms that will have to operate the system. This is the Committee stage of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "d be used. We heard again today that the great danger of having a separate rate for Scotland, which would lead to great differences between Scotland and England, would be that people flocked across the border to set up home in England. If the relative rate of taxation were so vital in choosing where to live or work, why do not people flock to Shetland, which has the lowest council tax in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " continue to argue that it is a pity that they did not know before the referendum, but at least they should know before the legislation comes into force—if indeed it does. As the amendments are purely for the sake of clarity, who could possibly object to them on any reasonable grounds? As the Government and hon. Members on my left representing the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I did not understand that. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing it to my attention: if I had known that that was what the Government were about, I might have made a very different speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.127.12", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Alan. As I have spoken at some length on important matters in previous debates, it is as much my fault as anyone's, but it is unfortunate that the Government have not had the opportunity to make a statement on the salaries, remunerations and conditions of Members of the Holyrood Parliament because it is a matter of considerable interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.127.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ection. We must have a clear relationship with no potential for English Members of Parliament to feel that they have too little influence over affairs in other parts of the United Kingdom when Members of Parliament from that area have an influence over their constituencies. It is simply a matter of fairness, given that we have already started down the road of devolution. It is a matter of balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "We remain a Union Parliament, and clause 27(7) simply states what we are—the supreme law-making body in the United Kingdom. My former colleagues, like my current colleagues, are entitled to their views. It is a testament to the current resurgent intellectual health of the Conservative party that we are having such a wide-ranging and fruitful debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be out of order to discuss such matters, and the party's internal organisation is not a matter for me at this point. or, with respect, for the Committee. Amendments Nos. 259 and 260—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Lady has made the case in the House but how much campaigning has she done out on the stump around England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I never underestimate the Conservatives; I thought that they might win some seats at the general election. I was proved wrong then and I am sure that I would be proved wrong now if I said that there was intellectual ferment among Conservative Members. They are all just sitting there like dummies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "south to subsidise mass unemployment for 20 years. There are all kinds of arguments. The West Lothian question is a problem only because it is a problem for the Conservative party. That is the nub of the argument. Somebody mentioned that there was likely to be a speech tomorrow night by the Leader of the Opposition in which he will advocate that an English Grand Committee should be set up to deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.139.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sir Malcolm.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": " to deal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"] How do I know? The spin doctors are writing in the press. How do I know what my own party is saying? I have to read it in the papers. It is the only way I know what is happening in this world. The Leader of the Opposition's speech brings into question the remarks made by Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, who used to be a very senior figure in the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has reached an important point in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-23", "file": "debates1998-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2256e95ef0db6ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " One listens seriously to the hon. Gentleman, but if his proposal had been a possibility and if it had been workable, those clever men John Smith and Bruce Milian, and those equally clever men Sir John Garlick and Sir Michael Quinlan, would surely have alighted on it in the mid-1970s, but they turned it down as unworkable. I shall not insult the hon. Gentleman by saying that it is an old chestnut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n Europe\"—that should be Britain's motto. It is good for Britain, good for Europe and good for the United States of America. Contrary to some of the reports that I read in the papers, we kept closely in contact with our European Union partners throughout recent weeks. I spoke with virtually all the Heads of State in the European Union over the past few days. It is extremely important to recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": " that point in a moment. Current European constituencies are large and—let us be honest—slightly incoherent. Some MEPs represent counties, which have an historical identity, whereas others represent areas carved from different counties, which lack that identity. The hon. Member for Moray (Mrs. Ewing) represents a vast chunk of Scotland, but I suspect that her constituency has a cultural coherence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making a point that is directly relevant to the size of the electoral regions. At least in the Conservative party we are trying to introduce an element of one-member, one-vote democracy. The Labour party wishes to entrench on the statute book a system that works only with Stalinist centralism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that it is wrong to expect one person to represent a constituency of that size. The Bill does not expect one person to represent a constituency of that size. Does the amendment suggest that it does? If so, that is a good reason for rejecting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "As I did not speak in the debate, it does not seem unreasonable of me to intervene. I was a little worried by the Minister's definition of valid interests. I am not sure why she thinks that it is for her to determine what constitutes valid interests, in the context of parliamentary representation in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Farmers' Incomes", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The issue which I am about to raise is of concern not just to farmers, on whose incomes I shall comment shortly, but to the economic health of the countryside as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Farmers' Incomes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "this country, which did not include farms, paid a levy of £100, it would bring in £60 million of new resources to assist with the agency's operation. One cannot argue that £60 million is a small sum—and I would not do so—but I would argue that £100 is a fairly small and modest sum. If the right hon. Lady is arguing that using traceability to protect our food supply is not the future, she is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-24", "file": "debates1998-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "14992abf2ffc1d27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Farmers' Incomes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "In 1997–98, we are giving the livestock industry £1.7 billion. By anyone's standards, that is a massive sum of public expenditure. Conservative Members say, \"Give more.\" We are working to the budget that we inherited from the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-24a.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Health Inequality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ren Caines, director of the Institute of Health Service Management said: 'on this most crucial issue of health inequality they have bottled out. Without measurable targets, even over a long time-scale, there will be less pressure for change and less scope to hold them to account.' There was a leader in The Guardian, too. On the whole, Guardian leaders do not give comfort to Conservative spokesmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Health Inequality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " Julia Neuberger said, '… we do have to measure progress in reducing inequalities, otherwise there is a danger that no one will take responsibility and be held to account'\". I could read out more of the same sort of thing. I must say in passing that the wholesale closure of hospital facilities in London, although the Labour party said a little while before the election that it had no plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "l wish to see. The previous Government lost out. There was no confidence on the part of the forces or among the defence industries. That is why so many Conservative Members lost their seats at the general election. As I said, we must ensure that we get things right this time. As for the Eurofighter, the House was rightly united on what we believe will be the right aircraft for the Royal Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Security Service Files", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "en were answered within five days, but a week went by and then another week, and I still received no answers to my remaining two questions. In the short amount of time I have available—I wish to allow the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker) to intervene—I shall refer to the two questions. I fear that I shall disappoint Labour Members whom I warned I might be naming, as I will not have time to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Multilateral Agreement on Investment", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that there is no chance of that now. The American Administration have made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Education Programmes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I recognise the hon. Gentleman's particular interest in this area and assure him that NGOs, particularly those working and based in developing countries, can apply through our country programmes for assistance. We will give them sympathetic consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Caribbean", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "Cuba is the most important island in the Caribbean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.367.9", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We do have excellent relations with our European partners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.367.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Right to Roam (Consultation Document)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment (Mr. Michael Meacher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Environment (Mr. Michael Meacher)", "preceding_text": "mers Union and the Ramblers Association, all of which have been involved in extensive discussion with my Department on this issue. I completely understand the hon. Gentleman's concern that non-governmental organisations should have had copies of the document before it was available to the House. I have discussed this matter with my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister and apologised to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.369.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Right to Roam (Consultation Document)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "isely my point. The question was how environmental the WDA should be. The question now is whether the social aspect dilutes that function. That was the point made earlier by my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. In other words, if functions are added to an economic development agency, is its focus diluted? There was great criticism of the environmental aspects of the early WDA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I support new clause 38. I hope that the Secretary of State will not fall off his seat when he hears me say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "One of the greatest things about living in Montgomeryshire is that it is such a beautiful place: unspoilt, with such a good quality of life that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "One of the greatest things about living in Montgomeryshire is that it is such a beautiful place: unspoilt, with such a good quality of life that— [Interruption.] I shall deal in a moment with wind farms, although I am not terribly convinced that the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Dafis) was entirely feasible on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "Yes, it has a very white image, even at today's lower temperatures. It woke up to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Clause 118", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "stablished, in more than 12 months' time, it will be for that body to decide how to use the powers that it has been given. The hon. Gentleman is now asking a particular question about the Treasury's residual role. My present understanding is that the ability to raise the financing limit of the Welsh Development Agency will pass to the assembly, but the hon. Gentleman is asking a specific question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.445.15", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity, in the brief time that I have available before the witching hour at 9 o'clock, to deal with this group of amendments. Amendment No. 512 does not belong to us, so I shall leave that to those who claim paternity to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.445.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Schedule 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "ly about financial accountability, and I reject entirely the case made by the hon. Gentleman that this is meat and drink for the democratic process. It would have been no more appropriate to go further and take those bodies into the heart of the assembly, with Committees dishing out the funds for the arts and sport, than for a Committee of this House to undertake such a function. It is outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.459.10", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Schedule 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "office of the Welsh Office and, as I understand it, did extremely well and landed up marrying the former Secretary of State, she could have given the hon. Member for Tewkesbury a great deal of advice, after which he might have concluded that his intervention tonight was a little over-enthusiastic. I appreciate that these may have been probing amendments; perhaps they were probing speeches as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.459.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-25", "file": "debates1998-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "03282bad8f0506d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Schedule 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that sensible and not excessively legalistic point. It is a straightforward and common-sense question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-25a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.490.6", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Higher Education Funding", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where's the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State will be aware that students already feel betrayed because, far from accepting the Dearing recommendations—as the Prime Minister rather ill-judgedly asserted yesterday—the Government have rejected Dearing and are abolishing student maintenance grants and hitting the poorest students harder. The principals will make it clear that they are fed up with the mountain of propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.490.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Further Education Funding", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I can see that we need a numeracy as well as a literacy strategy. I have never heard such claptrap in all my life. We are not taking money off students. We are providing the resources that students need and expanding the amount of money and then collecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ease of electors knowing what is happening and who represents them, but to the quality of representation that MEPs can provide? Westminster Members of Parliament are always emboldened in our dealings with the Government or whomever by the fact that we have a constituency link and speak on behalf of our constituents. I know of the affection and interest of the Home Secretary in all matters Belgian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "The Government must explain why they have chosen different systems for those two functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drew", "preceding_text": " will be represented. That is not unimportant. That gives a whole new opening to the democratic structure of this country. Such a system brings us into line with Europe, most of which now elects MEPs through a regional list system. There may be a difference between an open list system and a closed list system, but if we adopt the system that some Labour Members want, we shall be in the mainstream—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "Like the Home Secretary, I enjoy the prose of my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), and I have spent some time listening to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman rather spoilt his comments by that final point. There is no question about my background—people know what it was. It was the hon. Gentleman's point, not mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "ge reduction in the European election turnout, but the same happens when voting is held on Sundays. I offer the hon. Lady two countries' statistics. In the 1995 general election in Portugal, 66.5 per cent. of the electorate voted, but in the European election only 35.6 per cent. of the electorate voted. In Germany, which is frequently held up to us as the dynamo or the motor of the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I am grateful to him for the clarity with which he made it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-26", "file": "debates1998-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6e852f4fbbc54b9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "be properly explained to the electorate. He made an important suggestion in that regard. I am grateful to the Minister for the way in which she framed her reply. I listened carefully, but I did not hear a great deal about how the Government proposed to explain the system to the electorate. It is all very well for the electorate to be invited to vote, but people will want to know what happens next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-26a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "than 10 months in government, we are already delivering on a range of issues that are of concern to women. One of the most important of those is women's desire to combine their family responsibilities and paid employment on a fair and manageable footing. Women's lives have changed profoundly. The days are gone when women were as rare a sight in the workplace as men are, even today, in the kitchen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman, so I shall not do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady clearly does not understand. This is not about focus groups but about drawing people together and asking them to go through policy issues. It is a deliberative process. It is not like a focus group, which researches public opinion. The jury model is intended to improve and enrich our democratic practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I think that the record of the previous Government stands for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": ", in their work in the communities, they bridged the gap between resources and the reality of their lives. I am glad that the Labour Government, in the most senior Departments, are taking seriously the issues of women and of children. Those issues are a true economic issue and I welcome the recognition of that fact in our economic policies. We are starting to treat child care as an economic issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.619.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": " is running the joint strike fighter programme that will replace our F16 and F18 aircraft. General Kenne flies those aircraft, too. I sat next to General Kenne during lunch, and she told me that she had made definite choices about what she wanted. She felt that she should not have had to do that, and she added that it was very difficult. I met other women, who were also doing valuable work. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.634.7", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "war is Madeleine Albright. I shall now speak about the current position of women, because all is not doom and gloom, although I am the first to admit that women still do not have equal opportunities, for all the reasons that have been discussed. Women now have more job opportunities than ever before. That is a direct consequence of the Conservative Government's policies on flexible labour markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.634.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The abolition of wages councils meant that fewer women were employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "hat was a slip of the tongue. The hon. Gentleman must ask himself whether he wants to see fewer women employed earning a particular wage while the others earn nothing at all. The whole thrust of his Government's policy is to get people back to work, not to put them on benefit. Let us move to my second point, which the hon. Gentleman almost anticipated. Personally, I do not oppose the minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "m—economic freedom, the freedom that comes from good health, and the freedom to choose their own life style. Women generally have more life style choices than men. We are always asking ourselves why there are not more women at the top of the professions or in power in areas of public life. The answer often is that, because women have more choices, they do not choose the same career pattern as men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-02-27", "file": "debates1998-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a64e2b5173d5a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Women (Government Priorities)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": " Members have been present this morning, because we care about this issue. Although female Labour Members have managed a reasonable representation, they have not matched the proportion of female Conservative Members who have been present. I must also point out that the number of women who sit as Conservative Members does not reflect the proportion of women who are active in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-02-27a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prison Population", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must bear in mind the inheritance that we suffered from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.691.4", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prison Population", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I concur with that. As I am a fair-minded Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.712.5", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly answer now. I said that the hon. Gentleman should try to find a safe seat; if I were to stand for the Welsh assembly, I would not have as much difficulty finding one as he would. Paragraph 4 of new schedule 1 deals with the forestry commissioners' receipts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "We can tell that the Secretary of State is seriously considering whether to move from this place to the assembly in 1999. I do not want to be brutal with him, but I hope that he decides to go to the assembly, because not many Labour Members have shown themselves keen to move there from Westminster. Perhaps he can lead the rush of his Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "I speak in opposition to the new clause. It is extraordinarily vague and has the potential for great confusion, disruption and mischief-making. It is not circumscribed in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course; like new Labour, we believe in the hereditary principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I listen with great care to what the Minister has to say. However, judging by my visits to Monmouth and the correspondence that I have received from there, his view is not unanimously held. I shall be corrected if historically I am wrong, but I think that Monmouth was made a county of Wales in 1972, having previously been a county of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I would draw attention to the different ways in which this issue has been dealt with—there is one approach in new clause 21, which is a nonsense, and another in new clause 24, which raises some serious issues about these regional anxieties. That is the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "o said: I am conscious that we need to do a lot more work to bring Wales together. We must address genuine concerns and I acknowledge the fact that we must listen and continue to listen.\"— [Official Report, Welsh Grand Committee, 18 November 1997; c. 12.] I revert to my argument. Wales is not homogeneous. There are major differences between those in south Wales round Cardiff, who believe strongly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": " that the way to get through from north Wales to south Wales runs through my constituency and on to Shrewsbury. There are no links, and there is little in common. That was demonstrated graphically during the referendum. New clause 21 would give the regions a chance. As proposed, the Bill contains no reference to a revising chamber. There is nothing to resist the diktat of the south Wales majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "s), for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve), for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) and for North Shropshire (Mr. Paterson). They proved one thing, at least: that they have listened to what the people of Wales have been saying. New clause 21 is intended to allay the fear of people in the regions that they will be dominated by Cardiff and the south-east. If we look at the result of the referendum on 18 September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must listen to me, even if he listens to no one else in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I will certainly ignore sedentary catcalls from the Secretary of State. New clause 21 addresses the deficiencies of clause 62, which deals with regional Committees. Clause 62 provides for the establishment of a regional Committee in north Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.5", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "am trying to follow the Chairman's guidance as far as possible. The Government refer to north Wales and the other regions. In subsection (5), they state that the members of a regional Committee should be the Members representing regional constituency seats and also regional seats. We have taken the new clause from clause 62, to try to be helpful and to deal with the fears of people in the regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.783.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "eman. I see him nodding, so I shall move on. On a clean sheet, which the assembly is, we can draw any picture that we want of etiquette and prejudice. We can reproduce the same old tired weaknesses and paradigms that we see in this House, or we can decide that the past is not an option, refusing to tolerate the sexism, racism and agism that have pulled down the credibility of our political system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ation in the process, whereas the hon. Lady is in favour of discrimination in the process in order to achieve a particular outcome that satisfies her beliefs. That is not necessarily more democratic. We all want more women to come into public life, to compete for jobs in public life and to do well, but it does not do women a favour to promote women who are necessarily less well qualified than men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "rtheless subordinate, that can be challenged within the structure of the Bill without new clause 39 only through the courts and ultimately in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. New clause 39 would rescue the Secretary of State and his colleagues from a manifest lacuna in the Bill and I should have thought that, far from giggling themselves into a pleasant pre-nuptial sleep with the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-02", "file": "debates1998-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0509c0e625ef3373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.821.16", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "matters. As the clause stands, Parliament would not debate, other than in special circumstances, matters relating to the date of the elections; payment under certain circumstances to Members of the Assembly; transfers of property; the role of the Auditor General for Wales; the staff of the Development Board for Rural Wales; and the role of the Welsh Development Agency. Those are important matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-02a.821.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but many providers and many objective observers have welcomed our proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "In the consultation document, we make it clear that it is necessary to have an appropriate and robust regulatory regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "covered in 1986 was that it was not possible to put those words into action, because PEPs were not about greater share ownership. They were about allowing the better-off in society the opportunity to save in a tax-free vehicle. There would be nothing wrong with that if the Government in 1986 had been honest, but they were not because PEPs were not an attempt to bring about greater share ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.882.8", "colnum": "882", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman was talking about 22 per cent. of those who have unit trusts and PEPs. I will try to make some progress, as I think that Opposition Members are getting a bit bored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.882.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "und about offering a monthly flutter as a way of building lifetime savings. The Government now admit that the £50,000 limit would yield only £1,420 a year. That will not pay for long-term care or support PEP-based mortgages and it will certainly not help to provide the sort of pension that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport so neatly illustrated and my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "ISAs, TESSAs and PEPs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": " so neatly illustrated and my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] I mean the former Chief Secretary, who pointed out that the scheme is wholly inconsistent with the stakeholder pension that the Government are simultaneously proposing. The scheme is flawed in conception and deeply flawed in detail. I cannot recall a Treasury proposal that has had such universally bad press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "emoved resources from rural local authorities; and calls upon the Government not only to strengthen the protection for the countryside while encouraging the renewal of towns and cities, but also to respect the patterns and fabric of rural life by removing the threat to land owners of a statutory right of access. I move this motion as the spokesman of the true party of the countryside in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "If this was a debate about mining, perhaps we could debate the hon. Gentleman's point, but it is a debate about the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should not use words like that, and I must ask him to withdraw that word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.915.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "preparation, he has not listened to what I have said. I said that I wanted him to use the underspend, which would enhance our rebate, to give money back to farmers, within public expenditure guidelines. That is not more public expenditure. The guideline for agriculture is 41.8 becu. The spend is 40.374 becu. He should have known those facts. If I can get them, why could not he? On a serious point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "spend £10,000 on a desk, let alone more than £10,000. The hon. Gentleman should look at the figures. I shall not be sidetracked, but if the hon. Gentleman wants to read something accurate in The Guardian, he should read today's editorial, and not refer repeatedly to yesterday's misleading and inaccurate article. I regret inviting that particular journalist into the Ministry and taking him through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.924.5", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "There is no such expenditure figure. We are reorganising the Ministry, because the previous Government left it in a shambles. Many buildings used by the Ministry are decrepit, dilapidated and under-utilised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.924.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "am—I am delighted to welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson) to the Front Bench this evening—as part of the Government's integrated transport strategy. A rate relief scheme will give sole post offices and general stores in small rural villages 50 per cent. off their rates bills. We have released a consultation paper on access that balances the needs of landowners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ervative Members have spent too much time recently in the vicinity of hunting horns. Last week's announcement about the green belt will help to protect the countryside, as will the extension of the green belt that has been agreed since the Government were elected. We have found extra resources for hill and livestock farmers as well as the additional £70 million in costs which we removed last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ole. The march was disparaged in some ministerial quarters, although not in others. I have to say that, for once, I agreed with the Minister for the Environment. I felt that he was entirely right, as Minister for the Environment, to turn up and to make it clear that he disagreed with one of the central tenets of the march. I consider that not an inconsistent position, but a perfectly sensible one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "d trough will be disastrous not only for farmers, but for the rural economy. The position of farmers was well summed up by a very entertaining barrister who spoke, a couple of weeks ago, at the National Farmers Union's annual dinner in London. He said that he spoke to a wholesaler in Yorkshire, who said that farm incomes were now so bad that even the blighters who did not pay had stopped ordering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "lthough the Government have taken some initial positive steps, they clearly have a long way to go, largely because they are hamstrung by an item of their own making—accepting their predecessors' artificial constraints and sticking to them unrealistically. Due to that and other disagreements of principle with the Government, we shall not support them tonight. Nor shall we be giving our endorsement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "e A38 will be one urban sprawl, as I forecast in 1983. Unless we stop the growth, we shall get one large urban sprawl throughout the county. How are the Government to stop that happening? A more significant problem is how the Government are to help to preserve the countryside; that is the subject of this debate. The major factor to be considered about the countryside is the landscape and the view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.948.6", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": " Another problem is the high dependency on the motor vehicle in the countryside. The House will be watching to see what the Chancellor does in his Budget, because we are aware of the devastating effect that an increase in vehicle excise and fuel duties would have on transport in rural areas. The threat to community hospitals is implicit in the ending of the general practitioner fundholding system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.948.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-03", "file": "debates1998-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "d69770d0a268f87c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Listening to the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Glenda Jackson)", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) dealt with the serious issues that face people in rural areas. Several themes have recurred tonight. My hon. Friends the Members for West Lancashire and for Delyn pointed out that the Conservatives' policy was clearly \"town versus country\". That is not our policy. We are clear about the fact that town needs country and country needs town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-03a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "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": "nity. The channel tunnel rail link has probably not had such a high public profile since the idea was launched, and it is a pity that such a level of interest has been generated for all the wrong reasons. No one would dispute the fact that all the speeches this morning—with, perhaps, the exception of the somewhat curious contribution of the right hon. Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Mr. Clark)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.990.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Tories?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Dr. David Clark)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1039.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Electronic Service Delivery", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "riend is correct. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister has established a joint working group between central and local government, which is trying to work out ways of co-ordinating services to our citizens. The use of IT and one-stop shops throughout the country can bring Government services closer to our citizens, making life more comfortable for them. Information technology is the key.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "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 absolutely right. The Conservatives are in a state of denial about their record over 18 years. Following the Conservatives's period in office, 450 rural schools have been closed, only one in four parishes now has a bus service worthy of the name, crime is up, poverty is up and they gave the country BSE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I congratulate the staff and the businesses that have participated. Indeed, we are getting a superb response from businesses and people around the country. In the new deal so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "Given the Prime Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Clause 81", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "There was absolutely no foundation in that article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1093.8", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Clause 81", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "nt into which we entered by the fact that the Government made a long statement which took up a full hour of the time allocated for a crucial element of the Bill. Had the Government had to come to the House to make a statement about the situation in the Gulf or some matter of prime international importance, we would of course have accepted that it should take precedence. However, we do not believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1093.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": " solicitor and reader in law at Edinburgh university, and C. R. Munro, who is professor of constitutional law at Edinburgh university. Hon. Members who are not lawyers or constitutional experts should take their views seriously—I accept that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is a lawyer and a constitutional expert, but he is perhaps not as learned as these Edinburgh university academics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Clause 83", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the debate with considerable interest, and have been somewhat entertained as well. I do not know about Auchtermuchty local radio, but I feel that I should spring to the defence of Auchtermuchty, which—if I remember rightly—produced The Proclaimers and Jimmy Shand. Probably, in terms of the clapometer of public opinion, it has made a large contribution to Scottish culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Clause 86", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Swedish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the Minister whether he is taking seriously the new vocabulary being used during our discussions on the Bill. We are quite used to the idea of an ombudsman—it is the title given to someone who looks at alleged maladministration. The word comes from German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Clause 86", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "f certain complaints made to MSPs of maladministration by the Scottish Administration. That parallels the arrangements that apply to complaints made through Members of the House of Commons. The provision does not preclude the Scottish Parliament from making arrangements for complaints received via other routes to be investigated. That should properly be left to the Scottish Parliament to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-04", "file": "debates1998-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "37a10cb164e76fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Clause 89", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "t by the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Justice Clerk. A number of points arise from my amendments, but I have the impression that the Committee is more interested in hearing the Government's response before the guillotine falls at 9.45 pm. Let me just say that the amendments were born out of a passionate concern that, in the media society in which we live, it is all too easy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-04a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-05", "file": "debates1998-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "84715dc524fcce7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-05a.1189.6", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Scientific Careers", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Butler", "preceding_text": "There has been a doubling in the number of women graduating in engineering since the mid-1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-05a.1189.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "I seek your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as this is a wide group of new clauses, which range from the national parks to new clause 19, which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "I was not asking about voting so much as introducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1296.3", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Another notable absentee is the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell), who speaks on behalf of the Church Commissioners. No one seems to have noticed that under my hon. Friend's interpretation of the Bill, there is no doubt that the Archbishop of Canterbury could be in jeopardy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "If I understand my hon. Friend correctly, the burden of his argument is that the Bill has been badly drafted. New clause 1 refers to hunting with dogs. Does my hon. Friend agree that, in general parlance, a dog is taken to be the male of the canine species? Therefore, if the Bill as it stands is enacted, there will be a total exemption for hunting with bitches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1299.3", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "The only way to minimise the possibility of a fox being injured is to use a rifle to shoot it when it is unaware of the presence of the shooter, who must be a skilled and experienced marksman. That is the only humane way to kill a fox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1300.6", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "In the interests of saving the time of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "Once again, I am referring only to gun packs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1308.9", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not reform—abolition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "That is a useful and valid intervention, and I shall answer it briefly now, in the belief that I can return to the subject if I catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when we debate another group of amendments. I agree with the hon. Member for Worcester in his desire to reform the process of hunting, and I believe that the creation of a regulatory authority will be a crucial element in such reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1308.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1311.6", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, I thank various hon. Members for their moral support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1311.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1328.7", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "ood for human consumption\", although, as the Minister was perfectly correct in saying, only if the hunter takes reasonable steps to ensure that the wild mammal is shot. That is precisely what happens with stag hounds in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater and in other parts of Devon. Therefore, the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) has yet to get his head round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1328.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "New clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "(seated and covered): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Following the precedent of your colleague—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I understand what my right hon. and learned Friend says. That shows the complexities of the matter before us. The second—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. or hon. Gentleman who has brought a phone into the Chamber should take it out immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1356.6", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "mber for Bolsover about private Members' Bills and the difficulty of getting such a Bill through the House when it raises a controversial issue, when there is to be a free vote and when hon. Members on both sides of the House have strong feelings. I shall be brief because I know that a number of my colleagues are trying to speak before 2.30 pm. I know that Opposition Members want to do so. I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1356.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-06", "file": "debates1998-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "14e8de2d2121ac5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "New clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "Mr. Grieve) in an intervention and were touched on by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid—Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) in his extremely cogent speech. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire for the efforts that he has made, with the hon. Members for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik) and for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey), who is my London Member of Parliament—I am grateful that she is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-06a.1358.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is coping stoically with the frequent interventions in his excellent speech. Does he agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I have been advised that the Inland Revenue would treat a regular Christmas gift to an employee of a substantial value as part of remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.70.5", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "essential it is. When the Minister replies, she should tell us which legislation would apply to the acquisition and control of information by Government Departments in pursuance of the provisions of the Bill if new clause 2 were not agreed. I suspect that some perfectly good legislation might apply to the Bill. My hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset made an interesting reference to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "s with my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond), who will explain it better than I, that tax consequences may flow from an obligation to withdraw money out of a loss-making business to pay wages. From the tax point of view, it may be perverse to force directors to do that. New clause 4 has been tabled in pursuance of the Government's aim in relation to the self-employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause provides for the suspension of the national minimum wage in the event of national or local economic emergencies. It is, perhaps, rather better drafted than one or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "have been paid. My hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) makes a valuable point. If trade unions, for example, are faced with the stark choice between jobs and high pay leading to no jobs, they may settle for lower pay to retain their jobs. The most flexible labour markets, such as the one in the United States which, I concede immediately, has a modest national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "ir job or keeping it at a lower wage, the Minister is saying that people should lose it and have no wage. He does not want the flexibility of allowing employers to step aside from the provisions of the national minimum wage for a limited period in extreme economic circumstances. We are extending a generous helping hand to the Government. We are giving them the means of saving them from themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "tioned—was so restrictive and made dismissing an employee so costly that employers were unwilling to take on people. The loosening of those employment laws was heavily responsible for the change in our labour market and the difference between unemployment in this country and in our European counterparts at every stage of the economic cycle. The same structure of argument applies to the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "at perplexed by the Bill. I came to it late, because I thought that the Labour party had made a clear commitment in its manifesto, and that the legislation would sail through, given the Government's majority. I thought that it would be a simple Bill that everyone would understand, and that we would know what hazards were involved. I did not pay a great deal of attention to the Bill until recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"For a change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right. I can go further. I have taken the trouble in the past few days to talk to a number of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I have had the honour and the privilege of listening to my hon. Friend talking to farmers in his constituency and I know how appreciative they are of his perception on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a correct and helpful point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the new clause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "aintaining their position. That is why the new clause should be carefully considered. Agriculture in general is in crisis. On arable farms in my constituency the work force has been cut in recent years by a quarter. Whole areas of our countryside are being depopulated of workers. That has nothing to do with wages and everything to do with the new forms of agricultural production. The city dweller—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "cause they do not care? They are certainly not asleep at 2.29 in the morning. Why are they sitting here, saying nothing? They are making a lot of noise, but no one wants to intervene to answer my questions. 2.30 am It would not be in order, would it, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for me to answer questions asked from a sedentary position? I assume, therefore, that Labour Members are afraid of new clause 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.183.7", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": " who said that they would not impose new taxes. We have yet more hidden taxes, as I am sure my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) would agree. If the Bill is not to raise council and income taxes even further to meet the public sector wage bill, the books will have to be balanced by cuts in the public sector bill. My constituents do not want less money to be spent on schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.183.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am a bit worried that my hon. Friend, in listening to the spin in the press, has missed the statements constantly made by the Minister of State, who tonight asked whether £1, £1.20, £1.40 or £1.60 an hour was too low, but did not mention the £1.80 at which minimum rates start in the agriculture sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting idea, but I listened to the Minister of State intently in Committee and I do not expect him to feel comfortable with any such low rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "preceding_text": "at the nation can afford in relation to all sorts of other areas. It is also important that, when the Government make submissions to the Low Pay Commission, the cost to the public sector is seen explicitly in the FSBR so that we know what information is being given. I do not wish to detain the House by going on too much longer, because I know that many of us are anxious for the Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "ments, and the debate and subsequent consideration clearly show the desirability, on grounds that I hope to explain, of putting in the Bill the specific treatment of two aspects of remuneration. I shall speak briefly to each of the amendments, because, although they are rightly linked because they relate to the same clause, they are different in their treatment of specific aspects of remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "d be reasonable to treat that as self-evident and as a point that is agreed by hon. Members on both sides of the House. The intention of policy should be to maximise the extent to which employees undertake pension contributions that are designed to secure an adequate income in retirement, so that they do not fall back on the Exchequer or the benefit system for a reasonable income after retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "I defer to my hon. Friend, who in Committee tested the Government and the Minister pretty much to destruction on the subject of tips and gratuities. However, we are not discussing that now. I want to bring my remarks on amendment No. 43 to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my hon. Friend has thought about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": " has been sent to all members of the Committee. I know that they found it helpful. That illustrates how complex the issue can be. I make no bones about that. That is why we have asked an independent consultative body to examine the issue and come up with recommendations. There has been recognition this evening by hon. Members on both sides of the excellent job that the Low Pay Commission is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State thinks fit. The amendment deletes the words \"at any time\". It is a probing amendment, because we want to know the Government's intentions toward the Low Pay Commission; so far, we have failed to discover them. We should very much like to know how the Government want to use the Low Pay Commission in future. It would be helpful if the Minister of State placed that on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "I should be delighted to do that. If the right hon. Gentleman refers to the Bill he will see the necessity for employers to keep records. National minimum wage officers will make sure that employers maintain such records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "embers for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) and for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow), who made their first appearance at the Dispatch Box and spoke extremely eloquently on the amendments that they moved. I also pay tribute to all my hon. Friends who spent much time in Committee and who, during tonight's brief debates, have tried to make some sense of this rag-bag of a Bill, which splits the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "the sums—with proportionate increases for the skilled people in good bargaining positions who want to preserve differentials. The Minister tells us that that will have no impact on unemployment, but the Chancellor tells us that any wage increase will affect unemployment. He is even worried that the relatively small increases of the past year or so could accelerate just a little and cause problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "he end of 1992. The Bill could well be one of the factors that tip the balance the other way as it makes its job-destroying progress. To the effects of the Bill must be added the action that the Government will take on trade union reform and on implementing the social chapter, which we have warned is likely to lead to further job losses. The lack of any indication of the level of the minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I do not have to answer that question because I am not recommending a minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ge. Even if we only link the £3.40 figure to inflation, it would have to be nearly £4 an hour to validate the promise made in 1992. If we believe the trade unions and what we read in the newspapers, the level is likely to be £3.60 and, therefore, the Minister's ambition will be thwarted. The Labour party's ambitions of 1992 will have come horribly unstuck because the Treasury has had a go at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "6 is deemed to be young for that purpose and that the promise will be broken for them. We learn that the armed forces will be left out, although the Minister was unable to explain why. He could not say why people who take such risks for our country on active service would not get the protection that he sees in this legislation; nor was he able to confirm that they would always be earning above it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ed that some young people would be issued with a redundancy notice rather than a pay increase. Labour spokesmen reassured the electorate. They did not think that there would be redundancy notices. They were wrong about that. They carried on implying to the electors that every young person would get the full benefit of the minimum wage. Now the Minister looks grumpy, knowing that he cannot deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "s of the problem in manufacturing. He and his colleagues seem to be doing nothing about the problems that have been created by the Government's independent monetary committee, by their taxation of savings, by their refusal to listen to the arguments against the abolition of PEPs and TESSAs, and against the taxation of pension funds and the £27,000 million tax hit on British business in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "Throughout our debates, we have made it clear that we are concerned about the mechanisms for introducing a single national minimum wage. We are concerned about the variation in the economic impact, the degree of which we do not know, that a single national minimum wage could and would have on different areas of the country. During what has been a very long night, and I am grateful to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Early!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "I will be brief, because the hour is late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "sed by low-paid, part-time and temporary work. Last year's jobcentre survey showed that half of all full-time vacancies paid less than £4 an hour, and that one in 10 paid less than £3 an hour. One man was so incensed by what he saw at the jobcentre that he ripped away one of the jobcentre cards and brought it to my surgery. It gave details of a £1.85-an-hour, six-day-week job for a security guard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "mmittee, Conservative Members were bereft of the critical briefings and draft amendments that they might have expected, especially from employers' organisations. Unions, too, have moved. They have moved to accept that a fixed formula is not the way ahead. They have moved to accept that they also must become involved in helping to prepare plans and achieve a consensus for the Bill's implementation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.266.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Reduction (United Kingdom Targets) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "The next few items on the Order Paper are important, and the House will want to give them proper consideration. They are money resolutions and Ways and Means resolutions following from private Members' Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Reduction (United Kingdom Targets) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the National Federation of Badger Groups—the groups exist across the country—is one of the prime sources of information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-09", "file": "debates1998-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c1fe05e850a2edba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Reduction (United Kingdom Targets) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am certain that the hon. Member for Ceredigion did not think that any Member of the House would speak against the money resolution. The Bill had all-party support. It has cross-party sponsorship. The Bill will bring massive improvements to the health and well-being of people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-09a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ensioners, the Government have come up with the most preposterous defence. They claim that the tax is unique. It might raise £5 billion at the expense of pension funds, but the Financial Secretary said that that would be good for pensions, good for pension funds and good for pensioners. In short, she thinks that taxation is good for people—except for the Paymaster General, for whom it is too good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.334.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Incomes have been rising over many years. The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues fought the 1992 general election on an explicit promise of reducing taxes— [Interruption.] They said: Conservatives have an 'allergy to tax'\", and that they were fighting for low taxation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Last night, when I wrote to the right hon. and learned Gentleman stating that I might refer to him in the debate, I knew that he would probably turn up just to hear what I said about him. I shall deal with some of those points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "That extra penny has been clearly costed. At the time of the general election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that our costed proposals were broadly in line with the outcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ill be pressured by pension funds and other investing companies that want the same level of return, so the yield on gilts will fall. That has a knock-on impact on other savers. The tax changes hit the young, by reducing the grants paid to students. Poor parents are hit by the abolition of the assisted places scheme. Above all, the Government have shifted money away from rural areas to urban areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "lad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is in the Chamber, because I have another point to put to him. Perhaps when it comes to honesty and answering questions, he can explain why the 1992 Conservative manifesto said that the party would maintain mortgage tax relief, when, in December 1993, he said that, luckily, it had not said at what rate. What is that if it is not misleading the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.372.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "We asked for the Government Actuary's advice because we thought it proper to do so; that is what he is there for. We sought his advice and took appropriate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this very important debate. I have listened to the speeches of Government Members and I believe that a travesty of justice has been done to the previous Government's policies and our pension achievements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.408.6", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": " EU countries, instead of that money being invested privately and securely tucked up in some private bank account from which it can be released when needed, will be looking to their taxpayers, or will have to borrow the money to pay those liabilities. The Japanese will find that their unfunded liabilities amount to 399 per cent. of their GDP; the Germans, 431 per cent.; the French, 370 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.408.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "piecemeal—hoping that no one will notice quite what is going on. Let me ask the Under-Secretary—who has the difficult task of defending the Government this evening—six questions. I see that he is getting out his pen. The whole country will looking forward to the answers to my questions, and the whole country will know that, if there are no answers, the Government are continuing to avoid the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] First, what is the cost of the additional rebates that the Government have decided to provide? Secondly, what would have been the cost if all the contracted-out pension schemes had been compensated at the rate accorded to appropriate personal pensions? Thirdly, what survey has been undertaken of the cost to local government pension funds over the remaining term of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "conomic growth. We set out to put the economy on a solid foundation by scrapping measures that distorted investment decisions, by cutting corporation tax and, above all, by putting the country's finances on a sound footing. A Budget that is good for the economy is good for pensions. There have been significant changes in the pattern of pension provision in recent years, which we needed to address.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.428.10", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to be back at the Dispatch Box after a brief interruption to Department of Trade and Industry business, which seems to dominate the House this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.428.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ows how thoughtful we on the Opposition Benches are about the Minister's conduct. At times, we try to make his life easier, rather than more difficult, as well as to elucidate the mountainous problems that sit on his desk. This is a genuine attempt to assist him. The powers drafted by him or his advisers in the current text are rather clumsy. The amendment would allow the Minister to disaggregate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "of irony, I thought that Hansard should have the advantage of it. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will be grateful for the way in which I read it into the record for him. If only he would refer to his Order Paper and his amendment paper, he might learn something about a subject that should be dear to his heart. I am shortly coming to the coal industry, where I shall look to him for some support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. If they wish to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the Minister means that he agrees with me—with the right hon. Member for Wokingham. But he does not agree with me, because my view is clearly that we need the affirmative resolution procedure, whereas he is saying that he does not want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-10", "file": "debates1998-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf545ecc64409fbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "nology. It is a small start. How much excluding that technology from the scope of the levy would be worth would depend entirely on the level of the levy at the time. Clearly, if the levy was 11 per cent., it could be a considerable advantage which might make a significant difference to a private investor considering investing in clean coal technology for retrofit. If the levy was only 2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-10a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and learned Gentleman is aware, after the mortar attack in Armagh, one of the local police officers implied exactly that—that the only group identified with such mortars is the Provisional IRA. However, I am sure that the hon. and learned Gentleman—as a lawyer and as a Member of Parliament—will agree that one must have pretty conclusive evidence before acting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, for the reason that I have given. We have not merely raised the issue of human rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "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 personally believe that\" the Conservative failure in 20 years to significantly improve the level of public education is one of the areas that they should be most…ashamed of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. We do not yet know from Conservative Front Benchers whether they will abolish the minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "e is transferring to the adjudicator should be transferred back to the Secretary of State. Later in the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) will move a new clause to give effect to the Minister's policy, and I look forward to hearing his support for that policy, which he announced from Millbank tower on the day before the Millbank march—the countryside march—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I can only quote the figures that I have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "from the Minister, he denied that he had given them to me—so I shall not quote the Government's figures, because I may be corrected. They may change later this evening. However, I understand that 92 per cent. of grant-maintained schools have appointed additional staff, 91 per cent. have increased their spending on books and equipment and 54 per cent. have increased their spending on new buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to follow many of my colleagues who have spoken eloquently in support of grant-maintained schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "ll state schools should be grant maintained than any other Opposition Member. I have never argued that case. Many such schools do not wish to be. However, many have chosen to be grant maintained and, having escaped—I use that word advisedly—local education authority control, scarcely any of those of which I am aware now wish to go back into that control. I am a fair-minded fellow, charitable even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid that I shall have to extend the hon. Lady's pain, because the embarrassment that the point causes the Government needs to be emphasised. The reason why the Government do not want ballots is that they know that, in almost every instance, they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.646.13", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and I can continue this debate outside the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.646.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "h, took control of an LEA? Whenever any governing body or any group of parents wanted to engage in a democratic ballot on GM status, they faced the might and opposition of a propaganda campaign by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. \"Focus\" newsletters were popped through every parent's door, saying why their child's school should not become grant maintained. When the Labour party was in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "It is important that we know who will be on the group, and that it will be a wide spectrum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-11", "file": "debates1998-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "01bb9d28dc3c1d82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Empty Homes (Taxation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Shaw", "preceding_text": "timates. I want to discuss how we can unlock and recycle homes that are derelict and in need of refurbishment. To achieve that, we need changes in the application of value added tax to housing. There is an overwhelming case for harmonisation of VAT on new build and refurbishment of empty properties. The Environmental Audit Committee, of which I am privileged to be a member, took evidence recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-11a.724.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And where was the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is ill placed to criticise us on the subject of election promises, because people will remember very well that the prospectus on which the Conservatives fought the 1992 general election was abandoned in every subsequent year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the wrong question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Chief Secretary that the Labour party did not quite win in Macclesfield? There is quite a lot of countryside in Macclesfield, and the countryside is an important part of the environment. Does the Chief Secretary accept that if he continues with his intention dramatically to increase the duty and tax on hydrocarbon oils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.743.9", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "t, when the Conservative party was in Government, it introduced VAT on fuel. Together with the Liberal Democrats, we prevented them from increasing VAT to 17.5 per cent. and, in line with our manifesto commitment, we reduced it to 5 per cent. Pensioner households spend approximately 50 per cent. more of their income on fuel than ordinary households and they therefore benefit most from the measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.743.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "That is not a new issue, and I do not recall the hon. Gentleman protesting about these matters when his party was in government. If he has specific points he wishes to raise, questions to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department take place on, I think, Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " the order of the list, so that candidates at the bottom of the list get the most personal votes and those at the top the fewest, but the candidates at the top of the list are still elected. Therefore, while one can see the attractions of the system before the election because it might seem to offer voters an extra element of choice, we might find that after the election we would reap a whirlwind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "of a pattern, which is why I support new clause 4. It is essential that the system should be reviewed within 12 months of its coming into operation. My hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) made a strong case for a Member of Parliament or a member of the European Parliament having direct association with those who returned him to this place or to the European Parliament. The Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ershot, although he was pressed on the subject. The method of selecting candidates is not the only important issue. The crucial aspect, in a list system, is the order of candidates on the list. I say that without making a party concession. It will not avail anyone greatly to be No. 10 on the Conservative list in the north-west or No. 4 on the Conservative list in the north-east. What is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made an aside that this Government would be in power for only one Parliament. I am sure that he is right, because my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is bound to have a reshuffle in the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "I shall explain it clearly to the hon. Gentleman. The problem is that we have been forced into a difficult position because the regions are so large that they are unmanageable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "e regions are so large that they are unmanageable— [Interruption.] I was asked a question and I shall answer the hon. Gentleman. Because the regions are so large, people have to travel long distances to listen to every one of the candidates and then make their decision. That is what is called democracy; that is the democracy that we have got to have because we have been forced to have the regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-12", "file": "debates1998-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "38475588b026ddfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "capacity of Sierra Leone to look after the poor, to educate, and to improve women and children's health. That will start to rebuild the vibrant society that we know Sierra Leone to be perfectly capable of achieving. We must be careful how we tackle these problems. I know that the Minister knows these things. I have spoken to him and worked with him in many capacities, and I have confidence in him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-12a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": " Bill is passed before the Human Rights Bill is enacted, it will create not only direct victims of its provisions, but indirect victims, who, although not directly prejudiced by the provisions, could show that there existed such a special and personal link between them and the direct victims that they had suffered damage, or had a valid personal interest in securing the cessation of the violation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": "e. Indeed, just a moment ago, Madam Speaker made a statement on what was, in fact, a suggested third way in which to deal with the issue. New clause 2 and the amendments would enable a Minister to take into account post hoc the problems that had been foreseen. In all the years that I have been in the House, I have known no Bill that has been subject to such transmogrification on so many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.870.6", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "still recognise water, even if it is seldom imbibed by some. Even Bills that do apply to Northern Ireland will generally regulate activities that do not, by their nature, involve our land frontier with the Irish Republic. However, hunting does involve cross-border activity. I am disappointed to see that the hon. Member for Hull, North (Mr. McNamara), who was in his place earlier, has not returned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.870.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.896.8", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "No. I wish to point out that, assuming those in favour of the Bill are not playing games, the hon. Member for Worcester has himself shown the importance of having a deep and considered debate on the issues involved. That is why we propose local referendums. They would ensure that justice was done if hunting were to be banned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.896.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "endums would be the need to establish their geographical extent. We have heard many times today—and in Committee—that there is an overwhelming feeling that the Bill should be passed and that fox hunting should be banned. The hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey), who is unfortunately not in his place at the moment, claimed that 75 per cent. of the United Kingdom population support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.900.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Please be seated. The hon. Gentleman should not intervene unless he has the agreement of the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.900.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.901.6", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "hich he believes to be so strong, at local level so that local people can decide whether they agree with them. Let us be in no doubt that there is a debate to be had. The referendum is not a pointless or empty vessel, because so many of the questions were not even answered in Standing Committee. I asked numerous questions about the Bill's philosophical foundations, but they were not answered once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.901.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "ght end up with a curious patchwork of some parishes banning fox hunting and others not. That might make it difficult to control foxes; therefore, it might have been better had the new clause been in respect of counties rather than parishes. None the less, does the hon. Gentleman accept that a pack of hounds is always under the control of the master and that the meet would be held in such a place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I wish to explore the hon. Gentleman's point a little further. I think that he said that, as a result of the general election, we are aware of overwhelming public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.908.10", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "t opinion poll found that some 72 per cent. of people within the old city boundary wanted to see a ban on fox hunting. Hon. Members will retort that that includes the city of Worcester, so it is bound to be urban-dominated. However, if we take a referendum that looks at just the rural parts—the same rural parts that gave the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire the justification for moving his seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.908.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-13", "file": "debates1998-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fbc49ef030a98941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Bill was carried on Second Reading by a very substantial majority, which in our view reflects the feeling in the country. Given that overwhelming majority, is there any protection against the parliamentary vandalism that we have seen throughout the Bill's consideration that could enable it to go through Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-13a.914.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "ance grant? My parents left school at 14. I was fortunate enough to go to one of the old universities on a full tuition fee and a full grant. When I argued with my father that I should be allowed to stay on at school to the sixth form, I well remember him saying that girls my age were out at work. How much worse would it have been if I had faced the prospect of tens of thousands of pounds of debt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.966.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "The number doubled—albeit to only 1 in 10. If those who opposed the introduction of loans and fees had been right, we would have witnessed a decline. I give way to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if my hon. Friend does not understand the situation. The real figures that are relevant at this point in the calendar are those from people who apply straight from school, and they have not changed. Mature students, on the whole, tend to apply later, and we shall see the impact of the changes only at the start of the academic year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "It is with considerable pleasure that I address the House on the Second Reading of this Bill. It is a pleasure because, as the Liberal Democrat higher education spokesman, this is the first time that I have led for my party from the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "riefly with the issue of further education. My hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench have tried throughout the debate to play the game of divide and rule. Resources for universities can be obtained only at the expense of further education. I feel strongly about further education, because most of my constituents go not to university but to further education colleges, notably Hackney community college.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "use most of my constituents go not to university but to further education colleges, notably Hackney community college. [Interruption.] Representatives from Hackney community college came to see me last week to express their concern about the Government's failure to understand the specific needs of inner-city community colleges. Nothing will be gained by trying to play divide and rule in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "come families will face as a result of the Government's proposals. Sir Ron Dearing, as he then was, was very clear on the point in his report. He said: We would be particularly reluctant to see any reduction in public subsidies being concentrated on students from the poorest families\". Yet, that is what the Government are doing. Even The Guardian —if I may quote it—put the point rather delicately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "nment would reverse the fall in unit funding for higher education. Yet, the measures that they have brought forward, which are supposed to deliver such ambitious promises, are what: the provision of £165 million this year, which is entirely financed by smoke and mirrors. It is a shameless piece of accountancy manipulation. I do not know how many hon. Members have followed this ingenious manoeuvre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "roach to higher education policy has been a catalogue of disasters. As we shall see tomorrow, the Government have a slight problem with TESSAs, and a problem with implementation of higher education policy. Their botched attempt to reverse the Dearing proposals has not commanded the consent or agreement of people in the higher education world. We had the absolute fiasco of the gap year last summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Hire Vehicles (London) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ncourage this sector, or risk throttling it by setting the fees too high. The number of vehicles—which we do not know—will determine the size of the bureaucracy. As the Bill tells us that the costs are to be covered, the initial fees may be unduly high and may contribute to reducing the number of licensees. We know none of the underpinning details, and no one has come to the House to explain them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Hire Vehicles (London) Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "Liberal Democrats are also surprised that the Minister has chosen not to come to the House to explain the details of the Ways and Means resolution and perhaps pre-empt some of the points raised by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-16", "file": "debates1998-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "63a67ee156578ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Burford Community Hospital", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "l not give way. Conservative Members have had ample opportunity to make their case, and I am now explaining to them and to their constituents what the Government intend to do to regenerate the health service in Oxfordshire. We shall ensure that health and social care services work closer together on the issues that concern the hon. Gentleman, such as mental health, rehabilitation and recuperation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-16a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ray Michie", "preceding_text": "standard. Why has not the Secretary of State applied for millennium lottery funding? After all, the dome down at Greenwich will receive £400 million. Surely the Scottish Parliament, which is a symbol of the new democracy and the future of Scotland, should also be eligible for some lottery funding. This is the third time that I have asked this question, and I should be grateful for an answer today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "care available. Like my hon. Friend, we are also concerned about speed and the removal of uncertainty. That is why we recently provided £3 million for the establishment of a one-stop clinic. A woman with a breast lump can go into the clinic and be examined, have a mammography, have a needle biopsy and be given a decision all on one day. I think that we would all agree that that is the way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1094.8", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "s with both the National Consumer Council and the Consumers Association last week—consumer groups recognised that we had listened to the various problems that they had identified. They were pleased that we had produced a measured programme of modernisation which would achieve a legal aid system of which we could all be proud, but which would guarantee access to justice for everyone in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1094.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "t system, and increases complexity. The central reason for that mess is the scrapping of family credit and its replacement with the working families tax credit. To redeem a pledge to reform welfare, the Chancellor has devised an extremely complex system, which I think he hopes that none of the commentators will understand. When they study it, they will find that it has put women at a disadvantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "al up the income scale, from one-earner families to two-earner couples, and that, consequently, it will hit women on modest earnings, who are particularly sensitive to such disincentives. We do not object to the Government running its own neck into the noose, but we object when it is taking millions of poor working families with it.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee B, 18 March 1986; c. 942.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "all, we have been calling for that since the general election and have been roundly abused by the Chancellor and the Prime Minister for our temerity in doing so. Apparently, when Liberal Democrats call for extra money for schools and the health service, that is short-term opportunism; but when it is announced by the Chancellor, it suddenly and miraculously becomes responsible long-term management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-17", "file": "debates1998-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "570d7713bd5bb90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "sition. As time goes by, we will realise that the golden rule is virtually meaningless. Even the Economic Secretary is not prepared to come to the Dispatch Box this evening to say a word in its defence. We need a commitment over the long term not to entrench the current level of debt but to reduce the burden of debt and eventually to remove all Government debt, and thereby eliminate debt interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-17a.1188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I was not aware that Guildford was in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No; we are on their side, which is why they have welcomed the Budget. The only people who have not welcomed the Budget are the Conservative party. When we hear their figures today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "preceding_text": "From what the Leader of the Opposition has said today, it is clear that the official Opposition cannot count and cannot read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.4", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "preceding_text": "From what the Leader of the Opposition has said today, it is clear that the official Opposition cannot count and cannot read. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"] Does the Prime Minister agree that over the past 18 years the Tories' high levels of taxation have penalised those on low incomes? Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister knows, we broadly support the new direction set in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "NHS (Waiting Lists)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "million record level that we inherited from the previous Government. That is the target. Delivering that target will be a significant stepping stone towards fulfilling our pledge to reduce, in this Parliament, waiting lists by 100,000 from the level that we inherited. The target is ambitious, but I am confident that, provided we do not encounter a dreadful winter or major epidemic, we can meet it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "NHS (Waiting Lists)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": ",000, waiting lists have risen by 100,000, and they have almost certainly continued to rise this winter, and will probably do so this summer. Labour made another promise, intimately connected with waiting lists: to spend more money than us, every year. Our spending plans were criticised in the most exaggerated and emotional terms and denounced as inadequate. Has Labour done better? No, it has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was P. W. Botha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ledge: its promise to cut the cost of the welfare state. Before the election, the then leader of the Labour party used to trail around editors' offices, particularly of right-wing newspapers, saying that, just as it took a Republican President such as Richard Nixon to recognise communist China, and just as it took a white President such as Pik Botha to do a deal with the African National Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1321.5", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "ry level of tax? Someone who buys a house for just over £500,000 must pay the Government £15,000 in tax. That is a tax on mobility, and it is wrong. I make it clear that I have a lifetime's experience in the alcohol industry. That industry is facing difficult times because of cross-border shopping and smuggling. The Financial Secretary should not laugh, because she is responsible for that problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": " industry—which I believe explains a lot about his speech. As if that were not bad enough, he went on to blame my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary for his problem. I have been an almost lifelong teetotaller, and I have been the butt of many jokes in that regard. People say to me, \"It must be terribly depressing waking up in the morning and knowing that that is as good as you will feel all day.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "preceding_text": "efits from those, at whatever position in the earnings scale, who are deemed not to be entitled to be net beneficiaries. Returning to those earlier assumptions would remove the barriers between welfare and work. We remove the complexities of collection not by diving into separate taxation processes on individual benefits but by taxing overall disposable income. It is called progressive income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "This is an amazing exhibition from the Opposition. In today's newspapers—from The Sun to the Financial Times and everything in between—there has been almost universal acclaim for the brilliance of the Chancellor's Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "At a guess, I think it is about DM3.2 to the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1349.6", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "of strong consumer demand and low industrial output is projected to lead to a deterioration in current account balance. After a surplus of £4.5 billion in 1997, the current account is now projected to fall to a deficit of £6.5 billion this year and £6.75 billion in 1999. The glossy book entitled \"New Ambitions for Britain\" will all too soon become for many people an ambition to survive in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "e family. It will not stop there. On 1 April, mortgage interest relief will be cut from 15 per cent. to 10 per cent.—another hit at middle Britain. Furthermore, there is the not too thinly veiled promise of child benefit being taxed in the future. The British people should be warned that the Chancellor is after their money. He has only one ambition—to use his office to move to the house next door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-18", "file": "debates1998-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9011b6ef9b66c59e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "es; thirdly, what happens to two-earner couples; fourthly, the burden on business; and fifthly, take-up of child credit. It is noticeable that, for all their concerns about the independence of women, no Conservative Member has mentioned the fact that it was a Conservative Government who introduced joint and several liability for the poll tax. Despite being repeatedly asked by my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-18a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1399.7", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "his colleagues have not quite got the message: the decisions that we took last December have enabled us to start to secure the beginning of the lifting of the beef ban. If what the hon. Gentleman said about the cooking of beef on the bone is accurate, it is contrary to the regulations. It is an offence to cook beef on the bone. As we have repeatedly made it clear, the danger will be in the juices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1399.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give her a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said \"the strangest chance\"; perhaps she is a little less concerned than the hon. Member for Corby (Mr. Hope). I am not trying to persuade anyone to revert to the previous position. I am simply pointing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "preceding_text": "whether the hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) agrees with us on this issue. I may have missed something, but so far all I have heard from the Conservatives on that change is a deafening silence. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to intervene to tell me whether he supports the Government and the Liberal Democrats on that change, I shall give way, as I am interested to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1474.2", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " I hope that he can take on board the same issue when he considers corporate taxes. Stamp duty is another subject which has received relatively little attention so far in the debate. In his first Budget, the Chancellor introduced additional steps in stamp duty tiering, and on Tuesday he increased the rates for property selling at more than £250,000, and also for that selling at more than £500,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": " will be claimed for services rendered by registered child carers, but not for work done by volunteers. The Conservative party has an excellent solution to that: the transferable tax allowance. Many of my constituents would have liked that to be in the Budget. The state-registered nature of the child care allowable under the proposals amounts to nothing less than the nationalisation of child care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "any Government have given that undertaking, and we do it precisely to avoid the sort of uncertainty that underlay PEPs and TESSAs. Conservative Members know that that is true. Yes, we have said that the amounts that we envisage for the 10 years will remain as they are, and will not be reduced, although they may be reviewed. We have made that clear. Indeed, in the latter stages of the consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "d be welcome. We therefore made an increase for the first year—from £5,000 to £7,000—in the latter stages of the consultation, and it has all been extremely well received. The hon. Member for Sevenoaks asked what we were doing about privatisation. I can tell him this: we shall not have any more of the rip-offs that the Conservative party allowed and we shall not have any more fat-cat millionaires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "this country's economic management since the war. We have to go for stability—stability is vital to big and small businesses. Our exporters are having a tough time, but other countries have come through these periods. If we were to give in to short-term pressures at this stage—when we could go for long-term sustained stability and growth—we would be making precisely the same mistake as the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-19", "file": "debates1998-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "730da61b634e3eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": " policy that we have embedded into every measure that the Chancellor unveiled on Tuesday—we want the maximum amount to go to the children, who are at the centre, through the mother, so that families benefit. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that when we go into the details of how the tax credit will work and how we can achieve our objectives, that will be absolutely at the forefront of our concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-19a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend as he moves into the full power of his oratory. I am sure that he agrees that the Bill is important and that the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Singh), who I am sure is not moving too far from his place, deserves great credit for introducing it. However, there are many Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1539.2", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "t on a par with other great capital cities around the world. When the Greater London authority is established, the underground will, with the rest of London Transport, transfer to it. It will then be not only publicly owned, but properly accountable to the people of London, through the mayor and the assembly. Mrs. Thatcher nationalised London Underground: we will return it to the people of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Clearly the right hon. Gentleman has not fully understood the implications of the statement. First, however—to correct him—we have been in government for only 10 months, so he could not have been waiting for the statement for 12 months. Perhaps he was expecting us to take office earlier than we did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Clearly the right hon. Gentleman has not fully understood the implications of the statement. First, however—to correct him—we have been in government for only 10 months, so he could not have been waiting for the statement for 12 months. Perhaps he was expecting us to take office earlier than we did— [Interruption.] I made it absolutely clear that we were rejecting privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that point. [Interruption.] Can we stop this sort of harassment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "That was the line on which I used to travel from Clapham, and it was an uncomfortable experience at peak time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "n they go into residential care. As I was saying before my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth (Mr. Tredinnick) made his excellent intervention, Conservative Governments over 18 years created a property-owning democracy of a sort never seen before in western Europe. Conservative Governments gave everyone the chance to own property and to take part in what has become known as the cascade of wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "road that it is strange that a number of my hon. Friends want to examine more closely a Bill which, so far, has gone through all its stages without any real debate. I think I am right in saying that one organisation with an interest in the subject was slightly concerned that the Bill had been objected to formally on an earlier occasion. That happened, of course, to ensure that it would be debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-20", "file": "debates1998-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "d9f702b8f0598611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "pe to aspire to that, but it carries implications for society. We must take into account the fact that people are living much longer. There is another important but. People nowadays have vastly more resources: there is evidence of that on the Government Benches. At one time, money to leave to one's children was the province of the fairly wealthy. As a result of 18 years of Conservative government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-20a.1563.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.44.7", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No. We did not give the pledge to which the hon. Gentleman refers. We said very specifically that we would not raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.44.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was being asked about personal taxation. Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am not familiar with the final figure that the right hon. Gentleman gives, but I am well aware that we are proposing a package of changes in corporate taxation. That package of changes, as I am sure the right hon. Gentleman is well aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "wer interest rates at that stage because of the damage that the then rates were undoubtedly doing. We learned from that experience. The policy was recommended by the Labour party in opposition as well as by my right hon. Friends. We hoped that this Government might have learnt from it as well. A collective decision was taken by the House, with the Labour and Liberal parties in full support. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " work. Today, a young person saving for a pension must put aside £120 a month, while £100 did the job last May. That is a huge increase in the cost of taking a prudent view of the future and wishing to make provision. The Budget sandbags the farmer as well as the industrialist. Labour moves seamlessly from having high sterling to banning T-bone steaks. It is determined to destroy rural businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ent's claim that they are sticking to the established spending plans. In reality, there has been a continual redefinition of Labour's election pledge on spending, demonstrating how ridiculous and arbitrary the whole process has been. Only an extra £500 million has been allocated to the national health service in 1998–99: much less than the £2.25 billion identified in our alternative Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "nd that, if they happen to be a partner of an unemployed JSA claimant, they get no help. There are roughly 11,000 women in that position. That is one of the single biggest changes in the Budget. It shows that, for the first time ever, we have a Treasury that is no longer, in the glib phrases of some commentators last week, a \"boy's zone\", but is starting to conduct a gender impact analysis of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.96.4", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "have to pay—to pay for child care, when an individual on a 30-hour week at £3.50 an hour will earn only £5,060. The Government will double that amount, with all the additional things in child care. The previous Government got into a complete mess with the Child Support Agency. I have always said that and believe it to be true, but that mess was not predicted. That was not the criticism of the CSA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.96.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "If this measure is so good, why do people have to wait until October 1999 for the change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-23", "file": "debates1998-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a4b944b7d6a0ea43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "This petition of 170 signatures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-23a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "hools need. 5.15 pm The right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. Dorrell) referred to what will happen after September 1999. That is important, because a new framework will operate under the Bill. Such matters will go to the school organisation committee. If there is no agreement, they will go to the local adjudicator. From September 1999, the Secretary of State will issue guidance about the measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "New clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " primary schools' fate was already signed and sealed, because we had dealt with the adjudicator by that stage; but that did not figure in the Minister's press release. The press release did not tell the full story, if I may use those words. As I have the attention of the two Liberal Democrat Members, may I say that this is the first time that I have ever heard a Liberal Democrate—Liberal Democrat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.229.10", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Clause 24", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ill decide when there are local disputes about arrangements for admission to schools. Those are huge issues that impact directly on the choices parents make about which school their children will attend. They impact on the performance and development of popular and unpopular schools. They impact directly on the debate initiated by my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.229.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Clause 76", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "s getting into trouble, because he is promoting a Bill in which clause 92(1) says: Where at the beginning of the 1997–98 school year the admission arrangements for a maintained school made provision for selection by ability or by aptitude … the admission arrangements for the school may continue to make such provision for as long as there is\"— and indefinitely is the practical effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 76", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "n by the clauses that we seek to amend between aptitude and ability. If we read those clauses literally, we must deduce that a school that wishes to encourage children with musical ability will be allowed to ask those children to sing \"Twinkle, twinkle, little star\" from memory, but will not be allowed to ask them to read it from a music sheet because that would be a test of their reading ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Clause 76", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I sincerely apologise for missing the beginning of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "It is worse than that. That old boy could have a child in the school and a younger child who is not yet in a feeder school, whom the father wants to attend his old school—which that child's sibling attends—yet he will have no right to vote in the ballot to determine that school's future. That is absurd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ty. One might almost say that the Government were elected on the undertaking that the grammar schools were safe in their hands. The truth, as my hon. Friend rightly notes, is that a one-way ratchet is envisaged in the Bill—one vote once. If the vote goes against selection in a particular school, decades or perhaps centuries of high-quality education can be swept away on the basis of a single vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "ncaster and Wyre (Mr. Dawson) believes that, if we are confident of the popularity of the grammar schools in our constituencies, we should be happy with the balloting arrangements. He cannot argue that we should be comfortable with the balloting arrangement, however structured, when Labour Members are not prepared to accept the same proposition for the system of education that they seem to prefer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was trying to deal directly with the point put to me by the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Mr. Shaw). I should have been delighted to do that, but I accept your strictures and will move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "drick schools have received children from more than 150 feeder schools during the past few years. All those arguments point clearly to a balloting arrangement that is ill thought out and patently unfair, and which will not be well received in those parts of the country that are still pleased, proud and fortunate to retain grammar schools and selective education. Finally, I shall discuss amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "r schools, has a vital purpose in restoring some fairness and balance to the Government's proposals. It would give Catholic parents the decision on the future of Catholic schools. I suspect that such a position arises in very few parts of the country. Altrincham and Sale, West may be the only constituency in which there are two Roman Catholic grammar schools. Therefore, it is especially important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "the views of teaching staff are secondary in the way in which the Government assess what they would call fair and just. When the Government took office, we heard, \"Fairness and justice; fairness and justice; fairness and justice.\" There is nothing fair and just about ignoring the sincere and firmly held views of parents and staff. Does my hon. Friend think that, when the Labour party prays in aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "hich achieves results rather better than most comprehensive schools. It is another clear example of how a selective education system works, but I know that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will not want me to pursue that point further. On the specific point raised by the hon. Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt), I can say only that I am pleased to have a variety of Roman Catholic schools in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"Good,\" from a sedentary position. However, if he supports balance, fairness and opportunity, which he talked about often enough in the general election—he nods assent now—why will he not also support balance in allowing grammar schools in areas that have none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "se that choice was safe in our hands. Now hear what we arrogantly say: there can be only one-sided ballots—to get rid of grammar schools, not to create them.\" As I said in an earlier intervention, arrogant Labour Members and the Minister without Portfolio attack the BBC—perhaps rightly—for dumbing down, yet they belong to the very party that wishes to destroy centres of excellence. What hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend, but the Minister without Portfolio is not the only one who benefited from a grammar school education—the Minister for School Standards, who wants to be the hangman for opportunity in this country did, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak, but since my election I have made a practice of noting the times when my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) is speaking, or has tabled an amendment. I came into the Chamber tonight to listen to her speech, and to note what she was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Clause 96", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "hether there can be a conflict. There might indeed be such a conflict, as the Government propose that a decision affecting individual children be taken for those children by the parents of a collection of other children, brought together by the Minister's guidance but excluding the parents of the children most directly involved in the individual school whose future is in question. The proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.330.4", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Clause 100", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for rushing to my assistance in an awkward situation. I shall try to deal with the substance of that intervention, if I may. My hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.336.7", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Clause 100", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "olicy\". We have been debating whether an agreement can be legally binding. I refer hon. Members to clause 101(6), which states: A home-school agreement shall not be capable of creating any obligation in respect of whose breach any liability arises in contract or in tort. I concur, because as I understand it—I am not a lawyer—a contract must have parties, a specific performance and a consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.336.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "I hesitate even to attempt to answer the hon. Gentleman, because he clearly has not been listening to what I have been saying. I clearly described the Surrey scheme. Any additional costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.366.8", "colnum": "366", "heading": "New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "al debate on the assisted places scheme. We believe that, if it was important to debate a matter that affects such a small proportion of pupils, time could be found for Parliament to debate a matter that should affect every pupil in every school. It deserves the scrutiny of both Houses of Parliament. Many people are concerned that there is a lack of democratic accountability in the work of Ofsted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.366.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.366.8", "colnum": "366", "heading": "New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "ects such a small proportion of pupils, time could be found for Parliament to debate a matter that should affect every pupil in every school. It deserves the scrutiny of both Houses of Parliament. Many people are concerned that there is a lack of democratic accountability in the work of Ofsted. [Interruption.] Many of us are concerned that, when we ask Ministers about Ofsted's work, we do not get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.366.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "New clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House for only a short time. I am a member of the Select Committee on Education and Employment, and this issue goes to the heart of that Committee's responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6", "colnum": "372", "heading": "New clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "rfectly legitimate choice. In Sutton, my local education authority, the situation brought about by the Greenwich judgment on grant-maintained schools and selection means that on current projections, based on the continued inflow of out-of-borough pupils, there will be a shortfall of 2,400 places by 2003. 4.15 am In Committee, there was a detailed debate about the effects of the Greenwich judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6", "colnum": "372", "heading": "New clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": " Greenwich judgment on grant-maintained schools and selection means that on current projections, based on the continued inflow of out-of-borough pupils, there will be a shortfall of 2,400 places by 2003. 4.15 am In Committee, there was a detailed debate about the effects of the Greenwich judgment— [Interruption.] —perhaps of the sort that is not possible in the Chamber at this hour in the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6", "colnum": "372", "heading": "New clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wake them up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "e continued inflow of out-of-borough pupils, there will be a shortfall of 2,400 places by 2003. 4.15 am In Committee, there was a detailed debate about the effects of the Greenwich judgment— [Interruption.] —perhaps of the sort that is not possible in the Chamber at this hour in the morning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The amendment was designed to reflect the concern of Liberal Democrat Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.374.6", "colnum": "374", "heading": "New clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I shall be equally brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.374.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.377.7", "colnum": "377", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "t my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Mr. Willis) and I said about the issue at a press conference at 10.30 am—we made no attempt to imply that those comments were made later. Perhaps it will speed up the debate if I briefly describe what we said. This debate gives us the opportunity to complete what I believe, and I am sure the House will believe, to be unfinished business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.377.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.377.8", "colnum": "377", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman say whether the new clause draws a distinction between the ritualised flogging that both he and I want outlawed and the teacher who slaps a child?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.377.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "Yes. I have slapped a lot of little legs and I can see a lot of little legs that need slapping tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "athy with the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe). My memory is imperfect, but although I do not think that we went to the same school, I am pretty sure that we suffered the same experience. I do not know whether we are going to hear from my hon. Friends some sort of nostalgia for the good old days. I wonder whether they will say, \"Well, I got beaten at school and it didn't do me any harm\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ing because otherwise there will be a read-across. It is being suggested that we should retain for children a punishment that we would not inflict on the worst criminal. I want to distance myself from some of the hon. Members with whom I shall vote in a few minutes, so let me say that I believe that there is a very good argument for bringing back corporal punishment for a certain type of criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "rning—a full three hours before the debate on new clause 21 had even started—and to state for the record the prophetic skills of Mr. Colin Brown, the Independent's chief political correspondent. Before the event, Mr. Brown \"reported\": A Liberal Democrat MP last night spoke of his 'shame' at caning children as MPs voted to sweep away the last vestiges of corporal punishment in independent schools\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "by it. Quite frankly, I felt quite ashamed later in life to feel that for many years I supported the use of corporal punishment.' … MPs were given a free vote by the Government to extend the ban in the independent schools during the final Commons stages of the School Standards Bill. … Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on education, challenged Tory backwoodsmen who defended\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "hools during the final Commons stages of the School Standards Bill. … Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on education, challenged Tory backwoodsmen who defended\"— [Interruption.] Yes; but we have not done it yet. The hon. Member for Bath challenged Tory backwoodsmen who defended 'spanking'\"— a word that I do not think has yet been used by any hon. Member on either side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "the third day that I bothered to ask the youngster why he was doing this. The reality was that he had been thrown out of the house by his father on Sunday night and was living in the back of a van. The only way he could get a free meal was to come to school and bear his punishment. That is a graphic illustration of the futility of caning. It was an easy way to deal with a situation, which avoided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-24", "file": "debates1998-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "ea838f1ada9ee048", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "New clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Barbarous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "f understanding children. We found that many children for whom corporal punishment had been an answer got twice as much when they got home. To them, it was the norm to be beaten. It was the norm to experience violence, whether of language, a fist or a belt. We were told that that was somehow right. The new clauses and amendments give us an opportunity to end systematic legalised abuse of children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-24a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I think that, if the hon. Gentleman talks to the more thoughtful NGOs, he will find that they would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.483.6", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does n ot have to act out his part—I heard what he said previously. If he listens to the reply, he might learn something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.483.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ellman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ellman", "preceding_text": "r's Budget decisions to increase child benefit by a record 20 per cent., to fund a national child care programme for the first time and to concentrate financial help on the poorest families and children, demonstrate Labour's commitment to equality and opportunity? Does the Prime Minister contrast that situation with the record of 18 years of Tory Budgets, which intensified inequality and division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ellman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ellman", "preceding_text": "nd to concentrate financial help on the poorest families and children, demonstrate Labour's commitment to equality and opportunity? Does the Prime Minister contrast that situation with the record of 18 years of Tory Budgets, which intensified inequality and division— [Interruption.] —trebled the number of poor people and produced the social exclusion that this Government are committed to tackling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prosser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prosser", "preceding_text": "rust port of Dover, which the Tory Government were ready to sell off to the French? With the economic policies of this Government and the confidence that they engender, the port of Dover now handles one third of European trade, and is planning to build a second terminal. Last week it signed contracts that will create 1,600 new jobs. Is it any wonder that my constituents will never vote Tory again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.497.6", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not agree with that. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor made it clear in his Budget statement that we would not go back to benefit for lone parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.497.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "London Governance", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "be an open and accessible authority: the assembly will meet regularly and in public; the mayor will have to notify the assembly of all major decisions and give reasons; each month, there will be a question time, when the assembly questions the mayor and senior officials; twice a year, there will be a people's question time, when the mayor and assembly can be questioned in public and by the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e generously provided another two hours injury time this evening because we have had a statement. So we are debating non-controversial amendments tabled to comply with the legitimate request from the Opposition. We provided three hours to discuss them and a further two hours of injury-time debate from 10 pm to midnight this evening. Therefore, I hardly think that the right hon. Member for Devizes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t the subject Committees themselves would have one-party majority control, and that therefore there would be a majority on the Committee that was broadly supportive of the Assembly Secretary. If that was the case, or if there was a coalition, or in any other circumstances, the Assembly Secretary would have to carry the subject Committee with him or her. If he or she failed to do so on a matter of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ey), and I hope that the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) will have some regard for that. If the subject Committee found itself in conflict on a matter of principle with the Assembly Secretary who was a member of that Committee, there would a situation which presumably the First Secretary or the assembly itself would want to address, either by changing policy or by changing the Assembly Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for this opportunity to speak so soon after my last piece of spellbinding oratory at 6.15 this morning, when I had the Adjournment debate. One piece of advice that I will give the Secretary of State is that, if the assembly decides to have Adjournment debates, they should start the day, not end it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e want to continue. We welcome the Government new clauses. We were not trying to be destructive in our attempt to get more time to debate all the new clauses and amendments. However, we are not being given that opportunity, so we will try to improve the Bill as much as we can in the two days at our disposal, before it goes to the other place. We feel that the Secretary of State has listened to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I had hoped for a grudging acknowledgement of our contribution to the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Because of the supremacy of Parliament, the Welsh assembly would have to reconsider its decisions and change its mind. In the final instance, Westminster would be supreme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "ales will have to play a vital part in bridging the gap. Sadly, I share with the right hon. Member for Devizes the idea that there are two things about which we know little more than we did at the beginning of our debates. The first is the meaningful content of the concordats dealing with such issues. Secondly, the shadowiest figure in the Bill is the Secretary of State for Wales after devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, I am aware of cross-border pupils—in both directions—but I am not aware of any cross-border schools. I have had advice to confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.648.4", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. The Minister seems to be being wilfully obtuse. I am currently dealing with a case in which a Welsh education authority may be changing its policy in a way that will prevent 120 children from going to a Shropshire school. Today, I can bring that up in the House; in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.648.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.648.8", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "No hon. Member is dragging anything out. If any hon. Member did so, I would call him to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.648.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-25", "file": "debates1998-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "203fef4987763091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "his matter this evening. I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport for his personal courtesy in being present to respond to the debate. The situation to which I wish to draw the attention of the House is simple and deplorable. By screening the programme \"National Lottery Big Ticket\" next Saturday, the BBC is, in the most specific terms, violating its charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-25a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.665.4", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it is not a matter of which one is wrong—all three are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I will not comment on whether I agree with the general secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "eserves some scrutiny. I welcome the fact that the Minister for Welfare Reform has made the statement. He knows that I and all my colleagues have been asking for a statement on the Green Paper for a considerable time. Without being churlish, we welcome its existence and the fact that it has been announced. The Green Paper has been a long time coming and, therefore, it raises a series of questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Opposition for approaching the issue so constructively?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the policies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "id last time. It is easy to be bullish at the Dispatch Box, but if we fail, we screw up people's lives. We do not intend to do that. The hon. Gentleman asked where was the support for the family. When he has had the chance to read the Green Paper carefully, he will see the careful declarations that we have made in favour of the family as the most secure building block for creating a secure future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": " extraordinary that he should, for example, be so dismissive of the case put by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which has an important interest in the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Bill. Finally, can the Leader of the House tell us whether the frequent conversations that the Prime Minister, according to his own staff, has with Mr. Richard Murdoch, extend to the issue of media monopolies in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "There are 10 minutes left and I congratulate the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Dafis) on introducing the amendments", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.728.5", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 79", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "ment in the House of Lords to reflect many of the views that have been expressed this evening, because we agree with them. We have to devise the right form of words. The assembly will not hide behind the Official Secrets Act. It will be a new democratic institution of participatory democracy. The underlying principles will be openness and \"inclusiveness\" to build a new, vibrant democracy in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 151", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Ministers have listened to the arguments, and they have made necessary, major changes to the Bill—not least on the framework for a Cabinet structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 151", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": " that affect my constituents that have been decided by agencies in Wales, but that once the assembly is set up, my constituents' vote will have less value, because the assembly in Cardiff will be able to change education policies, for instance; that could affect children coming over the border to a school in my constituency, yet I will have no recourse to a democratic assembly. That is wrong, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-26", "file": "debates1998-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "ff3b1f2822ffc1e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 151", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Davies), and by my hon. Friends the Members for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney and for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), will turn out to be entirely unfounded as the new assembly steps forward with confidence. It will be a departure for the British constitution, along with many others. For example, the Reform Act 1867 was referred to as a leap in the dark, but it worked. We had greater democracy. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-26a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-27", "file": "debates1998-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67f0ccbf1e4948f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of casting aspersions on my hon. Friend's mother-in-law. However, many people on tribunals come from another age. They are elderly trade union officials nearing retirement, or ex-personnel managers, and they pick up £150 a day for their time. Not enough young people serve on tribunals who could bring their current experience to bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-27", "file": "debates1998-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67f0ccbf1e4948f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "That puts a very different complexion on the whole matter. It is about time that I started to wind up my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-27", "file": "debates1998-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67f0ccbf1e4948f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "ly the progress and the implementation of the Bill. We want to ensure that it is the fast track and the track envisaged by the previous Government, rather than merely an overspill for more and more grievance proceedings. We also want to ensure that the procedure remains informal and that it does not take on the legalistic characteristics of industrial tribunals. As I near the end of this marathon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-27", "file": "debates1998-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "67f0ccbf1e4948f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "First, I shall deal, albeit probably inadequately, with the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mrs. Golding). I have a very modest garden, but I remember, when Rose Clear was withdrawn, finding a bottle on the shelf in the garage. I freely admit that I continued to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-27a.841.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.883.4", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, in the past 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.883.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. We have a further example of the Government's attempt to ensure that the Executive has easy questions, as a result of a briefing that was supposed to take place in Room W1. On several questions this afternoon, the only hon. Members rising to ask supplementary questions were on the Opposition Benches. I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is not correct. Mr. Miller rose on Question 13. I shall check the position on Question 14. More often than not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "ong been critical of the Crown Estate Commissioners, especially for their decisions concerning fish farming, which impinge on the activities of our commercial fishermen. I declare an interest. I am an honorary member of the Clyde Fishermen's Association, of which the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mrs. Michie) is an honorary president. Incidentally, we receive nothing for that onerous duty, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "his Parliament but to the Scottish Parliament, will come down and presumably take part in the preparations not as part of the same civil service, but as parts of different civil services, possibly with different loyalties. In those circumstances, how will a common position be arrived at, so that the Scots can be assured that the voice of Scotland will be properly heard? That is a serious question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.927.4", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I am fascinated by the argument that a Minister must be present in the House of Commons. There have been a number of occasions when Lords have led United Kingdom delegations. They were not present in the House to answer for their performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "its on the Select Committee on European Legislation should be given a medal. I sat under the late Julius Silverman, a clever man. Much unsung work is done by the Committee, and I salute its members for that. We are in the debt of the hon. Member for Moray for raising a vital issue. There, I fear, agreement ends. I spent last week sitting through the Welsh devolution debate. It was fascinating. It—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "r amendments. I can believe only that they were not present on Second Reading, when I clarified our outlook on the Bill. Independence for Scotland will be decided by the people of Scotland; that was the common ground between the Secretary of State and me in the referendum campaign. All our amendments have been designed to improve and enhance the Bill from within the devolved context, as they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "taxes in Scotland will rise even further next year, simply to pay for the pensions theft that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has forced on local government: new Labour, new taxes. After each Budget, higher price tags are attached to local government. There is no point in the hon. Member for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Mrs. McKenna) giving us the red herring of the poll tax given that so many of her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "I should repeat a comment made by some of my hon. Friends: the Conservatives have learnt absolutely nothing about local government, the White Paper or the Bill. This Government have had the most constructive dialogue with business in Scotland of any Labour Government since the war: we have attempted to take business into our confidence, and very constructively to decide how we should move forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "and wanted an extradition treaty with Libya? Imagine that the Foreign Office in London was as intransigent as it has been, under both Governments, for the past 10 years, and would not contemplate such a treaty. Would not the Members of the Scottish Parliament, pressed by people who know rather more about Lockerbie than do their English colleagues, say it was high time we had an extradition treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "s. The very fact that the Scottish legal system and the legal system of England and Wales have worked in parallel perfectly happily for centuries is evidence that we do not need a devolved Parliament in Scotland, but if we are to have one, let us have one that works properly and one that we can trust. I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I return to my main point, which is that The Herald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-30", "file": "debates1998-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "5d287c0c4bfb5613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.988.9", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " All our amendments in the group are intended to give the Scottish Parliament more, not fewer, powers. In that regard, they are inconsistent with the caricature of our contributions that the Minister repeatedly sketches. Those amendments are not wrecking amendments; they are sensible contributions to the debate. We think that the Scottish Parliament should have power to regulate the con struction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-30a.988.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Health Action Zones", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "reducing waiting lists. Alternatively—it is not entirely obvious from what the Secretary of State has said—is it in fact old money? Is the money already there in the system? Some people will say that, if it is simply old money, this is very much a question of the emperor having no clothes. We hear enough strictures from the right hon. Gentleman, usually blamed on us, but that cannot last for ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1036.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) asks a question to which I confess I do not know the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "al party-Liberal Democrat Administration were formed with the Secretary of State as the Leader of the Opposition in a Scottish Parliament. Who supported my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) on the wind chill factor legislation? Who supported him on the cold weather payments? The list includes SNP Members such as the hon. Members for Perth (Ms Cunningham), for Moray (Mrs. Ewing)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1072.8", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "te on this issue, the then Government made it clear that the matter should be fully reviewed by the experts, and it was. What is more, the present Government did not follow the advice. There is no reason for Opposition Front Benchers to take any criticism on that. As we are currently standing shoulder to shoulder with the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) perhaps he should support us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1072.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "I did not understand the question, never mind wanting to provide an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": " recognise that there are grave concerns about this project and how it is going about its business. I like to think that a Scottish Parliament could insist that before any decision was made to reduce the benefit of an individual, the claimant could be the subject of a medical examination before a form adjudicator simply scrubbed out his benefit. The Government have made some important concessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "en those who really believe in devolution must have realised that there is a warped logic and consistency in the apparently arbitrary choice of which matters are reserved and which are devolved. Responsibility for any controversial issues that could be embarrassing or cause internal strife in the Labour party—or worse, strife between the Labour party and its paymasters—will be kept at Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " powers in Westminster. It was not a question of identifying the powers that should go; it was a question of identifying the powers that should remain. That was what distinguished the Bill from the previous attempt at a devolution Bill in the 1970s. Although Conservatives oppose the principle of the Bill, we have attempted to table constructive amendments where there is intellectual inconsistency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "her things, employment rights and duties, and industrial relations. We are seeking a coherent set of policies which are consistent in economic terms throughout the country. Given the claims by the Opposition that they want to protect business interests in Scotland, I hope that they recognise that this is best achieved by the subject matter of the National Minimum Wage Bill being a reserved matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy", "preceding_text": "born child. It is an ethical issue that should be above political point scoring. My constituents know and understand my pro-life stance. In all conscience, I cannot support an amendment that pigeon-holes abortion and the right to life as purely health matters. Similarly, I cannot support an amendment that could lead to cross-border traffic in human sadness. The thought of seriously troubled women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " takes the matter to the Press Council so that it can pursue it with the Herald, because I have seen no retraction sought from or given by the Glasgow Herald. We are left with the strong feeling that this is a deliberate attempt to pander to the worst feelings that the Conservatives can find in the west of Scotland. I am happy to say that I believe that my party will not be divided on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1113.5", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "leave out lines 14 to 20. The issue is straightforward, so I can deal with it rapidly. The amendment would give the Scottish Parliament the power to determine the remuneration of judges of the Court of Session, sheriffs, members of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland and the chairman of the Scottish Land Court. We think that the proposal to reserve this matter is the result of judicial trade unionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Ms Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The composition of racial minorities in Scotland is different from that in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there?\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " be those—among whom I include some hon. Members—who are more concerned about equality and parity of outcome than about the simple fairness with which individual cases are treated. I remind the hon. Member for Perth that she favoured the words equality of opportunity for all people\", which does not necessarily mean that there will be, for example, equal numbers of sexes in the Scottish Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1149.9", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "venance in relation to many matters arising out of the devolution legislation affecting Scotland and Wales. The Opposition consider that it is necessary to find out precisely what is happening, what the concordats will involve and how we can keep some check on their number. I am not certain what a collection of concordats will be called—possibly a canon of concordats or a collective of concordats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1149.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "nd agree treaties. Executive agreements are a means of bypassing the legislature. I am concerned by the fact that we are putting in place a process that could over time multiply in a big way. Literally hundreds of concordats could be signed by junior officials in Departments; yet, as things stand, there is no scrutiny of them in the House of Commons and no means of knowing what and where they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1158.5", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "Let me assure the Committee that the proposed concordats between the United Kingdom Government and the Scottish Executive will not make provision in respect of matters that should properly be covered in the Bill. Nor will they be a sinister means to avoid parliamentary scrutiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-03-31", "file": "debates1998-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "23af8505d682d650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I listened to hear one single answer to one single question that I asked. I heard none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-03-31a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Millennium Compliance", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to remind the House that we have to solve the problem for the sake not only of people in Britain, but of everyone in the global economy. No one is more aware than I am of the need for action. Since taking office, I have established a rigorous and totally open system for monitoring the progress of central Government in tackling the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1251.5", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman that there could be nothing more disastrous than the course that I assume that he is advocating, which is for Britain to stand up now and say that it would oppose a whole series of countries going into the single currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1251.6", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "With regard to the snide asides in the Leader of the Opposition's supplementary question and in the question of the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight), taking into account this over-the-top, hyped attack on the Prime Minister's press secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1251.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1253.8", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1253.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What a cheek, honestly. We are spending more money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1256.8", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Official Visits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell", "preceding_text": "That is a big disappointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1256.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Regional Development Agencies Bill [Money] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " being approved by the House of Commons.\" We are saying that the liberty that is given to you, Madam Speaker, should be given to Conservative Members, whose only job in life is to try, on the few brief occasions available to us, to deal in straight and open debate with the Labour Government and the amount of money that is voted on the nod on issues such as superannuation. We have to ask ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members have no objection to the new clause, which seems to be essentially technical in nature. However, I believe that it is grouped with new clause 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "If anyone else mentions an iterative process in this debate, I shall take an early recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "d have been wise to duck out of the Tea Room when the Whips were looking around for a Labour Member to make a speech. The hon. Gentleman's arguments were the same as those that were used to support the idea that local authority and health authority meetings should not be open to the public. The essence of the argument is, \"Trust the Minister; he will do no harm,\" but I do not favour that argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "to making the RDAs work in partnership with local authorities. Although it is listed as a Government amendment, we can unreservedly welcome amendment No. 4 because it is our amendment. We tabled it on 11 March. I am glad that the Secretary of State tabled an identically worded one on 23 March. I have been advised by the Clerk that it should not have been accepted because it was identically worded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "mmittee on the Bill. The fact is that amendment No. 4, which we support, does at least ensure that the Government's rather shameful attempt to undermine the democratic basis of the planning system has now been thwarted. It ensures that the Government's attack on the powers of democratically elected local authorities has, on this occasion, been successfully fought off by Conservative determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "uthorities—in the eastern region. I am sure that the hon. Member for South Suffolk knows that region very well. In the south-west region, local authorities are coming together, for the first time, with other regional partners to take forward the regional agenda. I am delighted to tell the House that we have had an overwhelming response from people who want to nominate individuals to serve on RDAs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": " the House that we have had an overwhelming response from people who want to nominate individuals to serve on RDAs. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for South Suffolk should not be so cynical; Conservative Members are very cynical. They might even be able to do what Lord Walker did when he was on one of the quangos: he gave something back. We never know; some of them might even give something back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "quangos, which, only a few months ago, the Labour party said were entirely unacceptable. As we have heard this evening, even supporters of regional governance may think twice before supporting the creation of bodies that are unaccountable and show every prospect of being unsuccessful. Even less do I believe that the Bill deserves support as a step-by-step process to regional government in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "The Bill has great benefits for my area. As the representative of a northern constituency, I have a special interest in the Bill's success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "The Bill has great benefits for my area. As the representative of a northern constituency, I have a special interest in the Bill's success. [Interruption.] I warmly support the Bill, but I want to discuss certain conditions, some of which have been mentioned already, that are necessary for the success of regional development agencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-01", "file": "debates1998-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "330fb5a7638c1196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regional Development Agencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-01a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "nded by the fact that some traditional Far East markets have disappeared completely. Increases in interest rates continue to exacerbate the situation\"? It is hardly surprising that yesterday's Financial Times found that the west midlands is a heartland on the brink of recession. The Birmingham chamber of commerce reports that exports from Birmingham companies are still at \"dangerously low levels\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What's your policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The Government tell us that they are creating a stable and competitive exchange rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EU Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "In thanking the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EU Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "In thanking the Minister— [Interruption.] I had an important question on Question 17, which I was unable to ask. Does the Minister accept that, as the average family in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EU Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "In thanking the Minister— [Interruption.] I had an important question on Question 17, which I was unable to ask. Does the Minister accept that, as the average family in Britain— [Interruption.] This is not funny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1411.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Maze Prison (Narey Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "wever euphemistic the language of Martin Narey with his \"regrettables\" and \"unfortunates\", there is no escaping the fact that prison management in Northern Ireland falls far short of the justifiable expectation of the predominantly law-abiding society in Northern Ireland. The Narey report and the Secretary of State's response are little short of a terrorists charter for paramilitaries to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House of Commons?\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Extensive American investigative journalism has revealed that they had been sold to ATCC, notwithstanding the fact that the company was well known to be re-exporting pathogens without restraint, not least to Iraq. It was pretty easy to obtain pathogens from ATCC in the 1980s. It was necessary to submit a written request on headed notepaper from a credible but not necessarily reputable institution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Faber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Faber", "preceding_text": "n fact, the entire Green Paper is one big advertisement for Britain's defence industry. There is, therefore, conclusive proof that the Ministry of Defence has largely ignored the Foreign Secretary's push for a so-called ethical foreign policy, and that he has little influence in the Government and especially in Departments that should be working closely together on Foreign Office-related business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-02", "file": "debates1998-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "c23ad8822e89916d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "s of a number of campaigns in which I have engaged over time on those matters which seem to bear out precisely the account of the Conservatives' activities that the Scott report highlighted. I have been involved for some time in the campaign to prevent the export of Hawk aircraft to Indonesia. I listened with some astonishment to the words of the hon. Member for Westbury (Mr. Faber) on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-02a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. I will stand corrected, but, if the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker) checks Hansard, he will find that my reply was that I would not verify a quotation from a report that I had not read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Speaker. I will stand corrected, but, if the hon. Member for Lewes (Mr. Baker) checks Hansard, he will find that my reply was that I would not verify a quotation from a report that I had not read— [Interruption.] We shall check Hansard. I am sure that I said, \"that I have not read\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "n important principle. We then move to the third and critical question. What majority is required? If we are to have compulsory recognition, what support does the trade union have to show among the work force of the particular part of the company that it claims to represent? That question—raised by the hon. Member for Bolsover with the Prime Minister—is in danger of tearing the Labour party apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "Yes, that was the last visit by the people's party to the people's resort—perhaps that is why the Labour party is not going back to Blackpool. The Minister for School Standards speculated with a group of journalists about how a new Labour Government might provoke a crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fair play.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman bellows, \"Fair pay.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "istinct lack of knowledge of the subject. The Government are introducing the 48-hour week by implementing the working time directive. Consultations are currently taking place about excluded sectors—the eight European employment areas that are excluded from the directive at present. We will consult on that, and, at an appropriate time, Europe will reach a decision that we will support in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "arges for pensioners, will they intervene? Or, to put it a different way, does any Labour Member believe that the Minister of State wants the threshold for union recognition to be a majority of the work force or a majority of those who vote? I shall give way to any Labour Member who can tell me what he or she thinks is in the Minister of State's mind, having listened to half an hour of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.42.8", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "w much voluntary time people put into representing their colleagues at work, not just over pay and conditions or health and safety, but in trying to combat prejudice. Employers may want to take on black car delivery workers, but the predominant group in that trade and in that part of the union say that it must be a whites-only job. Such problems require persistence, courage, sacrifice and service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.42.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "eve in union recognition, but we must decide on the threshold. One of the problems with the new, modern, model Labour party is that it does not understand what has been going on in the recent past. Reference has been made to trade union recognition at GCHQ in Cheltenham. The unions were recognised at GCHQ before the election; the difference was that national unions were not going to be recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": " of days lost to strikes—certainly in my memory. Does anybody in the House remember the English disease? That has been cured. We remember the closed shop, which has effectively been destroyed. As a result of that excellent record of industrial relations, we have outstanding inward investment, which is praised by Labour Members. They must ask themselves why companies want to invest in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady raises a case of which I have no knowledge. Nobody in the House would defend bad employer practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the courtesy with which the hon. Lady has framed her question. I understood from the manifesto, on which my hon. Friends and I stood and on which we were successful, that we would carry out a consultation exercise and then make proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "fer to deal with their employers on an individual basis. We know that that is incorrect. According to the latest British social attitudes survey, 46 per cent. of workers feel that they should have more say at work, 62 per cent. think that management always try to get the better of employees, and 63 per cent. feel that they have little or no influence over decisions that directly affect their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": " them to be complacent, but the Government want to change things, so that every worker feels involved in the company that he or she represents, and so that management and unions can progress together to help the productiveness of our economy. This afternoon, we heard speeches that took us back in time. The hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) was the authentic voice of the Tory Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ish manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, the shadow President of the Board of Trade calls on us to reverse any and all steps taken in a balanced package of taxation changes, including the windfall tax, which laid the foundation for the new deal, and for increased investment in skills and infrastructure—all things that manufacturers want carried out. Presumably they would all have to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-06", "file": "debates1998-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "3e9251e52f5222ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "The Minister's historical rant is simply not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-06a.125.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. In answer to my question, the Foreign Secretary said that he was not making a statement on his visit to the middle east because the visit did not involve any change of policy. He was seeking to justify not making a statement on the ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "lear about them, I shall speak to him or his officials outside, so that he can be absolutely clear about what I seek. I am going to a significant arts event elsewhere this evening, but I shall miss most of it because I want to come back for the winding-up speeches to hear answers to my questions. I hope that the Government put at rest the minds of those who distribute money throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Joan Humble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Joan Humble", "preceding_text": "rrey (Mrs. Bottomley) with pleasure. Although I agree that the lottery has been a success, I believe that it will be an even greater success as a result of the Bill—I do not share many of the concerns that she outlined. I speak with some trepidation, however. Having heard two of my hon. Friends say that they have not bought lottery tickets, I must admit that I have, that I do and that I have won —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "l if we are to invest in stars of the future. I hope that healthy living centres profile the importance of personal fitness and the role that sport provides. I should welcome a commitment from the Minister about the absolute importance of sport in all those areas. With such assurances, the concerns of the Scottish Sports Council and, indeed, of the English Sports Council, can be overcome. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": " Member to pay any tribute to Camelot for running an efficient lottery for the past four years. There is £1 billion extra for Ministers to dip their hands into, because we have had an extremely well-run national lottery. The Secretary of State managed to get his lips to pay tribute to the former Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), for setting up the lottery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Sport (Mr. Tony Banks)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Sport (Mr. Tony Banks)", "preceding_text": "y to the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Mr. Spring) that, although he is a real smoothie, he is absolutely wrong. I accept that I have not yet completed my odyssey from the snug to the pantheon of world leadership, but if I complete it tonight, I do not want anyone—luvvies or no—to celebrate my metamorphosis with foie gras. I think that it is cruel and beastly, and I would rather die than touch it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "my stance. Conservative Members have ignored the real benefits for ordinary people that the Bill will introduce. The sixth new good cause, which will benefit from the New Opportunities Fund, will not siphon money from the lottery; the money will have come through the second weekly draw. Existing good causes will receive the money—£1.8 billion—that they were led to expect within the licence period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "out lottery funds for sport and about a watering down of the commitment. He wanted to know what will happen after 2001 and whether sport will be made a permanent good cause. Nothing in the Bill or in the original legislation gives any indication of that, but I would find it wholly strange and quite remarkable if, after 2001, we did not continue to fund the existing good causes, particularly sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "al legislation. We have not siphoned off the money. The right hon. Gentleman asked specific questions about the anticipated £10 billion, although it may be more than that according to the projections. I cannot say what will happen to the excess if the figure is over £10 billion. All I can say is that, as long as I am Minister for Sport, I will fight for a fair share of that extra money for sports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-07", "file": "debates1998-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "1ee87ed6c99c0bb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "n from 20 per cent. to 16 per cent. for four of the existing good causes. However, we are dealing with a much larger pot. I have said that none of the existing good causes will' get any less money than they were led to expect over the Camelot licence period. Opposition Members are trying to stir up problems that do not exist. The costs of the new set-up will be borne by the New Opportunities Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-07a.252.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "l do anything to protect the market or ensure the long-term survival of the industry in the EU. The European Commission has argued that finishers such as Strines Textiles will be able to withstand the imposition of the levy because they are adding high value to the product, but the market is global and the technology is moving away from the European Union, so the impact will be counter-productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "that we get the extra £3.9 million. Someone has said, \"What about Somerset?\" It was capped last year: I know all about that—I was here. I did not support the Government that day, either. Warwickshire was also involved in the rate capping procedure, and then it disappeared. Derbyshire wants to be treated in the way that Warwickshire was treated last year. We do not want to be treated like Somerset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "preceding_text": "rian crossings built outside them. Ayloff's junior school is on the busy Southend road and has a fairly ineffective zebra crossing. I know from my experience that it is dangerous, as I was nearly knocked over on it during the election campaign. Perhaps my opponent was driving the car, but in any case I nearly came off the worst in the encounter. Scargill's junior school is also in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, I have to wait for the judgment or the statement by Hertfordshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, I have to wait for the judgment or the statement by Hertfordshire. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.] I do not think that the House would expect me to comment without having seen what the local authority has to say about the matter. We have made it absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the substance of the Bill shortly. We support some of the Bill; some of it we think is good, but too weak, and some of it is typically new Labour and nannying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. I am one of the many hon. Members who live in their own constituencies. I have to pay a higher premium to insure my house and its contents in inner-city Manchester than I do in St. John's Wood, where my flat is in London. I have the same insurance agent for both—the Co-op.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "The legislation is welcome. It is the work of a Home Secretary and a Government who are determined to address the tidal wave of yobbery that accompanied the Thatcher decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ry graciously recognised in his opening speech: many of the successes have been the result of the previous Conservative Government's actions. Conservative Members have been greatly concerned that, over many years, Labour authorities have been working hand in glove with a number of absentee landlords who have been tied up with local government corruption in many cities. I use those words advisedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "here has been more of a bipartisan approach to criminal justice. Many of the Bill's proposals were originally planned when the previous Government were in office. Before Labour Members take too much credit and say that this is a wonderful new Labour Bill, they should remember that most of its proposals came forward under the previous Government. If the verdict of the electorate had been different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-08", "file": "debates1998-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "916bfa7797e8aa9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": ".\"—[ Official Report, 11 January 1994; Vol. 235, c. 40.] So far, the Government have done precious little to deal with the problem. As the Minister knows, the record of this Government is that so far they have provided only a miserable six places in secure accommodation. I see the Minister nodding; he knows that that figure is right because it comes from the Government, but if it has been changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-08a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-20", "file": "debates1998-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "da952b4b34454c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.473.8", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "ped—the Jubilee line extension, the new river services and riverside walks, and even a cable car service across the Thames—will be among the most important legacies of the millennium experience. The article in The Times last week was not correct, as I shall set out in a letter to the editor. As part of his Thames 2000 initiative, my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister announced last month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.473.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-20", "file": "debates1998-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "da952b4b34454c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "Ireland, Madam Speaker, I was, under your very proper rule, unable to take part in the exchanges. I take this early opportunity of congratulating the Government on their achievement, the leaders of the political parties in Northern Ireland on their generosity and courage, and the people of Northern Ireland on their resolution. I am delighted that we will be attending to this business on Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.501.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-20", "file": "debates1998-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "da952b4b34454c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Bank of England Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": "ow support the amendment, will not wash either. We did not want an independent Bank of England of the nature that is set up by the Bill but, as we are getting one, we do not see why the Monetary Policy Committee should not better reflect all parts of the UK. This is an amendment for openness. It widens the membership of the Monetary Policy Committee and helps to break up the Oxbridge-London mafia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-20", "file": "debates1998-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "da952b4b34454c53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture (West Dorset)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "e the same in Shropshire as they are in Dorset. Is it not incredibly frustrating for dairy and beef farmers that world demand for their products is increasing in a straight line? Indeed, world demand for dairy products is increasing annually at a rate of 10 to 15 per. cent. Because of the astonishing improvement in the nutritional demands of the huge Chinese population, demand for beef is growing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-20a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.576.4", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "preceding_text": "In addition to periodic meetings of the criminal justice forum, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.585.5", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Why does not the hon. Gentleman understand that, in abandoning plans for honesty in sentencing, and in failing to abolish automatic early release from prison, the Government are displaying not toughness on crime but serial wimpishness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "preceding_text": "oration tax will be especially beneficial to smaller companies. The continuation of the enhanced capital allowances will also benefit small and medium-sized enterprises. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, South, I have met representatives of industry in my constituency. In the past three weeks, I have attended two meetings organised by Dudley chamber of commerce, which is especially active.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "preceding_text": " that issue. I have heard nothing from Conservative Members about the provisions in clauses 47 and 48 for promoting millennium gift aid. Clause 47 deals with gifts which manufacturers might make of machinery to universities in third-world countries, or gifts that members of the legal profession might make of law books to universities in developing countries. Clause 47 will promote such assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "than PEPs and TESSAs because it is more restrictive. Treasury Ministers say that they are targeting the new savings vehicle at the less well-off: they should think harder about how jobs in manufacturing industry could be saved before handing out carrots to people to save money. People are unable to save anything when they have lost their jobs; indeed, they have to draw on their savings to survive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "preceding_text": "re that the hon. Gentleman will listen to the rest of the things that I have to say. I am sure that he will listen with interest to the things that both I and my constituents, the entrepreneurs of whom I have been speaking and who welcome many aspects of the Budget, are saying. That particular aspect—listening—is important. I know that it is something that Labour Members recognise to be important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "preceding_text": "urs of whom I have been speaking and who welcome many aspects of the Budget, are saying. That particular aspect—listening—is important. I know that it is something that Labour Members recognise to be important. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] I am not entirely sure about Conservative Members, but I know that in my constituency, small businesses are saying clearly to me, and I take it clearly to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "preceding_text": "f the Forum of Private Business on the 1997 Budget. Its members were balloted and asked a series of specific questions, and their verdict was that the overall Government handling of the economy and of non-tax issues was positive and that the impact on tax issues was neutral. I further want to bring to the House the comments of the Federation of Small Businesses and its reaction to the 1998 Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Southworth", "preceding_text": "he overall Government handling of the economy and of non-tax issues was positive and that the impact on tax issues was neutral. I further want to bring to the House the comments of the Federation of Small Businesses and its reaction to the 1998 Budget. [Interruption.] The FSB policy unit chairman, Brian Prime, said: The Chancellor has delivered a Budget for both employers, employees and consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fallon", "preceding_text": " faced without warning with a massive increase. All those are measures that we shall have to put right in Committee. Of course, we welcome the U-turn on individual savings accounts, but it is only a partial U-turn. The current annual limit of £10,800 is being reduced to £5,000, which is less than half, and it is still a lifetime limit. The Paymaster General, and we have not seen much of him today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Davey) mentioned insurance premium tax. I remind him that it too was introduced by the previous Government because of identified value shifting, and that that reasoning still applies, especially in the case of cars and televisions—the examples that he took. The higher rate of IPT on certain travel insurance was applied because of specific market conditions that have developed in this sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "European Community (Convergence Criteria)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "To encourage people to save is part of the answer. Botched plans to tamper with personal equity plans and tax-exempt special savings accounts demonstrate the Government's willingness to penalise thrift, and people have got the message—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "European Community (Convergence Criteria)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "people will take money out of the economy in the short term by putting money aside for themselves in the longer term. It is a catastrophe, a strategic economic mistake for which the Government and, more important, the people of this country will pay a high price in the years to come. That will be coupled with the other economic mistake that the Government are making, by introducing a minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.710.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-21", "file": "debates1998-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9ef2ba931c4cef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (ELECTIONS) BILL (PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(2) If at the sitting on 22nd April the House is adjourned, or the sitting is suspended, before the time at which any proceedings are to be brought to a conclusion under paragraph 1, no notice shall be required of a Motion made by a Minister of the Crown for varying or supplementing the provisions of this Order.— [Mr. Robert Ainsworth.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-21a.721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give the House and the people of Wales a categorical assurance that the outcome of the negotiations on the European structural funds will be as good for Wales as that achieved by the previous Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.807.7", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Although it is likely that in Wales they may become a land creature again, there is no possibility that they will end up in Cardigan bay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps, first, the hon. Gentleman could indicate by a nod of his head whether he supported the spending plans of the previous Conservative Government on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The United States has also taken 600 kg of unused highly enriched uranium from Kazakhstan, and Russia has taken 137 kg from Iraq since the Gulf war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.847.8", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Election) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "These are early days and I am trying to be helpful, but if, as I sincerely hope, we get a yes vote on 22 May, will the Secretary of State seriously consider commissioning an international architectural competition for the design of the new assembly building?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.847.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Election) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "ety. They will see them walking the streets and possibly operating in a police force, while they see their own forces demoralised—all for the price of an agreement. After the treaty of Utrecht, the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, said: They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands. That was the case. We forget the euphoria that greeted Neville Chamberlain in 1938.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Election) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " early release. Once they are out of prison, they will return to a life that is depicted on the murals in the H blocks, which say, \"The only good Catholic is a dead Taig.\" We are told that those people, upon their release, will say, \"I'm finished with violence, and I won't join in any more.\" If the House believes that, it will believe anything. Let me say in closing that I am not opposed to peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.915.11", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "No, I want to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.915.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "preceding_text": "d into a position in which preconditions are created post-agreement. If it happened, it is easy to guess who would gain. If the agreement is adopted, Sinn Fein will get its mandate in the election. Its representatives will arrive at the gates of whatever building it will be—hon. Members know where I do not want it to be, although the Minister certainly does—with the cameras of the world upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that there is nothing in the agreement that refers to parties? It refers only to individual Ministers. The undertakings and pledges are personal. As the hon. Member for Derry said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": " ever be peace while the terrorists hold on to their weapons. That is not an option. The terrorists are holding on to their weapons and are using them even now. When they do not want to be seen to be using them, they give them to someone else who pulls the trigger for them. That is the reality of the situation. The hon. Member for Newry and Armagh should not ask people to choose between two evils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "f the other. So there is a minority veto within the assembly. The agreement sets up an all-Ireland body with full executive power and implementing bodies attached to it. They can take decisions and implement them—a process recognised by Sinn Fein-IRA as an advancement towards its goal of a united Ireland. Will Unionists recommend that to the people of Northern Ireland? If that were not bad enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "of nationalists and Unionists is required, the Government need more than 70 per cent. of the electorate to vote in favour of the agreement. I have fought many elections—something like 26—and have a fair idea of the way the political wind blows in Northern Ireland. If anyone believes the opinion polls that are tampered with and doctored by the Northern Ireland Office, they will have a big surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-22", "file": "debates1998-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "a29e536906fc06db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "aid out in the leaked document, which mentioned how the opinion polls were to be made to bolster the Government's position. I speak to people and get their opinions. Outside the leadership of the Ulster Unionist party, I am still looking for the first Unionist who supports the agreement. I have been in the streets and in my advice centres, which I attend much more often than do any Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-22a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.956.6", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "Has the Chancellor read the Bundesbank report to the German Government, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.956.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is unnecessarily generous to Opposition Members. I thought that there were singularly more than two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.963.7", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend on that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.963.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "There are many, many factors that influence the value of the pound. I repeat to the hon. Gentleman, in case he was not listening earlier, that the Government are determined to take whatever action is appropriate in the long-term interests of the economy. We are not prepared to see a recurrence of the boom-and-bust economy, which has been so damaging in the past. We—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.967.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "ate the management of private Members' Bills, especially given the prospect of the wrecking by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) of Bills on energy efficiency, on minicab licensing and on waste minimisation, which are crucial to all of us, especially Londoners? The policies are apparently supported by the Opposition, despite the activities of that rogue parliamentarian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ates to have this sort of to-ing and fro-ing. I understand that Mr. David Hart has to some extent recanted the line that he developed and the hon. Gentleman was advancing. I think that it is somewhat out of date. The reason for Mr. Hart's recantation is that the Israeli air force does not have an international force projection requirement. It is simply the air defence force of the state of Israel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you going to the Labour fund-raising dinner, too?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "s who have flown as passengers in the Hercules will know that even the simple act of going to the loo involved some anxiety, because of the corrosion in that part of the aircraft. I should properly begin with an apology, because, as a result of a prior commitment this evening, I will not be present for the winding-up speeches. I have apologised to the Minister and to the hon. Member for Salisbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-23", "file": "debates1998-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3adcb99c14f085", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "preceding_text": "the men and women of our armed forces will have to spend more time abroad, away from their loved ones. It will put a greater strain on the social security support system within the armed forces. I fully support hon. Members on both sides of the House who have argued how important that is. We all argue on behalf of our constituents. The hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney), who seems to have gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-23a.1021.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-27", "file": "debates1998-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "02437a637e1ee5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-27a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "The issues of transport will be addressed in the forthcoming transport White Paper. As I have said, we have taken action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-27a.18.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-27", "file": "debates1998-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "02437a637e1ee5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-27a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ee them. I shall hasten to be corrected if I am wrong, but I believe that we said in the Budget and in the Red Book—the Red Book figures show this to be the case—that, in the first year, the new scheme would cost the same as the previous scheme, then it would cost plus £30 million, then minus £30 million, giving broadly the same cost in terms of tax relief for the new system as for the old system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-27a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-28", "file": "debates1998-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b3c76ee59447005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.149.9", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dawn Primarolo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Dawn Primarolo)", "preceding_text": "ut exactly why this has happened, as the hon. Gentleman should be given an explanation. Draft regulations are slightly different in that they have no reference number and hon. Members must ask correctly for the specific item. However, the draft regulations are there for scrutiny. If the hon. Gentleman was so desperate, he could have gone to Derby Gate, as the documents are certainly there as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.149.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-28", "file": "debates1998-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b3c76ee59447005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "d Surbiton, I have noticed some problems in the licensing laws. This matter does relate to the clause, Mr. Martin, because it is one alternative to seeking higher increases in duty. In Surbiton, a rash of new pubs has opened. The local authority, magistrates and local police have opposed the granting of the licences. The Government inspector, sitting in Bristol, far away from Surbiton high street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-28", "file": "debates1998-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "1b3c76ee59447005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "d on the subject. The subject is easy enough to discuss in the ivory tower of the House of Commons, but in the pubs and off-licences and on the streets of Britain, it is affecting ordinary working people and their way of life. I recommend that Labour Members leave their economic models and get to grips with the people outside who are attempting to buy the ordinary British pint for an honest price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-28a.160.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Clause 119", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "That was the most bizarre jumble of accusations. I worked in the City for 14 years, and dealt with private investors ranging from the very poorest to the better-off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.360.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.390.5", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "mocrats are rather selective in that Mr. Bermingham: Of course I do. It is sensible, and regard. Yesterday, they voted with us to reduce the duty on fuel. That struck some of us as rather odd, because the Liberal Democrats used to be in favour of higher fuel duties, for environmental reasons. From that we can conclude that they are somewhat opportunistic in their new-found belief in high taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Alistair Darling): It would be tempting to follow the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Mr. Collins) by launching another attack on the Liberal Democrats, but I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": " study—in my opinion, one of the best that has ever been carried out on the family—showed that, within individual socio-economic groups, comparing like with like and income with income, children born of and raised by married couples, whether or not they were adopted or the natural children of those couples, did consistently better across every major index. They were less likely to fall into crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "mply demonstrated is history's best method of keeping parents together for the sake of the children. There is a clear contradiction between two parts of a policy—both of which, ironically, have been announced and brought to the House in the same year. It is perhaps the most extraordinary example of the laws of unintended consequences and attempts at social engineering utterly defeating each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "ts of a policy—both of which, ironically, have been announced and brought to the House in the same year. It is perhaps the most extraordinary example of the laws of unintended consequences and attempts at social engineering utterly defeating each other. [Interruption.] I do not defend, any more than do some of my hon. Friends, the actions of the previous Government towards the end of their tenure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "mum incentive not to look after their children. I cannot believe that Labour Members really want that to happen. I find it extraordinary. If the Government were arguing that that was the way in which they wanted British society to be structured, among other things they would not be where they are in the opinion polls today; but at least the position would be straightforward, and policy would flow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "I, too, oppose clause 27, which we should not forget is a tax-raising clause. I am reminded of what happened during the general election campaign. The right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), now Prime Minister, said on 21 September 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.420.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.428.13", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Chamber of Commerce (Protection of Title) Bill, now standing committed to a Committee of the whole House, be committed to a Standing Committee.— [Mr. Robert Ainsworth.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.428.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-29", "file": "debates1998-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "40639a37d536a9ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Clause 27", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions", "preceding_text": "settlement has already been approved by Parliament. All councils have now set their budgets, and every council tax payer will know the level of his council tax bill for this financial year. The debate allows me to reiterate to hon. Members and to council tax payers in Essex what a good settlement we have been able to provide for the county in the face of the tight spending plans that we inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-29a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.442.5", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister on 12 years of occupancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "h Box today would be entirely shared by Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State. I hope to discuss those matters and others with her when she is in London this Sunday evening. My hon. Friend referred to the referendum result. That massive referendum result seems to be a classic illustration of the maxim that if one writes the question one will get the answer that one wants, and in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Italian deficit this year is set to be 2.5 per cent. There is a legal requirement— (Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman asked about public borrowing and I am answering. In Italy, the deficit is 2.5 per cent. this year. Mr. Prodi, the Italian Prime Minister, has set a legal requirement for it to be 2 per cent. next year. On the debt:GDP ratio, the issue is not simply the level, but the direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman presents himself as some sort of lawyer interpreting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nd to support the Commission's recommendations. Therefore, there will be 11 members of the new currency union. I should remind the House—Conservative Members might like to bear it in mind—that the vote will be taken on a qualified majority basis. The Maastricht treaty, negotiated by the previous Government, did not allow for a veto. I shall deal now with the Government's position on those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "the motion. I hope that she will consider extending the principle underlying the motion to other matters, so that our debates on other important issues will not be truncated within the narrow confines of a 7 o'clock or 10 o'clock motion. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond)—who has now disappeared—came into the Chamber only to make a quick comic point. Perhaps that shows his party's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-04-30", "file": "debates1998-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "f6b664955360cf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "issues will not be truncated within the narrow confines of a 7 o'clock or 10 o'clock motion. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond)—who has now disappeared—came into the Chamber only to make a quick comic point. Perhaps that shows his party's— [Interruption.] The Leader of the House says that that is a good point. She is right to think that it is a good point for the Conservative party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-04-30a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.550.7", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman gives little credit to the electorate if he believes that the principle of democratic accountability is ultimately flawed. We do not believe that; we believe that the people should decide and that if they are dissatisfied with the mayor they should get rid of the mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.550.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " I am not sure whether his appearance means that the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) has disappeared. I shall miss him greatly; I used to enjoy his over-the-topness and the opportunities that that gave us for scoring yet more goals. It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman moves back to this issue; at our previous Question Time his Front-Bench colleagues accused us of hitting London hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "se needs, I tell the right hon. Gentleman—who seems to have been talking an awful lot about private car use—that the previous Administration realised that car use was growing so much that, in 25 years, another 10 million cars will be on the road, requiring us to build 110-lane motorways between London and Leeds. The previous Administration therefore cut the road programme. As for tax on motorists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": " and form of Mr. Duisenberg's tenure as president. Because of the controversy—not least in the European Parliament—it is important to be clear what the precise issue at stake was. Much of the subsequent press reporting has rested on this simple factual inaccuracy: that Mr. Duisenberg intended and wished to serve his full eight years, as opposed to being nominated for that time as under the treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "or Mr. Duisenberg to retire, while others argued that that would not be consistent with the treaty. The protracted discussions were essentially over how to resolve that issue. Mr. Duisenberg's view, backed by ourselves, was that although his intention was clear, there could be no question of there being any formal obligatory end to his term. In the end, it was Mr. Duisenberg's view that prevailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "iew, backed by ourselves, was that although his intention was clear, there could be no question of there being any formal obligatory end to his term. In the end, it was Mr. Duisenberg's view that prevailed. [Interruption.] At our suggestion, he stated his position personally, in his own words, to the Council. He explained that because he would be 67 in 2002, he did not wish to serve the full term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pt economically. The Government believe that the economics must be right. In respect of the right hon. Gentleman's comments about the euro, I think that it will be a strong currency. Those who claim that it will be weak and that the events of the weekend have damaged it are the same people who said that the euro would never happen, that 11 countries would never join and that it would be postponed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have changed their mind already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The problem is that those who adopt the hon. Gentleman's position, which he holds entirely honourably, simply will not accept any facts that get in the way of their arguments. Let me read again what Mr. Duisenberg said in November 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-05", "file": "debates1998-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a6701a4f79ca086a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reason is that he is president of the European Monetary Institute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-05a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Duty-free Sales", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "ebate, I will continue with my speech. Some estimates show that 20,000 jobs are directly at risk. I do not pretend to know whether those figures are valid, but the concern exists. There is therefore a need to examine the matter in detail. I should like to speak briefly on behalf of my own constituency. In Eastleigh, we have the headquarters of one of the best-known distributors of duty-free goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Duty-free Sales", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "de clear that there was no enthusiasm among the Finance Ministers of other member states to reopen the matter. The issue was also discussed, under the British presidency, in the EU Transport Council on 17 March—which is more than happened under the previous Government's stewardship—at the request of the Irish, who pressed the case for a study. Although a number of Transport Ministers supported it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Duty-free Sales", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "lack of action. They are being less than honest about the position that their Government took. There was no consensus at the Transport Ministers' meeting. Indeed, the Netherlands and Denmark opposed the idea of a study. However, the matter is again on the agenda for the Council of Finance Ministers meeting on 19 May. The Government will again offer no objection to the study, but the likelihood is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Water Fluoridation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "preceding_text": "ight in any sensible meaning of the word. Adding fluoride to water in other places thus only takes its constituency up to the natural level elsewhere. When properly examined, this is not a natural rights argument at all. Fluoridation is no different in principle from any other action that the Government take on behalf of the majority which is, in some instances, against the wishes of the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Sierra Leone (Arms Sales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here is the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for what I understood was his welcome for my announcement. As to the letter from Sandline, I speak from memory, but, if I recall rightly, it was 24 April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Sierra Leone (Arms Sales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "embers of the House do anything to prejudice the investigation—and I do not think that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends would be among the first to congratulate me were I to do any such thing. Therefore, no investigation has been carried out; but I have given a commitment that there will be a full and independent investigation afterwards. I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman's other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Independence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "tion in anything resembling the form in which it is proposed is a staging post, a halfway house, or a springboard to something else. Liberal Democrat Members think that it will lead to federalism—I see them nodding, so I am not distorting their position. Scottish National party Members think, as I do, that this is a paving Bill—I see them also nodding—towards the dissolution of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "ngside the nations of the European Union. I happen to disagree with them profoundly, but I compliment them on the way they have made their case. Incidentally, they are going to lose in May next year, certainly in Inverclyde, but if it is any consolation to them, the Conservative candidate will be out of sight, perhaps deservedly so, because of the Conservative record in Scotland. What I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Savidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Savidge", "preceding_text": "The way in which the Tories have argued throughout the debate so far shows that, although they pretend to have accepted the results of the referendum, they manifestly have not. That is why we shall continue driving home the point that English Members decided exclusively and solely Scottish matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Savidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Savidge", "preceding_text": "r. MacGregor) spoke about the dreadful possibility that Scots Members might interfere in English matters. However, I have gained the impression that English Tories interfere in Scottish matters rather more than Scottish Members interfere in English matters. Usually, English Members presume to pontificate about what goes on in Scotland on the basis that their grandfathers once visited Auchterturra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that. It is entirely a matter for the people of England if they want an English Parliament or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": ". When we said that that was anomalous, the Tories said that anomalies did not matter, but as soon as they think that the boot might be on the other foot, anomalies suddenly matter and the position in which Scottish Members may be used to act against the will of the English is unsustainable. In fact, even now that cannot happen, because the majority of English Members agree with what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot have listened to what I said. There are different kinds of nationalism. The \"English out\" Scottish nationalism is roundly condemned by every hon. Member, including Scottish nationalist Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": " not taken seriously in Scotland—or, I suspect, in England either. We are told that new clause I is necessary because Scottish Members of the Westminster Parliament will still have a vote here after devolution. There are a number of possible solutions to the West Lothian question. The most extreme solution, I suppose, would be to cut the numbers of Scottish Members at Westminster to absolute zero.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is this a filibuster?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "arate from the rest of the constitutional revolution being carried out by the Labour Government. It is part of a process that includes reform of the House of Lords, a referendum on the voting system for the Westminster Parliament, regional government across England and other radical changes to local government, and the European convention on human rights being introduced into the laws of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That is a matter of judgment and opinion which we could discuss. That is an unwise offer, but I do not know what the other threats are. The arrival of an elected mayor in London is, at least in prospect, comparatively popular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that I do not want to go into a long digression about the current polls in Scotland. I think that the polls have a lot of shaking down to do in the next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I note the hon. Gentleman's becoming modesty. He clearly hopes that the whole 2 per cent. will be at Lochaber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rushcliffe is Ken Clarke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "Oh, Gainsborough. Sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "e Scots will also control their own domestic activities. In that way, whether it is a federal or quasi-federal system, we shall end up with a fair arrangement that will satisfy everyone. The Conservative new clause will be seen as creating second-class Scottish Members and will cause antagonism in Scotland. We accept that there is concern in some quarters in England, but it is an English question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "nt the Scots. Many Scots are active in my constituency association, but I find it strange that the Scots resent the English. [Intrruption.] I notice that an Englishman who represents a Scottish constituency is laughing, but I know that the Scots resent the English: their attitude is almost racist. The Bill reflects the small-minded, petty, almost racist attitude of Scottish Nationalist supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "The issue has been raised with me in my constituency, both informally and at every single public meeting with which I have been involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "The issue has been raised with me in my constituency, both informally and at every single public meeting with which I have been involved— [Interruption.] Moreover, I have certainly had correspondence on it. One thing that has struck me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-06", "file": "debates1998-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f6096a9c24ed4d58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "y became. The Secretary of State replied, \"In that case, you should not explain it to them. They will be much happier if you leave them in the dark.\" What my right hon. Friend described is the role of a Member of Parliament. That is why we are here. When the Government are legislating, it is our constitutional duty to point out the flaws in their proposals and tell them where they are going wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-06a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-07", "file": "debates1998-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3cb1bdab84ed76e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange as soon as possible for a Minister to report to the House on investigations into serious allegations that the United States Department of Defence at the Pentagon has attempted to hack into a computer of an organisation in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-07", "file": "debates1998-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3cb1bdab84ed76e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "uter of an organisation in my constituency? [Interruption.] Is she aware that the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has been investigating the activities of a number of dolphins, which were trained initially by the former Soviet Union, and more recently by Russia and Ukraine? Forty-three of those dolphins are now in the hands of other nationalities. The Pentagon is clearly interested in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-07", "file": "debates1998-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3cb1bdab84ed76e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits (Initial Expenditure) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "t been supported to our satisfaction. I fear that the £15 million to £20 million of expenditure that is the subject of the paving Bill will do little to alleviate the apparent structural deficiencies in the working families tax credit regime as it was set out in the Budget. Chief among our concerns is the new stigma that will undoubtedly attach to many claimants of the working families tax credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-07", "file": "debates1998-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "3cb1bdab84ed76e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "at clause is likely to deal with policing equipment and best practice in respect of police procedures and responses, which are matters in which operational police officers will have a direct interest. I believe that it is only right that the Government should take their views into account before issuing guidance under the provision. I should like, finally, to deal with Government amendment No. 24—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-07a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-08", "file": "debates1998-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "432553787117b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Hillsborough", "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": " facts. I have also accepted the Select Committee's recommendation that we should implement a system of \"fast-track\" dismissal for use in the most serious cases. In the light of the Hillsborough disaster, I have been particularly concerned to address the serious defect in the present practice, which allows a police officer to retire on medical grounds before disciplinary hearings can be completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-08", "file": "debates1998-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "432553787117b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Hillsborough", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "agement in his attempt to amend the Act, but he will have to fight his corner. Business managers will think that it is a worthy objective, but also that there are more pressing things to do if Labour is to get its second full term in office—which, as far as I can determine, is its avowed and only reason for governing. He will have to press very strongly on the matter, but can count on our support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-08", "file": "debates1998-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "432553787117b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Hillsborough", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "s to face both criminal and disciplinary action on the same facts. The Home Secretary's third and most significant announcement was that police officers should not be allowed to retire on medical grounds before disciplinary hearings were completed. I am sure that hon. Members on both sides the House will agree with him on that point. A doctor's note should not be an escape route for bad behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-08", "file": "debates1998-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "432553787117b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.992.7", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Hillsborough", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " We agree with his comments on those matters. The hon. Member for Colchester also questioned whether all-seater stadiums were a good idea. We have been around the course on that issue many times. As a regular attender of football matches, at what can be described only as palaces of football, such as Highbury and Old Trafford, and at less salubrious establishments in the second and third divisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-08a.992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "Minister knows that, like her, I have been visiting prisons up and down the country. Is she aware that governors have been telling me that up to 40 per cent.—or perhaps more—of the prisoners in their prisons are on drugs, and that most of those drugs are brought in by visitors? Many governors tell me that they do not have the resources to create an adequate barrier against the inflow of the drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should direct any remarks about rhetoric rather than action to the previous Home Secretary. Since the general election, we have tackled the whole youth justice system. We have authorised the refurbishment of six places in one unit within the spending limits allowed by the previous Government, who failed over nine years to produce the number of places that were needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.9.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "That was a very original and splendid point of order. I always expect supplementary questions to relate to the substantive questions, and I certainly expect Ministers to tackle them and to give a proper answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " they must go through the hassle of trying to comply with this very complicated new legislation. The Government seem to take delight in plunging business into uncertainty. Not happy with imposing £25,000 million in extra taxes over the lifetime of the Parliament and not happy with creating boom and bust at the same time—boom for services and bust for manufacturing, with manufacturing in recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "It seems that the right hon. Lady does not understand her proposed legislation. If the Bill is enacted unamended, the sort of pricing behaviour that we are discussing will be illegal, in a way that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tatton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "That might be the case, and that is the great vulnerability of the argument. The hon. Member for Sunderland, South is by no means a sinister individual—he is most gifted, sensible and creative—but he has introduced the sinister concept of motive, which is entirely subjective. The hon. Member for Cheshire, wherever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.68.4", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pendle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ent, fancied himself displacing Churchill as Prime Minister at one point, and shamelessly used his papers as a political organ to advance his ambition. And what happened to Lord Beaverbrook? He has disappeared; his family has disintegrated. One of the few remaining scions is the constant subject of pointless pursuit by an hon. Member who sits over there in glasses and whose name I cannot remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.68.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "cation, not one particular to United Kingdom circumstances. Nevertheless, it is to be introduced to the United Kingdom domestic context. I should be surprised if all that becomes predictable and simple. I want to be brief, to allow other hon. Members to speak, but I must discuss the system of financial penalties, to which no one has referred. Up to 10 per cent. of United Kingdom turnover is cited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "n corporate crime and soft on the causes of corporate crime. That is wrong: anti-competitive conduct is cheating and bullying. Small companies and medium-sized enterprises can be seriously damaged and even driven out of business. No wonder the right hon. Gentleman was described as the worst Minister responsible for competition in living memory. Business supports the Bill. The CBI, Kingfisher, CIA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-11", "file": "debates1998-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "0452fbf8c71b6d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": ". That is wrong: anti-competitive conduct is cheating and bullying. Small companies and medium-sized enterprises can be seriously damaged and even driven out of business. No wonder the right hon. Gentleman was described as the worst Minister responsible for competition in living memory. Business supports the Bill. The CBI, Kingfisher, CIA— [Interruption] the Consumers Association, the Law Society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-11a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "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": "osed in a military coup in 1997. Britain continued to recognise President Kabbah as the legitimate Head of Government of Sierra Leone, and Britain played a leading part at the United Nations in drafting the Security Council resolution calling for the peaceful restoration of constitutional government. The peaceful restoration of President Kabbah remained the sole policy of Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "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": "afting the Security Council resolution calling for the peaceful restoration of constitutional government. The peaceful restoration of President Kabbah remained the sole policy of Her Majesty's Government. [Interruption.] My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister demonstrated our continuing support for President Kabbah by inviting him to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "rogrammes of weapons of mass destruction. We have therefore taken seriously the allegations that there may have been a breach of the arms embargo on Sierra Leone by a British firm. That is why the Foreign Office took the initiative in referring those allegations to Customs and Excise. The Foreign Office is fully and openly co-operating with that investigation. We want the public to know the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " like it when they get the truth—and that is why I have ordered an investigation to commence as soon as Customs and Excise will agree, in order to bring all the facts out into the open. As I said in the House last week, I am constrained as to how much I can say during the customs investigation, but I cannot allow wild allegations to continue to be made against the Foreign Office and its officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman has again recycled the wild allegations I see in the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Saw?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " that we will not do anything to prejudice that investigation. The right hon. and learned Gentleman owes my hon. Friend the Minister of State an apology for recycling that allegation. On the question of knowledge, the right hon. and learned Gentleman has asked me seven different questions in writing about when I knew. I will answer. The first document that I saw about a breach of the arms embargo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " by someone from outside the Foreign Office, the moment we receive the clearance from customs. I also assure my hon. Friend that we are determined that that investigation—which is for us to set up—will be established and carried out quickly, with a full report to the House as soon as possible. That is important to the officials who have been repeatedly maligned in the press over the past few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " which my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) referred. In respect of the request for telegrams, I must say that they are restricted in circulation. I fully understand what prompted my hon. Friend to ask her question, but, if we worked on the principle that telegrams might subsequently be published, we would receive much less information than we do at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "First, it is indeed the case that Sandline, before President Kabbah was deposed in the original coup, was a company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "nd's remarks on the officials of the Foreign Office were noted in the Foreign Office, not to universal approbation. While I entirely understand his point, I have never at any stage while I have been Secretary of State detected resistance to a policy, or any act of conspiracy against it, at any level within the Foreign Office. I think that officials have been treated unfairly over the past weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is seeking to suggest, but I know that he does not have the guts to say it baldly and directly—he comes at it from a tangent. If he repeats outside the House any suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is seeking to suggest, but I know that he does not have the guts to say it baldly and directly—he comes at it from a tangent. If he repeats outside the House any suggestion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Members will be quiet, I will answer. If he repeats outside the House any suggestion that I have improperly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The documents of 6 February were telegrams, and those telegrams would be widely circulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "man. He has been looking forward to this event throughout the past two days. Every radio broadcast today promised that there would be an hour on the rack for me here this afternoon. I must say that this has been quite a pleasant interlude from the work that I have to do at the Foreign Office. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to do it again, I shall be happy to come back and repeat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "exercise that freedom of speech. The hon. Member for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) implied the gravest form of misconduct by the Foreign Secretary. My right hon. Friend responded by saying that, if those accusations had been made outside the House, he would sue. Is there not an obligation on the hon. Member for Reigate to reflect on what he said, and, if he considers that it was inappropriate, to apologise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "come before this House. They will be made public; there is no question of their being confidential unless there are reasons for confidentiality. However, they are informal agreements which will not be legally enforceable, and they will not be subject to the scrutiny of this House or of the Scottish Parliament. I mention the Scottish Parliament because, when I made the point during the last debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, and accepting the right hon. and learned Gentleman's experience in the House, allow me to go through the points he made. I am keen to do so, because he asked a specific question about agreement in both Parliaments. We are talking about functions being handed down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.250.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That might be a matter of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The order would be made in this House by a Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "n the Scottish Parliament to deal with issues that touch on—I use a loose phrase—reserved matters would be a total barrier. He is enabling the Scottish Parliament to pronounce on reserved matters subject to the right of the Secretary of State to intervene if he thinks fit and to other controls. To that extent he is right to say that it is an enabling power. However, he goes further than he should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Member for Devizes moved the amendment so that the House could have a clear view of the extent of the powers that are to be conferred on the Secretary of State. There is a respectable case for clause 33(1)(a), but I question whether 33(1)(b) is quite in that category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-05-12", "file": "debates1998-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "aee30e97f1f6e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Amendment negatived. Amendment proposed: No. 5, in page 16, line 12, leave out '(a) which the Secretary of State' and insert 'which the Secretary of State, having taken legal advice,'.— [Mr. Ancram.] Question put, That the amendment be made: —", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": ". Clause 33 would cause only conflict between Edinburgh and London, and we have to prevent that from happening. Amendment No. 1 was essentially a probing amendment, and I should like to ask leave to withdraw it. However, I should like to press amendment No. 5, which is a useful answer to the specific conundrum with which we have been dealing. I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-12a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flynn", "preceding_text": "is a drug pusher—I have called him that in Parliament before, and I repeat it—because he runs a convenience store that sells cigarettes. It is cigarettes that lead people into cannabis and into heroin. If the hon. Gentleman is serious, he should read what the World Health Organisation said about cannabis—that if cannabis was used as cigarettes were used, it would not be as dangerous as cigarettes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " It is not a new phenomenon. The old catch-phrase, \"Vote early, vote often,\" is a testimony to what took place in past years in some elections. From the time of my earliest forays into politics, I was warned to keep a sharp look-out on election day. I also learned that fraud did not start on polling day; that was the day on which the efforts put in train many months previously bore fruit. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "One might ask who sold the Indonesians the water cannons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "f those who expressed them. The Minister used the phrase \"adopting a pragmatic approach\", for which read \"U-turn\". I assume that that is the new spin doctor's term for a U-turn, and I look forward to the phrase appearing with dismal regularity throughout the rest of today. I had written down the phrase \"a listening Government\", but it seems that that hoary old chestnut has been put out to pasture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.384.9", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ting of the Bill. I see that the new line from Millbank tower is to emphasise the fact that the Government are a listening Government. The Minister never fails to use that soundbite whenever possible. I have to tell him, in the nicest possible way, that if he really believed that and did not simply pay lip service to the concept to keep the Minister without Portfolio happy, he would have listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.384.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "lmsford (Mr. Burns) and numerous other hon. Members. We told him time and again in words of one syllable that he was wrong, but he consistently refused to take our advice. Yes, he has listened—he deserves one or two marks out of 10 for that—but to the Select Committee, not the Standing Committee. He was brought up short by that Committee's swingeing criticisms, to which I shall return in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "vilege of serving on the Standing Committee some time ago. Before being elected, I sat up in the Press Gallery as a journalist, and I can only describe what the Minister has said this evening as a U-turn. We should like more of them in other areas of the Bill; at any rate, the Government are eating a good deal of humble pie tonight, given what they said during that interminable Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak in this debate, but I have been driven to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "This is the first time that anybody has accused me of being charming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "; Further reforms will also ensure that no one pays national insurance for the first £81 of their weekly earnings. All employees earning between £64 and £81 will have their right to benefits protected.\"—[ Official Report, 17 March 1998; Vol. 308, c. 1106.] When I heard the Chancellor say that, I understood—as did members of the press—him to mean that the measure was to be part of a reform package—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": " the Treasury Committee, the Chancellor was specifically asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford about this curious omission. The Chancellor's answer was staggering. He said: I said: 'Future reforms will also ensure that no-one pays National Insurance for the first £81.' The word is 'future'. These are reforms we intend to make. That is what the Chancellor told my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-13", "file": "debates1998-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd1d3ebfab0671e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "No. [Interruption.] We have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-13a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-14", "file": "debates1998-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a92215ac469961c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-14a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Lady was referring to the millennium bug rather than the millennium bomb. That aside, she will know that in the short period in which the Government have been in office we have put in place proposals to spend 17 times more resources than the Government of which she was a member spent in the past 18 years. None the less, the hon. Lady made an important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-14a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Austin Mitchell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Austin Mitchell. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] Mrs. Teresa Gorman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Austin Mitchell. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] Mrs. Teresa Gorman. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"] Mr. Ian Bruce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "ppearance has yet to be made in respect of that error. The Minister of State has still to provide an answer to the question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Westbury (Mr. Faber) last Tuesday: was Sandline International mentioned at his meetings about Sierra Leone on 19 March and 1 April? It is a perfectly straightforward question, and the Minister could and should answer it now. Will he do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Robin Cook)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Robin Cook)", "preceding_text": "l report.' The right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) has not been prompted to choose this topic for debate by a deep compassion for the people of Sierra Leone. He was happy to say nothing in the House about the people of Sierra Leone for nine months, while their elected president was in exile and their local population was being terrorised by a brutal military regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister never referred to the case against Sandline, or the investigation, as hoo-hah.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "able independence of mind. I believe it important that the investigation should assess the procedures of the public service in this matter by the best standards of modern management. I am therefore pleased to inform the House that Sir Robin Ibbs has agreed to assist Sir Thomas Legg as an assessor. As a former director of ICI and chairman of Lloyds TSB, Sir Robin has great experience and authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.650.7", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "lly, the Prime Minister has not endorsed any action—he made this very clear, and the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) should know that—that is in breach of the United Nations arms embargo, which would be deplorable. However, the Prime Minister did say that the Opposition's attempts to use the incident for domestic political purposes were the kind of hoo-hah that we all deplore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.650.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.650.7", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "c political purposes were the kind of hoo-hah that we all deplore. [Interruption.] At the end of the day, the shadow Foreign Secretary knows that. That is why, between May last year and May this year, Opposition Members asked not one question about Sierra Leone. They made not one observation about Sierra Leone, and they made no attempt to raise issues regarding human rights abuses in that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.650.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ted to Edinburgh for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, uniquely for a president in exile. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister appointed John Flynn, and his role is perfectly straightforward. He has not been appointed to conspire on behalf of Sandline. He is to work for the Government in terms of our policy. The hon. Member for Westbury should be careful about the level of innuendo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I want to make a little progress before I take all the jumping up and down on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "vernment would resort to compulsory call-out of the Territorial Army only in the most extreme circumstances. However, that begs the question of what to do if the possibility of such circumstances arising becomes so remote that we do not have to maintain any standing forces against them. After our foreign policy analysis—which we have shared widely, and which is widely shared—that issue has arisen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.677.4", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "y that the Conservative motion was nonsense, and that the suggested 40,000 reduction would not happen in any shape or form. However, one would need to support the Government powerfully to believe that what he said would not lead to that outcome. He did not refute it, and the Liberal Democrats will support the Conservative motion, although with a heavy, not a glad, heart. We had hoped against hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "been involved in the construction of an adventure playground, in river diversion, bridge building, forestry work and woodland tracks. Those have included a track in Llanybydder in west Wales for people with disabilities, bridges over tributaries in the Wye valley and work on the construction of the new monkey house at Dudley zoo—activities that will be maintained and enhanced given the commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I did not refer to this debate as a cheap publicity stunt. I shall stand corrected if I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As ever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to be unhelpful to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was the special adviser to a Secretary of State who cut 35,000 regulars from the British Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-18", "file": "debates1998-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "025dd7fa5346b06f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "We want to raise the Territorial Army's profile and importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-18a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, 510 jobs are being lost in my constituency following Mitsubishi's decision to close its colour television factory at Haddington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.716.6", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, I was a surgeon at the hospital on Skye and I had a most splendid time on the island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.716.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to envisage a situation in which Ministers, whether they be in this Parliament or in the Scottish Parliament, will not require advice and help in formulating policy. That is the role of special advisers. That is certainly what is done by the three special advisers whom I have in my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ceive—perhaps the reason why the public do not value Members of this Parliament highly is that we are inadequately paid, but that is another argument. It is important that Members of the Scottish Parliament do not receive higher salaries than Members of the House of Commons. It is important that the salaries they are paid recognise what I maintain will be a lower work load and less responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.794.5", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "I did not see the hon. Gentleman very much in the campaign. I was told that he was on holiday in America at one stage in the campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "ister or commanding a Scottish National party majority in this place. As he well knows, it is not in the nature of the beast. I tell my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) that, although certainly he can tell the Secretary of State for Scotland what he thinks, through the Whips, I certainly would not—as I await an interview for the Scottish Parliament—dream of doing any such thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "dum in the first or second year of the Scottish Parliament because they know what the result will be. If there were an overwhelming endorsement of Scotland remaining in the United Kingdom, the SNP's case for independence would be put back at least 10 years—and SNP Members know it. They hope that there is not an early referendum; they hope that they do not get a majority in the Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.800.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State as the father of the nation. The Government were the champions of Scottish aspirations, and the sunshine cruise to the smooth election of a Labour First Minister in a Cabinet in the Scottish Parliament was guaranteed to all who bought tickets. However, the voyage has gone badly wrong. The vessel, which was famously billed as the weapon that would kill nationalism stone dead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State referred earlier to certain tensions during a previous debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " to ask my right hon. Friend a serious question. First, however let me say—I wish that the Secretary of State were in the Chamber to hear this—that, in one particular respect, I was wrong and he was definitely right. As I understand it, his first instinct was that although the important clauses should be taken on the Floor of the House, the rest of the Bill should be taken in a Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State demurs, but I think that there was some attempt to prevent a vote on that clause, which was foolish and unworthy. It could be said that the Conservatives should have asked for more than 15 minutes to debate one of their own amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": " resentment outside this Chamber among the English people, who will rise up in rebellion when the true significance of the Bill becomes known. I went outside the Chamber earlier to have something to eat and read the London Evening Standard, which has a wide circulation in this metropolis. Its banner headline is not about historic events inside the Chamber but reads, \"Labour chaplain gropes wives.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "ish people, who will rise up in rebellion when the true significance of the Bill becomes known. I went outside the Chamber earlier to have something to eat and read the London Evening Standard, which has a wide circulation in this metropolis. Its banner headline is not about historic events inside the Chamber but reads, \"Labour chaplain gropes wives.\" [Interruption.] Sorry, it was \"Army chaplain\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllion", "preceding_text": "for the first time in 300 years, but for the first time ever. The last Scottish Parliament was anything but democratic, which is why it no longer exists. If it had been democratic, it would still be with us and all this would have been unnecessary. Also, the Parliament will be elected by proportional representation and the Labour party ought to be congratulated by the minority parties in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "One of the principal weaknesses of the Bill was illustrated this evening when the Minister of State, in answer to an earlier debate, complained that, after 55 weeks—that was his timetable, not mine—we were still discussing this constitutional circus. It is extraordinary that, as the Bill leaves the House, we are still ignorant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Osborne", "preceding_text": "ive discussion will take place in the Scottish Parliament. The staying power to maintain the momentum for genuine consultation is crucial, and the Scottish people will not thank us if we do not make sure that there is a genuinely different approach in the Scottish Parliament. People outwith the chattering classes in Scotland want something different, which reflects Scottish values and aspirations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "uestions. With the icing on the cake of an additional member system, which can deliver the Conservatives some MSPs, I should have thought that they might at least have accepted and acknowledged those things, but, sadly, we had none of it. The right hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) may snigger, but, in most countries, serious constitutional change has the support of every party in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-19", "file": "debates1998-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f60e1e4538b3635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "people's Parliament, instead of a narrow self-interested policy of using the Parliament merely to cause a constitutional circus week in, week out, ensuring that we do not tackle the real issues that the Scottish Parliament faces. We hear views about elections, but the interesting thing about Scottish politics is that Labour wins when we have an election, and some parties do well between elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-19a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "Do not the horrific levels of unemployment in the European Union of more than 15 million in each of the past six years—it is now 10 per cent. compared with 4.6 per cent. in America and 3.6 per cent. in Japan—show that the EU and its policies are not a recipe for job creation? As every previous currency experiment in the world has ended up in disaster and more unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is correct that waiting lists are going up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ing on the ability of British and European companies to trade with countries against which the USA imposes sanctions. It was a successful meeting. Of course, we would have liked to go further, but consent for that simply was not there. On growth and job creation, I simply point out that unemployment is significantly down since the Government came to office. People cannot have it both ways on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend has, with his usual perspicacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "hat is true. Lord Williams of Mostyn made that point in the other place on behalf of the Government. With great respect, I tell the Under-Secretary that, from my experience—regardless of whether we sign protocol 6; even if we do not sign it—if at some time in the future the House votes for restoration of the death penalty, the United Kingdom will be expected to withdraw from the Council of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ol 6; even if we do not sign it—if at some time in the future the House votes for restoration of the death penalty, the United Kingdom will be expected to withdraw from the Council of Europe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes. My colleagues from the delegation will agree that, internationally, feeling on the issue is so strong that we would risk being suspended from membership of the Council of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I was about to give the right hon. Lady an absolutely affirmative answer, and it would have been easy to do so, but she spoiled her question by talking about private and public functions, and any functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "profess any expertise in the law relating to the Church of Scotland, but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is here. He is a Scots lawyer, and I defer to him on this, as I do on almost everything. If the hon. and learned Gentleman will wait, he will have all explained by my right hon. Friend. The purpose of new clause 9, which stands in my name and—just mine, as it turns out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "vening, and because, despite all our probings, the Government will not define a public authority. It is unusual for Governments to bring forward legislation, particularly legislation of major significance, and leave undefined one of its central issues. The Home Secretary accused me of issuing a truism. I plead guilty. The right hon. Gentleman is a lawyer and I am not. I am just a humble scientist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "That is clearly the Government's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "\"particular regard\" is no doubt stronger, but it still means that that regard can be overturned by the judge. No doubt it would help the court to have its attention drawn to the importance of the right to freedom of religion. I do not deny that the Home Secretary's amendment would ensure that judges had to pay attention to the right to religious freedom, but it would be an easy matter for a judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " have not been realised in the past. The jurisprudence to date, both domestic and in Strasbourg, indicates the extreme reluctance of the civil courts to become involved in any matters of religious worship, government, discipline or doctrine. It is my firm belief that that will continue. The measure is not based on whim: it is based on 45 years of experience in both jurisdictions. I do not believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-20", "file": "debates1998-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1bf53f38e403bb8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Church Bells", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "e rung with precision and without risk of physical injury or damage, either to bell ringers or to the tower in which they hang. Why, then, should English Heritage be allowed to adopt policies which, in all but a few cases, compromise those essential precepts? Bells and bell frames are not historical artefacts to be treated like museum pieces. Is it not self-evident that bells are meant to be rung?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-20a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "preceding_text": "rriage. She is currently £4.50 a week worse off in work than she would be if she were on benefit. As a result of the Budget proposals, and especially the working families tax credit, she would be £21.75 a week better off in work than on benefit. She certainly values the Government's measures to help people such as her who are trying to improve the lives of their families through their own efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has a cheek to blame membership of the exchange rate membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are pursuing the policy that is right for Britain. The policy that is right for Britain is a stable and competitive exchange rate over the medium term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "hcliffe (Mr. Clarke)—is getting rather excitable. Many people in different organisations make a variety of statements. Indeed, some Conservative Members have referred to other Conservative Members as dinosaurs who are out of date. The key element relating to fiscal policy is the principle in the treaty of co-ordination among national Governments, not the transfer of responsibilities to the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Fairness at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "entation approach which has pervaded for so many years? While I agree with the President that most claims for union recognition and collective representation are settled amicably—we should be pleased about that—does she agree that when recourse to law is required, that law must first establish a procedure that is not rigged or cumbersome, which, in itself, could only exacerbate a dispute? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Fairness at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No. It would be possible for such a ballot to be conducted on the basis of a ballot at the place of work, if that is what is sought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Fairness at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "it is in his interests to get as many employees as possible to vote. Similarly, it is in the interests of the trade union to get as many employees as possible to vote if it wishes for recognition. That seems to be the right balance. We are encouraging a genuine and as large as possible turnout of people expressing their view and that, after all, is the issue on which the legislation will be based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1133.6", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ch abattoirs. Depending on the outcome of the statutory consultation, which I am obliged to undertake, with interested organisations on our proposals to amend SRM rules, it should be possible for exports of whole ewe carcases—by which I mean ewe carcases from which the head has been removed—to resume this summer. I know that that will be welcome news to sheep farmers throughout the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1133.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ril, the European Commission's inspectors visited Northern Ireland. Earlier this week, they informed the Standing Veterinary Committee that they were largely content with the arrangements that they had seen were in place in Northern Ireland. I understand that the Commission intends next Wednesday, 27 May, to adopt a decision that would allow exports of beef from the Province to resume from 1 June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1140.2", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "plus down the drain because, if he had, the Environment Agency would have chased him. We must get rid of quotas as soon as possible. I recently spent a weekend in Buttermere, which is probably one of the world's most beautiful places. It is in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours), as is Borrowdale. I first visited the area 30 years ago as a schoolboy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "riticism that is not quite as overly wired-in and sycophantic as the remarks of the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew). It is very good that those remarks will appear in Hansard, because, if the hon. Member is seeking higher things in the Labour party, it will do him good to have that confirmation coming from occasional partners on certain constitutional issues on the Liberal Democrat Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " to have that confirmation coming from occasional partners on certain constitutional issues on the Liberal Democrat Benches. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I think that that is an open secret; I do not think that there is much doubt about that. The speech of the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) was disappointing; in a way, the Government got rather an easy ride from the so-called official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "preceding_text": "Absolutely, and the answer is simple: it was the Tory party that saddled the Government with the spending plans by which we had to abide. We agreed at the election that we would abide by those plans, so the fault lies fairly and squarely with the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": " cumulative impact was a bridge too far for the county. Is my hon. Friend aware that because of the Tory Government's deregulation of buses, 86 per cent. of parishes in rural Shropshire have no daily service? Fortunately, the Government are providing £700,000 for Shropshire's transport system to be improved, but, until we can reconnect people to employment, to schools, to health care, to training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-05-21", "file": "debates1998-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "57d237e67e3d4ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "preceding_text": "By and large, the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) made an excellent speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-05-21a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.3.8", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Mr. Chris Smith)", "preceding_text": "The Government have no plans to return the Parthenon sculptures to Athens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.3.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has considerable experience in the criminal field— professionally, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ishonesty. The White Paper was predictably and drearily called \"The People's Lottery\". The Government seem to forget that the people are not dim and notice political dishonesty. We are witnessing such political dishonesty. The people will see that items that they expect to be funded from taxation are to be funded by the lottery. They will regard the Government as dishonest and cease to trust them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ts the idea in principle, merely postponing it for a few years. Secondly, the amendments demonstrate the Opposition's failure to recognise that we are not harming the existing good causes. They are receiving the £9 billion that everyone expected them to receive when the lottery started. Perhaps it is rather odd to say in this place that there comes a point when we ought to try to trust each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Damien Hirst.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "gence to his role in opposition. He is committed to listening to and speaking up for people whose lives are affected by the Secretary of State's Department. I have considerable respect for the Secretary of State. It is a pity, therefore, that he has been crunched so early by pressure from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. On the back of his finely decorated book, there is a picture by Damian Green—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "National Lottery Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the Bill and the measure to which I have referred, which the Secretary of State appears not to affirm, is a wholesale attack on the existing good causes and represents a major extension of the Government's control over the national lottery and those who are likely to benefit from it. For the last time, I shall refer to the Secretary of State's book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.133.4", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-01", "file": "debates1998-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "90d9a56c7e1ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.134.8", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. It has given me great pleasure to have the honour to pilot the Bill through the House of Commons. As I have said all along, the Bill is a long-overdue measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-01a.134.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "To set the record straight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about women?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Only by working across Government and through partnership at local level can we begin, first, to achieve improvements in the health of older men—that is, men over 40—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Public Health (Ms Tessa Jowell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Public Health (Ms Tessa Jowell)", "preceding_text": "Staffordshire and West Sussex. These pilots reflect a range of existing practice. They also reflect a range of areas. The lessons learned will be used to inform the development of a national healthy school award. It is our intention that every school should become a healthy school. Deprivation exists in both rural and urban areas, and is the prime cause of inequality in the health of our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with the Conservatives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ome centred on voluntary organisations—and that is all as it should be. This is the most vital issue to affect any democracy—as far as that goes, I do not demur from what the right hon. Member for Devizes said. The Jenkins commission was established in fulfilment of a manifesto commitment. There is, first, the issue of membership. We held discussions with the Liberal Democrats and among ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "om this Government. They have, I suspect, a taste for the closed list system which allows the party—we know what a small number of people that means in the present Labour party—to foist almost anyone on the public by offering a \"take it or leave it\" party ticket. Decisions in the Labour party national executive committee make it evident that that is the way it is going. Even the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "As is generally—although not quite always—the case, my hon. Friend is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am replying to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "No, I stick to what I said before, and the hon. Member for West Worcestershire (Sir M. Spicer) is ahead of the right hon. Gentleman in the queue. It is time to call an end to that political mindset, which we have had for too long. That is why I welcome the establishment of the Jenkins commission. We can seek, and find, a fairer system in which every vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "itish people, but I wager that it will not consider in broad terms what actions are necessary. Over the next five years, it will examine what it needs to do to win just enough votes in just enough seats to get back on these Benches and claim a monopoly on power for another five years. Within the House, parties may exercise such power well or badly, but the British people expect more from politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Electoral System", "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": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) on assuming his new responsibilities. I think this is his first time at the Dispatch Box in his new role, and I wish him well; he has made a good start. This has been a very good speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Electoral System", "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": " issues involved, and were well and thoughtfully delivered. They were in the best traditions of the House. The House has demonstrated an amazing knowledge of the ins and outs of politics in New Zealand—in fact, almost every hon. Member commented about the situation in that country. I am almost tempted to abandon my long-held dislike of long-haul flights and travel to New Zealand to see for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. George Howarth)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. George Howarth)", "preceding_text": "uropean Parliament. The members of those organisations perform very different functions, and it is only right that the different systems used to elect them should recognise that fact. Yet the Opposition seem to believe that all Members should be elected in the same way, using the first-past-the-post system on almost every occasion for any election, regardless of the function of the body concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I shall give the right hon. Gentleman a direct answer: none. However, the people of Blackburn have an enormous influence on my right hon. Friend, and he tells me that he is regularly asked about it by his constituents. There we have it: the people of Blackburn speak, and my right hon. Friend acts. That is yet another example of the importance of the constituency link.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ave become unpopular before the last election, he is respected in the House. It is a different matter for him to argue with any conviction that the Government of which he was Prime Minister was stable, however. They did not enjoy enormous popular support while he was Prime Minister. Former Chancellor Norman Lamont once declared that, although they were in power, they did not seem to be in control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-02", "file": "debates1998-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "0828d19f8cfdf3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "is a different matter for him to argue with any conviction that the Government of which he was Prime Minister was stable, however. They did not enjoy enormous popular support while he was Prime Minister. Former Chancellor Norman Lamont once declared that, although they were in power, they did not seem to be in control. [Interruption.] The previous Government had problems under first past the post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-02a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "preceding_text": "iend, in Scotland, may have read the earlier editions, which were always riddled with literals. There is a good argument for the use of \"referendums\", which is that, in Latin, the word \"referendum\" is simply a heading for a list to be referred. \"Est referendum\" means simply that something is to be referred. If there were two items, the heading would be \"Sunt referenda\", but if there were only one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "preceding_text": "is not they do not bother. That does not invalidate the result. There are two further arguments about the New Zealand and London referendums. I do not recognise the description by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst about the New Zealand \"preferendum\". There were two referendums on the voting system. In the first, the people of New Zealand clearly indicated that they wanted a change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "preceding_text": "rely. It was clearly the expressed view of the New Zealand people that that system should be used. The fact that Winston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand First party, allowed himself to be elected as an opponent of the National party only to announce three weeks later that he would support that party, is a function not of the voting system but of the fact that Winston Peters changed his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "Constitutionally in this country, decisions have been made by Members elected to the House of Commons. The public have never questioned the integrity of the decisions made in the House by a majority of the governing party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "e the debate had been going well—to money. I say to the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon that the Liberal Democrats are playing a tired old record. Time and again, we hear fantasy figures conjured out of thin air. The facts are straightforward: the Government have allocated an extra £2,000 million to the national health service on top of the allocations planned by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.359.5", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hutton", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend confirm that, in the past 12 months, the Government have given the go-ahead for the construction of 30 new hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.359.7", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "you, Madam Speaker. Those hospitals amount to the biggest programme of modernisation and renewal in the history of the national health service. Will my right hon. Friend also confirm that the construction of those new hospitals is not only an excellent way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the national health service, but provides further evidence that Labour Governments are always good news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.359.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "equent to that, a series of further meetings have taken place. In addition, Mr. Rugova is now in Washington and has met President Clinton; there will be an attempt to have further dialogue between him and Mr. Milosevic. I want to make it very clear that we are watching the situation in Kosovo extremely carefully. We believe that we cannot afford to have an extension of violence and disorder there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.360.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I will answer. Westminster was in 1988—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.363.5", "colnum": "363", "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/1998-06-03a.363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Channel Tunnel Rail Link", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who will pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": " that we are asked to provide in 2010. All the parties have contributed to that improvement: LCR, Railtrack, the consortium and the Government. Recognising the unique features of the project and our commitment to strengthen international rail transport links, we have agreed that the Government's credit will stand behind £3.7 billion of bonds issued by LCR privately in the City to fund the project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend expresses the contrary viewpoint, with which I was about to deal. If our judges are allowed to be pioneers in the matter, they will not half improve that sphere of jurisprudence across Europe, especially as it operates for United Kingdom citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "With great respect, we are; we are abolishing the concept of doli incapax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "With great respect, we are; we are abolishing the concept of doli incapax— [Interruption.] I hope that we are overturning Khan, but I will not go any further into that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "is Government were described as \"unusually tyrannical\" in the other place by Lord Simon of Glaisdale—not a man given to hyperbole. My right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) was right to pull me up. We purport to represent the people in this place—I do not know what the Government think they are doing. They seem to pay precious little attention to what the people care about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ess that were specifically necessary to determine the case in question, yet the kinds of cases where the issues are likely to arise will almost inevitably be complex and involve different issues, each of which will have to be resolved by the court. Under this amendment, it is highly unlikely that a declaration of incompatibility would ever be made. That may be the real intention of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-03", "file": "debates1998-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "2d5c56792bd4e0e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "f pleasure. In contrast to what was said about me, it was said about my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Radice): He is not likely to be made a member of the Government but I think he is worth targeting because of his level of knowledge and because he is still listened to by those in senior positions. That is picking and choosing in the Labour party, but it is part of public relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-03a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.494.9", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Animal Feed (Antibiotics)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "The Government moved swiftly last month on the Agriculture Committee's recommendations of 22 April. However, we are very close to witnessing some kind of biological Armageddon—and that is not overstating the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.494.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Today is the 50th anniversary of the occasion when the Conservative party voted against bringing the national health service into existence—but let me turn to a different subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.513.5", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You said a few moments ago, in a sedentary intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.513.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registration of Political Parties Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " Bill to introduce regulations on funding of political parties, as I said last October. At the request of Lord Neill of Bladen, the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, those provisions have not been included in the Bill. His committee is in the middle of an inquiry on the wider funding of political parties, so I agreed with him that it would be wrong to pre-empt its conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.521.7", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registration of Political Parties Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " that sort of passing off. That was the case in respect of the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Sir N. Lyell) and of my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon). The right hon. and learned Gentleman was faced with a candidate who had adopted the name \"Sir Nicholas Lyell\" and, in the same vein, my hon. Friend was faced with a candidate calling herself \"Alice Mahon\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.521.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "ts well. That is precisely why the report—which may appear to be rather peripheral—about the conduct of debate is extremely important. If we cannot debate issues in a way that develops a result—a continuum, a conclusion and, often, a consensus—we are not a debating chamber but a forum for a slanging match: a cockpit in which people throw alternative views at one another. On the timing of speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "y that hon. Members who came in at the last election had entirely different views and wanted the whole place redone and everything changed, and that there were some hon. Members who were an overlap. I have been called many things in my time, but that was the first time I have been called an overlap. Of course, overlaps were of no importance. This little overlap thinks that this place is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "he beef on the bone order late at night recently. Even if we assume that one hour was available for Back Benchers—although there was less time than that—it would have been fairer for 10 people to have had six minutes rather than six people having 10 minutes. We should let as many people as possible express their views. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) rightly referred to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I begin with a reassurance for the House: although there is more than an hour of the debate left, I do not propose to take anything like as long as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover an even better offer than he had already received this evening. My hon. Friend has been offered the top hat and an opportunity to be made a member of the Privy Council, but when the hon. Gentleman pointed out that, after 28 years on the Back Benches, he had got on to the Front Bench, I thought that he was going to offer my hon. Friend a place on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-04", "file": "debates1998-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "a7323b1dfee33b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) as that bit of extra time was available this evening. At a rally some six weeks ago, the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. McWalter) and I stood shoulder to shoulder on this issue, in support of the points that my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden has made. My right hon. Friend has been fighting tigerishly to defend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-04a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-05", "file": "debates1998-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "75b62284c2e9d5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-05a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "t get him out of that. I turn to a subject on which I agree with the Secretary of State. In this instance, I accept that the right hon. Gentleman and I are singing from the same hymn sheet. The right hon. Gentleman sent his congratulations on the successful first day and best wishes for continuing progress for the England team in the test match. Earlier in the debate there was news from the front—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-05a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-05", "file": "debates1998-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "75b62284c2e9d5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-05a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "000. The Government must therefore recognise that sporting bodies, as well as hon. Members on both sides of the House interested in sport, want much more progress made more quickly. I know that the Secretary of State and the Minister want to attract major sporting events to this country. The Secretary of State referred to the team of Bobby Charlton and Tony Banks getting the world cup for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-05a.675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Millennium Compliance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What did the Conservatives do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "r making that statement. It is most welcome for a Cabinet Minister to come to the House to explain the truthful position about a worrying problem. However, the content of the statement was extremely worrying. It shows the Government at last becoming concerned about the consequences of their own delays and dithering. They are beginning to see the danger of copying the style of Ethelred the Unready—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Millennium Compliance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "danger of copying the style of Ethelred the Unready—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"What did the Conservatives do?\"] We left matters in good order; then this Government wasted more than six months before they realised that they had to get on with the job. The Chancellor now tells us that some Departments are leaving it very late. He says that some do not know how to tackle embedded systems and telecommunications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Millennium Compliance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Sherry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Still on the subject of Scotland, does the Minister think that on Hogmanay 1999, any of us will be in a fit state to do anything, let alone cope with the millennium bug? Is there not some merit in the case put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and Sherry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I am sure that, as a Scottish Member, the hon. Gentleman would not want an English Minister to decide those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "eems a modest amount to pay, to address that anomaly and assist the students enrolled in those courses, many of which are vital to the future of our economy. This is one anomaly, but there are many others. We are concentrating on the single anomaly in this amendment and we deal with other anomalies in later amendments. I commend to the House our proposal, which would solve the problem in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorrie", "preceding_text": "We are setting out a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From Labour Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "No, we must move on to serious matters. I have heard the word \"anomaly\" used repeatedly tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "We were careful not to anticipate the Dearing report. The Government are in such a muddle partly because they thought that the deal they were putting together would also be proposed by Dearing. They were caught out by the fact that Dearing did not recommend abolishing the maintenance grant and not introducing tuition fees. We have no desire for the widespread use of top-up fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.805.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I will. I hope that you will not defend Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Welsh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should look at our policy for an independent Scotland. We have fully costed such policies, but our problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "Several comments can be made about that. First, we have already heard this evening how, at one time, one in 14 people went on to university, whereas we now have a much better ratio of one in three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "earnings of £17,000 a year, they will pay back only £12 a week—4 per cent. of their income. I have felt able most strongly to recommend that extremely good investment to sixth-form students in my constituency, when I have spoken to them on the subject over the past six months or so. The comments were well received, and many local students were persuaded—quite rightly—of the Government's arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "There are three principal differences between the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Miss Johnson) and me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "vative party did not assume that those were not problems that needed to be faced or challenges that needed to be met. It reflects badly on the Labour party now that it is in government that it does not accept the advice of that independent committee. Finally, as I do not want to fall into the trap of being quite as long-winded as the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield: I meant that kindly, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "do not need to repeat all the difficulties; we already know about the fiasco involving gap-year students, about the problem of Scottish universities, and about the confusion of students doing courses for four, five, six or even more years. We also know that means-tested tuition fees are socially regressive. It is very surprising to find a Labour Government introducing a socially regressive policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lawyers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "n a supermarket; but someone doing that at £120 a week would end up with £18,000 after three years. That is the investment that students make in their education. The Liberal Democrat spokesman was right to say that education benefits everybody. When I go to see my doctor from Chesterfield, I benefit from her education. Everybody in the House has benefited from the education of doctors and lawyers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Mr. Rammell), who encapsulated the lessons that I learnt the hard way by representing students and the real politics that faced us when we gained office and read the Dearing report. Those who advocate swallowing all of Dearing forget that that report suggested that every student, regardless of his or her socio-economic background, should pay a flat tuition fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-08", "file": "debates1998-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6931798a15f32274", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "New clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "I thank the House for this opportunity to talk about playing fields—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-08a.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the line put forward by the hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) is also being peddled by the applicants, who have taken up 30 per cent. of the public inquiry's time? Another 6 per cent. of its time has been taken up by British Airways, and individual objectors—the small men and women—have had only 41 per cent. of the inquiry's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "slightly different direction from that taken by other Labour Members, so it is understandable that he is sometimes less than entirely open about his ultimate objectives. The movement away from some of the LEA powers that have caused so much damage to many schools throughout the country has been whole-heartedly welcomed in many schools and by many teachers. The Minister should take heart from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "d it was perhaps those that the Secretary of State had in mind when he referred to the need to \"build a consensus\". That might have to begin with the 31 Labour Members who did not appear to be a part of the consensus on the subject last night—it is no wonder that they were not, as they were invited to support measures that clearly contradict undertakings given before the general election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "aving no plans to introduce tuition fees and then promptly introduced a measure that imposed such fees without clearly being in breach of an election promise, I will be happy to hear from them. The Secretary of State could not carry 31 of his colleagues through the Lobby last night, because what they were invited to vote on was not the prospectus that was put before the electorate at the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ored in much of the debate, but it is a significant move forward from the mortgage-style repayment loans that existed under the previous Government's regime. Had the Bill stopped there, we would have congratulated the Secretary of State, marched into the Lobby with the Government and my hon. Friend the Member for Bath would have opened a bottle of champagne after Third Reading. Sadly, he will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-09", "file": "debates1998-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "c106c9b814780366", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "t he puts such questions to me. The answer is simple: we did introduce a decommissioning scheme. We spent £53 million on a decommissioning scheme. I do not blame the hon. Gentleman for not knowing that: he should not have been left alone by the Minister to deal with these questions. There it is: he has my sympathy, although it may not be enough on this occasion. In July 1996, we tabled a protocol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-09a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "there are difficult freeholders. The hon. Member for Poplar and Canning Town talked about leaseholders and social housing. The Minister will know the Broomleigh housing association well because I understand that he was its adviser when it bought Bromley council's housing. I follow in the footsteps of my predecessor, Piers Merchant, who was very active in trying to solve the leaseholders' problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I question that judgment, although we are talking about water under the bridge and I do not intend to dwell on the subject. Our role as an Opposition is to scrutinise Government policy, but one of the glories of being in opposition is that we can start with a clean sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1065.5", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "preceding_text": "I quote from the PAC report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1065.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Casale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Casale", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend's interest in tennis, I am sure that we shall soon be seeing him in the Labour-held constituency of Wimbledon for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club championships there. While he is there, will he take the time to visit Wimbledon Park first school in my constituency where, thanks to the Government's new deal for schools, all the children are already wired up to computers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrie Quinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrie Quinn", "preceding_text": " who have visited me in my constituency surgeries over the past year have been from the hard-pressed agriculture community. Does the Prime Minister agree, on hearing the remarks of Ben Gill, who is also a North Yorkshire farmer, that today's success in Brussels on the recommendation to lift the ban on British beef is due to the patient diplomacy of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "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 shall keep each of the pledges that we made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "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 shall keep each of the pledges that we made. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] After years of rising waiting lists and rising class sizes under the Conservatives, we shall get them down. We are taking measures to ensure that we squeeze inflation out of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I did not, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "never thought that within my time in Parliament we would get as far as the Belfast agreement takes us. We in Scotland got a superb result in our referendum and a similarly dramatic result was achieved in the Northern Ireland referendum. Now, Northern Ireland is to hold elections to an assembly, although I happen to think that they are being held too early and that a period of reflection is needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "ed, this is not a pick-and-mix package. One cannot pull out the sweeties and throw away the liquorice. We must take tough decisions now if we are to have peace in Northern Ireland. It is important to remember the strength of the yes vote: 71 per cent. in agreement; and, significantly, 75 per cent. of women in Northern Ireland voting for peace and an end to the boys with toys and the men with guns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "Not just at the moment. I want to talk about the release of prisoners, which is related to decommissioning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1150.4", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": " significant support by the undertakings, promises and pledges offered by the Prime Minister during the referendum campaign. I recognise that 71 per cent. of those who voted in the referendum voted in favour of the agreement, but I do not accept the contention that that represents a majority of both our communities. It is clear that a majority of the Unionist community voted against the agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-10", "file": "debates1998-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "27c31a3eff415727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "No. What the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-10a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0.06\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Many more might have voted Labour if they had known that there would be a reduction of 0.7 per cent. in just one year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "preceding_text": "nvestment—to secure the highest levels of investment in Britain's future, so ensuring the best public services? It is not to demand private ownership as a matter of dogma when it does not serve the public interest, and it is not to maintain state ownership when private and public partnership is the best way in which to advance the public interest. It is obvious to the Deputy Prime Minister and me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "preceding_text": "y the Government, and 51 per cent. by private investors, including employees. We will hold consultations on the details of the implementation of the proposals. The realisation of assets will enable us to invest more in our transport infrastructure, as will our proposals for greater commercial freedom for financially sound regional airports such as Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds-Bradford and Norwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "nnouncement is expected to 'focus ministers minds' in the final stage of spending negotiations, says a government member. We know where that came from—not from the Red Lion, but from the horse's mouth. The statement effectively announces the failure of the Chancellor's comprehensive spending review. It was designed to save money, but it has saved nothing. We support the reduction in national debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " made when those issues were debated in the past, and we shall do our best in the coming days to reconcile those remarks with his fulsomely enthusiastic remarks of today. No doubt such a reconciliation can be achieved; we are charitable folk and we shall do our best to seek one, and to give him the support that he deserves for his programme of public sector reform. It is just a pity that whenever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ready seen the taxes—the equivalent of 5p added to the basic rate of income tax in only 13 short months. Today, goaded by broken promises on waiting lists and class sizes, he has gone soft on spending. No one should doubt that today's statement amounts to a fundamental reversal of the Government's economic policy. It is not surprising that press stories over recent days have veered widely between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Economic and Fiscal Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Cardiff European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "sent for the Committee stage of the Bill dealing with the ratification of the Maastricht treaty, and for our debates on the Amsterdam treaty. I remember speaking at midnight, and being berated by nine or 10 hon. Members who harangued me with intervention after intervention. Where are they today? I am waiting for them, but they are not here. The fact is that the debate has changed. It has moved on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-11", "file": "debates1998-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c37b9650351aa13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Cardiff European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is moving ahead of me. I shall turn to that issue. There will be a discussion over lunch involving the Heads of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-11a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. In the time available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "aldson), would limit the benefits under the legislation to those who were charged before 10 April 1998 with offences before that date. It is an established principle that changes such as those proposed in the Bill should relate to the point at which the offence occurred rather than the point at which an offender was caught or the point at which he was convicted. That principle is enshrined in law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ht to build on that assurance to secure a majority within Unionism for the agreement. The Prime Minister succeeded, but only by making a pledge which the Government now seems intent on fudging. The headline was: Irish sentences. This pledge on decommissioning cannot be dodged or fudged. Hon. Members should not just take my word for it; they should take the word of The Times in its editorial today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": " makes copper-bottomed the Prime Minister's pledge. I hope that, in responding to the debate, the Secretary of State or the Minister of State will accept the amendment. This is a matter of trust, which goes to the heart of government. People voted on the basis of the Prime Minister's pledges and assurances. They were encouraged to do so by me and my colleagues because we believed those assurances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "re are other aspects to decommissioning that must be borne in mind. The IRA argument is that it was never militarily defeated, and that to give up its arms would be a sign of defeat. We know that it was never militarily defeated; we only wish it had been. That would have avoided so many of the terrible crimes committed over the past quarter century. The IRA has, however, been politically defeated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "e that would justify proceeding with the Good Friday agreement, why will the Secretary of State not include the amendment in the legislation on the same ground—that it would give some reassurance to the Unionist people of Northern Ireland that she is sincere? The Bill gives the Secretary of State a discretionary power to review the list \"from time to time\", but how she will review it is very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nit-pick?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "nd talked while other hon. Members absented themselves from those talks—were the people who made the agreement, and it was they who decided, at the end of the day, that they wanted those principles to be enacted. The agreement is an act of faith, and the people of Northern Ireland will not forgive hon. Members if they decide to nit-pick over its bones instead of dealing with some of its substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "ill, as we have said they would be, and to describe the position otherwise is to misrepresent it —as the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) and the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) tried to do. The Prime Minister said very clearly that he would put his words into the Bill, and we have done that. It is outrageous to suggest that the Prime Minister has done otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-15", "file": "debates1998-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "06d3cf1ed4426a31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean). They tried to portray the Prime Minister as having been less than honest, and to say that he had deceived people. They should look at his speeches, at what is in the Bill, and at the commitment that he has put into getting the process to where it is. This is an attempt to make political capital out of the situation rather than change it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-15a.103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Legal Aid (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "rdinarily live nor pay taxation in the United Kingdom. That seems a reasonable proposition. In preparing this Bill, I naturally inquired about how many people might be covered by legal aid in the category which forms its essence. I was sorry, and somewhat surprised, to discover that there are no collated statistics on people who do not live or pay tax in the UK, but nevertheless receive legal aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear about the Secretary of State's U-turn in accepting the PFI, but in the month that the election was declared—in March last year—Labour said, \"We have no plans to close hospitals.\" Labour deceived the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the exact situation that she describes applies in Dorset? We have a massive bed-blocking problem, which has got much worse over the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ernment, our spending rose 74 per cent. The Labour Government's capital investment fell; ours rose, by 66 per cent. Under us, pay for doctors and dentists went up 34.5 per cent.; under them, it went down 31 per cent. Under us, nurses' pay went up 67 per cent.; under them, it went down 3 per cent. Our lists of people waiting more than a year went down by 92 per cent.; theirs went up by 26 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ctice or checking on standards of performance. We are putting that machinery in place, with the overt support of the professions. Like them, we are determined that there will be no more Bristols, no more Kent and Canterbury cervical screening scandals, and no more Devon and Exeter breast screening scandals. We are going to put in place machinery to set standards, and then ensure that they are met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ing lists on a Tory motion, so it would be unfair not to say a word about the motion, or about the Tory record, despite the fact that, as the Tories are not in power and the Labour party is, what the Government do is more relevant at the moment. My job as the spokesman for an Opposition party is to hold to account the Government, rather than Her Majesty's official—more official than us—Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ere waiting for more than a year for operations—there were 200,000 of them in September 1987. Thirdly, under the Tories, a record number of people had been waiting for more than two years for operations—almost 50,000 of them. The Tory record is therefore difficult to defend, despite the fact that, at the end, although there were many more people waiting, there were fewer people waiting for longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "All right; the Tory party can say that waiting lists are too high and should come down, but that the money that the Labour party is putting in is far too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I agree. We always said that before the election. The Minister of State was shadowing the health portfolio for Labour before the election, and he and his hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley will both know that we said then that Labour could not pledge to keep to Tory spending totals and still expect to save the NHS. Those pledges were incompatible, and have been proved to be incompatible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "or Labour before the election, and he and his hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley will both know that we said then that Labour could not pledge to keep to Tory spending totals and still expect to save the NHS. Those pledges were incompatible, and have been proved to be incompatible. [Interruption.] There is not a punter out there who does not know that. Saving the NHS needs more public money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "If that had been a less predictable question, it might have caught me unawares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": " initiatives since the inception of the national health service. By reducing health inequalities, waiting lists will be reduced. If people are not ill, they do not need hospital beds. The Green Paper is out for consultation now and will be a major step forward in breaking down barriers between health and social services. I compliment my right hon. Friend on his honesty about care in the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.184.7", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I have told the hon. Lady, and I shall not tell her again: I shall not give way, because we restricted on time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "I have made myself clear. What did the Secretary of State mean by \"early\"? He chooses to talk to his Minister in an attempt to ignore me. What was \"early\" about his pledge? The Government promised that they would bring down waiting lists as a first step, but it is becoming a bit of a last step. What does the Minister mean by \"early\"? Early in the morning, just as the sun is setting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.185.11", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "No, I am running out of time. We shall examine the figures on 1 January 1999 to see whether the Government's delayed fulfilment of this pledge will begin to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.185.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "He would say, \"This is rubbish.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Squire", "preceding_text": "op approach to local services. I recently had the pleasure of opening the local services office in High Valleyfield in my constituency; the council had directed money there to provide such a local service. Fife council and other councils should be applauded for the action that they have taken on so many matters—such as providing education, especially pre-school education, and on domestic violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And in Westminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ur rose. They were told by no less a figure than the Prime Minister in various utterances, and in the manifesto, that the Labour Government would be committed to open government, cleaning up politics and improving local government. Those claims were repeated and repeated. If those claims were real, they should clearly apply in every part of the kingdom—in Scotland and in Scottish local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.11", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "st a few weeks before the local elections we had an announcement from the Secretary of State for Education and Employment giving Derbyshire just over £1 million—the county rather than the city, which received a similar amount—yet we are discussing an order which would require the county council to reduce its expenditure by £1 million. That will cost £320,000 in rebilling. That money could be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.11", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": " require the county council to reduce its expenditure by £1 million. That will cost £320,000 in rebilling. That money could be used— [Interruption.] The Minister says from a sedentary position that I have said that five times. I might say it six or seven times, because we regard the £320,000 as a gross waste of public money resulting from a decision made by the Government. The simple fact is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.263.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": " a proposal which will give £2.87 to 66 per cent. of households in his constituency. I have respect for the hon. Gentleman, but if he supports the Government he will be agreeing with them that the original budget set by the county council was excessive, because that is where council tax capping comes into being. That is what we are discussing—the Government's decision that the budget is excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "ng comes into being. That is what we are discussing—the Government's decision that the budget is excessive. [Interruption.] The Minister says from a sedentary position that I am over my time. I am conscious of the time, but I have been interrupted a number of times and eight of the first 15 minutes of her speech did not relate to Derbyshire. We should have had a statement, rather than some of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " has clearly never read any of them. He showed us how he got into such trouble as Secretary of State. I hate to tell him this, but he got his facts wrong. The previous Administration capped eight authorities at less than £1 million—two of them were capped at £0.5 million. The hon. Member for West Derbyshire exhibited the mentality that we have seen among the pathetic hooligans in France this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-16", "file": "debates1998-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e9de551e694ee3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " as Secretary of State. I hate to tell him this, but he got his facts wrong. The previous Administration capped eight authorities at less than £1 million—two of them were capped at £0.5 million. The hon. Member for West Derbyshire exhibited the mentality that we have seen among the pathetic hooligans in France this week. [Interruption.] Being macho is all, and Conservative Members are at it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-16a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "ood at being infantrymen and paramilitary policemen as they were at driving tanks. I am delighted to say that, on our recent visit to Germany, we found the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ecstatic about their new Challenger 2s—the Rolls-Royce of world tanks. I just hope that Vickers does not do the same for Challenger 2 as it did for Rolls-Royce. The tank is superb. A disastrous decision has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with what the Prime Minister said about the need for intelligence, although when he talked about the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "hancellor has done exactly that? Has he read the report in the Financial Times, which says that the Chancellor has, indeed, done exactly that? The report in the Financial Times concedes the case, because one of the right hon. Gentleman's Ministers has apparently said, \"Yes, we've got it right, and this proves that we need to get it—we've got it wrong, and this proves that we need to get it right.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We shall make our conclusions on the Low Pay Commission known when it is right to announce them. The continued Conservative opposition to a minimum wage shows how totally wedded they are to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "1, c. 711.] I also quoted the speech of the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), who said: When sensitive matters such as prisoner release on licence are discussed—for which, as the Government has made clear, there is no general amnesty—the independent Commission, and the Secretary of State, are bound to have regard as to whether decommissioning has taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "European Council (Cardiff)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "pse of the EU's new transatlantic marketplace initiative, which would have taken us a long way towards creating a transatlantic free trade area, with all the benefits to businesses and jobs that that would have brought? As for the failure to conclude a trade deal with South Africa—a deal that was supposed to be the highlight of the Cardiff Council—does the Prime Minister agree with Glenys Kinnock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "European Council (Cardiff)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would quote the Daily Express if knew what was in it. If it is on my side in this matter, that is very helpful. Whatever it is, I will pray that in aid as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.373.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It may help the House if I respond first to the speech by the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler). It is a matter of great regret that the newspaper chain of which he is the non-executive chairman does not have a newspaper in Blackburn. It would be welcome, and I would enjoy its competition with the world's finest newspaper, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, I do not think that the amendments would assist in that way. They are clear, but they are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "ter he had been released as a terrorist organisation under clause 3(8); but for a prisoner to be recalled he must be, or be likely to become, a supporter of a terrorist organisation at the time of recall. The fact that a prisoner supported such an organisation in the past is not a ground to recall him as that would be contrary to human rights law for the simple reason that a case has to be proven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with those circumstances, because that is an important element—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-17", "file": "debates1998-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f315075a9dcb4858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had a good run at his argument. If he lets me expand mine, we can move on and deal with the points on which he is dissatisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-17a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "National Minimum Wage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ikes and the inflation of the 1960s, they give us a mods and rockers Government. The mods, led by the Prime Minister, believe that you can do it all with soundbites. It is as effective as putting go-faster stripes on a scooter. The rockers, led by the Chancellor, spend their time trying to break up the manifesto promises. For this statement is an act of betrayal by the Government. In the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "National Minimum Wage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "can do it all with soundbites. It is as effective as putting go-faster stripes on a scooter. The rockers, led by the Chancellor, spend their time trying to break up the manifesto promises. For this statement is an act of betrayal by the Government. In the election— [Interruption.] Labour Members ought to listen to this, because they know that it is true. In the election campaign, Labour psromised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "National Minimum Wage", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "such a wage would apply to 16 and 17-year-olds. In any event, the Low Pay Commission spent a great deal of time studying those matters and it firmly believes that 16 and 17-year-olds should be exempt, as should people on formal apprenticeships. It is interesting that the right hon. Gentleman apparently disagrees, and we shall certainly bear that in mind when he talks about the impact on inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "National Minimum Wage", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of questions. He asked initially about linking the development rate only with accredited training. I am afraid that I could not tell from his phrasing of the question whether he was for or against it. However, that is certainly the view of the commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "National Minimum Wage", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Anybody who tried to answer that question would be treading in very dangerous waters indeed. Of course I understand my hon. Friend's concern and her disappointment, but I am sure that she recognises the need to introduce the minimum wage at a level that will minimise the impact on employment and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with my hon. Friend. It is true that the agreement was couched in somewhat ambivalent language—and that was intentional. The only provision on prisoners is to be found in paragraph 2 on page 25 of the agreement. There, there is linkage between a ceasefire and the release of prisoners, but there is no linkage between the release of prisoners and decommissioning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "t set out in clause 7 when they are considering the release of life prisoners transferred to Northern Ireland from Great Britain. In such circumstances, the commissioners must have regard to any direction of the Parole Board for the release of a discretionary life prisoner, any other information that the Secretary of State submits, such as information about the tariff of a mandatory life prisoner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The general buzz of conversation is making it difficult to hear the Minister. I would be grateful if hon. Members would listen to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. They call themselves Unionist paramilitary groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-18", "file": "debates1998-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f1097b2820b1710f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Sentences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "I have been asked that before. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman looks at the voting records—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-18a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-19", "file": "debates1998-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce48356bd128eebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "No, I certainly do not. Someone from that industry told me this week how much he welcomed the favourable economic climate that has been generated by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor and the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-19", "file": "debates1998-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce48356bd128eebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Committee's report, and I am grateful to the Committee for producing it in time for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-19", "file": "debates1998-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce48356bd128eebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "mployment is much higher than it is in the United Kingdom; it is much higher in France, too; in Spain, it is astronomically higher than in the United Kingdom. We have one of the lowest levels—if not the lowest level—of unemployment in the European Union, but, sadly, some of the measures that I have criticised—and have emanated from Europe—will reverse that trend. I was about to conclude by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-19", "file": "debates1998-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce48356bd128eebc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I would not wish to declare it, for fear that the market might collapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-19a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "the sort proposed was appropriate and would go to court to seek the order. The right hon. Gentleman accepted that, in some cases, the police would not wish to apply for an order: because of the nature of the intelligence that they had received, they would not think it appropriate to bring that intelligence before the court. Other than convictions, in almost every case involving football hooligans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but the film footage of the scenes of violence in Marseilles involving England supporters clearly showed that drink had played a part in those incidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.733.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are not supposed to read speeches in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been a Member of Parliament for quite a long time and he knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ge of young men or women should be subject to the full rigours of the law. It is not easy to talk about homosexuality. The most regrettable aspect of life today is that all forms of sex have been commercially exploited to such an extent that they represent a growing cancer in society. Many of those seeking to protect homosexuals are also, in my view, trying to go further and promote homosexuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "th a genetic predisposition to homosexuality—I am not medically knowledgeable enough to pass comment. I am convinced, however, that many people are not born homosexual—it is for them that we must have a special regard. Would anyone seriously suggest that every sailor who followed a homosexual way of life was born homosexual? One thinks of the old description of the Navy, Rum, sodomy and the lash\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "e the intention of new clause 1. It is extremely important to protect young people. It is incredible that some people argue that young boys have to be protected whereas young girls do not. That is nonsense: it does not make sense. Young girls have to learn how to cope with predatory men. Perhaps it is frivolous of me to say this, but it is not only young girls who have to cope with predatory men-—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "st address this evening. We do not protect young boys or girls by turning them into criminals. If we are to consider this matter properly, we must distinguish between what is legal or illegal under the law and what is encouraged and discouraged by society. Nothing that is proposed in new clause 1 in any way encourages physical sexual activity among young people before they are sufficiently mature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": " by society. Nothing that is proposed in new clause 1 in any way encourages physical sexual activity among young people before they are sufficiently mature. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) is disagreeing with me from a sedentary position. Nothing in the new clause encourages young people to become involved in sexual activity before they are sufficiently mature to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "I can assure all hon. Members that I live in neither a strange nor a sheltered world: I spend my days in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "preceding_text": "e the dominating influence on a person's life: it defines homosexuals in a way that heterosexuality does not. I am not condemning that choice; I believe that it should be tolerated. I do not, however, believe the two choices to be the same. It is also clear that there is a much greater strand of homosexuality than of heterosexuality which depends for its gratification on the exploitation of youth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-22", "file": "debates1998-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f28fc5d0f9a84f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": " to say that the wording of the amendments is not correct, but that can be considered at greater leisure in another place. The amendments deal with a far narrower issue than will the review the Minister says he wants to set up. It is not beyond the powers of their Lordships to judge whether they give effect to what the hon. Member for Bassetlaw and those who support him want. Let the Lords decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-22a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Donald Dewar)", "preceding_text": "May I first apologise for the absence of the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Western Isles (Mr. Macdonald), who would normally have answered this question? He has been dispatched—very willingly —to France to represent the Government at the Morocco game. I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in congratulating Craig Brown and the team on their achievements so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.826.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.831.9", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hurry up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "If he will make a statement about the current level of non-housing debt in the North Lanarkshire local authority. [45576]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.831.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": " job quickly enough. When he became shadow Home Secretary, the present Prime Minister chose to campaign strongly on the issue, criticising both the number of places being provided and the length of time it was taking to provide them. Labour's submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee report on juvenile offending, called \"Getting a Grip on Youth Crime\", made a particular point on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": ", and others ask the squeegee merchant to stop providing the service, both of which actions may lead to trouble. Regrettably, there have been reports of attacks on drivers. Only yesterday, I heard that a driver at traffic lights on Vauxhall bridge asked a squeegee merchant to stop cleaning his windscreen, but as he wound down his window to convey that message, he got a bucket of water in his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.921.7", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "I rise to respond at a gloomy moment in the fixture between Scotland and Morocco—my pager reliably informs me that, after 18 minutes, we were one-nil down. However, we are an aspirational country, so I await with interest a further message on my pager—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-23", "file": "debates1998-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "8ff67184f451f71e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "irely correct to scrutinise, for example, the anti-social behaviour orders. I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh), who was a member of the Committee. Someone who scrutinises a measure to discover whether it will work does not have to be against it in principle. I think that the Prime Minister's point on that was completely barmy, and, on reflection, so will he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-23a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Crime (London)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Karen Buck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "f our streets and housing estates is tackled with vigour. The conditions in some housing estates are appalling, as door entry systems are left broken and play equipment left damaged and covered in graffiti, which creates an atmosphere in which people feel that nothing they can do matters. Finally, I hope that we can tackle one particular problem, which is that of prostitutes' cards in phone boxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Vitamin B6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "fficer of the all-party alternative and complementary medicine group for the past 10 years. Secondly, I have long taken an interest specifically in diet and allergies, and went round a clinic for the first time in 1981. Thirdly, I practise what I preach—I take vitamin B6 supplements and other supplements. I was advised to take 100 mg of B6, which I think has helped me in my work and also to sleep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Vitamin B6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " B6 in total—over 20, 30 and 40 years. Unfortunately, the statistics go back only to 1993. The matter cannot be researched further back without —what is the phrase?—incurring unnecessary costs. However, the answers that I received show that no one—not a single person, despite the publicity—has died from vitamin B6. I wonder how many people have died of caffeine poisoning or of having too much tea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Vitamin B6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " which to rectify the problems that are caused in an increasingly polluted environment. It is a way in which to overcome those problems. I cannot imagine how the Government could be so foolish as to miss that trick. I do not think that the Minister is foolish, and I hope that he will not miss the trick later on. If he comes into line with public opinion and now science, he will be richly rewarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Vitamin B6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "an increasingly polluted environment. It is a way in which to overcome those problems. I cannot imagine how the Government could be so foolish as to miss that trick. I do not think that the Minister is foolish, and I hope that he will not miss the trick later on. If he comes into line with public opinion and now science, he will be richly rewarded— [Interruption.] I must have said something wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1036.6", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "recognise that the celebration of the diversity of cultures, languages, religious groups, ethnicities and nations in the UK makes a positive contribution to the life and economy of these islands and is not a sinister move? Will the right hon. Gentleman seize this moment to act, and to advise his colleagues in the Cabinet that his Celtic cousins in Cornwall would very much appreciate collaboration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1036.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "This is not only a pledge on which we were elected but a pledge on which we intend to deliver. We intend to deliver class sizes of under 30 for five, six and seven-year-olds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the concern among businesses and individuals about today's 7.5 per cent. interest rates and the 4.2 per cent. retail price index figure? However, does he recall that 10 years ago, under the Conservative party, we had exactly the same level of interest rates, exactly the same RPI level and twice as many unemployed people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1043.4", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "d exactly the same level of interest rates, exactly the same RPI level and twice as many unemployed people? [Interruption.] Will he assure me and the people of Britain that he will not repeat the stop-go policies that the Conservatives instituted which, within one year of the date that I am talking about, had doubled interest rates, increased inflation and still had unemployment higher than today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think I go along with that. There is a job there as an official spokesman. There are two absurd policies on the euro. One is to say, as does the Conservative party, that we are against it and will never join it no matter what the economic circumstances are. The second is the position of the Liberal Democrats, which is to say that we must join irrespective of the economic circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The reason for this is perfectly simple. It would be wrong to have a situation in which English students came to Scotland and got the full benefit of the Scottish provisions. In respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Sale of Alcohol to Young Persons (Prohibition)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages to a person under the age of 18 by any person on licensed premises; and for connected purposes. There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill rds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "e citizen has such a right. There is inequality of access to Strasbourg. The problem will be made worse if the British courts create a jurisprudence defined by their understanding of the margin of appreciation which differs from the understanding handed down by Strasbourg, and there will be nothing that the public authority or the Government can do. Eventually, a series of conflicts will build up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill rds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In an earlier speech, the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) spoke of the risks of hyperbole. Those risks were well evidenced in his most recent remarks. It is very unconvincing for Opposition Members to work themselves into a lather over Henry VIII clauses unless that lather is preceded by an admission of guilt—a mea culpa—for introducing such clauses into legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-24", "file": "debates1998-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "477e8763553c6445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill rds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"North Hykeham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " and a remedial order would be right for such a case. I hope that the hon. and learned Member for Harborough will acknowledge our good faith. I have listened with great care to the arguments. I am sorry that the right hon. and learned Gentleman who used to sit for Grantham and now has an unmemorable and lengthy constituency—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Sleaford and North Hykeham.\"] Sleaford and South Hykeham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-24a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1156.4", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ryan", "preceding_text": "I welcome my right hon. Friend's Budget measures on national insurance contributions. Will he outline how he expects them to help my 2,500 constituents in Enfield, North who are, by any definition, low paid, and the 2,375 adults who are registered as unemployed? That is some 5,000 people in my constituency alone who seek assistance from our Government and who got none from the previous one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is possible for a single parent going to work to earn decent wages, and a return from her work that will enable her to bring up her family. That is an important development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1160.6", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I should like to tell my hon. Friend that many people from Bedford and Kempston have told me that they support the Government's commitment to the flexible and speedy implementation of the heavily indebted poor countries initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1170.7", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will no doubt recall that he supported the previous Government, who imposed 22 tax rises in complete contradiction to everything that they had said at the election. I remind him of two central facts. Measured in whichever way one likes, taxes are lower in Britain than in continental Europe. Corporation tax in the United Kingdom is 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1170.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Energy Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "of Trade for that statement. We learn that the Government have laboured for a whole year to bring forward an energy policy. Today, they have brought forward a few more soundbites and another round of consultation. We were promised an elephant of a policy, and we have been offered a mouse. Over the past year, they have given us hot air. Today, it is more soothing oil than solid coal or cleaner gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is this?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "As the person who invoked this procedure, Madam Speaker, I hope you will allow me just for the record to say that I was asked at the press conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Line to take.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": " is hiding behind Sir Thomas Legg's inquiry, will she ask the Prime Minister to reply to my written question, which I tabled more than six weeks ago, asking whether he would extend the scope and terms of reference of the inquiry to include intelligence reports sent to No. 10 Downing street and copies of telegrams sent from Sierra Leone to the Foreign Office, which were copied to 10 Downing street?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Swinney", "preceding_text": "he demands of the Treasury and is neither discriminatory, economically inept, morally repugnant or spiritually bereft. I have to thank the Liberal Democrats for rapidly accelerating the time scale for today's debates. The Government Whips Office told our Whips Office that the Minister for Welfare Reform would reply to this debate, but, because of the accelerated time scale, he has not yet arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "e of welfare provision, particularly for pensioners; and high quality health, education and other welfare services. Cut through the language, and that means that the poor will be justified only by work, and private provision will be at the heart of welfare provision. The Government give the sense that their social obligation to the weakest in our society is not as great as it has been in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "hout the second half of last year and early this year, there were the problems with the disability living allowance. Recipients of that allowance were petrified and confused by the rumours and counter-rumours, the briefings and counter-briefings, about what was to happen. Would it be means-tested; would it be taxed? Then the benefit integrity project gave rise to even greater concern and hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I wish to make a short speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1232.9", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "There are also two large computer centres at Blackpool and Newcastle. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1232.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " into research and theoretical arguments about what is or is not poverty: we want action. The social exclusion unit met for the first time on Monday, and it is considering all the data. I waited with great anticipation to hear the hon. Member for North Tayside (Mr. Swinney), who introduced the debate. He is generally considered to be one of the more thinking members of the Scottish National party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-25", "file": "debates1998-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "f983e0c4da77a59c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "not poverty: we want action. The social exclusion unit met for the first time on Monday, and it is considering all the data. I waited with great anticipation to hear the hon. Member for North Tayside (Mr. Swinney), who introduced the debate. He is generally considered to be one of the more thinking members of the Scottish National party. [Interruption.] That does not say much for the rest of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-25a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say that support for the new deal has been absolutely massive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.13.9", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure that the hon. Gentleman has finally crossed his t's and dotted his i's in terms of the sponsorship that he claims but, be that as it may, I want to be helpful about the dome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.13.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I said that it was the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament; I read the whole thing out verbatim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.20.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.20.9", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "In fact, the first may be on his feet already. The interventions will come from pre-programmed Labour Back Benchers, who will parrot out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.20.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ay in which the Prime Minister says the first thing that comes into his mind at the Dispatch Box, whether it is true or not, but what does the Chief Secretary think he meant by those words? Which of those words is in any way ambiguous? Is it \"we\"? Is it \"have\"? Is it \"no\"? Is it \"plans\"? Is it \"increase\"? Is it \"taxation\"? How can the Government claim that that was somehow a non-operative promise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "risen, taxes have risen and unemployment has begun to rise. At the same time, the balance of payments has fallen, manufacturing output has fallen, investment growth has fallen, productivity has fallen and savings have fallen. The Government claim that they have cut welfare spending, but every welfare reform that they have introduced has cost more, not less, and will bring more people into welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.24.6", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ws growth of private investment falling in each of the years ahead. Before the general election, investment-led growth was one of Labour's mantras, but investment and growth are both slowing down; it is all coming apart. That is not surprising, when one remembers what the Government have done to taxes. They said that they would not put them up at all—no ifs, buts or caveats—but they forgot to add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.24.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ngth, which is terrific, but he must not draw improper conclusions from them and certainly must not misrepresent them. The fact that the private provision and the mutual provision—the self-provision—of many of those services was harmed by the introduction of the welfare state in the first half of this century is incontrovertible. If he can provide evidence that that is not the case, let him do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "lation, which has resulted from the operational independence of the central Bank. If we secure lower levels of public borrowing, it means that when shocks to growth do occur—continued steady growth cannot be guaranteed—there is greater flexibility for fiscal policy and less risk of destabilising policy adjustments. We welcome the changes—not surprisingly, as most of them were in our own manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I must take absolute issue with the right hon. Gentleman on education. Our commitment on education is several times what the Government have so far pledged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "tions today are not here, so it is a little hypocritical to start criticising others for their absence. This idea of a golden legacy is a wonderful piece of revisionism—the rewriting of history. Some golden legacy it was: interest rates at 15 per cent., inflation at 10 per cent., public sector borrowing and national debt costing, because they doubled in six years, £25 billion in interest payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman lists in the Register of Members' Interests a shareholding in Sainsbury and, although he might no longer do so, the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude), has declared a directorship in Asda. I should be interested to know what were the pay awards to the directors of those companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "It would be interesting to discover whether the award was within the inflation target or above it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " these matters—are ashamed of the previous Government's record. We have only to look at their performance: whole economy investment fell by 16 per cent. from its 1989 peak to its 1993 trough; business investment fell by 20 per cent. from 1989 to 1993; manufacturing investment fell by 27.7 per cent.; labour force survey unemployment rose by almost 1 million, but they laughed at rising unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "I thought that we were not supposed to look back. The last Labour Government was 18 years ago, and we are now setting right the errors of the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "I thought that we were not supposed to look back. The last Labour Government was 18 years ago, and we are now setting right the errors of the Conservative Government. [Interruption.] As Conservative Members want me to talk about the Labour Government's performance, I am happy to do so. Gross domestic product growth in the first quarter of 1998—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": ". Yes, it was—and thank goodness, because, where I come from, before there was a national health service, young and old people died. Day in, day out, we lived with the consequences of the objections that the Conservative party has to public funding of the health service. In 1998, the Government are proud of the national health service, and our policies are designed to ensure that we will maintain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.71.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "No; I will not. In the debate, there were a number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for giving way—I mean the shadow Minister. Does he accept that local authorities have not been very co-operative, especially Conservative-controlled Cambridgeshire which was allocated an extra £9.5 million by the Government to spend on education but failed to do so? Indeed, £1.6 million of it was allocated to other services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.89.4", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the hon. Lady did not specifically refer to the dates of our exchanges in Committee. Off hand, I cannot remember them. However, I think that they would have pre-dated the Budget statement of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Therefore, I would have been unable to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.89.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "es in basic tests. In the canton of Zurich, we were able to see the educational benefits that small classes could bring, as classes there were almost always of 20 or 22—they were certainly never more than 25. The Liberal Democrats have long recognised those benefits, which is why we have long advocated a reduction in class sizes. Indeed, the House may be interested to know that I was born in 1947—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-29", "file": "debates1998-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "8decca2bb089a537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ings (Mr. Hayes) pointed out, Labour Members are the ones who have had an attack of amnesia. The hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard) made a valiant attempt to protect his Front-Bench team—I sincerely hope that the duty Whip took due notice of his contribution—on the timetable of the pledge, by saying that there was absolutely no prospect ever that it would be met in the Government's early days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-29a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "I shall add some brief comments to those of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ble and non-deductible items, to determine its tax bill—and it is still only seven months into the current accounting period. The company must then pay its first quarter amount based on a quarter of the bill. The problem facing the retail sector is that much of the activity that determines its profits will not have occurred in month seven—or indeed in months eight or nine—of the accounting period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "vative Members return with boring regularity. All we have had—it is a pity that the quality of debate among Conservative Members has sunk to this—is a rehash in general and in detail of everything that was said in Committee on the Floor of the House and upstairs. We have had no new ideas from them whatever, other than a grudging final acceptance of the correctness of our approach to these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Love", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to convergence in Europe. I attended a conference yesterday organised by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, at which a speaker made European comparisons. First, unlike what Opposition Members are saying, the UK is not at the top—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": " rhetoric. Referring to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State told the Evening Standard : I think he really does care. The idea that he is uninterested in the arts is very wide of the mark. The proof of that statement lies in the Bill's clauses and in whether the hon. Lady will accept the amendments. The magazine Country Life recently said: Hidden in the Finance Bill, a Disaster for Heritage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-06-30", "file": "debates1998-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "882b589f5b30b4f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "hipbuilding on the Clyde. As a young economist, and with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, I spent probably two to three years dealing with the problems being experienced on the Clyde as a consequence of the rundown of shipbuilding and with the problems of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. I therefore approach the issue with some sympathy, but I am not able to accept the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-06-30a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No; and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would have read out that question irrespective of the answer that I gave him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. I stand corrected. Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.379.8", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member cannot speak again except by leave of the House. Is it the will of the House that the hon. Member speaks again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.379.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "nly one example of their mean-minded measures and regressive taxation, the Government have ended the arrangement whereby those working overseas do not have to pay United Kingdom tax if they are abroad for 365 days. That will hit, not the tax avoiders and big earners, but the ordinary workers—nurses, engineers, aid workers—who cannot time their absences so that they can become non-UK tax residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": " In Committee, they came up with some spurious excuse for the fact that it had taken them 18 years to get the tax down to the level that they managed; but the point is that they did not reduce it to our level. They missed the opportunity, which is their problem. The guaranteed income provided by working families tax credit is particularly important. It should be put in the proper economic context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "ir spokespersons on education and on health say that not enough money is spent and there should be expenditure increases. Their Treasury spokesmen say that we should reduce expenditure, but they have produced initiatives that would cost £6 billion or £7 billion. They cannot say where the money would come from for that, which merely shows the economic incompetence that they displayed over 18 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "rs in respect of most workers, who earn up to £440 a week. That is encouraging job creation. The Tories never encouraged job creation; they used to decimate employment. The current structure of national insurance contributions means that they bear particularly heavily on the low-paid, and we are trying to help them. Our policy is about getting people into work and making sure that they stay in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "rents welcome the Government's initiative and the extra resources that we are providing. Important points can be made about the new deal. We are giving help to employers, and introducing special measures for people over 50 and for partners of new dealers. All that is crucial to improving our economic development and economic growth. Child benefits are another crucial part of our economic strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "ruption.] They are about helping families. Children will gain an average £250 a year from the Budget. In 20 per cent. of the poorest households, children will gain an average £500 a year. Child benefits increases and equivalent increases in income support and other benefits will help all families with children who do not already receive a high rate of benefit. Poverty affects large families worst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "e point clear to the Opposition. They do not like to hear good news coming from Labour. They want to go on living in their own little world, away from reality. They are worried about their seats; in that case, they should support us. Child benefit is important to millions of families in the United Kingdom. The Conservatives are saying that those families are not interested in having another £2.50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "industrial economy. The Government's mantra is that this will bring about economic stability. I suppose that an industrial desert could be described as stability, but is there no recognition among Labour Members of the importance of manufacturing, of the competitive position and of the seriousness of the announcements that are made daily about job after job in every area and sector of the economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "Gentleman exactly why. There is more than a suspicion among Opposition Members that Labour Members are anxious not to move on to the next debate on student loans. I make no comment about House of Commons tactics, because I have used them myself, but the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not assist him in delaying an embarrassing debate on student finance which many Labour Members do not want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.416.5", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "If I may, I should like to finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross Cranston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross Cranston", "preceding_text": "mbers raised a great deal of dust about the transitional problems that might arise due to the changes, but the taper relief system will encourage long-term investment holdings. The system works by reducing the proportion of capital gain that is liable to tax according to how long the asset is held. Different tapers will apply to business and non-business assets. Members of the official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranston", "preceding_text": "neral said in Committee, the Bill contains no more regulation-making provisions than were in the last two Finance Bills under the Conservative Government. Such provisions are a typical feature of legislation—that may be unfortunate, and it may be more desirable if everything were provided for in primary legislation, but, as Conservative Members have reminded us, the Bill already runs to 450 pages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "That must be the longest preamble to giving way that I have ever heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "Running the country. The hon. Gentleman made a number of points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "Running the country. The hon. Gentleman made a number of points— [Interruption.] I wish my hon. Friends would stop making me laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " complete Third Reading. I contend that one reason for the exodus from the Chamber this evening is the fact that the scale of revulsion in the country at the economic policies that the Conservatives pursued in opposition is beginning to dawn on them. The last time I saw the Opposition Benches so empty, Conservative Members were off looking for another leader. Perhaps that is what is happening now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "are not prepared to pursue anti-avoidance measures. Like many of their proposals, the proposal of which the hon. Gentleman spoke tonight would have cost the country a good deal of money—more than £400 million. It is a case of spend, spend, spend—and at no point are we given any indication of how the Liberal Democrats would put the economy on to the stable basis that is required for long-term good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "ncial Secretary, the Paymaster General and me. I am also grateful to all who the Member for Halton (Mr. Twigg) have taken the message of this Budget to men and women the Member for Halton (Mr. Twigg) throughout the country. Earlier, my hon. Friend the Member for Halton (Mr. Twigg) said that people had stopped him in the street to congratulate the Government on the Budget. That happened to me, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.437.5", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If we implemented Dearing, every student would pay £1,000 a year in tuition fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.437.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is referring to maintenance costs for students in London, I think that is an interesting issue, but not the one that we are discussing tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "The Lords amendments are permissive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "angements apply only to people living in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. The proposals are nothing to do with the system. The problem is made worse by the fact that students from Umbria are exempted whereas students from Cumbria are not. The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells), may groan, but he will have cause to groan even more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.465.7", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "It is true. If the hon. Gentleman cannot see that, he should go back to school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.465.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.465.9", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "he Government are behaving in such an intransigent and apparently arrogant way. It is not good enough for Ministers to say that the House of Lords is in favour of the amendment and the Tory party is in favour of the amendment, so we ought to be against it. That is knee-jerk reaction politics at its worst. 10.15 pm Let us look at the merits of the amendment, rather than the source of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.465.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Gorrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Gorrie", "preceding_text": "e Minister clarify whether the fees will at all help the universities financially? As I understand it, grants to universities fall commensurately as the fees go up. So, there will be no increase in the universities' revenues, merely assistance to the Treasury. Will the Minister favour us with his knowledge of which Scottish university principals are in favour of the Labour proposal, as he implied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The more perceptive among my colleagues may have heard generous tributes paid by Opposition spokesmen to men and women of principle on the Government Benches who will join the great coalition of Tories and nationalists in support of the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The more perceptive among my colleagues may have heard generous tributes paid by Opposition spokesmen to men and women of principle on the Government Benches who will join the great coalition of Tories and nationalists in support of the House of Lords. [Interruption.] A briefing sent out by the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) to Tory Back Benchers says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Let me finish on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Let me finish on that point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-01", "file": "debates1998-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "16380455e446dbb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.491.9", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Teaching and Higher Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Face the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "Might my hon. Friend consider proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-01a.491.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-02", "file": "debates1998-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d4b7a51b58c9113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "It is not MAFF that approves that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-02", "file": "debates1998-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d4b7a51b58c9113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "Is not the real reason why the Government refuse to pay the full amount of agrimonetary compensation because they are trying to browbeat individual farmers into abandoning their opposition to the single currency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.509.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-02", "file": "debates1998-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d4b7a51b58c9113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I take my hon. Friend's point, but I can only repeat what I said earlier. This week, when I was at the spray and sprayers exhibition in Cambridgeshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-02", "file": "debates1998-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d4b7a51b58c9113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.514.7", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I can honestly say to the hon. Lady that we are doing a lot more than her party did when it was in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.514.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-02", "file": "debates1998-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d4b7a51b58c9113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Rights Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ut we wanted to set out our view. My second general point is that clause 6 makes it unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right. The Home Secretary, not entirely without reason, glossed over this part of the debate. What is and what is not a public authority is crucial, but we have been subjected to a bewildering range of Government advice on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-02a.543.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-03", "file": "debates1998-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d6140b25e72d9648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-03a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence Review (Press Briefings)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I do not know the exact quotes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] I do not know the exact quotes, but I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that the Chancellor did not demand any arbitrary cut of any nature whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-03a.659.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": "x. Rebates for personal pensions will increase from April 1999. There is no long-term problem for occupational schemes. The Government are taking a long-term view of the economy, and of sustaining the investment that will lead to strong pensions. The pensioners who are losing out are those who have no second pension, no state earnings-related pension scheme, no occupational pension and no savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that most surprising answer. I am sure that all hon. Members are hoping that the new system that my right hon. Friend is about to unveil will be fair to the child and to both parents, and will work administratively. As a valedictory to the present system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Brian Iddon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question 19.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Brian Iddon", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker. On a previous occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Child Support", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harman", "preceding_text": " who believe that they are never looked into because the Child Support Agency is too busy assessing maintenance and has no time to chase up the payments. If our basis for assessment is the same as that of the Revenue, the self-employed will simply need to show us the assessment that they have given the Revenue, which has been approved, and we can proceed. That is another benefit of simplification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not a little embarrassed by the almost total lack of interest in this subject shown by Conservative Members? Apart from the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Sir D. Madel) on the Front Bench, only one Conservative, the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn), who is a member of the Select Committee, is present on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seduced?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ime of our college principals—their planning and structuring time—to be spent on dealing with moving their college forward rather than simply managing debt restructuring and reorganisation, as would the hon. Gentleman, I am sure. The Select Committee has recognised the problems of FE funding and the new resources that it proposes are welcome. However, the Treasury has seduced the Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-06", "file": "debates1998-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "336dd791a24135ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ther than simply managing debt restructuring and reorganisation, as would the hon. Gentleman, I am sure. The Select Committee has recognised the problems of FE funding and the new resources that it proposes are welcome. However, the Treasury has seduced the Select Committee— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Seduced?\"]—although not the hon. Member for Barking, obviously. I would never accuse anyone of seducing her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-06a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman accept that emissions from modern motor car engines are minimal, and that the problems are caused either by vehicles that are badly maintained or by engines in older cars, which are often owned and run by people who are less well off? Will the Government introduce measures to encourage those people, by fiscal means if possible, to buy newer, cleaner engines for their cars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "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. I seek your guidance on a point of ministerial accountability. There is a report in The Sun today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "United Kingdom Passports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "n format with the EU circle of stars on the front of the passport and for a full EU passport. The Court of Justice will be responsible for cross-border issues and visas, but no Government in the EU could appeal to the court in this matter. Appeals will relate to individual cases. We could all wake up in 2003 and find that we have been issued with EU passports with the circle of stars on the cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "United Kingdom Passports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "late the way in which we think of ourselves. Are we British citizens? Are we subjects of Her Majesty the Queen, or are we EU citizens? The royal exhortation in our passport, which already looks pretty pathetic as this little red job, states: Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make more progress. I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong. I was never in Baroness Thatcher's Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "May we make it absolutely clear, so that there can be no misunderstanding, what the suggested compromise was? It was that the documents should be made available after the Legg committee had reported. Indeed, that suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the Chairman of the Select Committee were to catch your eye, Madam Speaker, he could tell us whether he wishes those letters to be made public. The hon. Member for South Staffordshire would be the first to remind me that I should not disclose those letters. I am saying that ministerial letters can be disclosed, but letters written by the Chairman of the Select Committee are not for me to disclose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "immediate duty of a Select Committee should be to scratch the surface of that issue. That is what we were doing on the Tuesday morning when the Minister of State appeared before us and subsequently. The fact that the Foreign Secretary was not readily disposed to make information available is part of the reason for the creation of the bad spirit in which we have had to try to deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": "e Parliament to another, members of a Select Committee often know more about the subject than the Ministers who come before them in the dock. That can have unfortunate consequences. I well remember the occasion on which I was pinned up against the bookshelves of the Aye Lobby during a Division by a Minister of State who was very much larger than I was, when I was Chairman of the Defence Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ghty Executive. In the 16th and 17th centuries, absolute monarchs came to realise the need of working with and then through the House. In the 18th century, the battle continued. Perhaps the most remarkable episode in that century came about in 1780, when a Colonel Dunning tabled a motion, which was passed, stating that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order and it is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Social Security Amendment (Lone Parents) Regulations 1998 (S.I., 1998, No. 766), dated 16th March 1998, a copy of which was laid before this House on 18th March, be revoked. I am pleased that we are having this debate tonight on the regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "those 18 years and before that—is that its cost has risen inexorably. Although more people are being given help, some of whom had previously been unable to get assistance, the system is still inefficient, riddled with fraud and not targeted properly. That causes the tensions between taxpayers and the recipients of welfare, who all too often think that they should get a better deal from the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.965.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman was listening. I said to the hon. Member for Preston (Audrey Wise) that the problem with the welfare system is that its cost has risen inexorably—year after year, and during those 18 years and before that. Recipients of welfare, many of whom have been brought into the system by the Government expanding the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "I think that I can offer an explanation of why the Conservative Opposition tabled the motion. I think that they are playing an elaborate and rather silly game—dancing some sort of minuet. I must tell the Opposition that, if they think that that will have any effect on Labour Members, they are entirely mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "I thought that one of the hon. Member's major objections to the regulations was that unscrupulous people would take advantage of them, take a job for 11 weeks, go back on full benefit for a little while and take another job for 11 weeks. That is the picture that the hon. Gentleman was painting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.971.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "re strategy, the working families tax credit, and by introducing a minimum wage. We are also providing more help with paying for child care so that all lone parents can enjoy the opportunity to work. I remind the House that existing recipients will continue to receive the higher rate of family premium so long as they continue to satisfy the entitlement conditions. So, there will be no cash losers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-07", "file": "debates1998-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c2dcbddb8fa0e6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ve the higher rate of family premium so long as they continue to satisfy the entitlement conditions. So, there will be no cash losers— [Interruption.] That is made clear in the regulations, as the hon. Member for Witney would know if he had bothered to read them. However, that protection was causing some difficulties for some lone parents. Lone parents participating in our new deal pilots told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-07a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1061.5", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer announced that £30 million was to be made available for the training of 20,000 bug busters. That process is on course. We have had discussions with the training agencies to ensure that the right course is made available to people. We are also discussing with small and medium companies how they can best release people for training, so that they can do their own millennium compliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1061.6", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I should be obliged if conversations were not quite so loud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1061.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1064.6", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not know about the particular circumstances in Southend that the hon. Gentleman has raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1064.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "olved an ordinary civil servant, investigations would now be under way and disciplinary action would be in prospect. Saying that people drank too much champagne on the night and could not remember what they had said would not be regarded as an adequate or convincing defence. When will the right hon. Gentleman stop protecting the money-grabbing cronies with whom he has surrounded himself and start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "dle had been a civil servant he would have been suspended immediately. I have checked that with the head of the civil service and it is not correct—he would not have been suspended. Secondly, all the right hon. Gentleman's other allegations have been investigated and found to be false. I understand why he wants to suggest that this Government are the same as the Government of whom he was a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaked\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "til very recently, he and the Conservative party were trying to claim that we were responsible for the leak of the strategic defence review. I notice that he has not repeated that claim today, or said that he would take action against anyone involved in the leak. As for saying that we do not get the big issues right, we have in the past few days published our proposals on the Child Support Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "view. I notice that he has not repeated that claim today, or said that he would take action against anyone involved in the leak. As for saying that we do not get the big issues right, we have in the past few days published our proposals on the Child Support Agency—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaked\".] We have also published our proposals on the rough sleepers initiative, on numeracy and on the defence review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "id that he would take action against anyone involved in the leak. As for saying that we do not get the big issues right, we have in the past few days published our proposals on the Child Support Agency—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaked\".] We have also published our proposals on the rough sleepers initiative, on numeracy and on the defence review—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaked.\"] They were certainly not leaked by us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Whatever problems the Government have over the events of the past couple of days—they have some and I hope that they will tackle them—I know of no sight more stomach-churning than the Conservative party accusing others of sleaze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what you are doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d Dearing has rightly pointed out that 354 students from other parts of the European Union are involved. If the proposals were limited to Scotland, the sum of money involved would be only £2 million. However, as Lord Dearing also pointed out, it would be wrong to suggest that students who do four-year courses in Scotland should be treated differently from those who do four-year courses in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "ic defence review, but was always about cutting defence expenditure. The Secretary of State even began with a pre-emptive concession, offering the Treasury £500 million. He has ended up with cuts of more than £900 million a year. The Treasury has had its first instalment, and I must warn him that it will not be the last. The cuts come as no surprise: Labour Governments always cut defence spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "t—that the hon. Gentleman wants the new aircraft carriers to be based in Portsmouth. The happy news is that my constituency of Hamilton, South is absolutely landlocked. I am therefore completely objective in that regard. No doubt, there will be competing interests for that basing policy. It is just conceivable that I will not be the Defence Secretary around at the time who must make that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must conclude questions on the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I have already made it clear that I do not speak on this occasion for my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells. I speak for the Opposition, and I am making our position clear. I suggest that we move on to more weighty matters that relate to the future of many of retail pharmacies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1122.5", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "e conclusion that it must have been by heavy-armed tactics that the Government used the offices of that lobbyist to persuade that group of representatives to change their minds in the light of the letter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, at the beginning of my rather—I regret to say—over-lengthy speech, I said to your predecessor in the Chair that I had a grave accusation to make. I have made it in good faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1140.4", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "t that The Times is no longer a paper of record. It is not about the fact that The Sun is sometimes disgracefully xenophobic. Nor is it about the fact that News International has perhaps too big a share of the United Kingdom newspaper market. This is not the place in which to express my concern about how an unelected Australian-American media owner interferes, through The Sun, in British politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1180.10", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Breed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Breed", "preceding_text": "ion. Finally, an ex-employee or officer may genuinely have forgotten—or at least not remembered well enough—all the facts or information for which they are asked, but may feel obliged to give opinions rather than facts and knowledge. Those are practical examples. I recognise that the Bill provides a right of challenge, albeit only at the appellant stage, which is rather too late. I also recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1180.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1208.7", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. First, I thank the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) for his assistance. If he keeps it up, he may be in for a job on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-08", "file": "debates1998-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0679f8b5bdb437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Competition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "I, too, do not intend to detain the House for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-08a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "Do I take it from that reply that the Minister does not deny a report in the Evening Standard a week ago that the Government plan to transfer funding from London to other parts of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1231.3", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "t are currently threatened; that we build on those by expanding those partnerships to incorporate new child care facilities, including the voluntary and private sector; and that we prepare for the introduction of the working families tax credit child care disregard, which will make it possible for millions more parents to take advantage of satisfactory, high-quality, properly inspected child care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "We certainly intend that they should go ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1253.6", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "We did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1253.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "stewardship of the national health service, the Opposition have had to demand the debates. To this moment, we have still not had the debate that we have consistently demanded on the White Paper. The 50th anniversary is indeed a time for celebration. It is a time to remind ourselves that our health service is a service for the whole nation, conceived and planned by the wartime coalition Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I make an appeal to Front Benchers, as Back Benchers want to take part? This is a debate for everyone, so the hon. Lady should not entice the Minister to come in on an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall not condemn anyone having a remedy against the present Government's inefficiencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "ms in Wakefield are a concern to me, because a number of policy issues affect them directly in respect of maternity services and gynaecology. I wanted to make a general speech, but it would be wrong not to refer to the serious concerns in Wakefield about proposals in respect of maternity services. I know that I do not look it, but I shall be 50 in October, so I share this anniversary with the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "und staff and capital programmes. The Minister of State and the Secretary of State derided both me and the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald when we put some figures on the table. I do not intend to play a bidding game, but I shall put a figure on the table. We need £8.8 billion more for the NHS to be announced in he comprehensive spending review next week if the NHS is to stand still.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1299.3", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "be a foreign country in the minds of chilling theologians, but they have to be understood and dealt with by Secretaries of State for Health. As a member of London Brook, I wonder how the shadow Secretary of State for Health will approach the summer of love project for holidaymakers which the Brook advisory centres intend to run in July and August by giving free advice and condoms to holidaymakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "r Members, everything from social care through housing to unemployment and low pay. I hope that the announcement of £X billion next week as an increase in the health budget will not be disseminated across that wide range of Government activity. I hope that we shall not find that some of the money is draining away to other areas which have traditionally been the responsibility of other Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-09", "file": "debates1998-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0a9693c06fbde6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "May I put two questions to the Minister? First, do his remarks suggest that the Government want to ban the private sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-09a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " Paul Bowers and Mr. Tom Dodd said: A possible irony is that until the Ottawa Convention enters force or 2005, whichever comes earlier, the essence of the Labour Government's policy on APMs, an export ban and use only in exceptional circumstances, is not altogether different from that reached by the Conservative Government in April 1996. It is true that, since then, matters have moved on somewhat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "l. However, the limitations of the convention should be recognised. The United States of America, Russia, China and many other powerful and significant countries are not signatories. The convention will not introduce a worldwide ban. The legislation raises many important issues, which we shall not be able to explore fully today. So reluctant are the Government to allow proper debate to take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "s, which we shall not be able to explore fully today. So reluctant are the Government to allow proper debate to take place— [Interruption.] —so nervous are they of proper scrutiny, that they have made it clear that they are not prepared to move a business motion to extend today's sitting beyond its normal time. I want to put on record the fact that the official Opposition asked for that extension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "crutiny, that they have made it clear that they are not prepared to move a business motion to extend today's sitting beyond its normal time. I want to put on record the fact that the official Opposition asked for that extension. [Interruption.] We wanted to give the Bill the proper scrutiny that it deserves. The Government's attitude was that, unless we finish at 2.30 pm today, the Bill will fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.3", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you allow the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) to look round and see how many of his hon. Friends are present to support him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.7", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "Because the amendment is sufficient to enable me to make the points that I can make within the time that the Government are prepared to make available today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.7", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " point that I want to make is about the scope of clause 5. The briefing was not by the Foreign Office, which is responsible for the convention, but by the Secretary of State for Defence, and it did not deal with that matter. That is why the hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell), who represents the Liberal Democrat party, and I did not accept that offer of a briefing yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ot be guilty of a crime. In the example that the right hon. Gentleman gave, the sapper clearly could not be guilty of a crime. The right hon. Gentleman said that the rules of engagement would be clear, and that British forces would know what was expected of them through the chain of command. What concerns us is that clause 5 provides a defence—that is its purpose—but that that defence is too wide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": " Bill? Is it to set a good example? We are all for that, but who will follow our example? Not, I suspect, UNITA or the Khmer Rouge, if it still exists, or the Taliban or the IRA. So what are we doing in the Bill? In my opinion, we shall be withdrawing a legitimate means of protecting our soldiers, who, to my knowledge, have not misused anti-personnel mines within my lifetime in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1378.8", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "t. That is what clause 5 would permit. The only activity that is prohibited in the course of those joint operations by clause 5 is the actual laying of the landmine itself, which is identified in clause 5(2). There may be military justification to permit such activities. However, it is absolutely clear that those acts would be in complete contravention of article 1 of the Ottawa convention. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1378.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "It is a disgraceful allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I have no idea what that intervention means and I doubt whether any other hon. Member does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Landmines Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": " the intention. In some mined countries that are emerging from civil war, the distribution of privileged information about mines by international NGO workers could be considered even as espionage. This is a slightly difficult area and the Minister of State may not be able to respond to it immediately, but I should be grateful if he could perhaps respond by letter, so that we can pursue the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-10", "file": "debates1998-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "44efb95d5a3275d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce an Adjournment debate on the specific issue of asylum seekers and the role of local authorities in the associated funding. I see that the Minister has not yet arrived to respond to my debate, so I shall make my remarks as slowly as possible, to give her a chance to catch up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-10a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Manufacturing and Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": ", or will coal jobs go the way of those many other jobs in exporting industries that are being lost? We need to know why we were treated to a non-statement on energy, with all the detail left out and left over for a later date. Why have we been drifting without an energy policy for a whole year? Does the President of the Board of Trade plan to announce a proper policy to the House before it rises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Manufacturing and Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Just to be helpful to the right hon. Gentleman, if things are so bad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Manufacturing and Industrial Relations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "ning, to the practice of good industrial relations and to the success of manufacturing industry. My right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) and others deployed powerful arguments. Several of my right hon. and hon. Friends have distinguished records on the subject. It is interesting that new Labour has been rather absent from the debate and unable to say how well things were going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t this is a direct result of incompetent leadership at the Department of Social Security which has created confusion, contradictory policies and delays and has wasted their first year in Government. Fourteen months into this Parliament, I and all my colleagues believe that the time is ripe for a review of the progress made by the Government and their Ministers in the Department of Social Security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.79.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.80.7", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am just about to answer that. In due course, I shall make some very serious charges about this wasted year, when policy has gone missing. In reply to the question of whether we support this, my simple answer is that I would support anything that improves and increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.80.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.80.7", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "it. The question remains, can the Government now afford what they are promising pensioners? I shall come to that in a second. I believe that the hon. Gentleman will have less to say on that in due course. I have left the subject of cronyism and the poor way in which the Government have handled the process of paying pensioners winter fuel payments, but there are many other examples of incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.80.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hope", "preceding_text": "hich is one of the most radical documents to emerge from any Government this century. It takes forward a programme of welfare reform that will enhance people's lives and help not just those who have to rely on the welfare state for their income but the whole community. It is essential that a welfare state not only meets the needs of those in poverty but has the full support of the whole community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Denham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. John Denham)", "preceding_text": " say, whether they have a case to make and whether they can tell us, as they singularly failed to do, what they would have done. The motion criticises welfare spending. The Conservative party should know because, under the previous Administration, social security spending spiralled and the costs of economic and social failure soared. The cost of social security soared by £43 billion in real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "stems and bureaucracies that cannot talk to one another. The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) said that the Government are not moving ahead with technology. I tell him that people can now ring up to claim their pension. Someone will be at a computer screen to enter the information and send out a completed form. That is only the beginning of our plans. In nine pilot schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Department of Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the cheques?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": " of our plans. In nine pilot schemes— [Interruption.] There is some laughter among Opposition Members. Before implementation of the new system, about 40 per cent. of pension claims made on paper and posted had to be returned for extra information—at an administrative cost to the taxpayer, and a cost in inconvenience to pensioners. Using the new system, over 90 per cent. of new claims are accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.128.6", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ly because there are different education and legal systems in Scotland, and then criticise us for taking action that underpins and underlines that distinction. It is frankly breathtaking. The House listened to the views of the upper House when we returned again and again to this aspect of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. For that reason, I do not intend to detain the House for long tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Because to do otherwise than we propose would result in the anomaly of which the right hon. Gentleman is perfectly aware—that exemption would apply to a student from his constituency who went to Edinburgh or Dundee, but not to a student who went to Newcastle. It is as simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Because to do otherwise than we propose would result in the anomaly of which the right hon. Gentleman is perfectly aware—that exemption would apply to a student from his constituency who went to Edinburgh or Dundee, but not to a student who went to Newcastle. It is as simple— [Interruption.] It is as simple as that. I shall repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "use and the House of Lords to reflect on the alternatives and the anomalies that they would probably create, I offer, with my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland, for Wales and for Northern Ireland, the opportunity to have an independent review early next year to examine how our proposals for the Scottish fourth-year exemption are working. That review would monitor the impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that they are different education systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "Can I be absolutely sure that the hon. Gentleman is committing the Scottish National party to spending Scottish taxpayers' money to fund English students coming to Scottish universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "acceptable anomaly was identified, and a proposal to rectify it was agreed. The Government's reaction was remarkable. On 8 July, Glasgow's The Herald said: Senior Government sources last night made clear their determination to ensure the heavily-criticised plan does eventually become law. 'We are taking the Drumcree line on this; no surrender to the peers. We are toughing it out,' said one source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Davey", "preceding_text": "ducation, they begin to understand. Let me try to explain to the House, as I have to those people. As a country, we say to students that it will take them, on average, five years to get a first degree. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for the most part, two years are spent at school and three at university. In Scotland, for the most part, one year is spent at school and three at university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I am grateful for that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "preceding_text": "es the cost of the Lord Chancellor's wallpaper. We could pay for it out of the extra budget allocated to political advisers and spin doctors by the Government. We are told that the Scottish Office already has the £2 million in its estimates. Only the arrogance of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment stands between the Government and a welcome outbreak of common sense on this policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.148.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We then had an equally remarkable statement from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I need hardly say that we intended answering, because my hon. Friend had already asked those questions, so of course I intended answering him. Let me turn to the subject of the proposed review. Let us be clear about this: the Government have always said that they would monitor the effects of the changes that are proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.154.7", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We are very pleased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-13", "file": "debates1998-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "353255f7c2baae3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "dict the European convention is not advice that the House can normally obtain. In the present circumstances, the Government intend to incorporate the European law. Although the Minister said that it would be a purely domestic matter, it is accepted on both sides of the House and by Ministers that European students from outside the UK would be treated differently from many students in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-13a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "overnment and the release of all political detainees. Those have been the common demands of the entire European Union. Although we have no knowledge of British companies arming Nigerian troops in Sierra Leone as part of the ECOMOG forces, that would not be in breach of the EU arms embargo. The embargo is specific to the territory of Nigeria and as such would not be a matter that arose as a breach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "preceding_text": "d galleries in Britain. As a result of asset sales in areas where spending is no longer needed, the Foreign Office budget will not only ensure more resources for the proper representation and promotion of Britain abroad, but my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is announcing today that our support for the BBC World Service will be raised by a total of £44 million during the next three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "preceding_text": " internal market. On the 50th anniversary of the NHS, the Government will make the biggest ever investment in its future, giving the health service for the first time for decades the long-term resources that it needs. Under the previous Government, the increase for the last three years was £7 billion. For the coming three years, I am announcing an increase in health service funding of £21 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "In the light of the press reports this morning, which include direct quotations from the Chancellor's document, can the Chancellor say whether there was a single newspaper that did not receive a prior briefing? Which lobby firm does the House of Commons have to employ to get an early sight of Government documents? Once again, the Government have shown their brazen contempt for Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "today bear little relation to those in his March Budget Red Book? Does he remember saying, only three months ago: By 2000, the Budget is forecast to be in balance\"?—[ Official Report, 17 March 1998; Vol. 308, c. 1099.] He now plans no Budget balance or surplus, even in a single year; no repayment of national debt—not a single penny will be repaid; no reduction in the proportion of national income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "From the Chancellor who gave us the 17 tax rises, from the Chancellor who refused to take the action necessary to raise interest rates before the general election in order to tackle inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "take the action necessary to raise interest rates before the general election in order to tackle inflation— [Interruption.] As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's predictions today, let him recall what he said in January 1997, when we said that we would keep within a two-year spending ceiling. He said: Hell will freeze over before Gordon Brown could control the spending. We took the action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "ly, they even include otherwise sensible authorities, such as Wandsworth and Kensington and Chelsea. There is no party political point scoring to be had here. There is no more justification for continuing those bans than the export ban. British beef is now unequivocally the safest in the world. As a memorable sign along the M5 in Worcestershire proclaimed last week, British beef is safer than sex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the bone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "e beef market, and it will be important that the ancillary measures taken in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland in terms of advanced promotion are redoubled by the Department to ensure that we can take as early advantage as possible. Mention of February next year leads me in passing to something we debated in the House ad nauseam, if not ad infinitum—probably both: the ban on beef in the bone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "I welcome this timely debate, and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff), the Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, on its fine report. It is a bit of a disappointment that it has taken the report to prompt such a debate in the House, and many of us are disappointed by the scant regard given by the Government to the beef industry over a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "rmers have joined such clubs, cattle auctions will close and a near-monopoly will be established, directly affecting prices. The hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mrs. Organ) mentioned those points, and I fully agreed with her. Earlier today, there was a lobby in the other place, in the Attlee Room. I should like to apologise—I cannot apologise any more publicly than in Hansard —for not being there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": " money being made available for the infrastructure funds seems to be under the control of the Minister's Department rather than that of the HEFCE. I hope that when the Minister gives his response he will deal with the questions about the public-private partnership deal with the Wellcome Trust and tell us whether the £100 million for high-intensity X-rays is part of that public-private partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-14", "file": "debates1998-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "f42f8a85d82c216c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Registration of Political Parties Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I can give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. I know that he has written to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary about that issue in a letter dated 8 August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-14a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "British Council", "cue_speaker": "Ms Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "tres throughout the world. I have had the pleasure of visiting the library in Prague, although, unlike my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands), I have not yet had the chance to see what I understand is a most impressive building in Hong Kong. Such libraries provide a resource for people in the 109 countries in which we operate, and people can walk in off the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "British Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is getting over-excited.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "That is an offer to take up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.349.5", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Climate Change (Conference)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "No. Daniel comes to judgment eventually. I shall move on to a subject that will not please Opposition Members—what we do about climate change now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.349.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Fishing Industry (Safety)", "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": "ts officers see fishing vessels far more regularly than do the traditional inspectors. A pilot scheme is taking place on the south coast this summer, which also involves coastguard officers in certain areas of this work. The hon. Gentleman asked when the consultation paper on sea safety in the fishing industry would be published. I can tell him that it will almost certainly be published next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.399.6", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "The more unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "One ability that women have, which is a great help in negotiations, is the ability to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is on a listening tour, so let him listen. As I have just told him, the vast bulk of the rise in social security spending is on pensions, child benefit and disability payments. Which of those does he oppose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the hon. Gentleman did not listen to a word of what I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n to a word of what I was saying— [Interruption.] I answered the question very clearly indeed. First, if the hon. Gentleman is accusing us of raising social security spending too much, that is rather curious, as we are increasing it far less than the Conservative Government did. Secondly, the vast bulk of the £27 billion, as I have said, is going on pensions, child benefit and disability benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Education Expenditure", "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": "it reduced the amount that it allocated in real terms to education year on year. Inevitably, class sizes rose year on year. Today marks the end of that sorry decline. By contrast, we shall have allocated almost £10 billion by 2001. We shall double spending on capital investment over the Parliament: money for repair and modernisation and for classrooms fit to learn in. The sorry—the Tory Govemment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "chool has thrived with the formation of the Friends of St. Alphege Schools and the growth of parental support in the classroom. Regular events involve the wider community, such as the very popular songs of praise for local elderly people and the St. Alphege festival. Mrs. Winterbottom retires with the utmost good wishes and gratitude of the people of Solihull. Turning to the merits of this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "made an announcement about not using public money, which is right and proper. Having set a policy of hostility towards grammar schools, despite their excellence, particularly in academic subjects, the Government are standing back, wringing their hands saying, \"It's nothing to do with us, guy.\" In practice, the trade unions will be the ones who find the money to drive anti-grammar school campaigns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be called, and I will be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be called, and I will be brief. [Interruption.] Some hon. Members who have recently entered the Chamber are trying to make contributions; they may want to catch your eye later, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in order to make more formal contributions. In his opening remarks, the Secretary of State remarkably combined pomposity with fatuousness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.509.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Everyone wants to raise a point of order. I have to reply to the point of order. Let me say to the Minister that those are matters for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.8", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "that the Secretary of State finds such need to stand up and try to break off the argument on this issue. It suggests a certain sensitivity on his part. I was about to refer—this is part of the question that I wish to ask the Secretary of State or the Minister—to a letter that the Secretary of State sent out on 10 March this year to a Mrs. Teed in Maidstone in Kent. He made it clear that there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.8", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " to say whether the issue is relevant. In that letter, the Secretary of State talked about vertical schooling, in the sense that he said to Mrs. Teed: Where there was provision of an 'all through' school and where there had been a clear promise of a place through to the age of 18, we have agreed to honour that promise. Parents and grandparents are being told that that promise will not be honoured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.523.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "l, with fewer than 40 students. The parish council has a very close relationship with it. At times, money was hard to come by—although there will be rejoicing in the streets tonight, in the street party, with all the new money going into the school. When money was hard to come by, when the school needed security lights because equipment was constantly stolen, the parish council came to the rescue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-15", "file": "debates1998-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "c976822e1801285a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "ke a sword, so I shall wait until he tells me before I start worrying about it. The key words are \"may\" and \"shall\". Lord Callaghan was right. Any Government who did not listen to the recommendations of the committee which will look seriously at what is, after all, revolutionary legislation, and its effects, would rightly be condemned as insensitive and uncaring, and we would deserve those titles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-15a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.558.6", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "The Low Pay Commission will continue and the best way to ensure that it does is to ensure that at the next election that lot on the Opposition Benches do not get elected again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.558.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Health Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "tleman's £21 billion or on the Opposition's straight increase basis, provided that the same method is used to calculate both his extra spending and our extra spending. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that, no matter which way he does it—on his basis or on mine—it results in a £2 billion difference for England, not an £18 billion difference? I shall now move to the main body of his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Health Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ses that we managed over our term of office, the costs of the minimum wage, the costs of the millennium bug, the costs of abolishing private medical insurance and compulsory competitive tendering, and the costs of administering each primary care group, his extra £2 billion, welcome though it is, is worth little more than a few hundred million? Finally, is he aware—Will he look at me at this point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that each Department is responsible for delivering the improvements in standards and so on that have been set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make progress. I shall try to give way to the hon. Gentleman later, but Madam Speaker has said that many hon. Members want to contribute and Back Benchers tend to complain if Front Benchers take up most of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute, but I should like the hon. Gentleman to listen to this point. As much is concealed in these figures as is revealed by the document. Spin doctoring has given way to spin accounting. That is hardly surprising, as the Paymaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that alternative statistics show that, in the past three months, the claimant count has gone down by 54,000? What is more, when the previous Chancellor, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), who is in his place, carried out this analysis, instead of assuming stable unemployment he assumed that it would fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "nt are putting into the priority services will be soaked up by the damage and destruction that have already been caused in those services by, for example, the abolition of compulsory competitive tendering, the abolition of tax relief on private health insurance, the introduction of the minimum wage, and so on. Therefore, we know that the money that is going in will not all go towards patient care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "What kind of former Chancellor cannot make his mind up about whether we are spending too much or too little? The working families tax credit is aimed at getting people from unemployment into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " getting people from unemployment into work. [Interruption.] From a sedentary position, the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) says that I cannot listen. Conservative Members are supposed to be listening, but they did not listen on 1 May when the electorate said that they were a shoddy apology for a Government, who had betrayed the people of this country for 18 years. Tonight, we have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-16", "file": "debates1998-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c2a0f6ada4b24f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "In due course. If the Opposition really cared about the operation of the UK economy, they would not be sitting whingeing as they have tonight, but would be entering into a constructive dialogue to see how the benefits that will accrue in health and education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-16a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-17", "file": "debates1998-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ffc44542c29d1617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-17a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "NATO Enlargement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trend", "preceding_text": " a nuclear power. On 20 September 1985, on page 6 of Tribune, he put his name to the view that Britain should not be aligned to any major power, such as NATO. Thank heavens he is now one of us. We welcome the Foreign Secretary in his role as a full-hearted supporter of NATO and its nuclear deterrent. It can be said that, on this issue at least, the Foreign Secretary is sound. Continuity in policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-17a.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ands war but have learnt its lessons, say that sufficient helicopters are crucial for amphibious operations? Would not they be concerned by her Majesty's Government's decision not to implement the proposed purchase of a second tranche of Merlin anti-submarine warfare helicopters? Will the Merlin still be a contender for the replacement of the HC4 Commando Sea King helicopters of the Royal Marines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.772.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Speaker's Chaplain", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "—to Donald Gray for his exceptional contribution to the life of the House of Commons during his 11 years as Chaplain. He has been a true friend to very many of us—certainly to me—and his warmth and compassion, as well as his learning, have been a feature of Parliament for the past decade. He and Joyce will take with them the gratitude and good wishes of the House in their well-deserved retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "reen Paper, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, the Select Committee and our own consultation exercise have all demonstrated that there is now a consensus for radical change. Everyone now agrees that no change is not an option. Privatisation and deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s produced a public transport system that was fragmented, lacked investment and attracted fewer passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "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": "adical change. Everyone now agrees that no change is not an option. Privatisation and deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s produced a public transport system that was fragmented, lacked investment and attracted fewer passengers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I am merely repeating the record. Privatisation and deregulation led to more congestion and did more damage to the environment and public health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "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": "lso about integrating transport with environment policy and land-use planning, with our economic, health, and education policies and with the creation of a fairer society. People need better information to achieve a seamless journey. Today, I can announce a revolution in information to the passenger. We will introduce a comprehensive integrated national public transport information system by 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "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": " how to use the public transport system. It is generally agreed in the country at large that new public information systems are absolutely necessary. A passenger will be able to access information on all forms of transport to a single point by phone, teletext or internet. Through better planning policies, we can reduce the need to travel, as we are showing with our millennium village in Greenwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "cement will deter bus lane road hogs. We can transform the economics of the bus industry by adding just two extra passengers per bus journey, and thereby improving revenues by more than £400 million. More revenue will lead to more investment, better buses, more frequent services, and proper training and conditions for bus drivers. The one I met yesterday could benefit from a visit to charm school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "erators must help to spruce up bus stations, provide better information at bus stops, and co-operate on ticketing with other bus and rail operators. In addition, the Government are prepared to give statutory force to exclusive quality contracts on particular routes. The days of the cowboy bus operators are over. For too long, the bus has been seen as a workhorse. I would like it to be a racehorse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "provide better information at bus stops, and co-operate on ticketing with other bus and rail operators. In addition, the Government are prepared to give statutory force to exclusive quality contracts on particular routes. The days of the cowboy bus operators are over. For too long, the bus has been seen as a workhorse. I would like it to be a racehorse— [Interruption.] —and a first-class one, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "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": "of the day robs driving of its convenience. It is not pro-car to allow congestion to escalate. It is not pro-car to allow smog and pollution to increase. The car driver is breathing air around three times more polluted than the air outside. The most anti-car policy is to do nothing. Being pro-public transport does not mean being anti-car. I am pleased to announce today a new deal for the motorist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "ure routes, with adult supervision, can reduce unnecessary car use. Parents welcome that, as an extension of choice and a safer alternative. No transport issue is more important than safety. We intend to issue a new road safety strategy and targets later this year. In response to the Select Committee, we propose to carry out a thorough review of the institutional arrangements for transport safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "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": "d by local people, defined by local needs. Proceeds will be reinvested in local transport through a ring-fenced fund. All such plans will be subject to the approval of the Secretary of State. The White Paper establishes the principle. I intend to issue a consultation paper in due course on its implementation. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor for having the courage to establish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No. I made it clear that private non-residential parking will be subjected to review in the consultation document—these are charges to be taken into account. On whether that income would go directly to one source—local authority transport plans—all charges are subjected to value added tax and other taxation arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Integrated Transport Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman say \"Why a piddle?\" bypass?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Second Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Mallon), who have been elected to important positions. They have the opportunity—or perhaps the burden—to carry forward some of the most controversial aspects of the important precedent that will mark the effectiveness, or perhaps the ineffectiveness, of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Had I had the opportunity, I would have voted for their election myself. As this is the Bill's Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Newry and Armagh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " and their powers. The Bill fails to provide adequately for a link between a party and the terrorist organisation that it fronts. Under clause 23, the only link is to a Minister of the party concerned. That gives plenty of loopholes for Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to remain in office no matter what atrocities the Irish Republican Army carries out. The interesting matter raised by Mr. Mallon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point that I was making. For understandable and real reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John D. Taylor", "preceding_text": "not take both salaries. I come to the key issue of the removal of Ministers from office, to which clause 23 applies—especially subsection (8). The clause says that Ministers must be exclusively committed to peaceful and democratic means. The Dublin Prime Minister has said that Sinn Fein and the IRA are inextricably linked together. Today, the Secretary of State confirmed that that was her position", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-20", "file": "debates1998-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "9439db5827f02a0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Kilmarnock and Loudoun.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "suspect that we shall continue to disagree, but I assure him that our policy has changed. My right hon. Friends the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister were responsible for that change. A glance at the relevant documents shows considerable differences between our policy then and our policy now on issues such as agreement by consent in Northern Ireland. My hon. Friend the Member for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-20a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Burnett)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Home Affairs Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's endorsement. He speaks from a position of great authority as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Home Secretary will acknowledge that if he were to ask one of my constituents what they would like for a luxury, whether or not they were on a desert island, they would probably ask for a bobby on the beat, something which, sadly, has become a luxury because of Labour's cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the chief constable of Surrey, who is one of many very impressive chief constables. The savage cut to Surrey's budget last year was a Tory cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the chief constable of Surrey, who is one of many very impressive chief constables. The savage cut to Surrey's budget last year was a Tory cut. [Interruption.] Well, it was. The budget for 1997–98 was set by the previous Administration and we came to office on 1 May, one month into the financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "the number of police officers—although not as significant as the 2,000 a year which the Labour Government put in place between 1974 and 1979; it was only 800 a year under the Conservatives—crime rose very much faster. It is a matter of interest—I put it no more strongly than that—that, during the period when the number of police officers levelled out, crime fell. There are interesting comparisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": " We will take no lessons from the Opposition about commitments to community pharmacists.\"—[ Official Report, 8 July 1988; Vol. 315, c. 1124.] The Prime Minister said: The Foreign Secretary does not require lessons on how to be the Foreign Secretary. It is the Leader of the Opposition who requires lessons on how to be the Leader of the Opposition.\"—[ Official Report, 13 May 1998; Vol. 312, c. 367.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the motion, as we need to ensure that they are on the record. There was a suggestion that the Mansion House speech had been leaked. The Observer called the information that was supposed to have been leaked \"gold dust\". If so, it was fool's gold because it was a fantasy leak—those items were not even in the speech. The other information in that article did not stand up either. In case the Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor needed to have waited only two days—and could have done so. The fact that he did not showed a trend. It was a pity—I put it no higher than that—that the Leader of the House did not announce on the Floor of the House the change to Prime Minister's Question Time, which has not helped the parliamentary process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ne, the application of that doctrine and the high-handed way in which the House of Lords has been regarded over the past year is deeply disturbing. This country would not be well served either by a unicameral system or by a second Chamber of placemen and appointees. It is terribly important that an independent element has the opportunity to say to us, with its wisdom and experience, \"Think again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. My time is very limited, and nobody else gave way. The charge was risible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.973.8", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Maclennan) is no longer here, because he became very exercised about the suggestion that his party was the Liberal party rather than the Liberal Democrat party. I could suggest an even better name: the party of Janus, because Liberal Democrats have the unique ability to face both ways at once. They are doing so tonight, and have done so consistently in their charges on lobbying and on leaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.973.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "We now come to the debate on the European single currency. I inform the House that Madam Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister. I call Dr. Vincent Cable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "sion costs, but the single currency would bring significant long-term economic gains, some of which I shall address. There would be lower interest rates, which could cut mortgage costs for householders, and debt-servicing costs for business and Government. For example, a 1 to 2 per cent. reduction in interest rates would save the average mortgage payer £275 to £575 a year. Those are real benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. There is a tendency for that debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Market, which became the European Community and is now the European Union, there has been an inevitable pooling of sovereignty. The hon. Gentleman was not a member of the previous Government, but I assume that he supported them. When they signed up to the single European Act in 1986, there was a significant pooling of sovereignty because it was recognised that that was in this country's interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ut it is now the clear, unequivocal position—a dogmatic commitment in principle, subject only to technical issues of timing. Last week, the Chancellor went all the way to \"Sun valley\" to reassert that dogmatic commitment in principle. Today's debate allows us to expose the divide between the dogmatic approach of Labour and the Liberal Democrats and the pragmatic approach of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite deliberately perpetrating a myth. We have said that we rule out joining for this Parliament and the next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking about our joining a club that does not exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "iscussion—I am confident that there will be more—about the constitutional effects of Britain's joining the single currency. The Chief Secretary said that no one was seeking to create a political union, but I must disillusion him on that. There are some—I make no criticism of them, as it is a perfectly honourable thing to seek to do—among our partners in Europe who wish to create a political union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Precisely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "quivalent is Hong Kong and the US dollar. The Hong Kong Government, under British sovereignty, pegged their currency to the US dollar, and that arrangement has continued under Chinese sovereignty. However—to continue the analogy—I do not think that anyone is contending that the Chinese leadership has conceded sovereignty of Hong Kong to the United States. There are other examples on the continent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "We have had a very interesting and mature debate—suffice it to say that it has been so mature that the bovver boys have disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Helen Liddell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Helen Liddell)", "preceding_text": "a time when Britain would join a single currency. That is a significant change on which commentators and we will reflect for some time. Tonight, the debate has concentrated on an issue that should have been concentrated on by the previous Government. The last time we debated it was on 31 April, on the eve of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor and me going to Brussels for that significant weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "s Government. The last time we debated it was on 31 April, on the eve of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor and me going to Brussels for that significant weekend—[ Laughter. ] I am afraid that the juvenile tendency has crept back in again. On that weekend, 11 countries decided to join the single currency. Eleven countries are to join the euro zone. The European central bank is now up and running—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-21", "file": "debates1998-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "07c927817ebb1be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "ng the Euro-sceptics of the Conservative party, although I accept that there are Euro-sceptics also in the Labour ranks—rather than about the substantive issues. How will people feel when they go to the costas in Spain and the German in the next sunbed is paying for his beer in euros, has not had to pay any commission to a travel agent before his holiday and will not have to pay whenever he comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-21a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Mutual Societies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lock", "preceding_text": "est in the society. Secondly, I am secretary of the all-party occupational pensions group. Such pensions are provided by a mutual association which has provided an enormous amount of benefit in this century, and suffer from many of the problems that are faced by building societies. Thirdly, I am currently undertaking an Industry and Parliament Trust fellowship with the Nationwide building society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Sellafield and Dounreay (Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I see the hon. Gentleman leaping to his feet, but I said that I would not take any more interventions. Perhaps I can guess what he wants to say. The SNP has long opposed the idea of Scottish exports of nuclear waste to other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Sellafield and Dounreay (Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Cunningham", "preceding_text": "indicated assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion health and education spokesman has said that it is not enough. The defence spokesman has said that we are cutting defence spending, and that he wants more. The agriculture spokesman wants more, and the shadow Home Secretary wants more. In the interests of further public debate, let the right hon. Gentleman come to the Dispatch Box and tell us which part of the spending plans he disagrees with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh no.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Ashdown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " can. We have constantly pressed the United States but, to be fair to President Clinton, he agrees that the US should pay its arrears. As my hon. Friend implied, the problem is with the US Congress. We must keep up the pressure on America to pay its arrears and to make its contributions. It is in all our interests internationally that the US stays engaged. We shall make progress as fast as we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister also knows that the budget will not be in balance at any point of the economic cycle, according to the Chancellor's forecasts; that the Treasury now admits that its forecasts are more optimistic than the average of 27 leading City forecasters; that the new president of the Confederation of British Industries says that we are heading for higher taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As usual, we got not a single answer out of the right hon. Gentleman on any of the points that were put to him. As I explained to him a moment or two ago, our forecasts are actually based on the low end of the Treasury forecast, and are entirely consistent with all the independent forecasts. Furthermore, as a result of the forecasts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1120.6", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is a very robust House, and hon. Members on both sides have to discipline themselves so that we hear the questions that are put and the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1120.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafis", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has derived some kind of pleasure from picking up on a small point of definition. The people of Wales regard the seas off the Welsh coasts as being a part of Wales that impinges on their welfare and interests. As I understand it, the amendment is about defining where Wales comes to an end in the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn)", "preceding_text": "used to accept one. If the Assembly wanted to go down that road, paragraph 5 would prevent it from doing so. We are debating issues not of money but of principle. We are debating issues of how resources might be distributed in Wales differently from the way in which they are distributed in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Will the Assembly be prevented by the provision from such activities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones (Ynys Môn)", "preceding_text": "s might be distributed in Wales differently from the way in which they are distributed in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Will the Assembly be prevented by the provision from such activities? [Interruption.] What if the Welsh Assembly wants to innovate in matters covered by statutory instruments on equal pay or air quality standards? What if the Welsh Assembly wants to do different things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1144.9", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " them from standing up to speak. I shall talk briefly about amendments Nos. 108, 109 and 111. When lawyers see phrases such as \"Community law\", they really start getting worried—or at least, some of them do. Amendment No. 108, as contained in the booklet entitled, \"Lords amendments to the Government of Wales Bill\", would leave out the phrase \"Community law or\" from clause 108, in page 55, line 30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1144.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not want to delay the House by provoking the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "inet supported by a majority in the House of Commons. This is very much a subordinate body. We are asking to whom civil servants owe their duty of allegiance. Is it to the parliamentary apparatus headed by the Prime Minister, or to the Welsh Assembly? The Government have just said that the Welsh Assembly is merely a Crown body, so perhaps it falls into that. In the course of Lord Mostyn's address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, and that is why I am concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " Its application to Scotland compounds that outrage. As this is a Report stage, the Government must give detailed arguments as to why the measure is necessary. I rather suspect that it is that final point—that the civil servants would not owe their duty to Ministers and the Secretaries within the Parliament and the Assembly. Therefore, they have to draw Assembly leaders into the circle of secrecy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "No. I want to finish. Hon. Members on the Intelligence and Security Committee have to sign the Act for specific reasons, but why should Assembly Members have to sign it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "nd the Minister are relying on the proposition that the same discipline will apply in Wales. We do not say that it may not apply; it may, but there is no reason on earth not to have an amendment or a rule preventing that occurrence. The Secretary of State and the Minister presumably agree with the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department that this is a serious problem which needs tackling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "Our noble Friends in the other place have introduced exactly such a proposition to solve that problem. To move to the Secretary of State's serious arguments, he claims that it has other disadvantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "sing willingly to leave a Cabinet post—one of the highest posts in the Government, to which most Members of Parliament aspire only in their dreams. He is giving that up—at some point in the future—and is prepared to take a salary cut and all the reductions in status that his self-removal from the Cabinet will entail in order to help give birth to Wales's new democracy. Unlike Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1214.7", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " to hear that comment now from the hon. Gentleman. When it came to the Sunningdale agreement, he told us, \"You Unionists needn't worry; it rests with the majority.\" In the first referendum in Scotland—one hon. Member opposed it completely and said that he did not like what happened—a majority of people in the entire electorate were required to vote for devolution. That is what is in our amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-22", "file": "debates1998-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e350d303480729c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "the legislation we shall refer to the Republic of Ireland to distinguish it from Northern Ireland. That is clear. As I have said, the words in clause 1 are straight from the agreement, word for word. I hope that hon. Members understand the significance of the fact that the Irish Government have at last recognised that the United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland. That was a significant attachment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-22a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1242.5", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "leman will take note of that, and of what major economists and others have said about our plans. Richard Jeffrey, chief economist at Charterhouse, said: This is an incredibly conservative package that…wasn't imaginable from an old Labour Chancellor. Andrew Dilnot, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: The rate of growth of spending is going to be slower than under the last Government\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1245.5", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "a deficit of 1.5 per cent. of GDP, averaging £12 billion every year on current spending. So I ask the hon. Gentleman to consider who was prudent and who was imprudent. As for our spending plans, the Conservative party had better wake up to the fact that we are getting the debt-GDP ratio, which we inherited at 45 per cent., down to 40 per cent. and below. Therefore, we are running a prudent policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1262.4", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) and the Select Committee on Public Administration are looking forward to conducting pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. That makes it impossible, realistically, to put it in the Queen's Speech for next year. That is a matter of grave concern because, apart from anything else, before the general election some pretty firm assurances were given to my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Northern Ireland, one of which was to exclude from the Government of Northern Ireland those who would use or threaten violence. Again, under the Bill, there is no provision for such people to be excluded from Government, save if they themselves are not prepared to accept the pledge of office, or if the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady)and his party decide that they want them to be excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is the right hon. Member for Strangford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "I regret that I made a mistake in mentioning the right hon. Gentleman. Although I shall reply to his question, I was referring to what the right hon. Member for Strangford said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Must?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGrady", "preceding_text": "inked to a paramilitary organisation, be it republican or loyalist. However, the party would be debarred if that paramilitary element continued violence, and broke the ceasefires that it subscribed to. The hon. and learned Member for North Down argued that we must be careful not to interpret individual acts of violence—which we must have, unfortunately, as a hangover of 25 or 30 years of violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-23", "file": "debates1998-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "24b7ef309b15256d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is unparliamentary language.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "ng the suggestion of my hon. Friend the Minister of State that I reply to the debate on this group of amendments, I realised belatedly that it includes the d'Hondt principle. I looked through the amendments and rejoiced that nothing tested my algebra—until I came to the amendment tabled by the honourable anorak on the Liberal Democrat Benches, the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-23a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1352.3", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First World War (Executions)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Dr. John Reid)", "preceding_text": "ials throughout the land. Finally, there is one other thing that we can do as we look forward to a new millennium. The death penalty is still enshrined in our military law for five offences, including misconduct in action and mutiny. I can tell the House that Defence Ministers will invite Parliament to abolish the death penalty for military offences in the British armed forces in peace and in war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First World War (Executions)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "t them, and we have not done so. Today we pay tribute to them as well. However, I did point out that there were certain people—306 people—whose families had suffered a stigma for eight decades. I feel that, in the light of what we know, it was the view of the House as a whole that I was expressing when I said that that stigma should be lifted, and that those people should be recognised as victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First World War (Executions)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "No; we wish to shout no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-24", "file": "debates1998-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "49cc65f50e7299d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1393.7", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-24a.1393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.4.9", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "schools. I am one of those who believe that it is ridiculous to suggest that bright kids read books and thickos do sports, but some element of that stereotyping seems still to exist. Literacy and numeracy are assisted by physical education, so I am not concerned in that sense. I am, however, keeping a careful eye on matters. I have completely forgotten the second part of my hon. Friend's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.4.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "ve Government interference across the board, but let me return to the tourism industry. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the speech made by the chairman of the English tourist board only last week, in which he drew attention to the grave concern expressed by the industry about the then rumours that the English tourist board would be abolished? Did not a recent telephone poll by Travel Weekly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "he poll revealed 97 per cent. support in the industry for enhancing and strengthening the English tourist board. Before the Secretary of State sets out on his flight to Tuscany, still heaving sighs of relief, will he please reflect on the fact that he will be returning later in the year to an industry that has had to put up with not only the lousy weather, for which we do not blame the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "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": " that there was no policy by Ministers to breach the arms embargo, and there was no conspiracy among officials to undermine Government policy. As the Legg report finds, there were a number of misjudgments by officials, largely due to overload. I have therefore asked the permanent secretary to interview each of the relevant officials and to counsel them on the basis of the findings concerning them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "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": "t of the reason why mistakes were made by staff under impossible pressure. The recent spending review provides the first real increase in the Foreign Office budget for half a dozen years. I have given instructions that part of that increase must be used to strengthen the number of staff on the hard-pressed desks dealing with west Africa and Sierra Leone. The last lesson of the Legg report is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "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": "bring the Foreign Office up to date with working practices and policy thinking in the outside world. We shall introduce assessment centres to evaluate staff performance to make sure that promotion is made on merit. We shall reduce the hierarchy in the Foreign Office to enable officials to take more responsibility sooner. We shall improve the gender and ethnic balance throughout the Foreign Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "of the Scott inquiry. I am bound to say that I came back with more than five questions. The right hon. and learned Gentleman's reading of the report does not seem to have been complete. He quoted paragraph 9.55 as showing that my hon. Friend the Minister of State did not closely consider the documents that were given to him because, as it stated in the paragraph \"their allegations were sensitive\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend both for his statement and for his thanks to me for making the report available to him six hours before this statement. He has plainly considered the report with his usual close attention and diligence. I confirm that he has come to the absolutely correct conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Legg Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The most obvious defence to paragraph 3.20 is that it does not refer to my hon. Friend the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "upport of applicants and those awaiting removal and deportation in a system that was a shambles from beginning to end. That was the system we found when we came into office. I have read the debates in which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I took part in 1992–93 and 1995–96. One reason that we opposed those measures was that we said that they would not deliver the changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked whether we will reverse the staff cuts. The answer is yes. We inherited the computer system—such matters cuts across all Governments at all times—and it is behind schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.52.4", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary recollect that, when we were in opposition, he and I and several others had a lot and a half to say about trauma and the fact that some of those who were seeking asylum had suffered very recent terrible trauma?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.52.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "ed the Civic Forum, the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, the North-South Ministerial Council and implementation bodies established under Clause 68 shall cease to exist. Many people in Northern Ireland would be very concerned if they thought that the all-Ireland aspects of the deal would live on if the Assembly were dissolved or prorogued. That would be contrary to the Belfast agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-27", "file": "debates1998-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "60b31e27bf14c7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Inevitably, the hon. Members for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) and for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) have tried to portray the north-south ministerial council as a sinister plot that, within a relatively short period, will take Northern Ireland into the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-27a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "more representative of the local communities they serve. Why then is there no longer a representative of general practitioners on the Shropshire health authority? Why then is there no longer a representative from the Ludlow constituency on the Shropshire health authority? Why is it that 50 per cent. of representatives on the Shropshire health authority are from the socialist stronghold of Telford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.176.8", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "These amendments relate to amendments tabled at the House of Commons Report stage in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ann Keen), to equalise the age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual activity at the age of 16.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.176.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "n to the important point that my hon. Friend makes. The debate in the other place was conducted as one would have hoped that a debate in any second Chamber would have been conducted. A cross-section of speakers took part. There was a free vote—not on party lines. As anyone who listened to the debate knows, that point was vigorously made, not by a Conservative peer, but by Lord Stoddart of Swindon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton) received wide support. Wide concern was also expressed about the report of Sir William Utting on the abuse of young people—I emphasise again that we are talking about boys and girls. If the clause had been in the Bill from the start, proper consideration could have been given to the issues. It is a great pity and a great sadness that that was not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "of the Saturday or Sunday newspapers but was tabled quietly and discreetly on Friday 12 June, on a day when most hon. Members had gone home. That was done because, as everybody knows, there must be two weekends between tabling a new clause and debating it. The debate was then fixed within the absolute minimum time—a week the following Monday. That was a day when the football was on the television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "the amendments and 600 envelopes typed. Amendments are no longer published every day as they used to be; we have to wait until Thursdays to have them published, so nobody knew that my amendments had been tabled. I sat stuffing letters into envelopes until midnight. A good Christian movement charity called Care asked whether I wanted some help, so Care finished putting the letters in the envelopes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "It is the oldest trick in the book to denigrate by abuse when one does not have a brief. With all respect to my hon. Friend, that is what the media do and what cheap-jack lawyers do when they have no brief—they denigrate witnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "I have never said that, and I said in my opening remarks in the previous debate that gays were not child abusers, but the age of consent is a major deterrent to anyone who is thinking of abusing a young person. They know that is against the law and carries severe penalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Member who supports the legalisation for gay sex at 16. Is she aware that various supporters of the legislation—homosexual organizations—want to attach to the new Government Bill other provisions, such as the repeal of clause 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools? Labour Members shake their heads—but if that were so, would my hon. Friend support a new Bill in the next Session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-28", "file": "debates1998-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b2661bfdf13594c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.277.8", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "The House will be pleased to know that this is the last time this evening that I shall get on my feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-28a.277.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "l practicality and need. Another cause of concern in Cumbria is transport, which is vital to us in the far north-west of England. I know that many colleagues have long distances to travel, and there is always tremendous sympathy for Scottish colleagues who may want to go home on a Thursday evening. I have no sympathy for them. The last plane may be the Glasgow shuttle, which leaves at half-past 8—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "mbria is transport, which is vital to us in the far north-west of England. I know that many colleagues have long distances to travel, and there is always tremendous sympathy for Scottish colleagues who may want to go home on a Thursday evening. I have no sympathy for them. The last plane may be the Glasgow shuttle, which leaves at half-past 8—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight o'clock.\"]—the 8 o'clock shuttle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": " recess, I hope that she will assure us that her commitment to pressing ahead with her predecessor's urge to reform and modernise the House and bring it into the 20th if not the 21st century is undiminished. I remind the right hon. Lady that a distinguished former Member, Mr. Belisha, gave the country his beacons, and that another distinguished former Member, Kenneth Baker, now in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "ave led some people to think that the British Government are allowing the Government of Sudan to get away with using starvation as a weapon of war? Does she accept that the USA is reported by some sources to be backing the rebels in southern Sudan, where there are oil deposits? In view of that perception, what discussions have taken place with the USA about its potential role in the peace process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the Secretary of State replies, the House must come to order as one can very seldom hear the Members who are speaking. I want to hear the response of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.364.7", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right honourable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have made clear their view, with a very large majority indeed in favour of banning hunting. My right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.364.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "orm has even been appointed. Will the annual report of the Government, to be published today, tell the real story of the last year—that welfare bills are higher than a year ago; that waiting lists are higher; that class sizes are higher; that taxes are higher; that interest rates are higher; that inflation is higher; that exports are falling; that unemployment is rising; that output is stagnating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.365.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think I shall stick with the conventions that I outlined a moment or two ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Clearly that idea was not in the Labour manifesto. What we object to is cuts in help for people who are trying to be independent of the state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "ter's White Paper on immigration and asylum fail to deal with the huge problem of the tens of thousands of people in this country who have lost all their immigration appeals and should no longer be here, who have gone to ground and are at addresses that are not known to the authorities and who are effectively a huge burden on the taxpayer? I appreciate that the problem has existed for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Helen Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Helen Southworth", "preceding_text": "entre. It is a place where younger people, living in areas that have been affected by the troubles in Northern Ireland, in southern Ireland and in England, will be able to meet, build some bridges, break down some barriers and make some friendships in an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding. Will my right hon. Friend give his full support to the people in communities all across these islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.372.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.398.7", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "le that the Select Committee Report created such a critical impression when the reality is the opposite. In a press release, the British Hospitality Association said: The industry has never received so much interest from government and we are happy that we have built up a very fruitful relationship with both ministers and officials in government generally and at the DCMS in particular. On 12 June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.398.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "ds operating together. In arts, it is not just the building, but what goes on in the building, that counts. At Buxton opera house, we have opera—as the name suggests—traditional and modern theatre, comedy, the choir of the year competition and lots of music. People my age enjoy the opportunity once a year to see Robert Plant and Jimmy Page reminding us of what Led Zeppelin were like at their best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "with red polka dots; then a blue tie; then the final transmogrification took place—the colour purple. The backdrop at the Labour party conference—sadly, for the last time in Blackpool—changed colour from red to puce. It would have been pale blue, but that would have clashed with Tony's tie. Of course, those were the days when Labour considered Blackpool. After September, Blackpool will be no more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Mr. Tony Banks)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Mr. Tony Banks)", "preceding_text": "ge. I pay tribute to the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), whom we supported in setting up the lottery. The right hon. Lady was right to say that it has brought enormous benefits to sport, arts and culture. We warmly supported the lottery when we were in opposition, so we need no lessons about how it benefits people. There are many other points that I should like to make. On Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "s that it made six months ago. Today's debate, however, is about more than broken promises. It is about the damage being done, week in, week out, to the countryside and to rural communities throughout England—damage to environments that have been cherished for generations, environments that Labour is destroying with a ruthlessness that no previous Labour Government, however left wing, ever showed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "opathy crisis, which certainly began under the previous Government. And we are providing financial support to the dispensing services of pharmacists who are more than 1 km from another pharmacist. This afternoon, I announced details of my Department's proposed spending on rural programmes in the light of the comprehensive spending review. I am pleased to tell the House that spending will increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend's comment about the possibility of there being more than one rural member on the board of RDAs will be widely welcomed in rural communities. When the Tories left office in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.439.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "introduction of RDAs. Is my right hon. Friend aware that, when my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mrs. Organ) secured an Adjournment debate on rural poverty, only three members of the Conservative party thought it important enough to attend? One was the shadow Minister, who sat down after five minutes because he wanted to hear from the Minister; one was a rural Member and the other was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "asion, that the Government graciously lent Shropshire another £2.5 million. These circumstances will lead to real pressures to resist an increase in population. Cuts in services have not been thought through. There are real costs involved in delivering services to a rural area, and the most obvious is transport. The Government do not understand that. The White Paper which was introduced last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "hought through. There are real costs involved in delivering services to a rural area, and the most obvious is transport. The Government do not understand that. The White Paper which was introduced last week— [Interruption.] The Minister jumps up and down, and laughs, but 60 per cent. of people in Shropshire drive to work. It is just not on to pretend that we can impose a Gosplan-type fixed system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "mps up and down, and laughs, but 60 per cent. of people in Shropshire drive to work. It is just not on to pretend that we can impose a Gosplan-type fixed system— [Interruption.] It is not possible to impose a coherent publicly planned transport policy on an area such as Shropshire. In my constituency, which has 98 villages, that cannot be done. As I have said, 60 per cent. of people drive to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "s a tax on every business throughout north Shropshire, as is the increase in the price of diesel. Distribution is a major business in north Shropshire. Diesel costs 30 to 40 per cent. more in this country than on the continent, the rate of vehicle excise duty in France is a sixth of the rate in this country—and the Minister laughs, even though 95 per cent. of goods are transported by road freight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ease is 26 per cent. spread over three years. The increase of 11 per cent. in the first year is only £18 million. How does that compare with the £9 billion in extra fuel duties? How many new bus services per village would £50 million buy? Even if it were to double the provision of rural bus services, a village would get perhaps four services a day instead of two. What alternative is that to a car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ear is only £18 million. How does that compare with the £9 billion in extra fuel duties? How many new bus services per village would £50 million buy? Even if it were to double the provision of rural bus services, a village would get perhaps four services a day instead of two. What alternative is that to a car? [Interruption.] The answer to that question was thought to be the transport White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "e the point, as he has on previous occasions, that town and country are mutually dependent. It is certainly this Government's policy, as we have said on more than one occasion, to govern for all the people, which is why we are targeting so many of our activities and, indeed, so much of our finance, towards redressing the appalling damage that was inflicted on rural areas by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four to five hundred.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I think that the Secretary of State said forty-five hundred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.478.8", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": " of that being delivered. I have therefore specified the INLA. The Loyalist Volunteer Force or LVF has been responsible for many murders. In May this year, the LVF declared a ceasefire—a welcome step. It has also named a contact person with the decommissioning body, and meetings have taken place. However, a ceasefire must be demonstrated in acts as well as words. I hope that that will be the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.478.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I shall turn to punishment beatings in a moment, when I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman's point. There have been 960 punishment beatings by both sides since the first ceasefire. I have made it clear that I think that punishment beatings are appalling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ion Against Drugs, murdered quite a number of people. The then Secretary of State, now Lord Mayhew of Twysden, said to the House that the ceasefire was continuing, despite the crimes that were being committed by an IRA front organisation. The present situation is nothing new; it is a question of balance and what sort of conclusion should be reached by the Secretary or State in any given situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " to that agreement because, if their proposals were carried through, the whole edifice would fall. I understand that from the dissident Unionists, from the Democratic Unionist party and from the United Kingdom Unionist party, but the attitude that has been taken by Her Majesty's Opposition on this matter seems specifically designed to weaken the whole of the Belfast agreement and to bring it down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.490.4", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "nyone in this Chamber to question the idea that the Secretary of State has sincerely attempted to make the best decision that she possibly can with the information that she has at her disposal. Let us not pretend that we all have the same quality of information before us. The Secretary of State, by the very nature of her job, has access to more insightful and more detailed information than others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.490.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-29", "file": "debates1998-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "4f93ebd39605c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Parliamentary Oaths (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-29a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I regard the lifting of the beef ban as a top priority for me and for the Ministry. I assure the hon. Gentleman that I take it very seriously. His point about confidence was also right; I accept that I have a duty to set a lead. Yesterday, I went to Asda to look at its display of British beef—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He's writing out redundancies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "iously. His point about confidence was also right; I accept that I have a duty to set a lead. Yesterday, I went to Asda to look at its display of British beef— [Interruption.] I am trying to make this answer an all-party effort by including both the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman), who is the Conservative Member most connected with Asda, although he is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is indeed a challenge for all of us to secure a better voting system, but I might add that the countries that do better do not necessarily have proportional representation, which is the Liberals' answer to everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "say. I understand that the Leader of the Opposition made that point to the local government conference when he said that he wanted people to have a greater say in matters relating to local councils. I welcome those remarks. The hon. Gentleman referred to value for money. The efficient production of services is important and the White Paper is designed to achieve it. The compulsory spending review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " findings and all the ideas; I agree that it may contribute to the arguments and debates on the Government side of the House. However, new ideas will have to be judged in terms of accountability. I have always thought that proportional representation means that 5 per cent. of the electorate run the Government, as we have seen in Germany and other countries. So I am not convinced about that either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ves. As for the powers of intervention and the powers of local authorities to get on with some jobs, new powers and new resources are involved, and the procedures that we have set out for partnerships give them greater authority and autonomy to do some of those things within the balanced framework that we have set. I cannot read my notes here; I am sure that the hon. Gentleman made one last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "bility of holding a series of debates, preferably opened by the Prime Minister, to give the House an opportunity to debate the performance of each Government Department? I do not wish to cause my right hon. Friend any embarrassment, but will she ensure that the Department of Trade and Industry is at the top of that list of debates, so that we can highlight its achievements over the past 15 years——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "Looking ahead to business on our return, may I invite my right hon. Friend to make a statement following the resignation comments of Lord Richard, who has implied that it is unlikely that there will be any Lords reform other than setting up the wholly undemocratic, unelected council of life peers? As a proud moderniser and, along with her, diligent custodian of the Labour manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"But not by business.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "May I, too, warmly welcome my right hon. Friend to her new post, and congratulate her on her outstanding performance in her previous job, which was widely appreciated on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-07-30", "file": "debates1998-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "1b6204f327de2c24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Those of us who were present for the Committee stage will realise that many of the amendments that were accepted came from the Government, while few if any amendments have been accepted from the Opposition. It should be remembered that those of us who sit on this side of the House represent the vast majority of the people in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-07-30a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "enteen were Roman Catholic, 11 were Protestant, 11 were under the age of 18. The dead included three from the Republic, and two from Spain. Over 200 people were injured, many very seriously. More than 50 continue to receive medical treatment in hospitals around the country. The whole House will want to join me in expressing our disgust, outrage and total condemnation of those who were responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "e the UK. We will not forget the horror of Omagh, but I say this to those who perpetrated that outrage: \"You sought to wreck the agreement, and you failed. You sought to divide the community, and you failed. You sought to win new support, and you failed. You failed because violence and terror represent the past in Northern Ireland, and democracy and peace represent the future in Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with that view, for the reasons that I have expressed. It is a matter of judgment as to whether reintroducing internment at present would help the situation. The hon. Gentleman was part of the previous Government for a long period and I notice that they did not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "be part of the consultative paper to be published in the autumn. It will have gone and will not be part of that general discussion. If that is true, we will not be able to return to it; we have been told that one of the major concessions under the Bill is that we will be able to look at it every year. I urge my hon. Friends to think very carefully on this matter. It would be very easy not to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "If I may just make this point, I shall give way to the right hon. Gentleman, my hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) and the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I would have preferred to have time to discuss these matters in parliamentary Labour party committees and to get to the detail. I want some clarification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.755.7", "colnum": "755", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I was about to accept my hon. and learned Friend's offer—until he said that he would do the work for nothing. People get what they pay for when it comes to legal advice; and I say that as someone who used to earn an honest copper at the Bar. What that absolutely transparent sentence means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.755.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " well, it will go to the Lords and become law tomorrow. By any measure, that gives Parliament precious little time to subject the important measures in the Bill to scrutiny. I am concerned about parliamentary scrutiny—with respect to the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Grant), who said that there should have been a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party, as its opinion was a crucial determinant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "le time to subject the important measures in the Bill to scrutiny. I am concerned about parliamentary scrutiny—with respect to the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Grant), who said that there should have been a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party, as its opinion was a crucial determinant. [Interruption.] He was corrected by the Home Secretary—although even then he did not seem to get the hint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": " advice at some time before he is subject to a caution, a suggestion or a charge. What happens if the solicitor says, \"Say nothing—that is my advice to you\"? The suspect says nothing and, coupled with the other matters that we have mentioned, is found guilty. What happens if the solicitor asks to see the evidence and the police say, \"Sorry, it is subject to a public interest immunity certificate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Equipment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "nterview. We do not have audio recording in Northern Ireland, although as my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) has pointed out, we could have it within a week if the RUC pulled its finger out, because the equipment has been available for a long time. If necessary, the RUC could take everyone down to Strand road police station for interview, where we know the information is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trimble", "preceding_text": "Why, then, is there argument about passing legislation to make the planning of such acts from here in the United Kingdom an offence, and to try to prevent such things from occurring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Conspiring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is wrong. Two things are needed: there needs to be an offence in the country concerned; and that act needs to be an offence here. If it is not an offence here, there can be no prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "d I pay him the great compliment of saying that he got it just about right. Internment has been replaced by a method of prosecution for membership of a list of proscribed organisations. Those proscribed organisations will disappear with time, just as many of their forebears have gone. With them disappears the necessity for this part of the Bill. I seek an assurance on that from the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Distant future\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": " when the country in which the crime is intended to be committed and that in which it is thought up are different. I have tried to be as brief as possible. I have some reservations. I promised the Attorney-General that I would put formally on the record my view that, while he is the Attorney-General, I am not too worried about bad cases getting into court. However, I will be worried in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ople have the right to win that liberty—by force, if necessary. Clinton is coming to Northern Ireland tomorrow. George Washington was a terrorist against George HI. In the old days, no one could get into America without swearing that they did not believe in the overthrow of the Head of State by force. I used to say, \"I agree with you: George Washington was wrong.\" They did not like that very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "ights of many people will be jeopardised. The human rights of people in Northern Ireland and, indeed, throughout this United Kingdom have been jeopardised only by the actions of terrorists over the past 28 years. Some mistakes have been reciprocal to the violence, but no Government set out to undermine the civil rights of people in our society. Many of my colleagues regard me as being too liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "r for Chesterfield and the hon. Member for Hull, North have said that we tried this and that and that it did not work. The right hon. Gentleman knows that, if Governments had not taken such measures, the bloodshed would have been much worse as two traditions, fearful of each other, would have been let loose, resulting in a much greater tragedy than the one that has occurred over the past 28 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ot consider me soft on terrorism. Perhaps I could be considered tough on civil liberties and the need to avoid denials of them. That might ring a bell with the Government Front Bench. On such an important issue, some emergency action is needed in the national interest. Surely, such briefing as was available to Labour Back Benchers last week should have been made available to the rest of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "Secretary has given assurances on that and on the annual review that will take place, in line with a published report. The hon. Gentleman also mentioned clauses 5 and 6. In deciding whether to bring a prosecution under those clauses, the authorities, including the Attorney-General, will consider the public interest, the human rights situation in the country in which the offence is to be committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.847.7", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ut, when we consider the manner in which the Bill has been introduced, the extraordinary confusion that existed yesterday, when a draft Bill was made available and, subsequently, the Bill itself was properly made available only at 2.30 this afternoon, and all the other things that have already been said, the reality is that the Bill requires very careful examination. An enormous amount depends on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.847.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "No. I ask the Committee to accept the recommendations before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "This is the second of the helpful amendments that I am moving this evening. It concerns audio-recording.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ven for him. The amendments under discussion bring all the terrorist organisations within the ambit of the Bill. In so doing, they perform a valuable service by removing the distinction that has been created in recent months between good terrorists—those terrorist organisations not currently engaged in an active murder campaign for political and constitutional ends—and the bad terrorists, who are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "Terrorism is defined in the prevention of terrorism legislation—with which the hon. Gentleman will be familiar, having opposed quite a bit of it over the years—and primary legislation introduced by Governments that he otherwise supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I understand the Minister's argument about the significance of paedophilia, which we all want tackle. We all want to ensure that we rid ourselves of child abuse. However, I understand, although I do not agree with the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "building, damaging vehicles or a series of other offences. In Britain, defining such offences as conspiracies would be unjustified because there are democratic means of protesting when one disagrees with something, but we might feel that they were justified in countries where there is no democratic means to do so. Such offences will be caught by this legislation unless we achieve some definitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-09-02", "file": "debates1998-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "d6e09085d20aed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " is a precedent for a Minister going back to the Cabinet and saying that he has heard what the House of Commons has to say, that he is uneasy, that perhaps his parliamentary colleagues have a point, and that his Cabinet colleagues should postpone the action that they propose to take. I do not think that members of the Conservative Front Bench will quibble if I use the example of Iranian sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-09-02a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "e Government that they have completely failed on that agenda? My hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) asked a specific question about the Government's failure to cut any costs. By their own figures, everything that they have done has raised the cost of social security. Does the right hon. Gentleman now accept that Library figures show that they inherited a budget that was falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "he existing carriers and goes ahead with that, he will be unable to build the new carriers. When the Secretary of State made a statement to the House on 16 July, did he know about that? If so, why did not he tell us? Why did not he tell us then that he was examining that option as an alternative to building the new carriers? If he did not know on 16 July, I presume that the idea came to him later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to say that this is an empty promise from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I have already gone into what it is for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "public spending crash into reality, the Chancellor is to conduct further raids on the defence budget. Nothing could better illustrate where the Government's priorities lie and that the Secretary of State is not master in his own house. The only way that I can see of getting those new carriers completed is to build them at Rosyth—the Chancellor would at least have an interest in their construction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "While on the subject of the Chancellor's involvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": ". The TA provides those links. Plans for TA cuts have been examined in extraordinary secrecy over the past few weeks. TA staff have been forbidden to talk to local Members of Parliament; a TA officer who gave me a modest amount of advice has been reprimanded for it; the Secretary of State banned all serving personnel from attending any of my \"Listening to Britain\" meetings; the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "cuts in defence expenditure, unless the Government have the guts to say that they will qualitatively change the nature of our armed forces. Perhaps the MOD was smart in making a pre-emptive strike against the Treasury by throwing money at it. I likened that to the villagers in \"King Kong\" hiding behind their stockades and sending out an occasional virgin in the hope that the monster would go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "xpanding economy, as many of our constituents know. Britain is teetering on the edge of a recession. As recently as a fortnight ago, the Chancellor admitted that he would have to adjust growth forecasts, perhaps to 1 per cent. or less. There is a potential black hole of about £36 billion in the middle of the public finances. It is a downturn made in Downing street, and it will challenge Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-19", "file": "debates1998-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "19b85ce06068f18d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "tract: I should have thought that was self-evident from the definition. It is standard practice, and it is unfortunate that the Opposition feel the need to engage in such scaremongering to hide their complete lack of any ideas. As I have said, these were prudent Government arrangements, nothing more and nothing less, and exactly what was done before. I hope that we can now lay that canard to rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-19a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "preceding_text": "pport services without reducing the responsibilities that continued to be imposed on them. For the first time, we have a defence review that is actually about defence, not about grabbing money from the defence budget. It has been suggested from the Opposition Benches that the carriers will not be part and parcel of what is proposed for the future—that the Government will renege on that commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cann", "preceding_text": "esponsibilities that continued to be imposed on them. For the first time, we have a defence review that is actually about defence, not about grabbing money from the defence budget. It has been suggested from the Opposition Benches that the carriers will not be part and parcel of what is proposed for the future—that the Government will renege on that commitment. [Interruption.] Goodbye, Mr. Soames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": " is too broad in the beam. However, the Ministry of Defence wants it back. It says, \"If you won't give us it back you will have to pay for it.\" We are willing to pay for it and we have offered the MOD 5,000 quid. If it does not get 5,000 quid, what will it do about it? It is mind boggling. It is the sort of thing that Michael Bentine made his reputation on. I am appealing to the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Savidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Savidge", "preceding_text": "st be to stop proliferation, and to ensure that a multilateral nuclear disarmament process takes place. The final threat to which I referred was the possibility of global nuclear war. I am sure that we would all agree that that threat has greatly reduced since the ending of the cold war and the halting of the nuclear arms race, which was largely as a result of the initiatives of Mikhail Gorbachev—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " own father, who I am glad to say is still alive, this country has been grievously threatened. How are we treating our guardians? In every defence debate, Ministers praise the calibre of our soldiers, sailors and airmen. The Minister for the Armed Forces has just done so. I agree: I personally believe that they are indeed the best, or among the best, in the world. That usually gets a \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Into their drink?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": " surprising if Ministers said, \"We hereby present the SDR, and the defence chiefs don't agree with us.\" Defence chiefs are unlikely to want to disagree with a new Labour Government. They will be nice to their bosses in ministerial offices and are unlikely to voice their criticisms in public or in private. However, I have heard one or two defence chiefs mumbling into their drink at service dinners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-20", "file": "debates1998-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0a773877920eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "ategic defence review liaison team was apparently surprised a year ago by the extent of discontent in the armed forces. Morale was described as between \"good and adequate\", and although personnel were keen to get on with their work\", the liaison team found a more deep seated pessimism about the long term future of the defence of the United Kingdom\". In particular, it found considerable scepticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-20a.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": " know, having been on the payroll of the Ministry of Defence, we have proper committees to deal with such matters, and this case has been reconsidered. It has also been considered by a number of Ministers, as I shall explain in a moment. I do not remember whether Churchill dealt with the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, but I bow to the knowledge of the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Information Technology", "cue_speaker": "Ms Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Moran", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Of course, as we have said, the economic difficulties we face, in part as a result of world conditions, are faced by countries around the world. What is important, however, is that we have the right spending and the right monetary policy. The right hon. Gentleman's party is now committed to reversing Bank of England independence. That would be a terrible mistake for the interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he world. What is important, however, is that we have the right spending and the right monetary policy. The right hon. Gentleman's party is now committed to reversing Bank of England independence. That would be a terrible mistake for the interests of the country. [Interruption.] The Tories shake their heads. Will they shake their heads at this—that they are opposed to our extra spending next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1302.2", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NO REMEDIAL ORDER BEFORE DETERMINATION OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "t to the House to explain ourselves. In those circumstances, there would be a number of options. First, we could accept the declaration of incompatibility and bring forward remedial orders, and that is a straightforward process. Secondly, we could make a compromise and say that we half accepted it—a solution that normally appeals to Ministers and their legal advisers—and cobble something together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-21", "file": "debates1998-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "881d2bd6cd9355bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "iticisms of the Government trying to ride roughshod over Parliament. I hope that, by so doing, I will not be accused of hyperbole—although I may get the occasional rise of an eyebrow from a Labour Member. However, the Government are attempting to ride roughshod over Parliament. That is being demonstrated by the Jenkins commission, which is rigged in both its composition and its terms of reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-21a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-10-22", "file": "debates1998-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "51122471f0f4bb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cruel and unusual punishment.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "After all the statements have been made about General Pinochet, and if all else fails, may I offer a decent suggestion? The official solicitor should gently take him by the hand to Mrs. Thatcher's flat, and force him to live there for the next six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-22", "file": "debates1998-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "51122471f0f4bb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "It was not only far too long but unhelpful. It would be wise if I did not give way again because of the danger of spurious remarks distracting the House from the important points that I shall make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-22", "file": "debates1998-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "51122471f0f4bb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "noon. They are now running around Devon organising meetings and campaigning against the proposal that they passed on the afternoon of 30 July. That is a good Liberal story, is it not? The Liberals talk about sustainable development, but those 90,000 houses are unsustainable. They talk about environmental sensitivity, but they are not the least bit sensitive to the environment. I must now conclude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-22", "file": "debates1998-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "51122471f0f4bb2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "European Structural Funds", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "preceding_text": "in criteria for the objective. These figures are partly based on sample surveys. Even the Office for National Statistics itself says that the estimates cannot be regarded as accurate to the last digit shown. Yet on that basis a member of the cabinet of Commissioner Monika Wolf-Mathies, who obviously must be a very important person as he was asked before the Select Committee in another place, said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-22a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " will have to satisfy a risk assessment that will be carried out by the Prison Service, and we expect that about 50 per cent. of those who are eligible will qualify for the scheme. The length of the curfew—which is the point of the hon. Gentleman's question—will be determined by the length of the sentence. In order to avoid unfair anomalies, section 99 of the relevant Act sets out a sliding scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I can certainly give that assurance to my hon. Friend. As he knows, I paid an interesting visit to his constituency, looked at some of the problem areas and also spoke to a meeting in King's Lynn on a wet Friday evening, at which 700 good citizens of King's Lynn turned up to hear me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Young of 500,000 job losses. Ernst and Young identify the problem as the fundamental mismatch between monetary and fiscal policy…which has led to unnaturally high interest rates unfairly penalising manufacturers at the expense of booming service industries. The forecasted job losses would reduce manufacturing employment—this is a startling figure—to levels not seen in Britain for 150 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ore the end of the century. Job losses in the two sectors alone could amount to more than 500,000. That is why we need action. What should we do? In taking account of the intervention of the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow), I would prefer to resist the temptation to pay too much attention to the official Opposition's pronouncements on those matters. What an utter shambles they have become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "gering £147.7 billion in the previous Parliament alone. They have in fact just one economic policy: to be twice as undecided as the Government on the single currency. That is not any kind of alternative. The shadow Treasury team sounds like the only group of politicians that could be trusted to make an even bigger mess of the Indonesian economy. Our alternative would be to focus on four key areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither is the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Conservative party was in government, Britain had lower growth than any other major industrialised country and suffered two major recessions. We do not need to look back 18 years to examine the Tory legacy. We could turn the clock back just eight years to when the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude), was a Treasury Minister. I regret that he is not here this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is wrong. I do not believe that she attended all the debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "That is very revealing. We know that the carbon tax, or whatever the Liberal Democrats call it, means that petrol would have to triple in price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ates have peaked. Of course they were set at the level required to get inflation down. We did bring down inflation to meet our target. At the election, inflation was below 2.5 per cent., as promised by the Conservative Government. I am trying to recall what interest rates peaked at to deal with Labour's inflation in the mid-1970s, but the figures elude me. No doubt someone will be able to tell me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "onsumer boom in his first Budget. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) said in reply to the Chancellor back in July last year, instead of shackling businesses, the Chancellor should restrain the consumer in order to prevent high interest rates. Of course Liberal Democrats support the independence of the Bank of England. That policy, borrowed from our manifesto, is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.75.7", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I have already given way several times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.75.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.75.9", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Economy", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "We shall stick to our £40 billion of planned additional spending on health and education, which the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton and other Conservative Members do not want us to spend. We favour additional spending on health and education, whereas Conservatives are against it. That is one of the biggest differences between us and the modern Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.75.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "on some matters in his speech, they are part of the Liberal Democrats' motion, and I shall deal with them. Some matters are more important than others, because they are more pressing. One such matter is the calf processing scheme. During the summer recess, we announced our decision on the statutory implications of that scheme, which will end on 30 November. As of today, that is still the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I must move on. The hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West mentioned the \"Buy British\" policy. That suggestion comes from the Liberal Democrats who would, by and large, have had this country in the EC before 1972 without any negotiation. A \"Buy British\" campaign is contrary to our obligations under the treaty of Rome and would be outlawed straight away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "rter of his speech was devoted to an extraordinarily trivial series of party political points. When he reads Hansard tomorrow, even he will be ashamed of the way in which he opened the debate. Even the deplorably low standards of the Liberal Democrats were plumbed to a new low. The Conservative party believes that the crisis in agriculture is far more important than scoring party political points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spring chicken.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "hat is why I will support and welcome any short-term measures that the Minister can find to help the industry today and in the short term. The Ministry must look to the medium and long term, however, because the current crisis will not be brief. I must declare an interest as a vice-president of the Devon young farmers, although some people might be surprised that I have been called a young farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "siness, there will be a related fallout for other industries and jobs. If the medium to long-term fallout in the country or even in specific sectors of farming is comparable to that experienced by other industries in the 1980s, I hope that the Labour Government will follow the Conservative Government's example and recognise that they need to help certain communities, either by region or by sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "hich we have all witnessed. Although, as I said, I do not represent a farming community, I have spent much of the summer going around farms and speaking with farmers; I also saw parts of the food industry and spoke with food producers. There can no doubt about the problem facing farmers and food producers. Nevertheless, in this debate, we have not heard a possible solution from Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.120.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-10-26", "file": "debates1998-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "51886eeac6a83153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Farming and Food", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "It does not concern me which Minister is summing up. Does the House give leave to the Minister to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-26a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.137.6", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "I welcome the action that the Government have taken so far. Does my hon. Friend agree that the universal declaration of human rights is just that: universal? It should therefore apply to all countries, including Malaysia, China, India and Pakistan and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and north America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.137.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about China?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "undoubted good will towards Argentina now that it is a democracy, but make it clear that he should understand that it is important to allow the due process of law to take place regarding General Pinochet? That very process of law, I am glad to say, is being carried out in Argentina. There should be an understanding that there can be no amnesty and no safe haven for mass murderers such as Pinochet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.163.7", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " simple regional list system—some people call it the closed list system—is the most appropriate way for the voters of Great Britain to elect their Members of the European Parliament. I shall not, unless tempted—this is a serious warning to my hon. Friends—go over much old ground on the pros and cons of proportional representation, multi-Member regions, or the size and composition of those regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.163.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "If what the Conservative party were putting forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.166.7", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "m, I think that there will be a good degree of choice. It is the choice of a party. When I stand in Blackburn, I stand as the Labour candidate. If people want to vote Labour, they must vote for me. Let none of us believe that, if we stood simply as the J. Straw party, we would get the same number of votes. That has been tried once or twice. I remember S. O. Davis, who was a legend in his lifetime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "e point, when about 20 Labour Members were here, it was a matter not so much of his trying to convince us as of his trying to convince them. He was obviously totally unsuccessful. Most of them have now fled, and I am not surprised. Even the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth), looked rather doubtful by the end of the Home Secretary's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ill take my party's reservations seriously as well. I hope that I speak as a totally loyal member of my party, although I disagree with it on certain occasions—such as tonight. I must confess that I have wondered where I would be ranked if I were to stand for pre-selection as a Member of the European Parliament. I believe that this has been a good debate, although I have missed a great deal of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that a Stalinist approach has been adopted to get rid of Ken Coates and others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "m wage next spring, pushed up the cost to business by 40 per cent. through additional regulation. Do they know that their own compliance cost assessment says that it is going to be more than £2,000 million a year to pay for working time? Does the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) realise that the extra money will come out of business, which means less investment and less employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Mr. Ian McCartney)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Mr. Ian McCartney)", "preceding_text": "servative Government passed the European Communities Act, which provides for European directives to be implemented by statutory instrument. All directives, including this one, have been scrutinised by the Select Committee on European Legislation. There has been public consultation on implementation—of two directives, if the previous consultation conducted by the Conservative Administration counts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr.McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.McCartney", "preceding_text": "Sit down. There are rights to rest breaks during the working day. There are rights to rest periods from work, including the right to a day off a week. My God, who would object to someone having a day off a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.234.7", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "You are not worth a minute. That type of exploitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.234.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " for Wokingham spoke about record keeping. There are no over-burdensome bureaucratic record-keeping requirements. Employers need not keep records for entitlements to paid annual leave, rest breaks, daily rest or weekly rest. They need not monitor and record every hour that a worker works. They merely have to be able to show that they have complied with the limits, and how they do so is up to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-27", "file": "debates1998-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "eba12905436e294c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "record keeping. There are no over-burdensome bureaucratic record-keeping requirements. Employers need not keep records for entitlements to paid annual leave, rest breaks, daily rest or weekly rest. They need not monitor and record every hour that a worker works. They merely have to be able to show that they have complied with the limits, and how they do so is up to them. [Laughter.] Many employers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-27a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "we inherited; to return confidence to the meat and livestock markets; to take new initiatives to give support to the farming community; and to ensure that a local purchasing approach is taken within Northern Ireland's economy. That last measure is important, because farming is an important part of the overall economy in Northern Ireland. We have grasped the issue firmly and we are making progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.329.4", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "thing that he does not know how to get out of? He now has the Foreign Secretary, wherever he is, passionately in favour of proportional representation, the Leader of the House passionately against it, and himself passionately concerned to avoid answering the question, not knowing whether to betray the Liberal party or the Labour party. He has got himself into an indecisive position, like the late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.329.8", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "How is it that a commitment in the Labour party manifesto depends on the writings of the former leader of the Social Democratic party; and that the Prime Minister now envisages keeping a promise, but will wait to see whether he is going to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.329.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister acknowledge that loss of life on a substantial scale, starting with children and the elderly, is now only weeks away in Kosovo?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "Last month, unemployment—according to the statistics used by the previous Government—rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "d. There has been a lot of relaunching of clichés and a reannouncement of stuff from the past. I turn to the main announcements that the Secretary of State has made today in his documents. On \"The Gateway to Work\", clearly, the Government have now decided that everyone should be eligible for work at least at the interview stage. The Opposition are not, in principle, opposed to that concept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " the recently bereaved, single parents with very young children and others, will not be required to take part in immediate interviews for work. What does \"immediate\" mean? Exactly how long a gap does the Secretary of State envisage there being? Who will adjudicate as to who fits into those categories? The statements are very vague. He must have some idea in his own mind of exactly what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "that they are to introduce, which will massively, by their own statement, increase dependency? Does the Secretary of State not agree that, on the Treasury's statement, even someone on £38,000 a year will be moved into dependency directly as a result of that programme, so will the Government now admit that that they are beginning to attack the contributory principle and that what they intend to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "n these programmes and what the targets are for benefit savings? Will he also specify what the target is for the number that the Government intend to get back into work? Finally, in \"Principles into Practice\", the Government state: at the point of change, no one loses from the reforms we are making. What does that mean? Clearly, there will be losers. What does the Secretary of State actually mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "welcome the changes on the single gateway when I read more fully the proposals in his consultation document. On the consultation on changes to disability benefits, what will happen to the Government's proposals if most of the people and organisations consulted are against them? Of those people who will suffer cuts in their benefit as a result of the changes made today, will he say what proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "rder, Madam Speaker. There has been a very significant development in the case of Senator Pinochet. The divisional court has now held that he is entitled to immunity from prosecution. The democratic Government of Chile have also made it clear that they want these proceedings to come to an end. In view of those developments, may I ask that the Home Secretary come to the House without further delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.363.5", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ce overstretch and improve the quality of life for our soldiers. I inform the House that the new brigade will be known as 12 Mechanised Brigade. It will consist of an armoured regiment, as well as armoured and mechanised infantry, and will give the Army a potent and flexible new formation. The brigade headquarters will form at the end of next year, and the brigade will start training year in 2001.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "rity committees of both the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly and the North Atlantic Assembly. Indeed, I am the vice-chairman of the NAA defence and security committee. What I did not tell the House last Tuesday was that I have also been appointed to a joint working group set up to monitor and scrutinise the work of the NATO-Russia permanent joint council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "vention, but I must point out to the hon. Gentleman that what I am interested in is a broad-based British Army under the control of the Government, owing allegiance to the Queen; I am not interested in the military wing of the Conservative party. To be against nuclear destruction does not mean that one lacks patriotism or a concern for defence. As I said, I welcome our new priorities for conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "l Army as our priorities shift. I support the idea of improving the deployability and usability of our TA reserves. We also need to find out why 30 per cent. of TA recruits leave within a year of joining, and what can be done to improve that position. I hope that it is made abundantly clear that our aim is to reform the Territorial Army, and that there is no question of easing it out of existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "I simply repeat the point that I was making, that we must look at the functional use. Tradition is important, but it does not deal with defence. I should like to see more imaginative use made of the Territorial Army. It could have a clear role in supporting local authorities during emergencies and disasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.393.7", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "or our country's ethnic minorities. I want to see an Army that genuinely reflects British society. That has to mean more women and more members of ethnic minorities at all levels. In particular, as the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) said, it must mean an end to the situation in which the officer corps is largely confined to white men from a particular class and stratum of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.393.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reed", "preceding_text": "onding weekends. Conservative Members spend much more time at weekends touching and feeling one another than we do, perhaps because the Opposition Benches are not sufficiently full—Conservative Members cannot touch and feel one another during the week, so they feel that they have to go away at weekends to do so. The Labour Benches are always so full that the touchy-feely stuff comes day after day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " personnel get. There have been damaging episodes, but let us not get it out of context. Let us not lose sight of the fact that our service personnel's conduct and behaviour is far better than the average conduct of young people in the community. Service men and women set an example to young people in the community. That is why I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-28", "file": "debates1998-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "fcf45c1d57de9b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "preceding_text": "d officers, who have been outstanding in peace and war. They have usually managed to get a grip of officers in a way that no senior officer could. However, I am concerned that there was a touch of old Labour class warfare in this. There were some crude interpretations of British history—upper-class twits and so on. There are resonances here from the first world war; General Melchett comes to mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-28a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-29", "file": "debates1998-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b09fc3cd055e3ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.471.6", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House in her capacity as Chair of the Modernisation Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.471.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-29", "file": "debates1998-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b09fc3cd055e3ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Pet Quarantine", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "three months ago. It is a matter of some regret that in this, his first debate since the recess in Government time, the subject is quarantine. It is an important subject of course, but I cannot believe that, in House of Commons terms, it is particularly urgent, since the consultation period does not end until 31 December. That will be noted by farmers up and down the country. They will be puzzled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-10-29", "file": "debates1998-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "3b09fc3cd055e3ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Pet Quarantine", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that he could fill it on his own. Perhaps he would start with a statement about agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-10-29a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "International Financial System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not know what has happened to the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "International Financial System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on his statement, and I pay tribute to the expert, confidence-inspiring way in which he set about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "International Financial System", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government propose to reform the common agricultural policy. Conservative Members should welcome the fact that there is growth in Europe, and that the projections are for higher growth next year than in America, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.569.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Personal Statement (Mr. Ron Davies)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": " and hurt. I believe that my defences are strong enough to see me through this very trying time. From adversity, of course, can come strength. That will be so in my current circumstances. I worked hard to change the face of politics and government in Wales. I am now more determined than ever to see those changes through. I am very grateful to you, Madam Speaker, and for the attention of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "994 and given us the benefit of his wisdom during the passage of the Act, because we have lost four or five years; but I accept his conversion with good grace. The right hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Sir A. Hamilton) is not in his seat—although I think he poked his head in a little earlier—but I recall his arguments early in the Committee's life about whether intelligence should be a free good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " evidence under privilege. Technically, if a person appeared before the Committee today, he could libel another person because he would not be protected by privilege. The Committee has none of the powers that are accorded to witnesses giving evidence to parliamentary Committees. Above all, the Committee should have the power to hold witnesses in contempt if they deliberately mislead the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "firmed the truth of that. There are those who say that there is no role for the security services in monitoring subversion and the past affiliations of people who may yet be appointed to sensitive posts. I should like to know what they expect of somebody who has been involved with an organisation that turns out to have been actively in the pay and control of a foreign hostile intelligence service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": " Select Committee system is there to hold the Executive to account more effectively, and that is why it should always be used to represent the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) rightly drew attention to the fact that the Whips have an enormous say—ultimately, the real say—in deciding the membership of Committees. Things could go off the rails, as they occasionally do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-02", "file": "debates1998-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "27d7325abf295b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "e is the issue of operational use, and the security services are the only people who can decide that. However, there is also, if I may put it this way, the requirement of history. It would be a great mistake if files were destroyed that could throw light on policies and, sometimes perhaps, on personalities at the time. The Government should look at that matter again. Another point that was raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-02a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "ccess level and those who are very able can do advanced highers that prepare them for university. Higher Still, which began in 1992, is a phased programme, as it should be because it is one of the most radical changes in Scottish education for many years. I have been conscious of teachers' anxieties, and with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, I met the Educational Institute of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is taking for ever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " are yawning because they do not find the subject interesting. I am today inviting the Educational Institute of Scotland to participate in a liaison group that will consider further phasing where there is explicit proof that exceptional difficulties exist in a specific subject or in named schools. Any request for additional phasing must have the support of the head teacher and the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "etary of State agree that transport costs are a vital factor in job creation in the south and south-west? Will he undertake to urge the Chancellor to reverse his current policy of increasing road fuel duty by some 6 per cent. annually above the rate of inflation—a policy that will result in petrol costing £4.50 by the end of this Parliament and which will cost jobs in the south and the south-west?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "on campaign which the Government propose is designed to shore up their flagging support in the forthcoming elections. Leaving that on one side, does the Minister not agree that that expenditure falls into roughly the same category as expenditure in Government information campaigns before referendums? If so, does he intend to be as dismissive of the Neill Committee in that area as he was last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "an Commission, to which the Chancellor is usually eager to defer, predicts that Britain will slump to the bottom of the European growth table. So let the Chancellor tell us: why will Britain's growth next year be less than half that of the next weakest economy? It will be less than half. Why? Why have Britain's forecasts been cut by so much more than any others? Why, when it comes to the downturn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would not have made the Bank of England independent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would not have made the Bank of England independent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " to compete at home and abroad\"? The Chancellor's new forecast is that manufacturing industry may just Miss recession next year and that any overall slow-down will be mild and short. Is he aware that, as the shadow Chancellor said, many independent forecasters outside the House regard that as complacent and unrealistic? Does he agree with the House of Commons Library that manufacturing job losses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to enterprise and innovation, and his recognition that high-tech companies require special financing measures. Will he undertake to study carefully the collapse of Ionica last week to see whether special lessons can be learned from that innovative, high-tech company, whose collapse had nothing to do with interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s: to have eliminated the current structural deficit, to have reached our target on inflation, and to enable monetary and fiscal policy to work together for stability and growth in the economy. It is because we have made those tough decisions on public finances, and cut the deficit—something that the Opposition never supported and have never done—that we are now in a position to spend £40 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ions on public finances, and cut the deficit—something that the Opposition never supported and have never done—that we are now in a position to spend £40 billion— [Interruption.] The Conservatives left a deficit of £28 billion, claiming that that was a golden scenario. They are now saying that to borrow even £1 is an absolute disaster. What is the view of the Opposition? As for the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t any minute. I am pleased to have the opportunity to ask leave of the House to bring in this important Bill, but it should not be left to a humble Opposition Back Bencher to bring this matter before the House and to attempt to put into legislation a framework for the fair conduct of referendums. If, by any chance, the Bill fails to become law, and I suppose there is every chance that it will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-03", "file": "debates1998-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1c6e56ffbc5c2e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Forgive me; we have heard from three trustees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-03a.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Why does the Prime Minister not listen to the west midlands chairman of the CBI, who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o keep in place the new deal and the working families tax credit. The shadow Chancellor yesterday pinned his colours firmly to the mast. The Conservatives are now in favour of scrapping Bank of England independence, cancelling the spending next year and cancelling the new deal and working families tax credit. If any of those things are wrong, let the Leader of the Opposition get up and say so now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s: to make it clear that the economic circumstances are those of sustainable economic convergence and clear and unambiguous economic benefits. But we would be wise to steer between either saying that we will join irrespective of the economic conditions, or taking the position of the Conservative party, saying that we will never join and we will have a negative, destructive position towards Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.867.4", "colnum": "867", "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 says that we should keep family credit. The opposition make policy as they go along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.867.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister use his good offices and his friendship with the new German Chancellor, Gerhard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.892.5", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ptable to Sir Winston Churchill and is applied in America and all countries that have a higher standard of living than ours, is a minimum necessary not simply for economic efficiency but for social justice. On that issue, the Conservative party has much thinking to do. I look forward to hearing the results of it. The next building block in our economic policy is what we will do about productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.892.5", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "y— [Interruption.] We mention productivity and the Conservatives start to laugh, as if they do not recognise it as a problem. I can tell them who first wrote about productivity as a problem in the 1990s. It was the former Deputy Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), who, year after year, published competitiveness White Papers saying that our productivity had to improve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.6", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We have cut corporation tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.6", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We have cut corporation tax— [Interruption.] Now the Conservatives want to deny that we have cut corporation tax. This is a revealing debate. We cut corporation tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about this. The Conservatives entered the election campaign saying that they would maintain the basic state pension, and raise it in line with inflation. I assume that that is still their commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " would maintain the basic state pension, and raise it in line with inflation. I assume that that is still their commitment. [Interruption.] No? Well, the debate gets more and more interesting, and is quite a revelation. The shadow Chancellor cannot give us a simple answer. Would he maintain the level of the basic state pension in line with inflation? If he cannot give that answer, he is breaching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "ext two years, and we can look forward to that. Let us write the date in our diaries in red while we wait to hear what their policy will be. It is not only Conservative and Labour Members who will be interested. The whole country waits to hear what the Conservatives propose. The risk that their election would pose to the economy is substantial. The people of the UK need to know what they would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.903.9", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "rm. That is the way to bring down social security expenditure, and that is exactly what we are doing. The Conservatives want to scrap the working families tax credit. They are not bothered about the poverty trap or getting people off benefit and into work. It is the old, 1980s Conservative party coming back and haunting us. I am not old enough to remember the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.903.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Kong is rescuing companies; and the UK has, rightly, adjusted its growth rates. Where has the Tories' black hole gone? Why has it disappeared? First, the starting point of the economic analysis is much better than people had assumed. The 1998–99 Budget forecasts growth of 1.75 per cent., but that has been revised up to 2.25 per cent. because, under Labour, the economy has fared much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "ng on out there.\" I can also tell the Chancellor that, in the past six weeks, in the north of England—not only in manufacturing, but increasingly in service industries—small businesses are suffering from the downturn and from declining profitability. I know that the Chancellor will say, \"I'm not to blame.\" Labour Members have already said, \"We're not to blame—it's the world economy.\" What rubbish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "their jobseeker's allowance next year? The Government's economic policy has led the country into recession, and we shall go into deeper recession still. This afternoon, the Prime Minister could not make up his mind on one of the most important economic topics that the country has faced since the war—whether to join European monetary union. He could not tell us whether, in principle, we would join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.917.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.927.5", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has not been here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has obviously read the motion—I am about to come to that very point. We have tried to make life easy for the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "e that the costs may be placing an unfair burden on Britain, putting businesses and farmers here at a disadvantage relative to the rest of the EU? In our campaign for a fair deal for farmers, we are concerned about the Government's general attitude to the countryside. Farmers are already struggling and the morale of the whole rural community has been further weakened by the Government's hostility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "preceding_text": "by seeking a reformed Common Agricultural Policy, which is more economically rational, which reduces the bureaucratic burden on farmers, which enhances targeted support for the rural economy, which serves the consumer well and which contains fair and common rules to ensure that the United Kingdom's farming and food industries can exploit their competitive advantages in European and world markets.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e United Kingdom's date-based export scheme to go ahead received a favourable response from a simple majority of the EU member states. If this vote is repeated in the Agriculture Council on Monday and Tuesday, 23 and 24 November, the way will be open for British beef from cattle born after 1 August 1996 to re-enter European and world markets. I hope that that is welcome on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ot available to him, but that would be ungracious. The tone, however, is only part of the story. It is important that the Government are listening, but their listening must be backed by action that is, in the Minister's word, proportionate. There is no question but that the Conservative party legitimately speaks for rural Britain; in psephological terms, it is the principal party of rural Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-04", "file": "debates1998-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "37fba92e92e1f70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "t the medium to long-term future of farming in Britain. Hon. Members have implied that, for the first time ever, small farmers are winding up their businesses or transferring them to larger farmers, but that has been going on for decades, and will continue. I should be sorry if any steps that we took impeded the normal process of the market in moving towards more competitive units or more focused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-04a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1001.9", "colnum": "1001", "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 reminding us of the challenge of tackling in-work poverty. The national minimum wage will help to do that. It is unfortunate that a policy that was supported by the Sir Winston Churchill and many Conservatives right up to the 1980s cannot be supported by the existing Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1001.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not understand the basics of the business cycle, but presumably he understands that forecasts for world growth have been slashed as a result of what is going on in the world economy; that this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Children's Safeguards Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) for his thoughtful response to, and welcome for, our proposals. The £375 million to be provided over the next three years is extra money. Of course it was included in the sums that we announced after the comprehensive spending review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I note that, on this occasion, the right hon. Gentleman has managed to ask for nine separate subjects to be debated. Last week, I recall, the total was only seven, so the number clearly rises as we go along. The right hon. Gentleman first asked me about the date of Prorogation. I fear that I cannot add anything to what I told him last week, which is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spares?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e increased their representation from 10 seats to 15. There are other exemplifications and other assumptions in the appendices to the report. It is important to understand how the top-up element will be elected. In each top-up area, the commission proposes that each party will be able to put forward a list of names of up to three people to allow for \"spares\" in the event of deaths or resignations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "arty will be able to put forward a list of names of up to three people to allow for \"spares\" in the event of deaths or resignations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Spares?\"] This is rather like European elections. It is not really possible to have by-elections. The areas would either have one or two vacancies. They would have to have more people who were actually elected on this system than there were vacancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I ask my right hon. Friend to listen carefully. As they say in management-consultant-speak, I would like him to park that point before I come on to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We could have Sante Lague simple or Sante Lague modified. As hon. Members will remember, the Sant Lague modified system starts with the divisor 1.4, which is the square root of two. For reasons of simplicity the commission has chosen the d'Hondt divisor, where the divisors go seriatim one, two, three, four, five. That is simple. This is the important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "as a monopoly on morality. Lord Jenkins was on strong ground when he said in his report: \"fairness in representation is a complex concept\". Indeed it is. For all the claims of \"wasted votes\" made by the opponents of PR, and their equally vociferous claims that PR leads not to wasted votes but to wasted elections, there is a simple truth about elections by any system: some people win and some lose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "d that with our current system: our current system works, and will go on working. Eighthly—I do not expect the Conservative party to make this point—believe it or not, I have been elected eight times as a Labour Member of Parliament. An anti-Labour bias is built into the proposed system. For one thing, the report admits in terms that Labour will not qualify for many seats under the top-up formula—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the body elected by the present system is the most favourable one in which to get a sympathetic hearing for radical change in the system, but I had hoped for a little more objectivity, not least from the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I should say that most top-up Members would represent small county areas. Areas such as Surrey, which have never had a Labour Member of Parliament, could have one under AV-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Campbell", "preceding_text": "he-post system. I agree that that is important, but Lord Jenkins has cleverly devised a system that will preserve the constituency link while also enabling voters to have an alternative representative. I represent a Labour seat in the middle of a Conservative area. I know from experience that many people feel uncomfortable about contacting an MP whom they know to have no sympathy with their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1069.4", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "This is a well-attended debate, I think because we are talking about first principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "he votes are cast, politicians stitch up a coalition subsequent to the election. The same faces always appear in government. That engenders cynicism and indifference among the voters. That brings me to my final point, which is the constituency link. The system proposed by the Jenkins report undermines the constituency link by creating top-up Members who have not effectively been elected by anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": " brings me to my final point, which is the constituency link. The system proposed by the Jenkins report undermines the constituency link by creating top-up Members who have not effectively been elected by anyone. [Interruption.] I agree to differ with Labour Members on that. Of course I accept that there are arguments to the contrary. However, as no one has voted for those candidates specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "he most significant and rewarding part of their job. As the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Burden) said, there are many types of politicians, both in government and on the Back Benches, but a unifying, binding factor is their common accountability to their constituents. They must all hold a constituency surgery and go to boring as well as interesting meetings in their constituencies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Italy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ment, and they are urging us all to stick with it. Some of us are almost tempted to say yes to that. Let us have a look at this business about strong and weak government. We need not look to France or Germany; we can look to Doncaster and Westminster to see why powerful single-party domination of any political culture leads to more corruption and worse government than a more representative system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-05", "file": "debates1998-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "117571e7a9cf4ca4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Voting Systems", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keen", "preceding_text": "ho do not have their own transport, so I travel to them. Feltham and Heston is a small, suburban constituency, but for top-up Members to give the same service, they would have to attend 36—four times nine—locations, from Cranford by Heathrow to as far away as Carshalton. Not that I know where Carshalton is; I know it is past Kingston somewhere, but I do not want to offend anyone who represents it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-05a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-09", "file": "debates1998-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "cbb4a46af944618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-09", "file": "debates1998-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "cbb4a46af944618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "National Health Service (Winter Resources)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "It certainly did, and it is coming down again—by 9,000 since June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-09", "file": "debates1998-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "cbb4a46af944618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and hon. Friends and I shall be happy to participate in any constructive discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-09", "file": "debates1998-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "cbb4a46af944618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "y is unjust. There is no doubt that, in the run-up to the last election, the Labour party sought to profit from the allegation that the Conservative party's standards had fallen below par. The idea that the Labour Government have, since the election, behaved in a pristine fashion is contradicted by the facts. The Foreign Secretary sought to install his mistress, at public expense, in an office in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-09", "file": "debates1998-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "cbb4a46af944618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "reaucracy. An electoral commission is to be established, new criminal offences are to be introduced, there is to be a huge bureaucracy of quarterly reporting for political parties and a lot of imposition on local party organisations. I am not sure that local parties will be able to produce the bureaucracy that is envisaged, and will be required, by the report. I must deal with two specific points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-09a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.127.11", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Given that no Minister was willing to come over to Westminster Central hall three weeks ago to face the 1,000 midwives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.127.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Brinton", "preceding_text": "e regional health authority? Ambulance staff are frightened to speak out about what they know is wrong. Does my hon. Friend agree that the days of gagging clauses ended when the Labour Government were elected in 1997? Will my hon. Friend assure me that, under this Government, my constituents can rely on a top-quality ambulance service, and that all NHS staff will be respected as well as protected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " urge his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to do something about it. I do not agree with him about why Wilkinson Sword decided to pull out. It decided to pull out of the north-east, like many other firms that have done exactly the same in recent weeks and months, because the Government have made it too dear for manufacturers to make things in Britain and that area is suffering as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Of course there are problems in the microprocessor market worldwide. We have always accepted that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "t, they revel in it and they see it as their only route to political salvation. They care not a jot about the consequences for people's work and people's jobs. It is all propaganda to them. Thankfully, independent economic forecasters do not wish to play that game. Almost all forecasts show modest growth next year. The International Monetary Fund forecast is close to that of the pre-Budget report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.169.7", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. I want the official Conservative party policy. The welfare-to-work programme, which the Conservatives also attack, makes the labour market more flexible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.169.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "epair at A and P Appledore in Wallsend only last week. In Scotland, there has been a net gain of nearly 4,000 jobs over the past four weeks–270 new jobs at Seagate microelectronics, and 1,000 new jobs in new Virgin Trains call centres. In London, almost 1,900 new jobs have been created since the beginning of the financial year. I am not saying that the picture is not mixed: of course it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.172.7", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "He says that that is rubbish. We do not want any more of his rubbish. We need knowledge applied throughout the British economy. The theme of the White Paper that I shall publish next month will be to equip Britain to succeed in the knowledge-driven economy. We are already world leaders in some of the most advanced sectors of the economy, such as computer games and biotechnology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.172.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.172.9", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "fic enterprise and business. That is the challenge facing us. Amid all the undoubted pressures on British business, it is vital to realise that it is possible to talk ourselves into a greater slowdown than is necessary. That is what we have heard from the Conservatives this afternoon. They must understand that, for perfectly understandable reasons, confidence in many British businesses is fragile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.172.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "conomy in the form of lost orders and lost jobs? Both the high pound and high interest rates are a direct result of the Government's failure to rebalance economic policy. While businesses are calling for a clear statement on where the Government stand on the single currency, the Government seem content to kick the matter into the long grass—to use a phrase which has become fairly current recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I must make some progress. In May 1997, we inherited an economy where growth was running at an unsustainable rate and where inflation was heading way above target. The public finances were in substantial deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "997, we inherited an economy where growth was running at an unsustainable rate and where inflation was heading way above target. The public finances were in substantial deficit— [Interruption.] Opposition Members may not like the facts, but they are going to hear them. We have determined not to repeat the mistakes made by the Conservative party. That is why we have taken tough and decisive action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Factory Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "ilicon valley's CISCO Systems, a world leader in internet technology, is to build a major research and development centre in Britain. Volkswagen has confirmed heavy investment plans at the Rolls-Royce plant in Crewe where the work force of 2,500 is expected to grow. Those companies come here because they see the advantage of locating in the United Kingdom. They are attracted by economic stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Graham Brady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is objecting to the internal processes of another party. Our party is run democratically. The Conservative party is now moving towards that happy state. I understand some of the concerns, but it is a parody of the system that we have used to suggest that selection was carried out simply by the central party apparatus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "rds that happy state. I understand some of the concerns, but it is a parody of the system that we have used to suggest that selection was carried out simply by the central party apparatus. [Interruption.] Let us be clear that, in transferring to the proposed system of parliamentary elections, we were generously—almost certainly—handing out seats to the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.213.6", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": ". If voters dislike the first candidate on the party's favoured list, they are in exactly the same position as under the first-past-the-post system. Voters can choose not to vote for that party, or grit their teeth and put the party first despite its poor taste in candidates. The closed-list system has the great benefit of simplicity. That is an important consideration, which we should not ignore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.213.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "fore the international war crimes tribunal. If that MEP has been criticised for placing such an advertisement and has therefore been ranked low—that may not be the reason—so that her chances of being re-elected are that much smaller, I wonder about my own position. I not only may have signed an advertisement about that clause: I argued for it—and I think I won the day—at the 1994 party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "rs of the north Wales Labour party, for those whom we thought should be on the list for the Welsh constituency of five members. We voted for our sitting candidate, Mr. Wilson, by, I think, about 98 per cent., yet, at the last stage, after the matter went to Millbank tower, where heaven knows what happens, a candidate from across the border in England appears on our list in Wales in third position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": "nsider this proposition. If a person in receipt of the Labour Whip, who was elected on a Labour manifesto, decided to stand for London or Wales and was the preferred choice of the Labour supporters in London or Wales, would the Labour party allow him, whether he was the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) or the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan), to stand in the Labour interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What chances?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": " are being asked to support. I do not, as the Home Secretary seems to do, denigrate people's unwillingness to come out and vote. I wish that the right hon. Gentleman he had shown a little more courtesy, and shown less arrogance and a less patronising attitude, towards the voters of this country, but I do not need to touch my forelock to him, because he is not likely to affect my promotion chances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "We are glad to have an opportunity to debate the regulations on the Floor of the House. There is concern outside the House, as well as among the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-10", "file": "debates1998-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "75369176a609751e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "million people have PEPs and 4.5 million have TESSAs, and those numbers were increasing. TESSAs and PEPs were very successful savings incentives. As Andrew Dilnot of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, almost all the objectives of the ISA could equally have been achieved by abolishing the five year lock-in period on TESSAs and leaving things as they were. The Institute of Chartered Accountants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-10a.249.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "European Union (Defence Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "No, definitely not. I must rule that out completely. I would not want to follow the example of the previous Government, under whom the people of Hong Kong were given back to China when there was no need. We must not allow that ever to happen again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.296.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Eastern Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Road Haulage (Taxation)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "wer corporation taxes, lower employment taxes and lower social costs than other European Union countries, especially with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's recent Budget measures to assist small businesses. The overall tax burden is lower in the United Kingdom than in our major EU competitors and lower than the averages for the EU and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.347.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "an has now said that he is against those. Let me remind him that the working families tax credit will make 1.5 million families £17 a week better off on average. Just so his Back Benchers understand it—everyone knows what a bold leader he is—they will all go into the next election saying that those 1.5 million people who are, on average, £17 better off will lose that money. Well, roll on that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought for a moment that we were going to get a Liberal Democrat on his feet without asking for more money, but we were disappointed. Obviously, the hon. Gentleman is right to say that a large number of people will go to the area to see the total eclipse of the sun. I am sure that that will impose additional costs and burdens, but there is a formula for dealing with such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "That is some way—and a referendum—away. There is plenty of time to consider those matters. We must start with a reasonably stable basis. We suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ll do so again today. There has been a tight time scale for Opposition parties, with major amendments to Third Reading being tabled by the Government on Monday night, thereby giving us little time to assess their full impact. We said a long time ago that the time management of the Bill left something to be desired. The Secretary of State said on Second Reading, and it is worth reminding the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "No indeed, I do not. I see exactly what the hon. Gentleman is saying about procedure. Of course it is not the procedure but the way in which it is used. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Mr. Gorrie) spoke about MSPs being stupid. I think that was the word he used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-11", "file": "debates1998-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "baa4f9302f86c5e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "I cannot pretend that I have discussed the matter with all the senior judges, but the Lord President has been consulted. The judges are collegiate; the Lord President is the leader and has a duty to reflect their opinion. I am not aware of any dissent on the matter. While strolling in a park in Edinburgh at the weekend, I had the advantage of having a discussion with Lord McCluskey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-11a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-12", "file": "debates1998-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "746e3999d3b00528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.463.6", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food know perfectly well the level of the prices that farmers are getting for meat, and they know the prices that are being charged in supermarkets: there is an enormous margin. The supermarkets are operating a cartel against the consumer, and it is those same supermarkets that are funding, to an extremely large degree, the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.463.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-12", "file": "debates1998-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "746e3999d3b00528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.468.6", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it tells us what the hon. Gentleman implies. In this country, in respect of EU directives in meat hygiene, we have under-regulated and under-enforced the regulations, which was a matter of deliberate policy by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.468.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-12", "file": "debates1998-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "746e3999d3b00528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-12", "file": "debates1998-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "746e3999d3b00528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.486.4", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "e Liberals, is it not a fact that the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) tried to stay in office after the first election defeat in 1974 by trying to forge a coalition with the Liberals that did not come off? I am totally opposed to anything that might lead towards coalition government, and I have made my views clear. May I ask my right hon. Friend this question about Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-12a.486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I think that the green shoots of economic policy were spoken of by a Conservative Chancellor, not a Labour Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.593.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not for long, though.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "I am here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Agriculture (Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "propose to do to stem the flow of imported poultry from the far east, some of it containing growth promoters that have been banned for years by the European Union? Does he realise that little in his statement clears up the anxieties felt by dairy farmers? Why has he still not announced a lifting of the absurd and unjustified ban on beef on the bone? We wish him well at next week's Council meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "hen one felt that the debate on the Bill was coming gently to its end, it is interesting how matters are reawakened and we return to the central principles and the difficulties in the operation of this proposed legislation. The Minister says that we are failing to understand the spirit behind the proposed legislation but I understand that spirit very well. I understand also its limitations. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": " the Lords a much expanded definition compared with the original. However, it is quite complex and I hope that the Minister will explain it a little further. The essential principle that concerns my constituents and me is that what happens in England should not be decided merely by the Scottish Parliament without reference to my constituents' representations, which will be made through this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary is making a terrible case for his measure—even worse than usual. Does he not concede that the former Prime Minister made it clear that that position was being adopted only in the context of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "es want the elections to be fought on the fully 'open list' system. If so, they will run into problems. The open list offers a choice so wide as to be confusing, especially since hardly any of the several hundred candidates whose names will be put forward have any public profile. Ballot papers will carry 50 or more names. Hardly anyone will know of them. Voters will mark their crosses at random.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. I am just finishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It might be better if the name of the hon. Member for Macclesfield were not printed on the ballot paper. The logical conclusion of my hon. Friend's argument is that we print only party names, not those of candidates, and we pick the candidates afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps they will put me on the list. It has been suggested that I should regard this as a battle between Lords and Commons, and that I could do myself a bit of good by voting with the Government this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "That is a bit rich, given that the Liberal Democrats used a hybrid zipper system to choose a small number of female candidates. They feel guilty because they so dismally failed to get many female MPs elected at the last general election", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "Of course we could have a system whereby the parties offered a range of candidates and the voters were allowed to decide among them. The logic is the same as that deployed by those arguing for the Lords amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "I should correct the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) on one point. He said that we had produced the review system at the last minute. In fact, it is in response to a request from the hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler) some time ago. We thought that it was a reasonable request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.7", "colnum": "717", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "No. Let us not forget that, had it not been for the stubbornness of the unelected second Chamber, we would not be debating this matter for the fourth time tonight. Conservative Members have advanced no new arguments tonight. Nor have they made any attempt to explain how the perverse results that an open-list system can produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-16", "file": "debates1998-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "684dc42fba72ede1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.9", "colnum": "717", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "se must prevail over the other place, which, for all its undoubted merits in other respects, has been elected by no one and lacks any democratic legitimacy. We listened to the views of the other place, and first introduced and then strengthened the review clause. We hope that the other place will now return the favour and listen to the clear and unambiguous message which is the will of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-16a.717.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "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": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Robertson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. George Robertson)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "y, I am delighted that the Stratford-upon-Avon TA centre and Signal Squadron have been reprieved. The commitment to better training and equipment is very welcome, but we shall watch to see that that happens. The strategic defence review was full of cuts today for better equipment tomorrow, and that must not happen to the TA. I am delighted that the cadets are not to suffer the same fate as the TA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "egic defence review was full of cuts today for better equipment tomorrow, and that must not happen to the TA. I am delighted that the cadets are not to suffer the same fate as the TA. [Interruption.] The former Minister for the Armed Forces, the right hon. Member for Hamilton, North and Bellshill (Dr. Reid), is obviously so embarrassed by the statement that he feels compelled to leave the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Territorial Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "We are always willing to listen. The answer to the first question—can people who are being moved seek places in neighbouring countries?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ely beyond the pale. I am sorry, but I cannot find the exact quotation. Sir Gordon Downey does not deserve the approbation of the House because he was partial. He took a more lenient and favourable towards some Members than towards others. I am not alone in that view. On 20 October, The Daily Telegraph —a newspaper of repute and undoubted independence of mind, a fearless fighter for worthy causes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-17", "file": "debates1998-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "d29a4638ce540686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again, let me say to the hon. Member for Aldershot that it is time that he concluded his remarks. The House has heard his case and knows exactly where he is coming from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-17a.817.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Pig and Livestock Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not entitled to walk into the Chamber at the last moment and take up the time of those who have been present throughout the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.930.7", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nobody voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.930.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.930.7", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nobody voted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Nobody voted against it. In the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.930.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that at all. As I have just said, quite contrary to what the Leader of the Opposition is telling people, only 21 of the votes upon which he relied last night were not cast by Tories or hereditaries. Supporting the Labour party's position were the Liberal Democrats, Cross Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y seats, both to Liberal Democrats and to the Tories—it is an act of generosity on our part. If he wants to end up using his hereditary majority in the House of Lords to overturn that, that is a matter for him. The Tories have the power to do that in the House of Lords—they can frustrate the will of the House of Commons. But if he does that, and we go back to the old system of first past the post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " act of generosity on our part. If he wants to end up using his hereditary majority in the House of Lords to overturn that, that is a matter for him. The Tories have the power to do that in the House of Lords—they can frustrate the will of the House of Commons. But if he does that, and we go back to the old system of first past the post—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"]—which I think some of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.931.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "So does the Prime Minister agree that the proper constitutional process now would be for both Houses to pass the European Parliamentary Elections Bill today, on the basis that the Government will ensure that the review that they have already promised will take place after next year's elections will be conducted by an independent body such as the electoral commission proposed by Lord Neill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Bereavement Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "erely for their own retirement, but for their dependants and spouses. He is suggesting that that will, and should, happen; yet we have heard nothing in 18 months from the Government about pension reform, other than leaks and suggestions in the papers that they are eroding the pension. They have said a little about what they may do, but there has been no great focus on the subject. So many of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Bereavement Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Croydon, North (Mr. Wicks)? Is it his intention to put men and women on the same basis? Will the payment of the new six-month bereavement benefit be determined by the level of contribution of the other spouse? If so, how will the Government deal with the question raised by the hon. Member for Preston (Audrey Wise), as contributions from wives are likely to be less than contributions from husbands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are the others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " minute of the hours and hours that we have devoted to the issue. Indeed, I can fairly claim—I think I will have the generous approbation of Opposition Members on this—that, if I have done nothing else during the 35 hours, now, of debate, which is almost a world record, I have made Mr. Victor d'Hondt famous, and greatly contributed to the forthcoming annual Christmas quiz: name 10 famous Belgians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As ever, the Conservative Opposition spoil their case with exaggeration and invention. It is not true that every Labour Member has spoken with a difference of emphasis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "am, Northfield (Mr. Burden) in the original debate on 25 November. The proposition was absolutely clear on that day. My hon. Friends the Members for Battersea (Mr. Linton) and for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg) said the same two days ago. Such is the power of the argument we have advanced that we have been massively supported in the Lobbies not only of the House of Commons, but of the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ry peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. The more the public see of them, the stronger they make the case for abolition. On the one o'clock news on the BBC, we witnessed the risible spectacle of the fourth Baron Ampthill—a Cross Bencher, as it happens—claiming to speak for the British people and British democracy. He, of course, voted with the Conservatives, as nearly all Cross Benchers do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are not debating the replacement or removal of peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It might disappear because of some other things that Lord Jenkins may propose, but not because of the alternative vote. Under that system in single-member constituencies, the only person who can conceivably be elected is the person who receives the most votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Labour party backed him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "int, and I am deeply grateful to him—as ever. The hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Bell) may have had Labour party backing, but he stood as an independent. The people of Tatton had a choice between a Conservative candidate, who happened to be named Hamilton, and an independent candidate—the hon. Gentleman. All the rest of us, who carry party labels, came here as party candidates on closed lists of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "eady to accept the system. It has worked, and there have been no complaints about its fairness there. I would also point out, in particular to the hon. Lady, but also to her hon. Friends, that she may have forgotten—those on the Conservative Front Bench have plainly forgotten it, but we have not—that the closed-list system was exactly the system that the Conservative Government used two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "se of Lords, 17 November 1998; Vol. 594, c. 1139.] The Home Secretary cites as support among Conservative peers someone who regards the closed list as abominable. The Home Secretary is wrong in all his arguments. Moreover, many people will object to the arguments that he directed against named hereditary peers; those arguments will do neither his cause nor his reputation any credit, especially as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "n any credit, especially as— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) should listen. One of the noble Lords who has consistently voted for the Government is Lord Warner, who was sent to the House of Lords for no reason other than the fact that he was the Home Secretary's special adviser. We shall not take lectures from the Home Secretary on this issue. As for Cross Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary has made it clear that if the debate is lost we will go back to first past the post. I have made it clear that I would prefer that; but that is not the issue. The issue is the form of electoral system that we have under proportional representation. I am tempted to ask the Home Secretary whether his announcement that we will go back to first past the post is a threat or a promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Let me remind the House of some of the contributions from Labour Members. They are entirely relevant to what is now being seen as a clash between the Commons and the Lords. The right hon. Member for Chesterfield, who is not exactly a stranger to the debate on the House of Lords and its functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "Lords. The right hon. Member for Chesterfield, who is not exactly a stranger to the debate on the House of Lords and its functions— [Interruption.] If the Minister for Local Government and Housing, the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong) wishes to intervene, I will be happy to allow her to do so. She was not much good in her previous Department, I cannot believe that she is much good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "Government and Housing, the hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong) wishes to intervene, I will be happy to allow her to do so. She was not much good in her previous Department, I cannot believe that she is much good— [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Chesterfield said: the arguments against the closed-list system are absolutely overwhelming. Indeed, those arguments are the same\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "he seems to like even less the policy of appointees and placemen, which seems to make up Labour's vision of the future—the House of Lords as a giant quango. In the same debate, the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) said: It has been suggested that I should regard this as a battle between Lords and Commons, and that I could do myself a bit of good by voting with the Government this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "thout Lord Jenkins's common touch. After all his changes of party, he has voted for the closed list. In this whole debate, after the Home Secretary, the Liberal Democrats have come out with least credit. The argument has gone solidly against the Government. It has gone against them in Parliament and outside. The Times continues to condemn the measure, as do other newspapers such as the Daily Mail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "aper's support. Having lost every argument on the issue, the Government are now desperately trying to get going a debate on the Lords versus the people. It is the only argument they have. It is a little late for that argument, however, as one cannot run up a flag of democracy for an anti-democratic measure. This is an anti-democratic measure because it transfers power from the people to the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "run up a flag of democracy for an anti-democratic measure. This is an anti-democratic measure because it transfers power from the people to the party. [Interruption.] It puts power in the hands of the party bosses. That is the essence of the proposal, and that is why the House of Lords is entirely right to check that power. If the Government want a debate on the House of Lords, that is fine by us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "That is fine for the candidates at the top of the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman is wise enough to know that most of us in this House are far less recognised than we would like, and that is even more true of MEPs, with the larger constituencies that they represent. One of the greatest fallacies perpetuated by politicians is the weight of their personal vote. The personal vote is nonsense. Personal identification is nonsense, except in a small number of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " would experience as a result of seeing all those names on the ballot paper—a worry echoed by the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours). I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present for earlier proceedings, but I seem to recollect that, early in the Committee stage, we were told that the Government intended the names of all candidates to appear on the ballot paper in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "r as the Epping Forest Popular Front. In the Home Secretary's speech—and at Prime Minister's Question Time today, from the Liberal Democrats and, I think, from the Prime Minister at one point—we heard a suggestion that this was all being got up by the Opposition. On Radio 4's \"Today\" programme this morning, I heard the Home Secretary use the words \"manufactured\" and \"synthetic\" about our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": " The Conservative Government has always been an organised hypocrisy. Now, 150 years later, we know that a Conservative Opposition also can be an organised hypocrisy. Opposition Front Benchers simply will not admit that many of their own Back Benchers, in both the House and another place, concede privately not only that they are unhappy about events but that they are afraid to voice those concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill [Money] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "ssion, and the order allows contributions to be made to pensions. That will give us flexibility to deal with special circumstances, but those costs are also likely to be modest. The hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) raised issues outwith the terms of the order. I do not know whether he was at the Assembly meeting last week, when my hon. Friend the Minister of State presented the budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "raph 6 was so carefully worded. It states: Each side to be in a position to take decisions in the Council within the defined authority of those attending, through the arrangements in place for co-ordination of executive functions within each jurisdiction. Each side to remain accountable\". First, he or she is not necessarily going down—they could be coming up in the North-South Ministerial Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-18", "file": "debates1998-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "012ddd51174a56d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "That certainly reinforces my arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-18a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-19", "file": "debates1998-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "18bcf95f10ee4130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-19a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "whether the Government's literacy hour will achieve that. In Birmingham last month, members of the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers told Professor Barber, the head of the Government's standards and effectiveness unit, that the literacy strategy is pushing teachers to breaking point. Recent research by Warwick university has suggested that the literacy hour is too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-19a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister's press office put it, The Cabinet is not split on PR. It has agreed a collective position. And the collective position is that we must have a national debate. That was clever. Since then, we have heard nothing about it. Let us see how the Cabinet is getting on in the national debate. Let all those in the Cabinet who are in favour of proportional representation raise their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "spend a lot of time talking to the CBI—flatly said, the Bill will drive people out of business. Why is that a Government priority, and why is it a priority at this time? Let me tell the hon. Lady about the NHS Bill. It will take power away from general practitioners and give it to unaccountable and bureaucratic primary care groups. It will take money away from patients to spend on more management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " the hon. Lady about the NHS Bill. It will take power away from general practitioners and give it to unaccountable and bureaucratic primary care groups. It will take money away from patients to spend on more management— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) and the Secretary of State for Health laugh, but let me read out a letter from a doctor. It says: I am\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows full well, because he and I have served together on Committees, of my commitment to disabled people and to benefits for disabled people. I have never advocated reductions in benefits for disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "term interest rates for more than 30 years; the inflation target now met; the lowest ever corporation tax; unemployment down, employment up; waiting lists and infant class sizes coming down; the biggest ever increase in child benefit; new rules to tackle anti-social neighbours and to cut crime; a special bonus for pensioners with winter fuel; free eye tests; and discount fares on public transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "n power, 46 per cent. of the building was on brown-field sites; we have raised it to 60 per cent., and we are the party that has invested in rural transport—opposed by his party. In addition, we have the young people on the new deal: 160,000 of them have passed through it; 30,000 are already in work, as promised. Those are great achievements that we will take forward in this year's Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sts. We shall ensure that the whole of the agreement is implemented in full. That is the position that we have taken throughout and we have to carry on with it. We shall not rest until we have a lasting settlement in place in Northern Ireland. I ask for the support of the whole House in trying to bring that about. That cross-party support has been important and will continue to be so. I mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eries of measure in his Budget that are designed to improve environmental technology and to help protect the environment in Britain. The Government are using the new deal to implement energy conservation programmes the length and breadth of the country. All those measures are opposed by the Conservative party, but the Liberal Democrats cannot say that we are not doing anything for the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I begin by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plenty more to come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "d learned Member for Pentlands has a justifiable reputation outside the House but has not yet provoked such judgments for her performance inside it. I have no doubt that she will. I am happy to congratulate her on her speech, and I hope that I have the privilege of hearing more of the same sort in future. This is the 10th Queen's Speech to which I have responded on behalf of the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman about to say that the Conservatives will give the Bill passage? Is the hon. Gentleman about to say that?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I move on to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.41.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give him a job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister reads the manifestos and studies them carefully. I do the same. I made a few alterations, but he has to stick to the overall new Labour manifesto. I expect him, as an honourable man, to carry it through. All the wailing and whining from the leader of the Liberal party, who is desperate to hang on to his job, will not change my right hon. Friend's mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-24", "file": "debates1998-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d90571c23192d90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disembowelled?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": " about the second programme of any Government being very important in that it shows a Government's mettle, the direction that they wish to take and the quality of their legislation. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about that, if nothing else. I begin my main remarks by referring to the proposals for the House of Lords. I cannot wait for the other place to be disempowered. It is an essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-24a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quinn", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to correct the Opposition spokesperson, but my right hon. Friend had been opening my constituency office—the first ever in Scarborough. My office is a mere five minutes walk from the railway station. The hon. Gentleman is right: my right hon. Friend took the train to Seamer. From there, he visited two proposed park-and-ride sites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.147.7", "colnum": "147", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "ials, the distinguished correspondents and the medical journals all lying when they spell out the catastrophic price that is being paid by ordinary Iraqis as the result of the policy that my right hon. Friend the Minister supports? I beg him not to try to wash his hands of all the suffering by blaming it on others. It is a spot that will not out, and all the perfumes of Arabia will not expunge it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "No. My hon. Friend spoke for a long time, which was unusual in an Adjournment debate. The UN special rapporteur made a number of other comments about human rights, none of which appeared in my hon. Friend's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " with the British Retail Consortium to try to get clear labelling so that consumers can make a choice. I have already told the House that the agreement made was for fresh meats, processed meats and own-label meats that are directly under the control of the supermarkets concerned. I cannot ask the supermarkets for a commitment on processed meats that are supplied to them by other suppliers in turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.213.8", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "still one of the most manual of industries, but many modern tractors are mobile offices, and some even have satellite location devices installed. The truth is that competitive advantage increasingly depends on knowledge: on new ideas for new products. Better use of knowledge means designing products that better suit customers' needs, creating less pollution, higher profits and more rewarding jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.213.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I will give way soon if my hon. Friend will allow me to continue for the moment. In advance of the White Paper, I can announce the Prime Minister's decision to appoint a high-ranking digital envoy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.217.6", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "e already to the hon. Member for North Shropshire, and I do not think that he should come back for a second go. The shadow Secretary of State will accuse the Government not only of selling out the British economy, but of fiddling the figures and of making up the productivity gap, which, in fact, as everyone knows and as every independent commentator acknowledges, separates us from our competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.217.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "ndustry only yesterday met representatives of the employers and of the trade unions, all of whom share that strong commitment to the future of the textiles industry. My Department stands by to assist them in all their efforts and to do everything that it can to make sure that the industry has a successful and prosperous future. When we took office, we apparently inherited a golden economic legacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.220.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "performer over the years. Our second blessing is the participation of my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow). I am not surprised that the Secretary of State was so reluctant to take his interventions, because he won the award of \"Back Bencher to Watch\". I have been watching him for a long time, and I like what I see. He is not afraid to tell the truth and to threaten the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " Vol. 319, c. 197.] Once again, the Secretary of State came to the House to perform the last rites. So worried is he about the state of manufacturing industry, that he can get through an entire script—although not all the interventions—without mentioning British manufacturing or British industry. There was no mention of the textile workers on a lobby, and no mention of the plight of British steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I do not seem to remember supporting that proposition at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e damaging. I am quite sure that those who worked on the proposals under the previous Government would be very happy to explain what they had in mind, and will be free to table amendments in Committee to try to make the Bill more to our joint liking. According to my industry sources, the Government's proposals are a long way from the previous Government's original ideas and would be very damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.6", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Lady understands the matter, either. I have consulted on the issue with businesses in and just outside my constituency, and have promised to represent their views. On both encryption and signature, they are very worried that even a permissive, voluntary system could damage their commercial interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.226.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "o undo much of the good that was done to United Kingdom industrial relations in the 1980s and 1990s. We fear that the Queen's Speech will take us back to the bad old days, back to the bad old ways. I pay tribute to both Conservative Prime Ministers in the previous Government, one of whom is in the Chamber, for their success in changing the industrial relations climate and industrial relations law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "est rates is having on manufacturing, because it is clearly doing an enormous amount of damage. During the past seven days, 1,000 jobs have gone at BTR Siebe and 268 at William Baird, and 1,600 are going at British Steel. What do the Government say in the Queen's Speech is the answer—that we should abolish hereditary peers in the House of Lords just in case they might be a voice for manufacturing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "wer rates, not higher. She may wish to reflect on the fact that, when interest rates were that high, Britain was in the exchange rate mechanism—a policy which those on her Front Bench supported to the rafters. It was the only economic policy we followed that the Labour party supported, and it supported it fully. It has never apologised, to this day, for the mistake it made in that particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The Government are going down that path. They are in no position to resist it, because the Secretary of State, the Prime Minister and their right hon. Friends have given away the UK's power to make our own decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The Government are going down that path. They are in no position to resist it, because the Secretary of State, the Prime Minister and their right hon. Friends have given away the UK's power to make our own decisions— [Interruption.] There is nothing they can do, so the threat is real—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " the reality—whether we have more strikes or fewer and more manufacturing jobs or fewer, and whether people are investing here in new factories or closing factories down. They will have rumbled the Secretary of State, however good the spin. Today, the spin has gone horribly wrong, because he has been caught, through his agents, saying different things to different audiences about the same subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " As a result, we have considerably lower unemployment than on the continent, which is another welcome divergence engineered by Conservative Ministers. Labour wants to destroy both competitive advantages at a stroke, with a policy that drives up manufacturing unemployment and takes away some of our business tax advantages. The Government say maybe to another savings tax from Europe and to more VAT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-25", "file": "debates1998-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "017862be0b86078f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend knows, grammar schools are of the highest importance. The Royal Latin grammar school is testimony to their success", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-25a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "From bitter experience of these debates, I take the hon. Gentleman's figures with a pinch of salt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "of trying to meet the Government's bogus pledge on waiting lists. We know that operations are being cancelled, that hospitals are facing terrible staff shortages, we know that doctors and nurses are working horrendous hours to force through quick procedures, and the trolley problem is growing. Do we remember the trolley problem? That was what Labour promised to abolish the moment it came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "date and carrying out the operation super quickly? I should be surprised if he can give that assurance, because, apparently, that is happening in Macclesfield and in Altrincham. Again, I have some documentary evidence. It is not good enough for the Secretary of State to come to the House and, whenever we rumble one of his little fiddles, to say that he will make sure that it does not happen again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "hose who have found waiting times increased under this Government and to the doctors who are about to lose the power to exercise their judgment on behalf of their patients. Tell that to all those who will find yet another huge bureaucratic upheaval in the NHS. Tell it to the patients lying on trolleys and to all the people who write to me saying that the Government have broken pledge after pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "service is a fantastic achievement. They thought so under the previous Government; they think so under this Government; and they will go on doing so, but the Secretary of State's proposals will politicise the service. As the Secretary of State knows, I have to explain to my constituents why a hospital will be closed. No hospitals in my constituency were closed when the Conservatives were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "Gentleman's question, we shall have to wait and see what is in the Bill. I do not have the advantage of prescience. With him, I shall examine the Bill to make sure that the objectives that he and I appear to share are delivered. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. A clear message has come from the Government about what has happened under the internal market, and that system will be changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hesford", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make progress. To the surprise of the then Tory Government, the committee said that funding out of general taxation was the best form of funding and that the health service gave very good value for money. Let us fast forward to 1997. What was the state of affairs on funding? The figures that we inherited show that in 1999–2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. kin Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. kin Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " past to prefer the broadsword to the rapier. In this case it was a fistful of broadswords, and dynamic, too. It was nice to see him back after a short absence from the Chamber. The hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), who is not in his place, made several points. Of most interest to this side of the House was his point about how there has always been rationing in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "will not work. The Prime Minister will and must be judged on the pledges he gave. The Government's heavy reliance, rhetorically and politically, on welfare to work merely masks the failure of their big picture. It is not as if there is no vision; it is simply that, after 18 months, we can see what that vision is. The Government's big idea is means testing and more means testing. It is not radical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-26", "file": "debates1998-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f3d5fcdae6ab75cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said, `Chingford and Woodford Green'.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems to be giving way to me. That is fine, but two or three of us had lined up to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-26a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "For much of the period, there was a Labour Government in charge in this country, and all the hon. Gentleman's observations could equally have been levelled at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.453.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "in that article directly contradicts what the Prime Minister said after Amsterdam. He said that Europe's defence should remain a matter for NATO and not the EU, which had proved itself unable to run a successful foreign policy. He went on: What matters is what works; and what works for Britain and for Europe is Nato. He added that the Franco-German plan was like an ill-judged transplant operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "y undermines NATO but rather is complementary to it\". That is not what he had said previously, when he referred to an EU defence capability. That is a fundamental shift in defence policy, not just from our position when we were in government, but from the Prime Minister's position until about three weeks ago. Apparently, the Secretary of State for Defence and his Ministers knew nothing about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "ave a stronger voice in the world, European armed forces will need to be capable of supporting our position. We need to put muscle behind Europe's foreign policy\".—[ Official Report , 11 November 1998; Vol. 319, c. 301–04.] In that context, Europe's foreign policy can mean only the European Union's foreign policy. We are no longer talking merely about the common foreign and security policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "or for a junior Minister in his Department to laugh about and mock at. These are serious inconsistencies in the Government's case, and they should clarify them. Having ventured the thought in October, by mid-November the Prime Minister was out in the open. In an article in the New York Times on 12 November, he is utterly unambiguous. This is not a matter of a European defence identity within NATO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-27", "file": "debates1998-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "04dc848d0cfef209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "they are making no attempt to explain the change or to carry anyone else with them. We shall oppose that change. We support the general thrust of the strategic defence review. We believe that developing more expeditionary force capability is the right way to go, and that that will involve a different force structure from that needed for the cold war. The new carriers are a vital component of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-27a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Again, I thank my hon. Friend for his welcome for our proposals and I know that it springs from deep knowledge and professional experience over the years. I am reluctant to accept the role of hero—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.560.6", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "e always new facts to illuminate the picture. The new fact this time will be last Thursday's European by-election in Scotland, and we all know the result of that. Despite having flooded the area with senior Ministers—and despite the Prime Minister's having lectured Scotland on its duty to the Prime Minister—Labour was pushed into third place. Why was that? I do not want to rub salt into the wound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.560.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.562.5", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "e been dodging around the country over the years. I note that the Home Secretary is keeping quiet. Instead of the constitutional reform that the Government promised, they are giving us constitutional reform that involves regional lists of candidates drawn up by party bosses. The effect will be that the elected MEP answers not to the public, but to the party. That is the basic defect of the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.562.5", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "d of the constitutional reform that the Government promised, they are giving us constitutional reform that involves regional lists of candidates drawn up by party bosses. The effect will be that the elected MEP answers not to the public, but to the party. That is the basic defect of the system. [Interruption.] I would be delighted if a Labour Member were to make a speech in favour of closed lists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is this: if the Home Secretary wants to put forward a case for reform, let him put forward a case for reform, but the fact is that he has not. He is giving us his special adviser, appointed to the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ot like the candidates, they will not vote for the party and we shall have to accept that. That is a necessary consequence of closed lists. I do not resile from that. There are two fundamental objections to the present position of hereditary peers in our Parliament. The first is that they are hereditary—an idea that is as absurd as it is offensive. The hereditary principle is seen as preposterous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Straw", "preceding_text": "rds on 14 October, almost as an aside, that the position of hereditary peers was one which no one can defend\".—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 14 October 1998; Vol. 593, c. 977] In a pamphlet published in 1981, the former blue chip group of new Conservative Members said: Hereditary peers no longer command enough respect from the nation as a whole to justify their exercise of legislative power\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hereditary peers are particularly independent. The fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. I sometimes am not sure whether the Prime Minister even believes in parliamentary democracy here: he is scarcely ever present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "tralisation in the discussion about the House of Lords. We do not have to wait to find out; we do not have to guess what the Prime Minister is going to do with an appointed quango; we can see what he is doing now. He has appointed 105 peers so far, at an annual rate of 67. That is three times the average annual rate of the past 40 years, and almost three times the rate achieved by his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "nto the House at this moment to be dumped on our desks? Do barges sail up the Thames, with the people of this country demanding that we have constitutional change? No, they do not. That is not what people are interested in, as many hon. Members have pointed out. The trouble is that the Government believe that history began on 1 May 1997. They have little respect for our traditions or our heritage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-11-30", "file": "debates1998-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3abad214b3edaea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ns or our heritage. [Interruption.] Labour Members may well roar their approval because that is exactly the perspective. They see us not as a nation state, but as a conglomeration of regions, just as they see the electorate not as a whole, but as a coalition of minorities. As they say, they want us to be governed by modern European mechanisms of government, but we are not a modern European nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-11-30a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ed one to nine and gone straight to 10. It is a pretty feeble question and he has asked it several times. The Chancellor of the Exchequer could not answer that question until three days after the election. I am not prepared to answer it three years before the next election. The economy should dominate the Government's thoughts and actions as Britain stands on the brink of the most severe downturn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I admire the hon. Gentleman's persistence, but what was good enough for the then Leader of the Opposition, now the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.682.12", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I have been keen to give all Labour Members the opportunity to ask the prepared questions to earn their colours and to ingratiate themselves with the control-freak tendency, but I think that the patience of the House will soon diminish if that process continues. The arrogant complacency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.682.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " has changed since then? Now, BMW is having to be bribed by the Department of Trade and Industry to keep Longbridge open. It is the same plant, management and work force, but a different Government, and that is what has changed. They are a Government who have increased costs on business and made productivity worse. That is why barely a day goes by without more jobs lost and more business failures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "d of the German presidency in the middle of next year. That is what the Chancellor's continental colleagues think. They have a clear opinion on the issue. What does the British Finance Minister think? Does he agree with them that the road to economic and monetary union also tends to lead to tax harmonisation—yes or no? A simple nod or shake of the head will do. The Chief Secretary nods; he agrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "in the Financial Times he was all for it. Which Prime Minister does the Chief Secretary support? Does he support yesterday's Prime Minister, or today's? Perhaps he supports both. Will the real Government at last stand up? Sometimes, the Government do not even wait until the next day to spin the opposite story. This very morning, some useful light was cast on the Government's attitude to duty free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.692.7", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.692.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman came in slightly late and may have missed my comment that we have built in a margin on the current Budget to cover those eventualities. The £40 billion for schools and hospitals will be spent. I can guarantee that that is a commitment from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I want to move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.719.4", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "tain adopting German rates of corporation tax. Any proposal would have to be agreed unanimously and seven member states—not just Britain—have low corporation tax regimes, so it is hardly likely that those seven countries would agree to put up their corporation tax to German levels. A code of conduct for business taxation was signed last December, a fact not commented on by those who criticised it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.719.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "Speech as a complacent approach to the economy. Why is it important that the Government are more accurate in their forecasting and more realistic in what they say about the economy? I attended the agricultural show at Smithfield market earlier today, where I talked to an agricultural machinery manufacturer who has seen a 40 per cent. drop in sales as a result of the Government's economic policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ent care rather than bureaucracy. I was astonished to hear the Leader of the Opposition say that our NHS Bill would increase bureaucracy. No British Government have ever weighed down the health service with bureaucracy as the Conservatives did. We will reverse that trend. Cross-departmental working should deliver care geared to people's needs rather than to the boundaries of health or social care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-01", "file": "debates1998-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "b24b8784be858ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ke the Conservative party at its word and abolish the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. I do not want to be unfair to the Conservative party. I recognise that the word in question was not given by this generation of politicians. Politically, if not personally—at least not in this House—it was their fathers and grandfathers who, 87 years ago, accepted on behalf of the Conservative party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-01a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Seaside Towns", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Torbay (Mr. Sanders) on raising an important issue and doing so in a non-political way. I had hoped that that was how we would approach the matter, but we heard a silly comment from the hon. Gentleman who is wearing a red tie and sitting beside the hon. Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Marsden)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Seaside Towns", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " Employment yesterday, which show that our education results were 2.5 per cent. above the English average, despite our serious unemployment and deprivation. We are proud of that, and of many things in Southend. If the Government must keep establishing new organisations and giving out subsidies, they should let us have our share, although we should be happier if there were no such subsidies at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Seaside Towns", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "enities. We have a great theme park and one of the largest caravan parks in Europe. The Greenwich meridian runs through the town, although we are not putting up any dome. There is a pier, a steam light railway, a prom, amusements, a wonderful discovery centre, sands, waters that have been given a clean bill of health, and Grimsby Town football club. We also have the best fish and chips in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I do not want to dwell on the past, because we are building for the future, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I do not want to dwell on the past, because we are building for the future, but— [Interruption.] I do not want to get into a slanging match about the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "peers altogether, in two stages. We are perfectly prepared to agree that in the first stage one in 10 hereditaries stays, and in the second stage they go altogether. It is also entirely true that we were prepared to discuss that with the right hon. Gentleman's party. I thought that we had the agreement of the leader of his party in the House of Lords. Indeed, I believe that we have that agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has just had the answer to that. He told the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said in the Queen's Speech debate last week: We believe … that it is important to deliver on the pledge that we made to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.—[ Official Report , 24 November 1998; Vol. 321, c. 33.] He said that their existence was a \"democratic monstrosity\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "e believe … that it is important to deliver on the pledge that we made to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.—[ Official Report , 24 November 1998; Vol. 321, c. 33.] He said that their existence was a \"democratic monstrosity\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] His party still agrees with that. Now he is proposing to keep hereditary peers in a stage 1 reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "What we know is that the Prime Minister intends to turn the House of Lords into a house of cronies, and that he is now prepared to engage in any horsetrading that is necessary to achieve that end. It is beyond his comprehension that any politician can stand on a principle, and stand firm in his beliefs. I stand on the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "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/1998-12-02a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Millennium Compliance (Quarterly Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "for her statement. In view of the importance of the issue, the Opposition welcome regular quarterly progress reports to the House. It is like old times being able to ask her a few questions about how progress is developing. Labour politicians think that their job is managing the media, rather than the Government. Nowhere has that been more obvious than in their mismanagement of the millennium bug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " Coldfield has said that closed lists were not specified in our manifesto. Even when our manifesto is clear and categorical, as it is on the two-stage process for the reform of the House of Lords—it could not be clearer about the self-contained stage one—the right hon. Gentleman still says that the Conservative party intends to tear up the basic fundamental conventions of the Salisbury convention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "That was an unconvincing speech. It did not even convince the four Labour Back Benchers who are here today. The Home Secretary was keen on quoting precedents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "I believe that this is the sixth time that the subject has been debated in the House. The fifth time that it was debated, on 18 November 1998, there was a massive majority in favour of the Bill. The danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " Crimes Bill and that did not create great excitement. This Government have insisted on playing ping-pong with the House of Lords. After the second time the Bill returned they could have announced their intention to invoke the 1911 Act and the Bill would have proceeded on a proper course, in accordance with both our written constitution and the conventions of that constitution, but this is a play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "European Parliamentary Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "uld have announced their intention to invoke the 1911 Act and the Bill would have proceeded on a proper course, in accordance with both our written constitution and the conventions of that constitution, but this is a play. [Interruption.] I am sorry, I do not understand. If the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mr. Hall), the Labour Whip, wants to interrupt, I am prepared to sit down and listen to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "countries concerned have caused difficulty, and I do not think that they will here. No system is perfect, and this is about the balance of advantage. Given the nature and function of the European Parliament, it is more important to ensure that it is broadly representative than to accommodate the prospect of by-elections. On the occasions when by-elections have taken place, the earth has not moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "eman seems to suggest that the Conservatives had no knowledge of these issues before, and that the light has slowly dawned as we have gone through months of constitutional reform. If that is how the Conservative party works, I suggest that its members do their homework before Bills start rather than waiting until the very end to understand the issues that they have debated. The opportunism of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "It is liberating, in a sense, to escape the narrow terms of the amendments that detained us over the past few weeks and return to the principles that are contained within the Bill. I am very much against the basic principle of the Bill. I am not sure why we should be presented with such a Bill. As I said when we debated the Bill in the previous Session, at the risk of repetition, the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-02", "file": "debates1998-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "d80d6a2f423da8a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "preceding_text": "Of course, but the result was convenient. Only after the result of their hustings—when they realized that they had a complete Euro-sceptic ticket—were the Opposition prepared to offer the electorate choice among their candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-02a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-03", "file": "debates1998-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21edbef4207fea9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1025.5", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Energy White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "The energy industry asked us to work at reforming the flawed structure of the pool. For example, it pressed for a challenge to the dominance within the pool of two major generators. What have we done'? We have taken action and suggested that power companies divest plant: PowerGen has agreed to divest 4 Gw of plant and National Power is looking at divestment opportunities. We have taken action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1025.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-03", "file": "debates1998-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21edbef4207fea9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Teachers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gunnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gunnell", "preceding_text": " of State gave him. He clearly approached the Green Paper in the wrong way: he looked to see how he could carp and criticise instead of offering constructive suggestions about education in the future. I regret the fact that the hon. Gentleman missed the opportunity to show support for our teachers and instead concentrated simply on the mess that he knows his Government made of the same programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-03", "file": "debates1998-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "21edbef4207fea9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "NHS (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit öpik", "preceding_text": "cognising, none the less, that the process presents us with a further challenge that we must not avoid? More broadly, there will be debates and concerns in other parts of Wales, especially about the financial savings that must be found. Does the Secretary of State agree none the less that the Powys decision should be regarded as an example of what can be done when parties listen and work together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-03a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " Treasury has inflicted a defeat on the Secretary of State, because it knows that it needs to keep its hands on the money. In pursuit of that elusive popular election to Labour's national executive committee, the Secretary of State has swapped sides, from being in favour of privatisation to being against it. Caving in to the left on the Post Office may be only a down payment on his party ambition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.24.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Laxton", "preceding_text": "oney out of the Post Office, when the Trade and Industry Committee examined this issue, it found that there was no methodology or formula for the process. It seems that, under the last Government, if the Treasury had a shortfall, it picked a figure out of the air, and decided to rip it out of the bottom-line profits of the Post Office. One thing that will be ensured now, irrespective of the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "What I say to the private sector, which I am sure will welcome this development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "l freedoms, but remains in the public sector. I do not disguise from the hon. Gentleman the fact that we are trying to create a new public policy model of public enterprise through these changes. This is not old-style nationalisation or new-style privatisation, but something completely new and different. To coin a phrase, the approach belongs to the third way of political thinking in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.52.6", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "te? It was expected that, in the ensuing 10 years, a system would be devised to cope with the problems that resulted from a rateable value that was based on valuations dating back to 1973. As everyone knows—it is now history—what happened was that the council tax replaced the community charge in the early 1990s and, rightly or wrongly, the previous Administration did not get around to working out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.52.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.55.9", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "populist measure. Although disconnection of domestic supply will be illegal, the water companies will, as the Minister rightly said, still be able to use the civil courts to pursue non-payers who persistently refuse help and do not pay. In effect, although the water companies will not be able to disconnect, they will still be able to use the courts to retrieve money owed to them. It may be argued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.55.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "an't pays\" should not be disconnected. What is the Opposition's view on so-called budget payment units, pre-payment meters and trickle valves, as water companies have been rather ambiguous about whether they relate to \"can't pays\" or \"won't pays\"? The Government have made it quite clear that they are suspicious that trickle valves are a way in which to avoid disconnection. Do the Opposition agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "ortunity to say—there is an element of rough justice in this, I concede—that the water company has a statutory duty to lay the pipe to the stopcock in the house if it requires repair. That will mean two things. The company will incur a cost, which it will have to transfer, as it will not bear it alone, so everyone will pay a little more. Labour Members may say that that sounds like rank socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman's constituents will be pleased. I am not au fait with the details for Scotland, because I expect the issue to be dealt with by the new Scottish Parliament. Three agencies—the Environment Agency, the drinking water inspectorate and Ofwat—already monitor the activities of the industry. It is very well managed and controlled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "—a kind of motorway—that leads us down in that direction. My hon. Friend the Member for Billericay, in typically trenchant form, began to point that out, and she was quite right. The Scottish elements constitute the second interesting aspect of the Bill. The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, to whom the duty of making the Government winding-up speech falls, is the great expert in that domain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-07", "file": "debates1998-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "447c5c08379f0dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Community Health Care (Berkshire)", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "st deprivation. It also has the highest incidence of coronary heart disease in Berkshire. We are among the top 50 local authorities in the country for deaths of people under 65 from coronary heart disease—coming just between Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne—and among the top 10 for people of all ages, coming between Carlisle and Hackney. We have a worse record in terms of coronary heart disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-07a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "roportion of the total population of mentally ill people? What estimate has the Secretary of State made of the number of new in-patient beds that will be necessary if community treatment orders are not to prove utterly unworkable? How many of those beds will be provided in mixed-sex wards? What is his policy on mixed-sex wards for the mentally ill? When will the Mental Health Act 1983 be replaced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then show it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "le for collecting moneys have claimed that the problem is not so much the method of collection as the fact that the sums involved for individual trusts are so small compared to the bureaucracy of claiming them in the first place that there has been no incentive to claim. In what way do the proposed methods represent increased simplicity over the old methods? We have some sympathy with the measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he is not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "All the right hon. Gentleman is doing is putting an extra charge on the motorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.167.4", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "it is called a vox pop. Nine out of 10 people interviewed thought that it was a good idea that their insurance companies—not they—should pay the NHS to treat road accident victims in the same way as those companies pay to repair the vehicles involved in the accidents. The proposal is popular. I am pleased that the Secretary of State is introducing the Bill and that it will be implemented by April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.170.6", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "t. If that is out of the way, this debate is about changing the rules for collecting another source of money which, as the Secretary of State rightly said, has been available for collection since the 1930s. The Secretary of State's researchers may have done a better job than me. If it is true that my predecessors and the Secretary of State's predecessors—old though he is, he is not that old—voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.170.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-08", "file": "debates1998-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "da85915c0d400bfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "mpulsory charge. We have tabled our reasoned, and reasonable, amendment to highlight that cost, and I welcome the Liberal Democrats' decision to join us today in the Lobby. I listened very carefully to the Secretary of State's speech. He brazenly said that the proposals in the Bill will not cause the imposition of any new charges. Technically, in some respects, he is right. However, the magnitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-08a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Road Traffic Reduction", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " of £1 billion a year by 2005, that consultation paper asks who will pay congestion charges and how they will be collected. It is no surprise that Friends of the Earth has described the Government's transport policy as a case of \"carry on consulting\". The Secretary of State has clearly been rolled over by the Treasury. The congestion and car parking charges will not mean extra money for transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "North-West Region", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "In reply to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's intervention, sadly, the investment that should have been made in the west coast main line depended on the tilting train working, and it did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Supermarkets (Prices)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "that sum. It said that 63 per cent. of the steer is waste and must be thrown away, and that the remaining 37 per cent. of the steer must sell for an average of £5.13 per kilogram—or £2.33 per pound for those of us who still use the imperial system—in order to cover costs. Tesco also told us that £4.83 per kilogram is its average selling price, so it is making a 30p per kilogram loss on beef sales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.303.6", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the hon. Gentleman knows as much about major building projects as he does about devolution. The planning and the building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.303.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.309.7", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": " as my hon. Friend requests. I assure him that the service provided at Llandough hospital and in community services in the Vale of Glamorgan will remain integrated. I hope that services will continue to be of a high standard and, indeed, improve. I also assure him that the statement last week was the beginning, not the conclusion, of the job of improving health services in every locality in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.309.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.310.7", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be churlish, but the lifting of the beef ban 10 days ago was only a partial success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.310.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "No, we would not. As far as I can tell, the key issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Helen Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Helen Southworth", "preceding_text": "they have worked hard and have achieved something—they were celebrating it together. It is the Christmas season. Madam Speaker held a service in Westminster Hall today, and that is the normal way to behave in this season—\"sweet singing in the choir\". The Omagh community choir sang \"Across the Bridge of Hope\" in Omagh and in Belfast. I am going to quote parts of it that the choir pointed out to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": " manner, the present Northern Ireland Office team are undermining the Stormont agreement, for which many of us feel we paid a huge price. It is all very well for them to say that they support the letter of the Stormont agreement, but every action currently taken by the Northern Ireland Office team undermines the confidence of the greater number of people within both traditions in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donaldson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donaldson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend has made that point. It refers to an issue that was pointed up by Government Members when they talked about the new change happening in Northern Ireland. The hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) talked about the new changes. Yes, there are new changes, but unfortunately some of the mindsets have not changed. The action of Sinn Fein-IRA in dealing with the Donegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "We always accepted that there was a case for minimal tax harmonisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The issues today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would also be useful if the Financial Secretary told the House why she told European Standing Committee B only a few months ago that the very committee that she was chairing would have no effect on domestic tax legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "gned up to. Britain signed up to such a damaging measure only when this Government came into office. They were then unwise enough to put the Financial Secretary in charge, with the result that the issue has come straight back like a boomerang, in condemnation of some of their very favourite measures. Will the Chief Secretary spare us the weasel words that we have heard from him and his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.390.9", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "l insurance reform and Britain's first-ever national minimum wage, the Government can give two very specific guarantees, on which we shall deliver. For families and their children, in a family where someone works full time, there is now a guaranteed income of at least £190 a week. To the same working family, we give a second guarantee: that no income tax will be paid on earnings below £220 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.390.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Tax Harmonisation", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "t could fall into that category. That does not mean that they are harmful, and the group has yet to reach its conclusions. We do not believe that those measures are harmful and we have submitted a robust defence of them to the group. We are confident that they do not constitute harmful tax measures because all five satisfy the criteria for not being harmful; they are proportionate in their target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-09", "file": "debates1998-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "002f4d3813880f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Finance Act 1998 (Section 155)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "e any accounts in this place, do we? They all go through on the nod, when no one is here. It happened for years under the Conservatives. Only when the then Opposition called votes—as we often did, until 3 am: unfortunate people were having to vote every 15 minutes—did we actually vote on the accounts. We did it just to keep hon. Members here: we did not do it in order to scrutinise the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-09a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend and, indeed, all hon. Members will welcome the additional £40 billion that the Government have committed to schools and to hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.475.6", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "preceding_text": "That is very sad. Given the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.475.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " have a vast range of pressing duties, and the Committee chose quite deliberately not to call the proposed week a constituency week, because there are many other issues to which hon. Members must give their time. My hon. Friend will know—although he may not sympathise—that many hon. Members feel that we ought to devote a little more time to liaising with parliamentarians in other EU member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malins", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right and he has great experience of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "by people whom I would broadly describe as on the right of the political spectrum that we would face a liberal conspiracy. It was said that a large part of the criminal justice establishment, some senior Home Office officials, the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and the Howard League for Penal Reform were Guardian-reading, nut-cutlet-eating, open-toed sandalwearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "rt of the criminal justice establishment, some senior Home Office officials, the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and the Howard League for Penal Reform were Guardian-reading, nut-cutlet-eating, open-toed sandalwearing— [Interruption.] This is a caricature. It was a widely held view that there was a liberal conspiracy to frustrate Conservative law and order policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "If a liberal conspiracy truly existed, it has now come to an end. The new Home Secretary has taken on board lock, stock and barrel the tough law and order rhetoric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-10", "file": "debates1998-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "24d5ee9b8fbe673d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Atherton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Atherton", "preceding_text": " advisers. Members of the Select Committee share concern that they may become overloaded and that quality might be sacrificed for quantity. The personal advisers have been one of the great successes of the new deal. Let us not waste this opportunity to invigorate civil servants and put pride back into the service. Time is moving on, so I shall not say much of what I wanted to say. My hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-10a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is in between, in a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is not a judgment for me. It will be for the mayor to decide how he or she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "the last year, we hope to receive funding from the public-private partnership, but we must wait and see. Bidding means that we do not know what people will offer—it is called negotiation. If the right hon. Lady thinks that she should know the amount of a bid before it is offered, that shows why the previous Administration got into such a mess, and cost the privatisation process billions of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "on is of a federal United Kingdom, also with regional government in England, local authorities underneath and parish or community councils below that. That is partnership politics between the layers of government; not the consensus politics of which the White Paper talks, but co-operative politics. The Government missed the opportunity to seize the moment to give us regional government for London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "hank my hon. Friend the Minister for London and Construction, for the dedication, expertise and professionalism that he has shown in the drafting of the White Paper and for this mammoth Bill. I read an article at the weekend about the need to return to the fashion for erecting statues to national and local figures. After reading the Bill, my hon. Friend has my support for being shaped in concrete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.671.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "to make improvements for everyone in that particular area. I would like the record to show that when Opposition Members ask such questions, the answers that I give clearly do not meet with their approval, so they are clearly opposed to congestion charges and even more opposed to the moneys raised being spent where they are raised to improve transport, reduce congestion and improve the environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-14", "file": "debates1998-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "441644025a26d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.729.6", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "been no excitement about it on the doorsteps in his constituency. A recurring theme that I heard on the doorsteps was, \"Who in their right mind would want to vote against a mayor and assembly?\" London has been arguing for it ever since its democratic voice was so spitefully taken away. He referred to \"Prescott capping\", which of course equates with best value—best value in every sense of the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-14a.729.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "In a number of ways. First, as was recommended by Sir Colin Campbell's committee, established by the previous Government, we shall increase the number of doctors in training. I can tell the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " out an important point about the basic state pension. He now has an opportunity to clarify the position. Why does he not deal directly with the question of uprating the state pension in line with prices? He has an opportunity to tell us at the Dispatch Box and, after the next general election, that Labour will not do other than uprate the pension in line with prices, which is what used to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ted benefits—so that was not a very good point, either. No doubt others will wish to return to the subject of the basic state pension. Let us be clear: in our manifesto, we said that we would increase the basic pension in line with prices. We have kept that promise, and we will keep it. It would, however, cost about £30 billion to increase the pension in line with earnings over the next few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ity to help those who cannot afford to save to have a decent income in retirement without relying on social security benefits. We need to do more to help people get into funded pensions, where, generally speaking, they will be far better off than if they depend on the state alone. The hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green asked me about SERPS. The cost is about £500 million, not £5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "objective is to ensure that people who work throughout their lives do not retire on means-tested benefits. One can never exclude the possibility that, for one reason or another, people will not hit that target; that is the reason for the minimum income guarantee. However, I believe that lifting as many people as possible off means-tested benefits should be a central objective of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I should expect nothing else but for the right hon. Gentleman to strike a discordant note—he did so with his own Front Benchers when they were in government, and he does so now. The first thing that I should expect him to say to his electors is that the current year's police budget and last year's, for 1997–98, were based on the budget set by the previous Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman need not worry; we intend to deal with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ssures being applied to people\". I feel that, to put it at its mildest, the Labour party still has some way to go to meet the spirit of the report that the Government themselves commissioned. Doubtless, when he sums up the debate, the Minister will wish to emphasise his determination that a \"one member, one vote\" system should obtain, so that obvious candidates are not excluded from the selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The Minister is always guided by such representational views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "rt closed lists. The case against them has been stated thus: Where PR is based on the list system, with votes effectively cast for a party, and the winning candidates taken, pro rata, from each party's list, power passes from the individual constituency party to those who draw up the list. Those are not my words, but those of the current Home Secretary in an article in The Times in September 1985.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.811.7", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sticking it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": " tendencies, it is the Bill. If anything illustrates the Government's muddled thinking, it is their proposals for congestion charging. Eighty per cent. of commuters into London already travel by public transport, but the Deputy Prime Minister wants to hit the other 20 per cent. His excuse for clobbering the private commuter is that the roads are congested; that is his story and he is sticking it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.811.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "e could with a thoroughly unsatisfactory system, but that he would not make any attempt to analyse the root causes of why the system is so bad, or propose anything that would address the problems. We need a radically different approach. We need to bring back under national control our own fishing grounds, with sensible bilateral agreements and recognition of the historic rights of other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he was actually saying is, \"We can't do anything about it, because Europe won't let us.\" We saw no determination on the part of the Minister to tell Europe, courteously and carefully, \"We shall not allow this situation to continue.\" That is why I say to him that, far from scaring the fishing industry, a policy of bringing back under national state control our fishing policy and our fishing stocks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-15", "file": "debates1998-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5a1de2005b87806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.847.4", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ry and the fishing community if the Government admitted that they were wrong, went away and let us take over. I cannot envisage that happening, but I agree this far with the hon. Gentleman—there is not the slightest chance of the fishing community getting the deal that it needs on the basis of what we have heard tonight. That will not happen until a Conservative Government are returned, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-15a.847.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman has an old-fashioned attitude to what Ministers should do to assist British business. If the hon. Gentleman bothered to consult British business—major parts of British business are, in increasing numbers, making contact with my Department—he would know that it explicitly asks us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.951.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.953.8", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "We have just heard the most appalling example of hypocrisy from the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.953.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I think I would reserve the term \"headbanger\" for others not located too far from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, because the best thing for those pensioners and other pensioners is that we have a healthy method of ensuring that companies earn the profits that allow pensioners to get the best deal. Those people will get the best deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes—and they are the reasons that I have just given the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "esult of the proposals announced by the Secretary of State for Social Security yesterday, people on modest incomes will get more help than ever before with their pensions. The right hon. Gentleman is quite right: there is a choice between Labour and Conservative on pensions, since I assume that the Conservatives' pension policy is still the one announced by their deputy leader before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.965.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nt's approach when they asked for the ceasefire to be declared permanent and then dropped that demand. We followed them when they included the Washington 3 precondition of decommissioning and when they effectively abandoned it. We supported the previous Government all the way through the process and never once played politics with the issue. I hope that the hon. Gentleman's party will do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "is on his job application to become the next boss of the Institute of Directors, which has emerged in the media. It is clear that he has decided to throw in the sponge, or perhaps the bathroom sponge has decided to chuck him. I do not think that that response will do anything at all for his job application, because it will lack any semblance of credibility among business people throughout Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Long-term.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "An hour ago, did the right hon. Gentleman hear the Prime Minister again boast that British interest rates have fallen to their lowest point for 30 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ther vote, on the Sittings of the House (No. 2) motion. However, that order has now changed, and the pecking order will be that the vote on suspending business at 2 pm and resuming it at 2.30 pm will come first. I appeal to you, Madam Speaker, to reconsider the matter, because we are dealing with a recommendation of a Committee of the House of Commons, which I understand was supported unanimously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that that is not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "bates were held in a Main Committee, Ministers could still be held to account, but the House could use Wednesday mornings to consider private Members' Bills. That would be much better than using Fridays, which are a disaster—there are voting problems and great uncertainty about what will come up when. It would be a huge advantage if private Members' Bills were considered in the middle of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I have— [Interruption.] If I may continue, I must tell the Leader of the House that, if that is what she was saying, the Select Committee was misled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1025.5", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the support of the Leader of the House. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland is entitled to his opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1025.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "es. Like the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne, I have been the Chairman of a Select Committee. In fact, I was the subject of a rather interesting rule of which the House had apparently no knowledge until it was applied, and I was not reappointed to that Select Committee in 1992. However, that is water under the bridge, and I lived to fight another day. As one door closes, another one opens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "preceding_text": "g that has been rehearsed in the media. Clearly, that is not being suggested. We need to strike a balance between the needs of Members from different parts of the country. However, a 7.30 finish on a Thursday would make sense for those who want to return to their constituencies. I was pleased to hear an Opposition Member say how he always used to return to his constituency for Friday and Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "preceding_text": "d to return to his constituency for Friday and Saturday. [Interruption.] In my father's day, 30 years ago, it was the exception for Members to live in their constituencies and to give the sort of attention to constituency business that that hon. Member so honourably did. Let us vote for this moderate experiment. What are we scared of? I hope that it will create a firm foundation for future reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should not have private conversations during the debate. The hon. Lady is addressing the House and she is entitled to the courtesy of a hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Modernisation of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "That is our role in a modern democracy, but how best do we do it? We are the middle managers between our constituency and the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-16", "file": "debates1998-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4f1c8543f52b304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Cabinet colleagues will be opening and winding up the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-16a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman accept that, although it is desirable to provide information, labelling and, if necessary, a monitoring system, it is important to retain a sense of balance? Will the Minister, who, by the standards of Labour Ministers, has always struck me as a relatively normal individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister twice mentioned the words \"diminish\" and \"degrade\". I wonder whether he thought, as I did at lunchtime, as bleeding women and children were carried into hospitals, that those who were diminished and degraded were not the Iraqis, but us? We are diminished and degraded by being reduced to the tail on this verminous and mangy Desert Fox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Given the gravity of this international crisis, it is unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman should trot out his own King Charles's head on Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Given the gravity of this international crisis, it is unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman should trot out his own King Charles's head on Europe— [Interruption.] If hon. Members will listen, they will hear that many European countries have backed what we have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Sanctions have not had any effect except on the Iraqi people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "What was there to talk about? We have been through all this only a month ago and many times before that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "wer after the allied onslaught. However wrong we may think the analysis, they saw both Ronald Reagan and Lady Thatcher, for different reasons, depart from the scene while Saddam Hussein remained. There is a danger that he will feel stronger if the bombings fail to achieve a substantial reduction in his strength. The Secretary of State should look at two areas of the strategic defence review again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "nick) and for Dunfermline, West (Ms Squire), were wholly supportive of the Government's position. The hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) put his finger on the crux of this matter, which is that Saddam Hussein wants to dominate the region. That is why we all feel that it is appropriate to have pursued the action that has been pursued in the past few years since the Gulf war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1190.11", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is enough. The hon. Gentleman will resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1190.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1998-12-17", "file": "debates1998-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "25abda00c13ac349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1195.2", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": "It says here, \"What a great pleasure it is to be called at this time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1998-12-17a.1195.2"}