{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resourcing fraud?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "What I am saying to the hon. Gentleman is that we are resourcing fraud and all the many and comprehensive strategies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are in government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "For example, just before Christmas we announced an extra £100 million for the verification project, which will enable all local authorities to do far more extensive checking on housing benefit and other benefit applications than ever before. The hon. Gentleman should wait and see what happens when we have been in government, so that we can get away from the inherited Tory legacy and start talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "What is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " which are a far more accurate measure of whether people are getting a satisfactory service from the NHS? I welcome the Secretary of State's good will on pay for nurses, but can he assure hard-pressed health authorities that he will make the additional money available and not expect it to come from patient care? Will he admit that it is time for a slightly more mature debate on the health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "First, I do not believe that anyone has any great faith in the scientific accuracy of the Public Health Laboratory Service epidemic figures, including the people who assemble them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-11", "file": "debates1999-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "b3b87ceb456d6eaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "cted to assaults and abuse. When I talked to a senior member of, admittedly in that case, the medical profession about the matter, he told me that they had given up talking to Tory Ministers about the problem, because they were told that nothing could be done about it and that that was the sort of society in which we now lived. The Government do not accept that; we are determined to change things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-11a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Once again the hon. Gentleman gets his facts wrong. The Labour party did not oppose the principle of the right to buy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "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": "I am pleased that my White Paper on the future of transport has been widely welcomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Starkey", "preceding_text": "I am sure that all the train-operating companies that serve my constituents will have made it clear to the Minister that they welcome the upgrading of the west coast main line and the positive effect that that will have on the reliability of their services. However, I am concerned—it is a concern shared by the Midland Rail Users Consultative Committee—about the effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.134.2", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " we need to make a fresh start. As a party, we are seeking to change our whole attitude to local government. The House should ask some fundamental questions: what do we want local councils to do in the next century; what should be their functions, powers and responsibilities; and how can we make them both more independent of the hand of central Government and more accountable to their communities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Westminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sed in a responsible manner. The fact is that the Government have no real interest in improving accountability, because they know that the true cost of Labour in local government is very high. The most outrageous council taxes are charged by Labour; the worst-indebted councils are Labour. Labour councillors have been gaoled, investigated by police or subject to allegations in Doncaster, Wakefield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "e scheme's precise details. That makes it much more difficult for treasurers to advise local authority members about setting appropriate budgets. The Bill fails to put in place the building blocks needed for the reinvigoration of local government. It does nothing to tackle the democratic deficit caused by the domination of one-party councils as a result of the first-past-the-post electoral system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that the issues are dogmatic. May I raise some of the particular ones to which he refers, such as equal pay? In my view, that should not be difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "in the memorandum from the social partners. That memorandum states: Our approach is based on a determination to construct a new and co-operative relationship between public and private sectors. That is the third way. It is not a media soundbite. Some people ask what it is. They ask whether it is directions from the motorway or instructions from \"The Kama Sutra\". There is a great deal of confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "at local government would be judged on its own merits and not used as a poll on national Government. After 18 months of Labour Government, I understand why he should say that. The Bill represents the continuation of an approach that lacks direction, consistency and detailed thought. As we enter a new century, we witness attacks on our constitution and an erratic reform of government at all levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "l take on many of the powers mentioned in the Bill; a different set of powers for London, with a directly elected mayor; and voting systems that beggar belief, especially the closed-list system for European elections. We are constantly told to look at the big picture, but there is no big picture of which these reforms form part—only a series of small pictures which bear no relation to one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-12", "file": "debates1999-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f12b090b01477e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ers of some local authorities. It has the power to distribute moneys passed on by central Government—using the Barnett formula, we are assured—but will its First Secretary or a Committee decide what \"excessive\" happens to be? A coalition could run the Welsh Assembly—not the Labour party, as it believes—so how would that work? A number of concerns have been raised, not only by Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-12a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "inister would not even turn up to either of their two lobbies of Parliament, and they feel strongly that they need a re-evaluation of their grading. Midwives also feel strongly that childbirth is not just about going to modern, central hospitals—it is about home births. I say that with feeling, as I was a home birth. Believe it or not, I was a 10 lb baby. I do not quite know what went wrong since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Select Committee Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "aming his constituency. However, he said something interesting to me in connection with the investigation of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs into the so-called Sandline affair. His exact words were, \"Mackinlay, I can't understand why you are asking all these questions or why you are pursuing this matter. You are a member of the premier parliamentary Committee: why don't you just enjoy it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Select Committee Reform", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "preceding_text": "ocedures, and I hope that he will be involved. Inevitably, that pre-legislative scrutiny will lead to changes in Select Committee structure. Secondly, I was slightly amused at the discussion about the need for bipartisanship. The House is very much into pantomime and yah-boo politics. I thought that I heard an increasing echo of people saying that they wanted a new consensual approach to politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Visitors' Visas", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Derek Fatchett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Derek Fatchett)", "preceding_text": "g review and the Department's mission statement, to make sure that we get the best possible service delivery to those applying for visas. I can give two examples of the way in which we are trying to improve the service in south Asia. My hon. Friend will know—as will other hon. Members from their constituency case work—that, in the past, we have had trouble with information technology in Islamabad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Cabinet Office (Dr. Jack Cunningham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Cabinet Office (Dr. Jack Cunningham)", "preceding_text": "s, run by the Benefits Agency, to try out new ways of integrating the services that they provide to pensioners with those provided by local authorities and others. The funding is being provided from the invest to save budget set up by the Treasury following the comprehensive spending review. The projects that we announced today are practical examples of what we mean by modernising public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.297.11", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "That is a bit rich, coming as it does from a Conservative Member who spent most of the 1990s acting as special adviser to that thoroughly discredited Government. It is has been stated clearly that Mr. Whelan intends to retire from his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.297.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "What about some answers on the money announced in November that could have been announced in September, and the complete distortion of clinical priorities? While the NHS has been in crisis, personal feuds have taken the place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This House will come to order. Members will be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.300.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "izes under 30. Waiting lists are coming down. Yes, we have to deal with waiting times too. We have to deal with nursing shortages, and we are. There are 2,500 more trainee nurses today than there were when we took office. Therefore, I do not dispute that, to people who are facing difficulty today, it comes as cold comfort to be told that the Government are going to do it—but we are going to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will have seen the report this morning in the Welsh press that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "election. I remember the incident well because I was phoned by the BBC's \"The World Tonight\" and asked to comment on the change in the Government's policy, which had come from a good source in government. The story seemed so implausible to me that I rang our press office, which assured me that there was indeed such a source. One of our staff had been in the Red Lion, off duty, and could not avoid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "I shall make the point by referring to Romola Christopherson's remarks in The Sunday Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman grasp that there is a fundamental difference between the two cases? Sir Bernard Ingham never transgressed into party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "cial advisers. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman is fully aware of the point. I was taken aback by the Liberal Democrats' apparent verbal dyslexia in talking about \"carnage over Christmas\". I would understand it if they had talked about the \"carnival over Christmas\" for the press and the other media, and for those who got themselves into a terrible fix. However, it was certainly not carnage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ned. The Government are sometimes a little complacent in assuming that that issue does not need to be addressed. I draw the attention of the House to an article in The Independent today, which I suspect did not arrive there by sheer chance. It claims that the Treasury has submitted an unpublished report on the matter to the European Commission. When is the report to be made available to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "w Chancellor has returned from the Pacific, but, if he withdraws his nominee, as I understand that he has suggested that he might, because the committee's remit is too wide and includes the possibility of Britain's joining, will the Chief Secretary offer the Conservative place to a Tory of a more sensible disposition? If the Chancellor's five economic tests are to mean anything, will he undertake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "rnment's decision to make the national economic interest the key test for British entry to the single currency on the basis of five economic tests and that any final decision should be made by the British people as set out in the Chancellor's statement to the House of 27th October 1997. I thank the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) for his warm welcome for my promotion to my new responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "t United States help. The classic example was Bosnia. Everyone in Europe looked on in horror at what was happening and said that it should stop, but did not know how to do that. We did something that to my knowledge we had not done before. We appointed in effect a special envoy in the form of Dr. David Owen. One can argue whether he was the best person for the job, but he acted as a special envoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer certainly acknowledged that there are political and constitutional implications, but, in his statement last October, he also said that they were not of a magnitude to provide a constitutional bar to membership. That position was also reaffirmed by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary in his contribution this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-13", "file": "debates1999-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "f323de191ad935e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the definition of \"on our side\" is, as there are obviously two distinct positions on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-13a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.426.4", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ice caused by the lack of recruitment of nurses. It is a pity that the Secretary of State for Education and Employment is unwilling to recognise the growing crisis in our classrooms caused by a lack of teachers and problems of recruitment. Whatever Government figures the Secretary of State gives, a recent survey by the National Union of Teachers shows that the real figure for teacher vacancies is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.426.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am about to do so. The calculations are sensible and take into account the fact that when someone gets a job he or she pays back into the Exchequer in tax and national insurance and thus contributes directly rather than drawing benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that a survey by another group of our friends in education, the National Association of Head Teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " the interest that my hon. Friend has taken in these matters over many years. However, I believe that the divisions in the Conservative party are diminishing as the rampant anti-Europeans take control. I agree with my hon. Friend that the euro has been launched successfully. He will recall, as I do, the many occasions on which the idiots on the Conservative Benches said that it would never happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.448.5", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "ing a new phase in the Lib-Lab deal with the meeting later today of the joint consultative committee with the Liberal Democrats to discuss foreign and defence policy. Given that the papers will be classified and denied to Labour Members and the fact that we are all becoming weary of the endless speculation about Lib-Labbery, where it will take us and what precisely is in the Prime Minister's mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Filkin to say that she was prepared to take on the matter, but the hon. Lady may or may not be aware that the Neill committee is looking again at how such issues are handled, reassessing what we have learnt from experience. It is a matter of consideration and judgment. I am not persuaded that it is quite the right way to handle those matters for the parliamentary commissioner to take on that role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-14", "file": "debates1999-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "8ed5c39db005750a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "the Public Accounts Commission, which sets the budget for the NAO, he is in charge of a lean and efficient organisation. He scrutinises every area of public expenditure extremely well. I should also like to pay tribute to the Committee Clerk, Ken Brown, and his staff, who order our affairs with meticulous efficiency and distribute the paper work on time and in the correct order. Many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-14a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " beds on the ward overnight. Now we've got patients left lying on trolleys in casualty. If the Secretary of State is in any doubt that that is due to his Government—the Government who gave voters before the election 14 days to save the NHS—all he has to do is listen to doctors and nurses, in whose minds there is no doubt about who is responsible. I shall now be very kind to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ualify her answer; she did not enlarge upon it. \"No\", she said and sat down, looking as though she had said something wonderful. Far be it from me to embarrass the Minister, especially when she is not present, but it seems that she is so far out of step with medical opinion that even the normally restrained Doctor magazine felt moved to complain that the Government were like—I quote the editorial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": ". Far be it from me to embarrass the Minister, especially when she is not present, but it seems that she is so far out of step with medical opinion that even the normally restrained Doctor magazine felt moved to complain that the Government were like—I quote the editorial— [Laughter.] Well, this is the GPs' view. The magazine said that the Government were like A child hiding under the bedclothes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.587.4", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady calls out from a sedentary position, \"Who trains them?\" The NHS does most of the training, but what develops, pays for and funds most drugs research from which the NHS benefits? The private sector. The fact is that we need a partnership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.587.12", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "es were greater than what he proposes. That did not solve all the problems of the health service, nor will his spending. However much more we put into the public sector, and we are committed to doing so, public spending has never done it all, is not doing it all and will never do it all. Until we face that simple fact, and start the debate from that point and forget any possibility of magic wands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.587.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have many things in common. We use the same pork pie shop in Yorkshire, as may be apparent. I support him ideologically in many ways because he believes in the NHS and its ethos, as I do. The right hon. Lady did not respond to my intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.603.6", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "I have given way several times. I want to carry on because there are others who want to speak. The right hon. Lady's other policy, presumably, is to return to the anarchy of the internal market. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe plays down the anarchy of the internal market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.603.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s place in a moment—spoke to a motion that bore no relation whatever to the one that we tabled. I was confused, but only because I could not work out whether his contribution was neanderthal or palaeolithic. It was a smokescreen of bluff and fundamentally intellectually dishonest. What a contrast it was to the contribution of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "Yes, free at the point of delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.622.4", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "No, I have made it perfectly clear that I am not intending to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.622.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo)", "preceding_text": "deal with a number of points made by the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory). His central proposition is that, as pensioners who are non-taxpayers will lose because an alternative has not been provided, the Labour Government have not discharged their duty. That is incorrect, and I shall show why. In May 1997, the Conservative party left us with an economy with fundamental weaknesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.636.4", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I will answer the hon. Gentleman's question when I reach it in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.636.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I have been very generous. I have given way a number of times. I wish to make some progress now; then I shall be happy to give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "others to tell me when I should give way; it is for me to decide. I have been very generous in taking a number of interventions, and I now wish to make progress. The withdrawal of payable tax credits has removed the distortion that encouraged large institutional investors such as pension funds to press for higher dividends, rather than allowing companies to retain profits and reinvest in business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.638.4", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "In a nutshell, the investors in question have alternatives. Again, the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb) seeks to perpetuate the suggestion that the money is to be taken away from those people and that there is no alternative. That is not true: alternatives are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.638.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "That will help to make them widely available and to create competition between providers. We have also introduced the CAT—cost access terms—standards, which will help to keep charges down, making ISAs potentially good value for money investments even for those on low incomes and small investors. That is the point that Conservative Members cannot understand and will not acknowledge. Most important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"First?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "Yes. However, it is a shame that the previous Government took so long to get rid of composite rates on building societies. When they were abolished, that campaign was launched. Liberal Democrats had pressed the previous Government to get rid of that composite rate of tax for many years, but it took them a long time to get around to it. We welcomed it when they did do it. My first point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-18", "file": "debates1999-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "5d9395b937398b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "It is touching to hear the Opposition's concern for the deprivation of £75 a week from the average pensioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-18a.667.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-01-19", "file": "debates1999-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a289c01fd334b587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.689.10", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we all welcome the early publication of the White Paper, but can the Minister give any reason why the 5,500 citizens of St. Helena should not have restored to them the full British citizenship that the islanders enjoyed for more than 300 years, before the Conservative Government withdrew it in 1981? Surely the islanders deserve an early return to full British citizenship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.689.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-19", "file": "debates1999-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a289c01fd334b587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that there are insufficient ministerial contacts. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has visited several applicant countries in recent months. I assure my hon. Friend that we wish to ensure the best possible co-ordination of ministerial visits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-19", "file": "debates1999-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a289c01fd334b587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "his other person the mayor of Greater London. My last point, which the hon. Gentleman or someone else might have intervened to make, is a technical, \"I am cleverer than you\", point. It could be argued that, as there is no London assembly, we do not need to call the assembly the Greater London assembly to differentiate it. The Minister for London and Construction has no doubt been briefed to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-19a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "remembers, that was their demand—and when they subsequently dropped that demand. We followed them when they used the Washington 3 precondition of decommissioning before entry to talks and then effectively abandoned it. We did not demur when the Government suddenly decided in 1996 to declare that there had to be elections before all-party talks. My point is not to criticise the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ved Northern Ireland Assembly and where, if we can get the last bits of the agreement fulfilled, there can be a place for all parties to be part of the new Northern Ireland Executive. Even with the punishment beatings which, yes, I agree, are wholly unacceptable, we have ceasefires in effect. Even with all of that, I think that the process in the end yields benefits for people in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Treasury's forecast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that at all. As the hon. Gentleman has said, the average independent forecast is 0.6 per cent., compared with our forecast of 1 to 1.5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cast. Many independent forecasts in the survey are at or around the level that we state—or, indeed, above it. As a result of the action that the Government have taken, we have the lowest long-term interest rates for more than 30 years, 400,000 more jobs have been created, and we have cured the fiscal deficit that we inherited from the Conservatives. Rather than the old boom and bust of the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister explain why it is that his Labour MEPs tabled a motion to censure the European Commission and then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Parliament to make our laws, not the Executive, judges or Europe. We want to strengthen the United Kingdom and ensure that power rests with the public, not with politicians. We shall work to make that come about. In thanking the right hon. Lady for her statement, I should like to make one more comment—I hope that she does not take offence. The statement should have been made by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "May we start from the premise that no rational person would defend hereditary seats in the House of Lords?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Thank you. We must now move on to the main business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.936.5", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "henever we discuss dates with the present Administration, there is always a degree of fluidity as to when things are going to happen. That certainly applies to recesses. We still do not know whether we shall go into recess for the half-term holidays, although we are hearing noises about how difficult that would be. I do not know whether the Government's uncertainty on these matters is dictated by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " The date is now known and it is possible to incorporate a date in the Bill. Therefore, I am happy to consider amendment No. 6. I have to make one caveat. Because we have to have provision against the possibility of a national disaster, or an event that makes it impossible to hold the election on that date, there must be a consequential amendment that allows flexibility against such circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Workington that the situation is not quite the same in Sri Lanka because there are three people in the final count between whom the votes are transferred. However, the issue is the same: should we allow the accumulation of the preferences of all those who vote? Under that system, we could get nearer to a plurality of votes for one candidate. Under the Government's proposed system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-20", "file": "debates1999-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "81c6bc1ca06615be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ethical?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "ertaking from the Minister to review the level at which the threshold is set and to revisit the matter on Report. We have a problem. I share the concern of other hon. Members about extremism. I respect those from inner-city seats who have to fight it. The Conservative party backs them in their fight. However, there is a problem. London has a huge ethical minority. I believe that it is 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-20a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1006.5", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "The Government are committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT (MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": " we have never attempted to make the dome a party political launch pad. Indeed, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, at a well-attended event held yesterday to explain what we are doing for the millennium, made it plain that the project was started by the Conservatives. If the right hon. Lady wishes to make cheap political points, I remind her that her right hon. Friend, Michael Heseltine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Rowlands", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "As the Minister and some of his hon. Friends have mentioned, this is the last Scottish programme Bill before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-21", "file": "debates1999-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "5348a17b7f17ac60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Scottish Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "ous compared with the amount of information about most public companies—certainly most public companies spending £400 million a year or so as this does. There is enough in the report and accounts, with which the Minister is no doubt fully familiar, to cause more than a few eyebrows to be raised on the Benches opposite. This is not a partisan point, but something on which the whole House can agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-21a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.23.5", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " that we would give the House the opportunity to vote on this issue, and the court case was stayed pending the outcome. However, it cannot be delayed indefinitely, and the court will not permit it. Moreover, given the strong support that the House gave the measure last time round, it would not be right to wait. This is an area where our law is clearly open to challenge, and that must be rectified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.23.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " is 15; in Italy, it is 14 to 16; in Spain, it is 12 and in Sweden, it is 15. Does the House really think that it will stand against the force of legislation from Europe on this matter? We in Northern Ireland know what happened to our laws. It is perfectly clear that in Northern Ireland, for once, all the parties agreed that the age of consent should not be lowered, but it will come under the axe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " race or gender, I am rightly condemned by Parliament, but surely I have a right to condemn something that is not to do with his race or gender, but is manifested by his behaviour. What we are discussing is fundamentally a matter of choice. I know that it is argued by many hon. Members that the homosexual gene is inside some people. Of course I accept that. Some of my best friends are homosexuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " is inside some people. Of course I accept that. Some of my best friends are homosexuals. [Laughter.] Why do hon. Members laugh? I know from close friends of mine that homosexuality is inherent. It is not something to which they came by chance or by influence after the age of 16. We are talking about boys—they are still boys at 16—and girls. Let us get this straight. Let us talk straight language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Borrow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Borrow", "preceding_text": "o not make similar strong arguments against sex between heterosexual couples outside marriage. I was brought up as an Anglican. In the past 20 or 30 years, my religious observance has varied according to the extent to which I felt welcome within the church to which I went. At the moment, I feel less than welcome within the Church of England. That saddens me. The main reason why hon. Members argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-25", "file": "debates1999-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "647476269e7e1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Would Members leaving do so quietly, please?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-25a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that the change in the taper means that the withdrawal is more gradual, and helps more families claiming the benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "No. Throughout this speech, I have repeatedly referred to the Grundys. They have one distinct advantage. They are fictitious; they are played by professional and highly skilled actors. Thousands of families up and down the land are in similar circumstances, but will be made materially worse off by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "o the Grundys. They have one distinct advantage. They are fictitious; they are played by professional and highly skilled actors. Thousands of families up and down the land are in similar circumstances, but will be made materially worse off by the Bill. [Interruption.] Their personal and financial circumstances will be broadcast to their work mates. They will be seen as a burden by their employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "preceding_text": "Perhaps because there are not many women on the Liberal Democrat Benches, the hon. Gentleman has not been involved in the kind of discussion that Labour Members have had. Does he not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "thers, particularly in their early years, if that is what their mothers want. Good habits and conditioning result, and childrens prospects of being good citizens are greatly increased, as all studies show. It is complete madness to provide an incentive that will virtually drive wives—particularly those in decent, ordinary families in the middle of the income bracket—out to work for fiscal reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but he should study the statistics. In the period during which this country pursued low-wage, sweatshop policies and reduced wages and employment rights to a level that would not have been acceptable elsewhere in Europe, proportionately fewer jobs were created here than in many other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: Lower?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "preceding_text": "I believe that the take-up will be lower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "but the debate has also revealed deep differences of principle between the Government and the Opposition. I am astonished that the Conservatives so strongly oppose not only the Bill, but the additional £1.5 billion for low-income families. I qualify that by saying that I assume that that is still their position, because a U-turn seemed to be taking place at the Dispatch Box earlier this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "em based on genuine incentives, not only to work, but for married couples to stay together and to raise children—and a static model focusing on existing need. I leave this thought with the House: the rhetoric with which the Paymaster General began the debate could have been lifted word for word from the announcement on benefit changes made by the Conservative Government in 1988. The difference is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "welfare benefits. On the criteria that are important in measuring effective delivery of help, working families tax credit delivers in a way that family credit does not, and tinkering with family credit would not make it deliver on those criteria. We have heard much from Conservative Members about how working families tax credit will be an inefficient disaster—a complicated and bureaucratic system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coaker", "preceding_text": "If we reduce tax allowances for poorer people, would that be increased welfare spending? In a sense, a tax credit is like a tax allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "ed to be called a benefit, and is now called a tax credit. We all want to help low-paid families. It is in the interest of society, children, families and individuals that more people go out to work to earn their own living. We should encourage that, but the measure is not the way forward. The Paymaster General is not at her Bench. Like other hon. Members, I listened to her interview this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Lady has any experience of claiming benefit, but perhaps she can imagine it. If she had a choice between completing a tax return and sending it to the Inland Revenue to claim her tax allowances, or claiming them from another agency and receiving them as a cheque, which would she prefer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make progress. Those organisations made an invaluable contribution to the design of the scheme and provided practical advice on the implementation of payment through the wage packet. We shall take no lessons from Opposition Members about burdens on business. I remember only too well the previous Governments record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-26", "file": "debates1999-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98d38c33f948f737", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "e wage packet. We shall take no lessons from Opposition Members about burdens on business. I remember only too well the previous Governments record. [Interruption.] Conservative Members are shouting because they do not want to hear this. They do not like to be reminded of the facts. What was the previous Governments record? They removed 3,000 regulations on business but introduced 10,000 new ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-26a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Textile Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "The Minister will have an opportunity to speak in a moment. He knows that he took over when the economy was in a much better state than it is now and that interest rates have caused the key problems. The hon. Member for Oldham, East and Saddleworth (Mr. Woolas) and others referred to low-cost competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Travel Links (North-West)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": " the way and is co-chairman of the west coast main line all-party group—has mentioned some of the points relating to the west coast main line that we have debated. We do not get a good service on Virgin Trains, but I have travelled with it seven times this year and—touch wood—have never been late. It may be that the service is getting better, but it may be that I have been lucky. We have concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1979?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "n the hon. Gentleman's mind. I have made it clear that it is for precisely those reasons that I intend to stand down from my Cabinet role once the Assembly is in place, in a short rather than a long time. I have been saying that for two and a half months; the hon. Gentleman is obviously deaf. The role of Secretary of State for Wales needs careful consideration. It changed dramatically in May 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "hen we said that the Assembly would cost £100 million over five years. That figure has now been exceeded and expenditure is above the White Paper estimate on which people voted. When will the Secretary of State get a grip on this expenditure, which is running away with itself, and ensure that the money is spent in a far better way, on the people of Wales, instead of on politicians and bureaucrats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e issue—whether the right judgment now is that, as a result of the punishment beatings, the ceasefire is at an end. I asked for research to be done following Question Time last week, and it might be helpful if I gave the House the figures for punishment beatings over the last few years. In 1994, there were 192; in 1995, 220; in 1996, 326; in 1997, 228; in 1998, 209. During one part of that period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was referring to the fact that we cannot slow down the process. However, slowing down is anyway what is happening, as releases are running at about a third of their previous rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We very much agree that it is an imperfect process and an imperfect peace. The Prime Minister knows that we have supported the Good Friday agreement, that we will continue to do so and that we have backed up the Government on very many of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Prime Minister is right to say that the Labour party often supported the previous Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to prevent them, but the right hon. Gentleman also has to face up to the consequences of what he demands me to do. If we ended up exercising our power and declaring the ceasefire at an end, the consequences for the agreement would be huge. We make a judgment the whole time, as I said last week, but I believe that that judgment is essentially still correct. We keep it under review the entire time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", even at the end of the two-year period, there will still be people in prison for the offences that they committed. In the end, we have to make a judgment and my judgment is that the wider interests—not of prisoner releases, but of peace in Northern Ireland—require us to continue to do all that we can to make the process work. I raised what happened under the previous Government not to criticise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Ashdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Teresa Gorman", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister intend to visit the trade union rally being held in the House this afternoon? If so, how will he reply to the remarks of John Edmonds, who leads the GMB, who, on the radio this week, described the economy as being as flat as a pancake? How will he reply to Bill Morris, who leads the GTWU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "We are talking about a process that will not happen overnight—it is not like turning a switch on and off. It takes time for the process to develop, and I believe that that is what we are doing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "f their members who are in prison will be released. Those are two of my specific powers. It is also possible, under the Good Friday agreement, to stop the whole process. That is what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred to, and he outlined clearly the implications if we took that course of action. If I have evidence against organisations, I will act similarly, but I need that evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.358.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "inancial restructuring of London Underground; calls on it to put forward plans, as soon as possible, for the private finance and operation of the Underground; condemns its handling of the completion of the Jubilee Line; and abhors the abolition of financial support from 2000 with no alternative sources of funding in place. There is widespread and growing concern that London Underground is failing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.401.6", "colnum": "401", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that, as an ex-London cabbie, the hon. Gentleman would know that the London underground does not go to Croydon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.401.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "eptable. We all know that the Deputy Prime Minister is making a pig's ear of the policy, but it is adding insult to injury to expect Londoners to pick up the pieces. A central feature of the mayoral election will be the candidates' proposals for sorting out London's transport problems. It is unacceptable that the mayoral candidates will have no idea of the nature of the contracts being negotiated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Or she.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": " of the nature of the contracts being negotiated. [Interruption.] Perhaps they may have a quiet word with the hon. Member for Brent, East. Perhaps such a facility will be made available to other candidates. The Government should conclude their negotiations by this autumn, so that all is clear to the candidates involved, or the final negotiations should be concluded by the new mayor, and he should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "e the election, the Government made promises, as they did on many subjects, that they would wave a magic wand and make the underground, like many other parts of our national life, better. However, they have done nothing about it. They have been delaying all this time. I should point out to Ministers that, when our party was in government, we privatised the entire British Rail network in 18 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rtnership. I, however, intend to follow the example of my right hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Brooke) and will attempt to be a healer in this debate. That means that we must put behind us language such as that used by the hon. Member for Eltham (Mr. Efford), who talked of leaving the system to the \"ravages\" of the private sector. That is an unfair charge to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " nothing but a delay to the investment that the underground badly needs. What will the subsidy regime be under the public-private partnership? Is there going to be a subsidy? Does the Minister seriously think that it will be possible to run London Underground without a public subsidy, unlike any other public metro system in the world and differently from the way in which we privatised the railway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-27", "file": "debates1999-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e50b84fa1235ce9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "Regretfully, I have very little time. The hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake) also talked about the timetabling for PPP. He is someone else who does not know how to play poker. My right hon. Friend the Minister dubbed the hon. Member for Croydon, South's inability to understand how to hide one's cards when one is in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-27a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should read what was said at Amsterdam. The Amsterdam European Council resolution of June 1997 said: Participation in the exchange-rate mechanism will be voluntary for the Member States outside the euro area.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.462.7", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor shakes his head in a complacent and dismissive way. Does he agree with Gavyn Davies of Goldman Sachs, who said that, at some point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.463.7", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "As usual, the Liberals want to have their cake and eat it. I thought that the hon. Lady was rising to thank the Government for the extra investment in her constituency: Somerset county council's standard spending assessment is to rise by 6.5 per cent. from April this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.463.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.8", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ms Patricia Hewitt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ms Patricia Hewitt)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Something has been said that I did not hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Something has been said that I did not hear. [Interruption.] I did not hear whether any hon. Member used a term of abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Something has been said that I did not hear. [Interruption.] I did not hear whether any hon. Member used a term of abuse. [Interruption.] Order. Was it Mr. Gibb?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.466.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "hat the hon. Gentleman apparently did not wish to join me in congratulating the City of London on its success in preparing for the euro, but I am pleased that he supports the efforts that we have been making to urge business to prepare, and I am glad that he supports the very practical steps that the Treasury and its departments are taking to ensure that business has the information that it needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Apart from the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "nt measures are set. As we were told by the Prime Minister, the review was meant to reduce the cost of the social security spending, but we find, using the Government's form of accounting, that the rise over the three relevant years—three years towards the election—will be £37 billion. We must not question whether that objective is good or bad, but whether that is exactly what the Government said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " quoted earlier. The Prime Minister did not just say that the Government would transfer the money to deal with social ills. He clearly said: As we get welfare bills down … then we can release more money into education and health\". Later, he added: as well as reducing the social security bills\". I am not going to discuss whether such proposals are good or bad; we could debate that at length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.501.5", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "'s policy. It is the biggest road sign that points to the ultimate demise of the basic state pension and the gradual emergence of a fully means-tested system. Before the Green Paper was published, the Government said, \"Don't worry, wait for the Green Paper when all will become clear and all will be simplified.\" Yet the Green Paper offered absolutely nothing to the 10.7 million existing pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.501.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Humble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Humble", "preceding_text": "om my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, announcing that Blackpool is part of a new project as part of the invest-to-save strategy of the Treasury, which involves joint working. The council, the benefits agencies and the employment services will work together to facilitate the gateways to housing benefit and council tax benefit and to ensure that the processes are in place to counter fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heald) intervened, I was coming to the subject of child benefit. The Government, in this and other debates, have made much of what they hope to achieve with child benefit. We have heard little in this debate about it, although we shall hear bad news on the subject in the Budget, but the Government are determined to tax child benefit. The Social Security Committee did some interesting research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.518.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman has only just walked in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goggins", "preceding_text": "I shall finish this point. Claimants could only lose, rather than gain, benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goggins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goggins", "preceding_text": "me guarantee, which has an above-inflation increase built into it—£5 for single pensioners, £7 for pensioner couples. If in future years the Government are in a position to deliver an increase above inflation again, they should be encouraged to do so, but more than just the value of the minimum income guarantee is important. The rebranding of income support and, before that, supplementary pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ding—is that those faced with an awkward statistic should distort it, and that is what has happened this afternoon. Before I reply to the substance of the hon. Gentleman's intervention, I should point out that I am in a poor position either to take credit for the undoubted achievements of the last Administration or to defend what others may consider to have been that Administration's shortcomings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-01-28", "file": "debates1999-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "da463dba141c47af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "decessor had the good sense to do so in the summer of 1997, there would have been some credibility in saying, \"It's not our fault guy. It's the fault of the last lot,\" but we heard nothing. There was no statement to the House. We heard nothing until we received the circular letter of last September, when the Secretary of State said that the problems would be solved within two weeks—some two weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-01-28a.555.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agree.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "e to take a deputation to see a Minister. It is important that we have parliamentary questions answered and early-day motions published if we are to raise important issues on behalf of our constituents. Why is it that, during the 13 weeks of the summer recess, we are no longer Members of Parliament, but Members without a Parliament? Do we not need some of the avenues that a Parliament should have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.591.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.611.8", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On the peers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Given the drastic treatment that the Government propose for the House of Lords and the peremptory manner in which they are introducing it, will the right hon. Lady be good enough to tell us whether she proposes to use the guillotine at some point during the proceedings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.611.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "initiative without any idea of how it will finish. The Government's obsession with composition rather than function shows their lack of understanding of the role or necessity of a second Chamber, and how much these changes are based on their perceived party advantage. It was interesting that, in previous debates, the only interventions were on the question of which party had the greater advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"True.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "s have an overall majority in the House of Lords. I am glad that the right hon. Lady has just confirmed that that is untrue. The Government's case is a masterpiece of rewritten history and distorted logic. First, we were told by the Leader of the House of Lords—the right hon. Lady repeated it today—that we cannot have one—stage reform, because hereditary peers have blocked previous attempts at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ently does not perform certain functions. Is it democratically acceptable, for example, for a Minister—in a Government of whatever political complexion—to go to a Council of Ministers meeting and to agree to a directive that must be obeyed in British law although there was never any democratic scrutiny of that directive? Is there not a role somewhere in our legislature for providing such scrutiny?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ers, she has made a big mistake. If she thinks that I will vote for more life peers made by the Prime Minister, she has made a big mistake. One of the ways in which the premiership can be held in check or balance is by free votes in the House of Commons. I am in favour of the House of Commons, on matters of this magnitude, exercising its free judgment. I have been here an unconscionably long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I give way to the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir P. Cormack).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "of time in wasteful debate. Although the House of Lords deals with legislation, an occasional glance at its Annunciator shows that it is acting as a debating society. I have no argument with hereditary peers taking part in a debating society, but they do not have to use one of the Chambers of Parliament to do so. The House of Lords ties up Ministers' time, which could be better used in other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "This is no time for wriggling. Is the Conservative party in favour of hereditary peers having a vote in the House of Lords, as a second Chamber, in the future? The hon. Gentleman's co-defendant on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "If that is what he said, I entirely accept that. I answered in the context of the Bundesbank in my second example, because I thought that that is what the hon. Gentleman said. Either way, in the political and economic structure of West Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I shall save the hon. Gentleman the trouble. The answer to his question is yes. In order to vote for the Bill, one must believe that any replacement House of Lords would be better than the one we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "Yes, it would be less democratic, as modern patronage, as opposed to old patronage, would be involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t to defend a principle that, had my family had anything to leave—which, sadly, they did not—it would have gone to my younger brother. Worthy as he is, that is manifestly unfair. I could not possibly put myself forward for election and then defend a principle that is manifestly unfair and undemocratic. Labour Members seem to be arguing for democracy, but they are arguing for undermining democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "de—are undermining democracy itself. The right hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Mr. Maclennan) said that he was surprised at Conservative Members' argument that wider constitutional reform was necessary, and that he and other Liberal Democrats were in favour of constitutional reform and recognised the need for wide reform. If he does not mind my saying it, he is being honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "anding what I was trying to say. Our problem is not the pre-eminence of this House, which we believe should be maintained, but that neither House has anything like the pre-eminence over the Executive required for accountability. My hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) made that proposition clear. He listed some of the areas in which it is above all true. Laying aside all party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "hould have heard about matters in this debate that we have not heard about from Labour Members, but that, reassuringly, we have heard about from Conservative Members. Those matters include pre-legislative scrutiny; the need to provide a serious check on prerogative legislation in Europe, which my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) clearly pointed out; serious scrutiny of Executive action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Easter Ross.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ining the stance taken by Conservative Members on the Bill, is that throughout the past three quarters of a century the House of Lords has regularly inflicted defeats on measures introduced by Labour Governments. The statistics are striking. I shall quote from research paper 98/104 produced by the Library, from which the right hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Island quoted earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ion Members asked why the royal commission had not been set up 20 months ago. The simple answer is that the royal commission's terms of reference are that part of its remit is to take into account the wider context of devolution, human rights and developing relations with the European Union. That simply would not have been possible 20 months ago because all those matters remained to be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-01", "file": "debates1999-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "37ef19eb2c35e957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Fluoridation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "easure would be as effective in reducing inequalities in dental health as the fluoridation of water in areas with high levels of tooth decay. However, there were also comments from people opposed to fluoridation, mirroring some of the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for New Forest, West. Some commentators questioned the effectiveness of fluoridation and, together with a larger group, argued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-01a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ay's pay announcements, in an effort to break out of the cycle of decline that the health service faces. We also want to change the grading system, as I said. One of the things that I am frequently told by nurses as I go round hospitals and community services is that they get sick to death of equipment breaking down and going on the blink, which is upsetting for patients and disturbing for nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " people who are at the top of the more senior scales, which make it possible for their pay to go up by more than 4.7 per cent. With regard to the proposals for consultant nurses, we made it clear that we would introduce them after we had had thoroughgoing discussions with the representatives of the professions, so that we did not create trouble by establishing them. Those talks are still going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "I think that that is a typical lawyer's perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "NHS Direct", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wiltshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The pilot schemes for NHS Direct started after we came into office, in Milton Keynes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "NHS Direct", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The pilot schemes for NHS Direct started after we came into office, in Milton Keynes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Wiltshire.\"] The pilot schemes started in Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne and Preston and Chorley. They drew on bits of experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.731.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Viscount Cranborne was slightly in error, since he, alone of all Members of the House of Lords, owes his place to somebody who is still living—his father? I believe that Viscount Cranborne is a peer by accelerated succession, which means that he has his place by virtue of one of the extra titles that his father is not using. Was not the hon. Gentleman wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mandelson", "preceding_text": "prevented from conducting any reform because it has become bogged down in an insistence that everything be right and clarified before any change is made. The course of action on which the Government have embarked, including the decision to depart in one respect from the party manifesto to set up a royal commission before establishing a Joint Committee of both Houses, is therefore absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": " will come to be known, be about? Will it be a deliberative Chamber? Will it be a revising Chamber? Will it be a check on over-mighty government? Or will it be a rubber stamp for party hacks, party funders and party apologists in the upper House? If it is, I might be inclined to join my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) and to contemplate a wholly elected House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "ing would ever change. The Conservatives had 18 years in power, during which they could have reformed the system in their own way. They never lifted a finger to do so. There was a hint that they might do so, only once or twice, when Mrs. Thatcher suffered the occasional severe rebuff in the other place. Perhaps she woke up one morning and said, \"Let's just abolish them\"; but nothing ever happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps she needed somewhere to go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "ed the occasional severe rebuff in the other place. Perhaps she woke up one morning and said, \"Let's just abolish them\"; but nothing ever happened. [Interruption.] That is what she used to do. When bits of the constitution annoyed her, such as the Greater London council, she was not against sweeping them away entirely. However, something stopped her doing so when it came to dealing with the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ot justify their presence. One feature of the debate has been the Conservatives displaying synthetic outrage that we dare to remove the influence of hereditary peers before proceeding to establish the final shape of the new Chamber. The reason for doing so is simple: we should not allow 760 families, above the many millions in this country, to play a key role in determining what will replace them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " so is simple: we should not allow 760 families, above the many millions in this country, to play a key role in determining what will replace them. [Interruption.] The history books are littered with the problems of democratically elected Governments who have sought to reform the House of Lords. It is only in the past 100 years that the House of Commons has even managed to establish any dominance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "n this debate. That point certainly was not made by, for example, my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown), who pointed out that he has received few letters from his constituents about House of Lords reform. I ask any hon. Member present who has received more than 100 letters about that in the past two years to put up his or her hand. I do not think that a single hand will go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-02", "file": "debates1999-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b88efb348054af2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "eatherill amendment, which should be put on the face of the Bill immediately. However, the fact remains that the Government have given no sustained thought to the consequences of removing hereditary peers. If they have given no thought to the consequences of stage 1, it is hardly surprising that they have given less to stage 2. Let us be clear; we are not debating the hereditary principle as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-02a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We all thought that Glenn Hoddle's comments were outrageous and all joined in saying so, but given what the Prime Minister has just said, does he accept for future reference, and on reflection, that there is a limit to the number of things that politicians should poke their noses into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "It is not curious that the Opposition are asking for a moratorium—English Nature is asking for one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have set out our growth forecasts for the Government and, as a result of the policies that this Government have pursued, we are predicting an increase in growth next year and growth in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.940.6", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I shall give way later. There are four main problems with the Green Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.940.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " discuss it. It is only recently that the Treasury has finally decided to go ahead, and I understand that it was the Treasury that set about leaking the details in the past couple of weeks to bounce the Department of Social Security and force its hand on the matter. In the middle of all this, we announce our Opposition day debate on pensions, and the Department of Social Security goes into a spin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " objective behind these abolitions was to help companies' profitability. The House will be aware that, as a result of removing tax credits, we have been able to cut corporation tax to its lowest-ever level. That will help companies' profitability and therefore benefit investors. Some of the biggest investors in this country are pension funds. Increased company profitability benefits pension funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green made great play of the fact that we had thought it up a mere moment ago. I know for a fact that we did not, because I was a Treasury Minister when it was being worked up. I refer the hon. Gentleman to paragraph 39 on page 55 of the pensions Green Paper—which I am pretty sure that he had never read until he heard me mention it on the radio this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "odest and not raise expectations, as the Liberal Democrats say, but pensioners will not be patronised. They know what has happened to their incomes and to the society in which they live, and it is right that the Government should look to the big picture. The Government inherited a complete mess on welfare reform and social security. The budget was running out of control and there was no direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "icular route. I know that there are concerns about the long term, but, in the short term, we have been successful in trying to alleviate some of the problems faced by pensioners. I made available an extra £21 billion for the winter fuel payment. It is hard for Labour Members to listen to Opposition Members carping about such measures, because we know that they have a real effect on people's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "mployees, including part-time employees, will be offered stakeholder pensions, but the cream at the top of the company will have pensions to which the company will contribute. Many high earners will expect a significant pensions contribution from their employer as part of their benefits package. Labour Members ought to consider whether they are setting up an apartheid regime in the pension system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "reserve SERPS; secondly, to set up a citizenship pension for carers and the disabled; and thirdly, to set up a stakeholder pension. The first promise has been explicitly broken in the Green Paper. SERPS is to go. The second promise has been covertly buried. We have heard no more about citizenship pensions. Nothing in the document offers carers or the disabled anything better than the means-tested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "No, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.988.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.997.7", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman mentioned Stevenage in response to an intervention by the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), would he care to confirm that, in 1994, when that right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State for the Environment, 23 hectares of green-belt land in Stevenage were released for housing with the knowledge and approval of the previous Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.997.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "Oh dear. Good try, must do better. The hon. Lady has her crib sheet, but I am afraid that, in cases such as Manchester airport, there are very exceptional circumstances. What we decry is the fact that the Government have brushed aside very exceptional circumstances. It is now almost the norm that anyone who wants to build on green-belt land, can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": " and the Edgware road late at night will see exactly the kind of vibrant, inner-city area that we want to see developed. The shops are open quite late into the night; people walk around quite safely; and, although not all the cafes are open in January, the area has the atmosphere of which continental cities are so proud. Delay is still inherent in the planning system. I know that it was inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "nment introduced it, but people in Liverpool, Manchester and other places are falling over themselves to have houses transferred because they know that there is no ghost of a chance of the Exchequer providing the public funds that would put those houses in order. What about allowing local authorities to keep a proportion of the business rate for specific economic regeneration programmes, provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": " they could keep that bit of extra business rate. When the Government talk about local government's community role, they will be giving it some of the means to deliver that. How about going further and allowing local authorities to levy a small supplementary rate, with the agreement of business, subject to a ballot, to use for economic regeneration—for surveillance cameras and street improvements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning (Mr. Richard Caborn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning (Mr. Richard Caborn)", "preceding_text": "laying gesture politics, whereas we are genuinely trying to tackle the structural problems that we inherited from the previous Administration. Let us go back a few years and consider the arguments deployed by people such as Lord Tebbit, who told people to get on their bikes, come to the south-east and get a job. Well, people did that in the 1970s and 1980s, and there is now tremendous overheating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-03", "file": "debates1999-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "037705a5aca6c9d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "s a net loss to the green belt. I shall set out the figures in reverse order as is done in Miss World competitions. No. 4, 1989–90, an overall 35 hectares were lost. Who was responsible for that? The answer is the right hon. Chris Patten. No. 3, 1990–92, 100 hectares were lost. Who was responsible? The answer is the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine). No. 2, 1992–97—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-03a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1062.4", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Government are consulting on the funding measures for the extra costs involved in the setting up of the Foods Standards Agency. The proposal, as the House knows, is for a flat rate levy of £90 a year. That is a charge of £1.73 per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1062.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1065.4", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I hope that I can assure the hon. Gentleman of that. My noble Friend has made his position absolutely clear, but he is in no way involved in the regulatory process in decisions relating to novel foods. Clearly, the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. Gentleman's first question, the number of abattoirs is less than the fingers on one hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly possible to exercise choice over the consumption of cigarettes, and the chief medical officer's warnings about cigarettes are printed on the packet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Over 18 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "98, 19 November 1998, 27 November 1998, 18 January 1999 and 26 January 1999—and those are only the answers that we can trace. The suggestion that the Chancellor has been reluctant to give answers does not stand. Despite the fact that the Opposition spent more money in government on perfectly proper ministerial travel than this Government, they are trying to make mischief and waste Ministers' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1091.4", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " question was discussed for some 20 minutes. He will know that the announcement by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food follows the very clear advice of the chief medical officer not to lift the ban. There is understanding of the concern of the industry among hon. Members in all parts of the House, but the hon. Gentleman will surely accept that my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1091.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1095.3", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " chief constables whom I have met across the country, and their police authorities, are fully committed to implementing the Government's legislation and to working in partnership with other agencies in their communities. Today's debate is not about funding police authorities in England and Wales only in the context of the numbers of police officers, but about their funding and their effectiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The Metropolitan police have made it clear that they can handle the additional cost—indeed, they are offloading their responsibilities onto the surrounding counties and we are compensating them. That suggestion is a little rich—I do not think that the hon. Gentleman will get a Focus headline out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ext year, all funding for major police building programmes is being maintained, as the Association of Chief Police Officers and the police authorities wanted. At the same time, we have been able to increase funding for minor capital works, vehicles and equipment by 2 per cent. for all forces. That is the first such increase for four years. That was never achieved under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "ich will give us an extra £1.25 billion of expenditure over the next three years and will enable police forces to plan ahead. The ability to look ahead with regard to the needs of our communities, and to plan for the policing that will meet those needs, has been lacking. Unlike Bedfordshire, the increase in Greater Manchester is slightly above the national average, at 2.9 per cent. I am delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Allan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Allan", "preceding_text": " I shall say more about that later. I accept that she is sincere in wanting better policing in her area, but I do not believe that the settlement will lead to that. I had hoped to return upstairs with the Minister and others for some more gentle consideration of sexual offences, but I understand that is now not going to happen—although we shall not have any more time for our debate in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Allan", "preceding_text": "the Tory Government. The Government certainly deserve praise in one respect: they have learnt lessons from previous political mistakes. They decided not to make any commitment on numbers, because they saw what political difficulties that would cause. We heard a bizarre argument from the Minister about the Home Secretary's powers to dictate or not. He seemed to want a return to the former position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1139.6", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Prime Minister said exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1139.6", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about trains?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "actly that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"] No, he did not. I do not want to get into a dispute over that. We intend, over our five-year period in Government, to deal with all the commitments in our manifesto, and even with the statements made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Nearly two thirds of our manifesto commitments are already under way, which shows how good the Government's record is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows the difficulties of damping in dealing with SSA. The previous Administration did little to help on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "If councils increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1148.6", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1148.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I hope that, by the time the Minister for Local Government and Housing concludes the debate, she will have put right the impression that the Deputy Prime Minister may regret having created. The Deputy Prime Minister's proposals for council tax benefit subsidy compound the problem that he is creating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill O'Brien", "preceding_text": "st Group of Municipal Authorities—SIGOMA—of which my authority, Wakefield, is a member. Cuts in grants meant council tax increases to help to sustain services—essential services in many areas. As a result, local government aggregate spending rose to £2 billion higher than the standard spending assessment. That disparity still applies. It is one of the anomalies that local authorities have to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1154.4", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "The standards fund, which used to be called GEST—grant for education support and training—and which met the requirements for special educational needs also has to be taken into account. Even if all that money goes to schools, there will be a 1.5 per cent. cut in each school budget. That is under a scheme that the Government keep telling us represents the priority \"education, education, education\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "In the same way as I have responded to the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "In the same way as I have responded to the House today— [Interruption.] We disagree with them. Consultation does not entail agreeing with everyone. I should not have expected any council to say that it was in favour of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1182.4", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ease. We used the same principles as his Government, damping on the overall settlement and not on individual methodological changes. North Yorkshire has got 4.7 per cent. I appreciate the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Marshall) about the difficulties that his authority faces. It is working hard to overcome them. Let me turn to the Liberal Democrats. I remind them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-04", "file": "debates1999-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c861cf22826b578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Motorway Bridges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "r Venetian counterpart. I, my constituents, and many thousands of people throughout the country sigh with dismay when we see the size of bridge parapets. The debate arises from the bridges recently constructed in my constituency, but it has national implications. The M11 link road is still being built in my constituency, through Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead. That is a built-up, well-populated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-04a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-08", "file": "debates1999-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "610fba2a39f013f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I have answered the hon. Gentleman's question. We do not know how many people who now have jobs took advantage of the new deal because they received the letter, and how many did so because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-08", "file": "debates1999-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "610fba2a39f013f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "We must deal sensitively with people with disabilities who may be entering the labour market for the first time. Research shows, however, that nearly 1 million people with disabilities want a chance to participate in that market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-08", "file": "debates1999-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "610fba2a39f013f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Carers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "he Under-Secretary of State for Health, who will be carrying forward the strategy, will want to ensure that the commitment and drive are continued. There is no doubt about the commitment of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to carers' needs and concerns. My hon. Friend need have no fear; Florence Nightingale is an example to us all and the wick in her lamp will not be allowed to burn itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-08", "file": "debates1999-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "610fba2a39f013f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "There is no confusion. My right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor will demonstrate that when he votes tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-08", "file": "debates1999-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "610fba2a39f013f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Government's minimum pensions guarantee they will face the problem of having built a disincentive to saving for anyone below average earnings. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead has been on record many times—I make no apology for quoting him—saying that means-testing penalises honesty, discourages work and harms thrift. The question is not whether the previous Government increased means-testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-08a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.107.7", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "While we await the arrival of the Strategic Rail Authority, may I endorse the right hon. Gentleman's comments that passengers should come first? However, I do not know quite where the SRA would be without the £20 billion of private capital made available by the policies of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.107.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, Madam Speaker. I just want to put the balance right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point about the way in which the Opposition are treating the Bill. I hope that they will reveal the extent to which they plan to oppose certain key measures. I had expected more Opposition Members to support the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.134.7", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which chain is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "om flexible, family-friendly arrangements. One example is one of our leading supermarket chains, which has seen the benefits of being family friendly. The company wants staff to be flexible but, in return, is prepared to recognise individual needs. The supermarket chain has introduced maternity leave, study leave, paternity leave, child-care leave, adoption leave, shift-swap and bereavement leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.134.7", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it Asda?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "all those changes. However, absence is down, saving the company £3 million. Labour turnover is down by 4 per cent., saving the company £2.4 million. In addition, 95 per cent. of female staff who go on maternity leave are now returning to work in the company's stores. Customer numbers are up by 35 per cent. and the company has 8.9 per cent. growth. That is clear evidence of how these policies work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.134.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "No, it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.7", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, I have considerable sympathy for the employee, but I do not think that the Bill would necessarily help him. If he really has such a bad employer, and there is no choice in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "atters. I am not expressing a view on that dispute; I am saying that it should not have got out of control in this way. It reflects badly on the Government's influence in Brussels, and on the diplomacy of the Government and the European government, that those jobs in Scotland, which should not be at risk and are totally unrelated to the issue of bananas, are at risk. We are threatened in the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " a regulatory form. That enables the House to look at the matter issue by issue, and it can provide a proper degree of consensus. Such an approach can enable the House to change the proposals—or enable the Government to table amendments—if it is clear that it is not right. The House will have an opportunity in Standing Committee to explore every conceivable form of regulation proposed by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "ints over a period? A personnel manager might call an employee into his office and say, \"Well, Mr. Smith, in the last 12 months you have accumulated emergency leave points for a broken leg at school and a broken central heating system, and now you've just taken extra leave for a second granny's funeral. I'm afraid your points are over the limit and we have to take your licence away. You're fired.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": " ACAS has failed. When I raised that point with the right hon. Member for Wokingham, he said that he knew nothing about it and would want to hear both sides of the story. I was surprised that the shadow Secretary of State knew nothing about the dispute—surely it is his job to be aware of such matters. There is currently no one on the Conservative Front Bench to answer for the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "se reasons. The Bill's name has changed. A much better change would have been to name it the McCartney Bill, after the Minister of State who has been involved in piloting it through such choppy and difficult waters. The fact that we are debating it is a tribute to the work of my hon. Friend the Minister, who has pursued the legislation with skill, perseverance and, allegedly, not a little cunning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "cause the right hon. Gentleman was replaced almost immediately—not because of anything that he had done—I took advice from the right hon. Member for Sedgefield (Mr. Blair). Previous Labour party manifestos had made it clear that Labour was opposed to employment agencies: it wanted them to be abolished, and it wanted employment businesses to be abolished. That was the Labour party's settled policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "preceding_text": " to regenerate those communities. That is the legacy that we were left by the previous Government. The Bill will help to redress some of that, because it helpfully gives trade unions opportunities to work with employers. Trade unions are, by their nature, redistributive and that will add to the regeneration. The Bill is enormously important. We know that the nature of a class society is such that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clapham", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. I am not giving way. [Interruption.] I am not giving way at all. Conservative Members seem to think that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "omics graduate, I can certainly attest to that. I have to tell those hon. Members who were first politics graduates then worked for a think tank—an increasing number, I am sad to say—that they are even further removed from the real world. I wanted to take part in this debate because I started an electronics manufacturing company 12 years before I came to the House. By the time I left that company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady asks us about productivity. While some of us were involved in production, she worked for a trade union. How can she talk authoritatively on the subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "Precisely. It is quite clear that the CBI thinks that the Bill's overall impact will be negative. The Institute of Directors has been even blunter. It concluded: The Bill is entirely inconsistent with its objective of creating a competitive economy. These measures will sap the competitiveness of British firms. And so they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "ng their original proposals and retaining a cap on unfair dismissal claims, although it has increased fourfold to £50,000. I should add—parenthetically, to be nice to the Minister of State, for once—that I am grateful to the Minister for embodying my suggestion of using algorithms, or logical trees, in his explanatory notes, to take people through how they should respond to claims for recognition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about employees?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "e balance was about right, as the facts show. We approach the Government's proposals with heavy scepticism, because we know where they come from and the constituency that they are designed to satisfy. We believe in certain simple concepts. Businesses create jobs and wealth. Entrepreneurs take risks in the face of uncertainty and open up new markets. Governments should not and must not hinder them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or his leader.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "uld not even muster enough speakers to put their tired old story to the House and the British people. We had to have Labour Member after Labour Member because there were no Conservatives left to speak in support of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood). In 12 years in the House, I have never known a Front-Bench spokesperson of any party to have so little support from his Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "ir own. No wonder, at the last election, managers and workers alike united across Britain to get rid of the Tories and their aging and dogmatic approach to business and employment relations. The Tories are uninterested in social partnership. Why bother, when a hire-and-fire culture pervades their party from top to bottom? Remember the hapless Viscount Cranborne? He was in a job for four centuries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "0 this year, made his maiden speech in this House on 14 December 1970, opposing the Conservatives' Industrial Relations Bill. I am sure that he is listening to the debate this evening, and I wish to quote what he said nearly 30 years ago about the Tories and their view of industrial relations. It is quite illuminating. I will just use the favourable parts, as he was a bit of an old trade unionist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " to this. I will be happy to assist the right hon. Gentleman, because he is too valuable an asset for the Labour party to lose. He is doing far too bad a job to be sacked. If, in the next few weeks, I can rush up anything to assist him, he should have a word in my ear and I will see what I can do. I am all in favour of all-party support and co-operation when it comes to people's employment rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.217.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Mixed-sex wards", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "I call Dr. Julian Lewis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Mixed-sex wards", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "ect figures on patients denied beds in single-sex wards. Those are not my words, or those of any Conservative Member, but the words of the then shadow Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith), in a Labour party press release dated 20 November 1996. At the outset, I state that I am not, and have never held myself out to be, a medical expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-09", "file": "debates1999-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "9b8f454d60b29827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Mixed-sex wards", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "preceding_text": "n three key objectives: to ensure that appropriate organisational arrangements are in place to secure good standards of privacy and dignity for all hospital patients; to achieve fully the patients charter standard for segregated washing and toilet facilities across the NHS; and to provide safe facilities for patients in hospital who are mentally ill which safeguard their privacy and their dignity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-09a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.312.8", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "When the Foreign Affairs Committee describes the workings of the Foreign Office as being like an episode of \"Yes, Minister\", and the Labour Chairman of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.312.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we shall consider carefully the points that the Select Committee has made. I emphasise yet again that it did not find that Ministers had engaged in some great conspiracy to breach arms embargoes, and it did not find any of the Opposition's allegations correct. It launched serious and vehement criticisms of the behaviour of certain civil servants. I happen to think that those criticisms are unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, it was the last Government—with the hon. Gentleman's support—who cut the married couples allowance first. Secondly, I take it from what the hon. Gentleman said that he is against the help with child care that we are giving people. We are in favour of helping people with child care, because it is an important part of enabling them to raise their children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " course, he would not. What we have done for the first time is to get rid of the huge national debt that was inherited from the Conservative party. The £28 billion borrowing has gone. We have the lowest mortgage rates for over 30 years. Employment is up 400,000. We have halved youth unemployment—and how have we done it? We have rejected the politics of boom and bust, in favour of a stable economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "am beginning to get worried about us. To be frank, I was not aware of the particular problem to which he has just referred, but I will look into it carefully. I know that he is a strong critic of the common fisheries policy, and I know that there have been a lot of difficulties in its implementation. However, I still believe that we would make a great mistake if we withdrew from it or scrapped it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You may recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "hich they may agree, that there should be equality in everything else. Should there be equality in pensions? Should there be equality in terms of marriage, so that there could be homosexual marriages? That will be the next thing. Those who support the Bill have to answer this question: is this the end of the line or are they prepared to go further, as those in the militant gay rights outfits want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "hould be careful about romanticising Oscar Wilde, as the placing of a statue of him in the Strand last year did. Clearly, he was persecuted by the father of his male friend, Lord Alfred Douglas, the Earl of Rosebery. He wrote some fine plays and was quite a good poet. However, those who are concerned about paedophilia and sex tourism should know that Oscar Wilde was a paedophile and a sex tourist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": " him in the Strand last year did. Clearly, he was persecuted by the father of his male friend, Lord Alfred Douglas, the Earl of Rosebery. He wrote some fine plays and was quite a good poet. However, those who are concerned about paedophilia and sex tourism should know that Oscar Wilde was a paedophile and a sex tourist— [Interruption.] Labour Members shake their heads. Let them read the biography—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "n a sexual act that will put their health, perhaps fatally, at risk. I should like briefly to say a word about whether orientation is preordained, and hope that my words will faintly shine a bit of a spotlight on to my own motivations in opposing the provision. Although I know that Labour Members would like to portray me as some sort of secret hater of gays who does not have the courage to say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Members would like to portray me as some sort of secret hater of gays who does not have the courage to say so— [Interruption.] Yes, that is what they would like to do. I tell both Labour Members and my hon. Friends that my first experience of meeting a young boy who was gay was in my grammar school in Swansea. I remember his name and the great pity that I felt for him, because of the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "f the way in which he was persecuted and shunned by the other pupils. I also remember asking him how it was that he got into that orientation. He did not turn around and say to me that it was a result of the fact that he had always known that he had those feelings. He told me that it was a result of the fact that an older youth had taken him to a bedroom, tied him to a bed and interfered with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "across, bizarrely, the nicest would be Welsh nationalists. The hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Dafis) is no exception to that rule, and he has treated us to the delightful—and apparently charming—prospect of a slight technical amendment to the Bill to achieve what he described as an efficiency. As a matter of fact, the Conservative party in Wales strongly disapproves of the hon. Gentleman's views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " most unfortunate fashion that dreadful phrase that the former Secretary of State for Wales used when we discussed these matters on Second Reading and in Committee on the Bill that became the Government of Wales Act. The right hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) used to say that devolution was not an end point but a process. In the circumstances that I have described, it will become a process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.403.7", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ined, we think that it is right to provide the added reassurance by prohibiting disconnection of such premises. I refer now to prisons and immigration detention centres. This further category of accommodation was brought to my attention in Committee. Prisoners do not automatically spring to mind as those among the most vulnerable in society. However, they do not have a choice in where they reside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.403.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "er companies, but the Secretary of State.\" That is why we have tabled these two amendments. The amendments would allow the Secretary of State to provide guidance to which the water companies must have regard. Under the Bill, companies charging schemes must comply with the regulations set out by the Secretary of State, which is a fundamental shift in the nature of United Kingdom utility regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "n a particular region. Are not private companies better placed to design products and particular tariff schemes to assist vulnerable groups? Is it not also true that the capacity of the 30-odd companies in the industry to promote innovative ideas must be greater than the capacity of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions to do so? It is that drag on innovation, that eschewal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-10", "file": "debates1999-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8a1d30a2da0a7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House for more than a couple of minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-10a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Negotiated by you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "Why should children lose five days' schooling because of some deal negotiated 12 years ago with the trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "(by private notice) : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "I was there when the border was closed on 29 January and I saw some appalling behaviour by the Spanish police. Many people in Gibraltar believe that the British are engaged in negotiations to try to create some kind of counterweight to the Franco-German alliance through an Anglo-Spanish alliance, and that if Gibraltar has to pay the price for achieving that alliance, so be it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": " present the full bill for council tax benefit is met by central Government. The Government's White Paper, \"Modern Local Government: In Touch with the People\"—of course, every Government document must contain the words \"modern\" and \"people\"—was published in July last year. That proposed transferring some responsibility to local authorities for meeting council tax benefit above a certain threshold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "It is now my opportunity to say a few words about joined-up thinking. I speak as one born in Swansea, who lived there for 33 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "t will have on our deliberations. Will it be a victory for the people of Wales, or for the fudged system introduced to help the Secretary of State to become leader of the Labour party in Wales? We need not wait long now to know. It is a shame that the Liberal Democrats have used the debate to have a go at Plaid Cymru. This dreadful political spat between the two minor parties in Wales is shameful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may say I am wrong; we shall see if that is so when the Under-Secretary of State for Wales winds up. I only hope that his performance today is better than the one he gave earlier this week on the private notice question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "nces of their management of the economy. Following the CSR, we announced an additional £300 million to be spent on housing and regeneration over the next three years. That means that, by the end of 2002, Scottish Office funding for housing will be about £640 million—an increase of nearly 40 per cent. on the level of funding we inherited from the previous Administration. Our key housing initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "lic bodies are coming together to develop an integrated public transport system, and if negotiations are taking place in the transitional period, fears may be voiced and we may be told that it is necessary to hold off and delay things until the Ministers at Holyrood are able to make decisions. I do not want to sound parochial, but we hope that the waterfront development in Gourock will take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Michael Clapham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-11", "file": "debates1999-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "a2d5a0638c35067b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salmond", "preceding_text": "But we are entering a new phase in politics with the brave new Parliament. We must be prepared to look at things anew and try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-11a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Does not that figure simply take one's breath away—£08,000 a year each to keep just over 600 category A prisoners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " to end up? Conservative Members have advocated an elected upper House, because that would be democratic, have legitimacy and be fine; but it would not be fine at all. A wholly elected upper House would either go the whole way with the Government of the day or it would not; if the upper House had been up for election at the general election, both Houses would be completely controlled by one party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.635.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On the wireless.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "On a crystal set?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "presenting the governing party in the upper Chamber. They have created 105, including the four Law Lords, since the Prime Minister took office. Of the peers under 39, only two are there by appointment, so 36 are there by succession. We have always argued that it is good to get youth in Parliament and give young people the opportunity to have their say. That is one argument in favour of succession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e. Of the peers under 39, only two are there by appointment, so 36 are there by succession. We have always argued that it is good to get youth in Parliament and give young people the opportunity to have their say. That is one argument in favour of succession. [Laughter.] Hon. Members mock, but hereditary peerages are one way in which young people can get a say about the governance of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "t here for the early part of the debate because I was engaged in other parliamentary business. However, one of the advantages of televising the Chamber is that we are able to hear speeches in our rooms. I therefore heard much of what was said earlier, and I waited to see how the hon. Member for Basildon (Angela Smith) would vote. Would she allow Baroness Wharton to carry on speaking? She voted no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "I want to make one point in the minute that remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-15", "file": "debates1999-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3354d1c1562f0f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "se on. I am happy to confirm that, subject to the outcome of consultation on the discussion document that we issued last week, we are minded to refer beta-interferon treatment to the NICE as one of its priority tasks. I hope, therefore, that by later this year we shall have clear, authoritative advice on the role of beta-interferon in the treatment of patients with this most distressing condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-15a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's question speaks for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.716.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "hi view of the American Government's lamentable record on the funding of the United Nations and their persistent default in stumping up what they owe, would the Minister support a proposition that the UN headquarters should move to London, at the very centre of the European Union, removing it from the ambit of the rather more absurd American views on it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "There is no point in the right hon. and learned Gentleman rising at the Dispatch Box to wish us well in the talks, but then trying to knock away one of the main incentives for reaching agreement. We are clear on two points. First, the Chief of the Defence Staff has been fully involved in our decisions, and I am sure that he would have made no irresponsible decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Cyprus, we must carry with us in achieving that objective not only Turkey but the Turkish Cypriots? Cyprus has had a sad history in the past 30 years. What action are the British Government taking to work more closely with Turkey, which is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and has given that body great support, and with those responsible Turkish Cypriots who want a united Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Genetically Modified Food", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "is sector, but we will not take risks with public safety. The foods that are on sale are as safe as the non-GM equivalents. Everyone who has examined them is satisfied that those foods already on the market are as safe as equivalent foods. There is no equivocation about that, notwithstanding the degrees of risk that the hon. Gentleman mentioned. Nothing is safe: even crossing the road is not safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " interesting to compare the speech by the right hon. Member for Hartlepool with the almost identical speech by the right hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Mr. Maclennan). I must say to both right hon. Gentlemen—especially the former—that I disagree with their view of the role of the Committee of this House in all these matters. Why on earth cannot we debate this amendment now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "on-line information service—POLIS—computer in the Library of the House, to which I am indebted. About 250 hereditary peers have spoken between five and 40 times and have lent the upper House great weight in doing so. Another example that I did not give yesterday was that of Lord Ridley, who is recognised nationwide by those who understand the subject for his profound insight into local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "ve yesterday was that of Lord Ridley, who is recognised nationwide by those who understand the subject for his profound insight into local government. [Interruption.] No, Lord Ridley has a remarkable insight and if the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. McWalter) knew him, he would recognise that fact. Frequently, he was a constructive critic of the Conservative Government when we were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.774.6", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "to expel 300 Members from the Chamber halfway through the currency of a Parliament. Yet what we are proposing to do in relation to the upper House, in relation to the hereditary peers, who do have rights—even if sometimes, listening to Labour Members, one wonders whether they have cottoned on to that—is to get rid of their right to represent themselves halfway through the currency of a Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.774.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "orry. I must get on. I feel confident that I could answer the hon. Gentleman's point. I said: The right hon. Lady does not know what it is yet. The Leader of the House replied: I do.\"—[ Official Report , 1 February 1999: Vol. 324, c. 615.] The Leader of the House has many attributes, but that of being a clairvoyant and a witch was not one that I had thought that she would claim as part of her own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " principle, the purpose and the proposals in our manifesto. If Opposition Members want to speak of blackmail, what would they call suggestions and indeed threats to use the powers of the House of Lords—what were the words?—and hooligan behaviour to disrupt utterly the Government's programme, opposing everything that the Government seek to do on health, education and crime at every step of the way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "gged into a digression, but it is important to bear in mind that the great divide in the Chamber on the issue—some divides cut across parties—is between the unicameralists and the bicameralists. The majority of bicameralists have been Conservatives. Unicameralism has always flourished better among Labour Members. I shall conclude my comments on the scale of the patronage that we are talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-16", "file": "debates1999-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1354ce761df19725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-16a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Army (Retention)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "aps between overseas exercises and overseas deployments. The Minister will be aware that, in a lecture last Thursday, the Chief of the General Staff made the point that the Army is more heavily committed than at any other time in peacetime and that, if the forces that are predicted for Kosovo are included, the proportion committed rises to 41 per cent. I have to say that many people are not taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Report (Injunction)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "unjustified and autocratic action and has now been forced into a humiliating climbdown? Will he confirm that no issue of national security was raised at all and that The Sunday Telegraph was carrying out its legitimate and proper role as a newspaper—to report and to reveal? In that respect, let me declare an interest. I have been a member of the National Union of Journalists for the past 35 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.23.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Report (Injunction)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I said that, if apologies were due, they were due from the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler) for speaking to the House—as indeed he himself declared—as a non-executive chairman of a newspaper company, rather than as a Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary will find that I am a critic of some parts of the Bill, but I see hundreds of applications for judicial review every month and most of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.49.7", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We tell the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield that the previous Administration were and remain responsible for the current shambles of the immigration service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.49.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "time for us to consider them in Committee, along with the rest of the Bill. My colleagues and I will be registering our opposition to the Bill this evening to reflect our view on so many elements of it. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) will be seeking to catch the eye of the Chair when he returns from the Home Office to make some additional points. We will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " or both. That is a shattering indictment of certain shady members of the legal profession and an indication of how much we need the Bill if we are to clear up this situation. When I read the Tory amendment, I could not believe the nerve of the modern-day Conservative party. Someone described the Tory party as an organised hypocrisy; I have forgotten who it was, but it was an accurate description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " it is a disorganised hypocrisy in this case. The amendment declines to give the Bill a Second Reading because the Bill fails to create a situation whereby only genuine asylum applicants will be given permission to settle in this country. Many of the applicants being dealt with entered the country under the three pieces of asylum legislation that the Conservatives introduced in just over a decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "Those three Acts were opposed, because it was clear that they would not work. The situation that we are in today shows better than anything else that they do not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What's her number?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "h senior IND members—some of whom are in the House for today's debate; it is a pity that they are not available when we ring them up—but have received no response. The only star on the dark horizon is a woman named Jackie Morar. When I contact her, things get done. However, hon. Members should not have to shout, scream and ring up to complain. Jackie Morar is the head of IND's public inquiry unit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the Minister's reply answered my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.82.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-22", "file": "debates1999-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8a9e7ba7557e3f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "I shall not constantly give way. The hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to make a speech in the debate but has only intervened in the speeches of other hon. Members. He could have collected his thought processes and made a speech, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-22a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Health Care (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "Some £45 million has so far been spent by the Government to reduce the absolute numbers on waiting lists in Scotland. However, will the Minister explain why, in my native city of Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "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": "ay a part in the solution. The economic reform programme includes the action plans that we started at our Cardiff Economic Council. They require labour market reform through greater flexibility, capital market reform through a European venture capital industry and product market reform through extending competition and strengthening the single market. We are determined that these must be in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "rmation. It was all so simple for the Prime Minister before the last election. Perhaps he recalls his article in The Sun in April 1997, which appeared under the headline, My love for £. Exclusive by Tony Blair. Tony Blair last night declared for the first time he loves the pound. He admitted: 'I know exactly what the British people feel when they see the Queen's head on a £10 note. I feel it too.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "adership on the issue than the Government, but the Prime Minister cannot leave it to them. The Government will have to defend their position: they can follow a policy of stealth, but they cannot win a referendum by stealth. Unless the Government are prepared to come forward and argue the case for the euro, they risk this decision, the most important that Britain has to face, being lost by stealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.187.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " the decisions of the central bank? Is he aware that democracy is held by many people, including me, to be a national interest? Is he also aware that, on this matter, there are divisions in all parties and there will be a free vote in the House? Will he give us an assurance that the Cabinet will have the same right to freedom that was made available in 1975 during the previous referendum campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not our policy. The hon. Gentleman and, I am afraid, the majority of Conservative Members want the euro to fail. That is all that they have left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that, as he consults business about his plans, the only criticism that he will hear is that preparation should be faster and it is essential that he picks up a gear? If he speaks to executives in Marks and Spencer, as I have done, he will hear that they have already gone a long way towards preparation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has gone beyond the terms of our defence engagement in Iraq. I am sure that he is as conscious as the rest of us of the fact that it is not because of sanctions that children are dying for lack of food in Iraq. If anyone is dying for lack of food in Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the Home Secretary said. I am sorry to tell the hon. Gentleman that I listened carefully, and my right hon. Friend said that there was a distinction—however much one might deplore it—between the leaking or other disbursement of relatively run-of-the-mill documents, such as Green Papers or White Papers, and the leaking of the report of a judicial inquiry, which is not in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The CSA.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The Bill will affect only cases initiated after it comes into force. Any degree of retrospection causes immense difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "used. Whether the Government like it or not, that individual highlights yet another example of the strong psychological connection that the public make with the contributory principle. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) has made that point time and again. In that individual's case which I have just cited, there is also a legitimate connection, because he paid voluntary contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State said that it is a question of balance. I think that the Government have got the balance wrong. In answer to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ment—so he must spend the money required to ensure that they can all be interviewed in that time. The cost will be considerable. On the basis of what we have learnt from the lone-parent interviews under the new deal, the costs just for lone parents could rise to £100 million. I assume that the Government will ante up to that. I saw the Secretary of State nodding, so I assume that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "That is interesting. The hon. Lady has gone and put her foot in her mouth. She must have been eating too many genetically modified foods. In fact, her party's Government made things so bad for occupational pensions that those schemes are now closing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "That is interesting. The hon. Lady has gone and put her foot in her mouth. She must have been eating too many genetically modified foods. In fact, her party's Government made things so bad for occupational pensions that those schemes are now closing. [Interruption.] The point stands. No new schemes have been opened under the present Government—and new schemes were opened under the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t made things so bad for occupational pensions that those schemes are now closing. [Interruption.] The point stands. No new schemes have been opened under the present Government—and new schemes were opened under the last Government. [Interruption.] My point is well made. The hon. Lady is wrong. This Government set about breaking down occupational schemes. The Secretary of State sits there smiling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right. The point that I was trying to make was that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) was wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " Government a week or so ago came at the problem from another angle. In social security matters, the ethic of duties and rights, and the balance to be struck between them, finds its best expression—historically and probably for the next 50 years—in terms of contributions and benefits, and in the importance of the social insurance principle. We undermine the social insurance principle at our peril—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "inued for many years. The time for tinkering is running out; the time for salami slicing is over. The time for palliatives is at an end. The time has come for a radical new step to be taken. We need to examine the Department of Social Security, all its benefits and all its structures, and unpick it from the foundation stones upward. That is a task for the Opposition as they prepare for government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " and welfare. They have fine personal records of compassion and concern for the disadvantaged. I think in particular of the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) and the hon. Members for Preston (Audrey Wise) and for Croydon, North (Mr. Wicks), but they were joined by other hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn), who always speaks sincerely, even if it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-23", "file": "debates1999-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "88001a4ac15616ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "ttle can we get away with paying you?\" but \"How could we best help you plan a move to independence?\" We want to invest in new technology, not to cut staff but to enable our staff to provide people with the help that they need and have not been able to obtain in the past. As has been said, the job of the Employment Service used to be to minimise the amount of jobseeker's allowance that it paid out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-23a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Flood and Coastal Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to my constituency. Were it not for drainage, my constituency would not exist, or the vast bulk of it would not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.374.5", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoner Releases", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "the Good Friday Agreement only because they knew that they would get their prisoners out. One of their obligations is to decommission their weapons. Would it not be sensible simply to say to all organisations, both loyalist and republican, that no more prisoners will be released until they start delivering on the decommissioning of weapons? That does not destroy the agreement—it simply fulfils it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoner Releases", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "We have no knowledge of that in terms of the way in which the hon. Gentleman raises the point. The Chief Constable has said that all of the paramilitary organisations have been associated in some way with paramilitary assaults. I would suggest to right hon. and hon. Members that we do not share detailed intelligence across the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.377.4", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Good Friday Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "es to talk and try to find a way forward. We are doing everything that we can to help with that. We have recently asked the head of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in Scotland, Mr. Frank Blair—no relation—to act as a negotiator and facilitator in that process. No one in Northern Ireland wants a repeat of last year's events at Drumcree, and we will do all that we can to avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "Five years ago, the French Government were prepared to invoke the Luxembourg compromise to save a few thousand jobs in French shipyards. This Thursday, will this Government be prepared to invoke the Luxembourg compromise to save 5,000 jobs in the British art market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.382.4", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.382.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall, as I do, the previous Government's promise that rail privatisation would result in major improvements in rail services? The only changes that my constituents have experienced are higher fares and poorer services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "preceding_text": "s my right hon. Friend recall, as I do, the previous Government's promise that rail privatisation would result in major improvements in rail services? The only changes that my constituents have experienced are higher fares and poorer services. [Interruption.] Will my right hon. Friend ensure that tomorrow, at the rail summit, which will be chaired by my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.4", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister did not say no yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.383.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he is trying to catch up on what he lost yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister tries to refer to who lost yesterday. Is he aware that in the last six hours, 100,000 people have called The Sun to say that they want to keep the euro?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "ation on the ground will deteriorate by 15 March. It is happening already and will inflame both sides. Why was the Rambouillet format chosen for the talks when the Dayton model—shut all the parties away in a remote, unattractive location without access to press or home capitals, with all the principals present, and refuse to let them go until an agreement has been reached—was known and successful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "is reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) yesterday? Can he say whether either document was solicited by anyone in his Department or his PPS? What action did he take to report the second leak? Did he initiate any action as a result of the second leak? When the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Mr. Lloyd)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman raises a number of questions. I cannot say whether the document was registered, but I certainly undertake to write to him and to clarify that point. Sending back the document would not have undone the fact of transmission of the document to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.418.3", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Of course he saw it before he answered that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Randall", "preceding_text": "Did one copy come out of the fax or several?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "What I said was \"in or around the Select Committee\". It certainly came from somebody who had the ability to obtain the draft of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "l have to satisfy the requirement of personal physical presence—that is, he must actually work in the City. In the case of an incorporated body—usually a limited company—or an unincorporated body, the personal physical presence must be satisfied by those representing or working for the company in the City. In other words, companies cannot be \"shells\". They must have people working on the premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Had we intended to abolish the institution altogether, it would have been appropriate for us to say so before the general election. We did not do that. We gave an undertaking before the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "erest in the City will not be able to stand. We have seen enormous confusion tonight among those who are opposed to the Bill: those who wish to go back to a residents-only basis—in which case, there would be an even smaller voting population than at present in terms of businesses—those who favour the status quo and those who want to abolish the system altogether. On behalf of the City corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.4", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "e hereditament in a state to command that rent and the tenant undertook thereafter to bear the costs of repairs and insurance and to pay all usual rates and taxes\".'. Throughout the Bill's passage, both on Second Reading and in Committee, there has been serious concern that it does not do what the Government seek to do. There is a widespread fear that the legislation is too complex and convoluted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.6", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": " the Bill. The amendment's purpose is to try to clarify the situation and to prevent litigation and confusion. I shall try to explain this highly complex subject briefly. Before the 1990 revaluation, everyone tended to agree that there was an obligation on a hypothetical landlord to take some responsibility for putting a property into repair. The relevant definition was contained in section 19(6)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.8", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.497.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Anston.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "The Minister has tried again, and I missed it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "isk of introducing an unintended restriction and so lose the flexibility that valuers and the courts need in deciding what is reasonable in the particular circumstances of each case. A further concern was how, following enactment of the Bill as drafted, the Valuation Office would treat properties that would previously have had rateable values reduced, often for short periods only, to take account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-24", "file": "debates1999-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "7670df3527b7797b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "rlier. There is however a need for clarity, and I do not believe that the Bill provides it. I was concerned that the explanatory notes were longer than the Bill, and we must be cautious when that happens. It was for that reason that we hoped that some of the points in the explanatory notes would be in the Bill. Shortly after the Committee, I received a letter from the Rating Surveyors Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-24a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-25", "file": "debates1999-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3050457bf9a9f234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right honourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I have listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman—or is he right honourable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-25", "file": "debates1999-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3050457bf9a9f234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": ". If my mathematics are not too bad, that comes to £330 million a year over the next six years. What would happen to objective 2 and 5b assistance if we received objective 1 money? I have no idea, but presumably it would be slightly less. If it were halved, and we received £2 billion-worth of objective 1 assistance plus a little objective 2 money, we would get £500 million over the next six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-25", "file": "debates1999-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "3050457bf9a9f234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Squalid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely correct. Expectations of the Welsh Assembly have been raised to such great heights that it cannot hope to fulfil even 10 per cent. of what the Labour party has said it will be able to achieve. Contrast that with the way in which the elections were held, or the squalid way in which the referendum in Wales was held a week after the referendum in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-25a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You had 18 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": " I had the privilege to be the Minister responsible for the youth service in the previous Government. We did a lot of work on problems in this area, from which the concept for the Criminal Records Bureau came. I am a little surprised that the Government have not already brought the provisions into force. We could not do so, because the issue came up in the last week before the House was dissolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "d a moment ago, we have to accept that life out there is not as good as we might wish. Some people want to be malicious, for whatever reason: their potential victims must be protected. I should also be interested to hear what the hon. Member for Stourbridge has to say about paragraphs (c) and (d) of clause 5(2), which deal with the grounds on which people are to be considered unfit for employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "r the effort that you have made, since I raised this matter on a point of order at 12.30 pm yesterday, to seek to ensure that information that should have been volunteered to the House has finally been made available. We have heard this morning a junior Minister seeking to defend the indefensible, but we should have heard yesterday the Home Secretary, at the Dispatch Box, offering his resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept and understand that, in his statement, he was effectively silent on the job that he should have done in coming to the House this morning, which is to account to the House for the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "air of me to cover all the issues that I wish to talk about. I shall concentrate on the few issues of concern that I have, but that does not mean that I am generally critical of the Bill. I am condensing my remarks for the sake of time. The concerns on which I want to concentrate are those flagged up by the organisation Liberty. As an avid supporter of that organisation, at least since 1 May 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Connarty", "preceding_text": " a dangerous area. For example, false accusations are sometimes made against teachers where there is malicious intent. Having been the president of a teachers' union in central Scotland, I have seen teachers break down as a result of the pressure that results from a false accusation. They have then to retire because their health has genuinely broken down. They will be on a provisional list. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-02-26", "file": "debates1999-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "13c029deeb7191ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Company and Business Names (Chamber of Commerce, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) on the clarity with which he explained his Bill, and on his luck in the ballot. I have been in this place for considerably longer than he has, and I have never come close to being successful in the ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-02-26a.706.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I well understand the problems that Reigate has to cope with. The hon. Gentleman is right. I have read the figures, and funding in Reigate is £62 per head while the UK average is £103. Reigate seems to have done particularly badly, receiving only 15 awards so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.722.6", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "If the boot is on the other foot, my hon. Friend certainly knows how to put it in. I can assure him that I, least of all hon. Members, would wish to discriminate against his constituency and against good socialists in Derbyshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.722.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Parliamentary Calendar", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "As we are all in modernising mood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Elderly People (Long-term Care)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "ng for good-quality care of the elderly and how the costs should be shared between taxpayers and the individual. The report rightly makes it clear that there is no obvious answer and calls for an \"informed debate\" on the recommendations. I support that call. The Government's response must await the outcome of that debate, which I hope and expect will begin with the publication of the report today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "preceding_text": " His pronouncement on the sexual preferences of young girls is interesting and I give way to his, perhaps, superior knowledge—he may have researched it. If he thinks that the distinction is one based on unnatural acts, would he criminalise 15-year-old girls if, as part of unlawful sexual intercourse, they engaged in buggery? Perhaps he would. Therefore, he would not restrict the provision to boys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Far too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I will not give way: the hon. Gentleman has had more than enough time to explore his points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.779.6", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " arguments first. I welcome the Minister's acceptance of the argument that we advanced in Committee that the maximum sentence for such an offence should be judged on its merits, not by reference to other sentences that were perhaps not entirely applicable, particularly the one on unlawful sexual intercourse, which I note the Minister now accepts is too low a maximum sentence, in his personal view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.779.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.801.8", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "take note of what has been done in France. I gather that no fewer than 200,000 people demonstrated in Paris at the prospect of gay marriages. We know from what happened with the Countryside Alliance how the Government respond to public demonstrations. Perhaps those of us who feel strongly about this should take to the streets and demonstrate that we will not support any further move on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.801.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-01", "file": "debates1999-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "1b709857bb506cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "For the convenience of the House, I propose that we take motions Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-01a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Unit Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for her answer. May I also thank the Secretary of State for recently visiting Bedford, where he thanked national health service staff for their hard work and dedication. That message went down very well and was appreciated in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "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": "Order. I do not think that the term \"connive\" is one that hon. Members should use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ry firms without clearance or a written record. I have initiated a programme of modernisation in the management of the Foreign Office, which is increasing the number of specialists and professional managers in our administration. We are able to afford that programme of modernisation only because last year's spending review produced the best settlement for the Foreign Office for half a dozen years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "of diplomatic staff dealing with Africa fell by a quarter during a decade in which her party was in office. It is no wonder that the Legg report concluded that one of the reasons that mistakes were made was that officials had an impossible overload. In the spending increase, I have secured the Department's budget. I have doubled the number of staff in the West Africa section covering Sierra Leone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e comments of the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe, the Foreign Office fully co-operated with the Select Committee inquiry. With the sole exception of secret intelligence reports, the Select Committee was given access to every document that the Legg inquiry saw. The right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe said that we had obstructed the Select Committee's work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well that I was not saying that about the speech of my hon. Friend the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well that I was not saying that about the speech of my hon. Friend the Minister of State. [Interruption.] Colonel Spicer and anybody else seeking to supply weapons or arms to Sierra Leone would have known perfectly well, as the Select Committee said, that there was domestic legislation in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.900.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "I was telephoned by a journalist yesterday who told me that people at the Foreign Office have an arsenal of personal information that they want to release about me as part of a fight-back against the Foreign Affairs Committee. I must tell the House—it is no big secret—that, since having my son seven years ago, I have led a private life of stupefying dullness, but I wish them luck in their attempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I shall say a little about what the British Government have been trying to achieve over recent months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "This has been an interesting debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": " criticisms levelled by teachers who say that the measure will be an extraordinary waste of time for teachers and head teachers. It has been estimated that, in a large secondary school with perhaps more than 100 teachers, a head teacher could spend half a day a week simply doing the external appraisals that will be required by the Government's cumbersome and complicated scheme. What about finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And this is an Opposition day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsden", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman examines the record of Labour Members' attendance of education debates here and, for that matter, in Standing Committees, he will find that our record is far superior to that of members of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "munity. The Government have instituted changes that are still unclear. The changes take effect in April, but the schools do not know how they will be affected by the new arrangements. I should tell the Ministers—there are now two on the Front Bench—that schools in Worcestershire are deeply unimpressed by the so-called new deal for schools. Schools in Worcestershire have not seen any of that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "now how they will be affected by the new arrangements. I should tell the Ministers—there are now two on the Front Bench—that schools in Worcestershire are deeply unimpressed by the so-called new deal for schools. Schools in Worcestershire have not seen any of that money. [Interruption.] If the Minister will write to me, I shall be keen to hear what schools in Bromsgrove have got from the new deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "chools. One is the bidding process, the problems of which were ably described by the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster). The Government's obsession with targets, as shown in one of the comments that I have just quoted, is another problem impacting on schools. I welcome the Minister's statement that her entire Front-Bench team will resign if the literacy and numeracy targets are not reached by 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.974.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-02", "file": "debates1999-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "856c29b7bd43cc1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " It is we who seek to raise the esteem of the profession, to reduce the burden and to raise standards. On fair funding, it is we who are putting more resources into schools. On special education, the Conservative Government legislated in 1993 and produced a code of practice. It is we who are targeting the real issues. The issues are straightforward. The so-called burdens that the Opposition claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-02a.979.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "EMU (Economic Convergence)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "EMU (Economic Convergence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) on securing this debate. It is appropriate that the House continues, on Wednesday mornings and via other Adjournment debates, to consider this very important issue. It is an issue about which the British people have not been properly informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "EMU (Economic Convergence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "speeches ready to persuade the British people that their interests do not lie in Europe, and that the cause of little England, isolationism and xenophobia is alive and well in the Conservative party. I am not quite sure which Conservative party is in front of me. I understand that the shadow Chancellor's position is that Britain is prepared and likely to enter the euro in six or seven years' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "EMU (Economic Convergence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "in Europe, and that the cause of little England, isolationism and xenophobia is alive and well in the Conservative party. I am not quite sure which Conservative party is in front of me. I understand that the shadow Chancellor's position is that Britain is prepared and likely to enter the euro in six or seven years' time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Ah, I see that that is not so. Well, in 10 years' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "EMU (Economic Convergence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "is alive and well in the Conservative party. I am not quite sure which Conservative party is in front of me. I understand that the shadow Chancellor's position is that Britain is prepared and likely to enter the euro in six or seven years' time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Ah, I see that that is not so. Well, in 10 years' time? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] No, not in 10 years' time. In 20 years' time, perhaps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n-patient and out-patient lists, we are treating more people. In addition, from 1 April, the Government are going to introduce £21 billion extra spending in the national health service, having sorted out the mess left behind by the Tories. That £21 billion is opposed by his party, and described as reckless and irresponsible. That is why this country will trust us, not him, with the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may recall the recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which said that that rate of growth was unsustainable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boom and bust.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "was unsustainable— [Interruption.] It says that the only way in which to ensure proper growth in this country is to pursue the policies for economic stability that this Government have undertaken, such as Bank of England independence, which Conservative Members oppose, the sorting out of public finances, so that we do not have the doubled national debt that we inherited, and, of course, an end to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1075.4", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Actually, the CBI has welcomed our reform of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1075.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to say that the Government, by introducing the working families tax credit, will make 1.5 million families better off, some by up to £20 a week. Child benefit is coming in—an extra £130 a year to 5.5 million families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1120.5", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ake any action to undermine the hereditary principle. When the Bill becomes law and perhaps after a few years have elapsed, the Conservatives may want to give the impression to the country that it was they who did their best to get rid of the hereditary peers. They are quite capable of doing so, and the way in which they have claimed credit for the welfare state should give us cause for suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela Smith) rightly says, the Conservatives did not do much thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ckly. If that were the case, what have the Government to fear from new clause 18? What is wrong with this group of amendments? If the Government want to get on with the job quickly, this group of amendments could not possibly do them any harm. I strongly expect that the Government will oppose this group of amendments because their heart is not in far-reaching reform. They are not interested in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1169.11", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap at the price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ison with the cost of the House of Commons and the European Parliament. Research shows that the House of Lords costs £39 million, and the cost per member is £37,000. For the House of Commons, the cost is £241 million, which is £366,000 for each Member. The European Parliament—a great institution that stands alongside the Millennium dome in my mind—costs £607 million, which makes £948,000 a Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1169.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-03", "file": "debates1999-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "245ef31d791b76de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " was never a priority for the previous Government, and I should apologise for the fact that we did not get round to change during the 18 years of Conservative Government or the five years during which I was a Member under that Government. During those five years, I would rather have considered the salary and conditions of the House of Lords than many of the pieces of legislation that were debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-03a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Euro", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that the Back-Bench committee to which he refers duly met this morning in a businesslike manner? Can he think of any rational reason why the official Opposition should choose to boycott a committee on which all other United Kingdom parties are represented, including several that are hostile to economic and monetary union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "What I regret is that the hon. Gentleman has not learned the lessons of history. It was the Tories who broke their promises on tax. In 1979, they promised not to increase VAT, but at their first Budget they increased it—indeed, they doubled it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Tax Demands (Self-employed)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some regard?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "It is very unlikely that the situation that the hon. Lady describes will arise because of the late notification, which this was all about, but I am interested that the hon. Lady, for whom I have some regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "We all share the view that it is important to get the beef ban lifted as quickly as possible, and that abattoirs are inspected. Our current intention is to have the inspection around the end of March. An invitation has been issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "One has only to examine the contents of the White Paper, which contains hidden suggestions that the future role of the House of Lords may be purely consultative because it will have no teeth, to realise that the Government's agenda gives rise to serious concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1261.6", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Although I have been here for most the debate, I did not hear my right hon. Friend's suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1261.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "take your seat comfortably. I was referring to the work that has been done in the other place and the need, under the new arrangements, for adequate compensation to be awarded to those who will assume the responsibility of scrutiny in the other House. You were not in the Chair when I gave some statistics on the work that is carried out in the other House, but I conclude this section of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "f Commons. For the sake of those who were not here last night—I think that the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Temple-Moms) was not, so he will benefit from it—I remind hon. Members that the total cost of the House of Lords in the previous Session was £39.4 million, whereas the House of Commons cost £241 million and the European Parliament, understandably, an excessive and outrageous £607 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I cannot deny that; one has to be straightforward about the situation. However, I know that you would not wish me to go down the route of examining the issue of local government remuneration, Sir Alan, as I would be straying from the subject of the new clause and the amendment. I have attempted to make a relatively short contribution to our proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-04", "file": "debates1999-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "6bba582ef99e093f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "New Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order. Those are matters for the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-04a.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-05", "file": "debates1999-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1c5de9997d458002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "If the Bill is to succeed, it will be necessary to show not only that it is impossible to farm mink humanely under present conditions, but that mink cannot be farmed humanely in any circumstances. I want the Minister to address the fundamental proposition that mink cannot be farmed humanely. I do not know whether this is a hand-out Bill from the Government or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-05", "file": "debates1999-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1c5de9997d458002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "ade a number of interventions on that and other issues affecting mink. He made the point when he attacked the hon. Member for Garston just minutes into her speech, criticising the fact that she appeared not to have been to a mink farm. He has not been to another planet, but on animal-related issues he talks as though he has. Hon. Members should bear that in mind when considering his interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-05", "file": "debates1999-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1c5de9997d458002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Viagra?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It could not. My hon. Friend—whose forensic skills are usually at a high level—makes a ridiculous and inconsistent argument. He knows perfectly well what I am saying. However, he did mystify me by saying that my diet includes all sorts of strange supplements. I am not aware of them. I should like to put it on record that—unless people are lacing my food and drink—I am not \"on\" anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-05", "file": "debates1999-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1c5de9997d458002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": " food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes\". It is very detailed. Article 3 states: Animals shall be housed and provided with food, water and care in a manner which—having regard to their species and to their degree of development, adaptation and domestication—is appropriate to their physiological and ethological needs in accordance with established experience and scientific knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-05a.1401.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Single Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Is not the reality that the Government are in a complete mess over their programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Minimum Pension Guarantee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the fact that the hon. Gentleman—I assume that he speaks for the whole Liberal Democrat party on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Minimum Pension Guarantee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ho is now working would rely on income-related benefits—in other words, the means test that the hon. Gentleman complains about. What we have done is to ensure that, where people work throughout their life, they are rewarded by not having to rely on income-related benefits when they retire. The minimum income guarantee was introduced to tackle a real problem: there are far too many poor pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Benefit Integrity Project", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "As the Minister has just admitted, the benefit integrity project achieved relatively little savings and caused untold anxiety and hardship for many disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Countryside (Access) 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "On the question of crime, may I make it clear to the hon. and learned Gentleman that the right of access will cease for anyone who breaches any of the range of restrictions under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 or who commits a criminal offence. Such a person will automatically lose any statutory right of access and ipso facto be subject to the civil law of trespass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will have to be patient for a little while. I shall refer to the national minimum wage later on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": " time today talking about women and women's issues when we have done nothing else ever since I returned to this place in November 1997? I have served on the Committee considering the working families tax credit. It contains some huge flaws, only some of which have been identified at this stage. However, that measure is discussed endlessly as a means of helping women. My hon. Friend the maiden for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-08", "file": "debates1999-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f18e479cac75049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "the Minister for being helpful so far into the debate. He might or might not accept a bit of friendly advice from me—if he had done the House the courtesy of rising to move his money resolution and explaining what lay behind it, he might have truncated the proceedings. If he wants to do it back to front, that is entirely up to him. Whether or not I have read any document is neither here nor there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-08a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT,TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "nfusion about London Underground fares? Who is right—the Minister, who says that fares will rise by 1 per cent. in real terms until 2001, or London Underground, which says that they will continue to rise until at least 2002? Secondly, will she recognise that, by the Government's admission, not the admission of a newspaper, public money may be needed to subsidise the partial privatised underground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT,TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "On the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question, we shall most certainly do as he asks. I am sure that my hon. Friends have heard what he has said. A driver who leaves the engine running can already be given a fine of £20, which rises to £40 if it is not paid within 28 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.165.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT,TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "What steps he is taking to increase the amount of assistance given to local authorities to regenerate brown-field land sites in their areas. [73421]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT,TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has managed the double whammy by getting both statements wrong: we have not changed our policy; nor have we adopted the Conservative policy. We have said that we want a reduction in road traffic growth and, as part of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We will pay for this measure in tax-free learning by phasing out the existing vocational tax relief which, among other things, has been subsidising non-vocational courses like diving and flying lessons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "three years in a row, he gets to keep that reputation for ever. It would not have been apparent from the Chancellor's speech that he has already announced in previous Budgets tax increases for the coming year that add up to £7,200 million, including taxes on pension funds of £5.4 billion, earlier decisions on the married couples allowance of £1 billion and increases in petrol duty of £1.4 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "ve made a complete mess of savings policy in this country. They have done nothing in today's Budget to put that right. The figures about the tax burden are beginning to come through. It seems that the tax burden is set to rise from 38.9 per cent. in the first year—which was already an increase—to 39.5 per cent. of gross domestic product in 2001 and 2002. When we do the arithmetic, it also appears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "ents on the capital modernisation fund before. What he announced today was a rearrangement of figures over the next three financial years. People who are paying higher taxes—as they are—are asking where the money is going. It is mainly going to finance the huge additional cost of the welfare system, which the Chancellor has not reformed. We are in favour of higher spending on health and education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "t if he keeps the tax-rise bits brief and waffles on at length about pet schemes, no one will notice that they are paying any more. But, in the real world, people stretch to pay their mortgage, try to save a bit, drive to work and drop off their children on the school ran. In the real world, people will notice; in the real world, people will come to realise that this Government have let them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "nt intend to do next year, the fact remains that, by the end of this Parliament, taking the Parliament as a whole, the Government will have put funds into health and education at a lower level than the Conservatives intended. Secondly, I withdraw the offer because the Budget does not do as much as it should—or, we believe, given the sum of money available, as it could—to tackle poverty in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " a good idea—a Liberal Democrat idea, as it happens. We hand it over to the Government and are happy for them to apply it if they wish to. There was a great fanfare about introducing a tax contract. I say to the Chancellor that that should be objectively done—it should not be a vehicle for Government propaganda—but the measure does not even appear. It is gone; vanished. Why? Is not the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Plus inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "ue) said in an absolutely brilliant speech, of the abolition of the 20p band. We have to wait to find those things out, by searching for them. However, the Chancellor then said that that would mean a saving of 90p a week for the average family. Earlier in his Budget statement, he made the passing remark that petrol duty would rise by the normal rate of 6 per cent. That includes the inflation rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.232.5", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "I am interested in the points that the hon. Gentleman makes, but I would like to hear him praise my right hon. Friend's increase in child benefit. I do not hear that praise, although there has been a major increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Twigg", "preceding_text": "wn power station, or certainly getting a company to build it; Intergen did the work. It is still looking at another source of renewable energy—steam—but it has made numerous savings in energy cost by reusing energy that is produced in its plant. That is the sort of strategy that the Government will want to encourage in the industry as a whole, so good practice is there. Let me conclude my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "euro, and 49 per cent. said that they were, and had been for some time. I asked how many were in favour of joining a single currency, and three fifths said, \"No, never.\" They said that it was perfectly simple to run a business that deals with many currencies—as I have— without the need to join a single currency. The companies wanted a Government that they could chuck out when they needed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did that, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "ur of joining a single currency, and three fifths said, \"No, never.\" They said that it was perfectly simple to run a business that deals with many currencies—as I have— without the need to join a single currency. The companies wanted a Government that they could chuck out when they needed to do so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They did that.\"] They wanted a Government that they could elect when they wanted to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "announced almost a year ago. But then I consider Bedfordshire police and remember that the Labour Government cut the funding to that police force during this financial year. The Government say that they will give money in the future with one hand, but this year they have taken away more money with the other hand. Some would call the Budget dishonest and they would do so because it hides the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1 April.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "ncellor's mind. He spoke of extending them, but he cannot extend them until he introduces them. Last year, the Government produced a Green Paper on the issue and promised us a White Paper. We have seen no sign of the White Paper. The Department cannot tell us when it will come out. The Government said originally that the scheme would be introduced on 1 April. There are still no details about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-09", "file": "debates1999-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "896b5a9cc39a99a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "record levels of inward investment—not because it is the sweat shop of the world, as the Tories tried hard to make it, but because of the opportunities and skills that we offer. People in Northampton, North will find that the Budget echoes all the things that are important in their lives. It will make work pay, reward thrift and planning, encourage saving and reward and help those people who have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-09a.259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": " of our county, but not within the Plymouth sub-region. Our principle need is for housing to meet the needs of our existing population. Plymouth is an attractive city. The Shell guide praises its waterfront as one of pre-eminence in the world, and The Independent lists Plymouth as the 26th most interesting place in the world to be at the millennium, alongside other cities such as Moscow and Paris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "f the green belt was doubled. A great deal of the Government's hopes are pinned on the development of brown-field or recycled sites, but there is growing evidence that their faith is misplaced. Their declared target is for 60 per cent. of new developments to be built on brown-field sites, which is a belated increase from 50 per cent after sustained pressure from Conservative Members, among others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.356.6", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "no question about that; all Islamic scholars will tell us that. The problems of women throughout the world are the result not only of prejudice under Islam—often, there is simply neglect in basic health services—but I can assure the hon. Gentleman that we are challenging all such prejudice, including that of some of the fundamentalist Churches in the United States, which call themselves Christian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.356.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman was wrong when he said that yesterday, and he is wrong when he says it today. Today, he should have read the Budget figures more carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.358.6", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is not a tax increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.358.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.359.5", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know quite how many members of the Opposition Front-Bench team will benefit from our proposals, since they seem to have many different sources of income, but if I could simply say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Enterprise and Competition", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I shall not go down that road this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.373.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.379.4", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Enterprise and Competition", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The answer is yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "se to combat uncompetitive pricing in various markets is probably the euro? Given his enthusiasm for electronic commerce, which I share—and, indeed, his enthusiasm for consumer empowerment—will my right hon. Friend encourage the publication of relative pricing across Europe in the electronic and other media, in order to empower consumers, bring about competitive markets and create more prosperity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.391.8", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Chancellor. Making profits in your company? Not without paying a lot more corporation tax and then being asked to thank the Government for cutting the rate. Driving your car? Not without being clobbered by the Chancellor every time you go out of the garage, and often when you do not. This Budget continues the great Labour tradition of tax and waste. For business, there is extra vehicle excise duty", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.391.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ts; the Chancellor foresees a country awash with imports as workers are thrown on to the dole and people buy goods from abroad—exactly what the hon. Member for Ochil (Mr. O'Neill) tells us is happening in his constituency thanks to the purchasing decisions of Marks and Spencer. How many people might lose their jobs as a result of the actions of this bungling Chancellor? The trade unions are clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "rateful to my hon. Friend. Her advice and that of other right hon. and hon. Members was good and well meant. We do not want this trade war, and we would dearly love the Prime Minister to have enough clout with the President to secure a change in the American position. We would dearly love the Secretary of State to have enough influence in Brussels to achieve some movement in the European position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to see the Secretary of State still in his place. It is unusual to see a Secretary of State here this late in the day. I am grateful, and I compliment him on being here. There are some things in the Budget that we can welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-10", "file": "debates1999-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0756eaf60c90c173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady accept that the Conservative party has changed its policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-10a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chaytor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was linked to question 4.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chaytor", "preceding_text": "Question 6. Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.485.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You've started well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "May I join my—I am sorry, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "preceding_text": "Finally, let me say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "he article by Dr. Sikora, who is the head of the World Health Organisation cancer unit, which outlines the dreadful situation? Furthermore, could we have a statement next week on the progress—or lack of progress, as I fear—on Lockerbie? If any constructive progress is to be made, is it not high time that British lawyers met the Libyan lawyers to discuss going ahead with a trial in a third country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": "Did I mishear the hon. Gentleman? I thought that he said that there was nothing in the Budget to help transport. I distinctly heard the Chancellor mention an extra 20 per cent., especially for rural areas; will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "r capita system. I want to show support for the new deal for the over-50s, although I have some concern about it. That Government initiative has not been mentioned today. I believe that it is an important measure, but it may flounder unless the Government are prepared to take tough action on age discrimination. If employers are not willing to take on people over 50, the scheme will come to naught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": " (Mrs. Campbell), I do not blame the local authorities for that. I know that they have been obliged to channel money away from those essential services, because of Labour cuts in the funding of local government. This Government are probably more hostile to local government than any other Government in recent memory. The settlements that rural local authorities have enjoyed over the past two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.585.6", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "e natural course of events. However, the substance of the Budget is much more damaging. It has been presented as a tax-cutting Budget when it is no such thing: it is a tax-increasing Budget. It is old Labour coming back—the tax and spend party. It is astonishing that the Labour party fails ever to acknowledge the sound basis on which the economy was left when the Conservatives left office in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.585.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Barbara Roche)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Barbara Roche)", "preceding_text": "ally what Conservative Members are saying? I do not think so. We also had many passionate and good speeches about education from my hon. Friends. We had a very honest admission from the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn), whom I remember well from our university days. I think we have debated against each other in the past, although he may have been a member of a different party at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "he economy. An appreciation of families and of children was expressed throughout the Chancellor's speech on Tuesday. When the Chancellor quite rightly said that children are not 20 per cent. but 100 per cent. of our future, the resonance of the remark was felt not only in the House but across the country. The Budget promotes families. Net tax cuts—worth £4 billion—are targeted at working families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-11", "file": "debates1999-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "86f8bf0f79b35a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "nt fiscal measures. I remind Opposition Members that the savings ratio collapsed to just 3 per cent. in 1988—that is a record of which they should be really ashamed. The hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) made some welcome remarks about public debt. I thought that the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) would congratulate the Government on clearing up the Tory mess, but he failed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-11a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-12", "file": "debates1999-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "a1977b2677d7ddf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-12a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agriculture Council", "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": " development policy, including agri-environment measures. This will provide the basis for a welcome shift of emphasis from production support towards environmental and rural economy measures in the future. It also provides for less-favoured areas compensation to be replaced by area payments with a more environmental focus. Furthermore, the reforms include new environmental protection requirements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-12a.626.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.704.7", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "uld go on about the Conservatives' record on police manpower. I have the Conservative manifesto for 1992, promising 1,000 extra police officers, and the speech by the then leader of the Conservative party, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), in October 1995, promising an extra 5,000 on top of the original 1,000. What happened? Six thousand extra police officers were promised between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.704.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " budgeted for will cover all accident and emergency adaptations. Is he saying that there are relatively few such adaptations left to make? If not, how will he afford them from that sum? Finally, what progress have the Government made towards realising the Secretary of State's target of a maximum two-week wait to see a specialist after an urgent written referral for suspected breast cancer? Lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.717.6", "colnum": "717", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may say that, but representatives of the British Medical Association tell me that they stopped talking to the previous Government about doing anything to improve security because Ministers used to tell them, \"That's the sort of society we live in these days.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.717.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "European Common Fisheries Policy (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Cawsey", "preceding_text": "and then reconfirmed it when they signed the Maastricht treaty under the previous Government, now seem, after 28 years of supporting the policy, to want this Bill in order to get out of it—or do they? In a fisheries debate on 15 December last year, the right hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls), who speaks for the Conservatives on fisheries matters and who is in his place now, made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.732.5", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "As I spent much of the general election campaign listening to the Prime Minister, I know exactly what he said about the top and basic rate of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.732.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "One has to consider the tax changes in the round, and consider the national insurance payment reductions that we announced at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I will reveal my strategy, but not today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman before. When we return to power, we shall ensure that pensioners will be better off. What the Government are doing will not make pensioners better off, but will mean that anyone who tries to save or to get off state assistance will progressively find that there is no point in doing so. That is my point about the link to earnings—there is a better way. I shall produce proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.6", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ment is now complex and painful. Arguably as important, if not more so in the long term, is the position that the Government have taken on marriage. On the married couple's allowance, the Conservative party disagrees with the thrust of the Government's policy—that is no surprise, given the Secretary of State, his predecessors and his colleagues in Cabinet. Their contempt for marriage is now clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "ve far greater statutory protection. Codes of practice are fine, but we have seen in the past that they are torn up by unscrupulous people. The sooner the mortgage framework comes under the FSA' s remit, the better. May I make a plea to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment? Too many of us are completely ignorant of financial matters, whether it be pensions, investments or mortgages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": ". That is why phase 2 is so important. It was a pleasure to see my right hon. Friend opening the new centre. Following the Budget, we will see the development of a brown-field site that will be second to none in this country—an area of 800 acres that will benefit from the Chancellor's proposals to ensure that new businesses come in and deliver jobs for central Lancashire. This is a strategic site—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "did the Chancellor take him to mean by that? Labour's first two Budgets increased taxes by more than £40 billion over the course of this Parliament. It is now clear that, behind the gimmicks and headlines, the Budget did nothing to reverse those big tax increases. We commissioned the Library to calculate how much higher taxes will be over the course of this Parliament. The answer is £40.7 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "clear that, behind the gimmicks and headlines, the Budget did nothing to reverse those big tax increases. We commissioned the Library to calculate how much higher taxes will be over the course of this Parliament. The answer is £40.7 billion. [Interruption.] That seems to be a surprise to Labour Members. It is not surprising that they did not know that, because the Chancellor said nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "had listened to what they were being told earlier and stopped heaping on the damage, the higher taxes and the extra regulation, that recession might have been avoided, but it is too late now, as the Treasury has finally admitted. That means thousands more lost jobs. We read today that job prospects are at their bleakest for a long time. The Chancellor's forecasts for growth are wildly unrealistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-15", "file": "debates1999-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f5d8213c1a46e527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.804.6", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "May I ask for your guidance, Madam Speaker? Is it not a matter of the grossest discourtesy for the Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-15a.804.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "European Commission", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in his comment on the Chancellor, who made it quite clear that there should be an independent fraud investigation office. Today, the right hon. Gentleman has also suggested a very big change of United Kingdom policy—that we should effectively change all the Commission's powers—and has said that he would withdraw entirely from the common fisheries policy. Is that current Conservative party policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Crime Reduction", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "eived a mixed message during the legislation's passage through Parliament. I believe that one or two Conservative Front Benchers welcomed them, but the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) described them as \"dangerously unworkable\" and the Conservative central office information simply dismissed them as \"a gimmick\". The orders will be workable, and they should make a great deal of difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Crime Reduction", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course. It is a statement based on the best opinion that we received. I cannot take account of all the possibilities that may occur in Strasbourg. It is our best belief, and it has never been gainsaid. On child curfew orders, the right hon. Gentleman is right to say that no local authority in England or Wales has applied for such a curfew,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.910.3", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Crime Reduction", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "make not as a result of the number of officers, but in a number of other areas in which the service has not been efficient in the past. I did not suggest for a second that there was an inverse relationship between the number of police officers and the rise of crime under the last Administration. What I drew to the attention of thinking Conservatives, of whom I believe the hon. Gentleman to be one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "f second-guessing is not written into the constitution. However, as the right hon. Gentleman will acknowledge, that debate is for a later date. What is remarkable about the debate and the Bill is that a major step is being taken to reform the House of Lords as we know it—a step that has eluded the grasp of Governments over the past 50 years. The grandfather of the right hon. Member for Hartlepool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has a good point. The tradition of public service will be sustained, and the Bill will do nothing to stop that. The Leader of the House was right to emphasise that although the Bill will not give us an ideal upper House, it will give us a better and more effective House than the present one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.951.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " asked him on 10 March whether he had received, had knowledge of or discussed a Select Committee report on the taxing of child benefit—either a draft or the eventual report—prior to its publication. In answer, the Chancellor said: A preliminary draft of a report was given to my Parliamentary Private Secretary, but not the final report. That is surely a further abuse of the processes of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "That's gratitude for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": ", when we sought by amendment to ensure that the House of Lords could continue to perform its vital functions of debate and of scrutiny of legislation and its vital Committee work, every amendment that we tabled was rejected by the Government, including the so-called Weatherill-type amendment, which the Government, by their own admission, accept will be necessary if the other place is to function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-16", "file": "debates1999-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca7150160eb46e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "quiry into Rosemary Nelson's murder. It has also invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide an input into the investigation. Those measures, which the Government welcome, demonstrate the RUC's commitment to a full and independent inquiry into this terrible crime. I am sure that the whole House will wish to join me in conveying our sympathy to the family of Rosemary Nelson at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-16a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Soccer Grounds (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": ". Forsythe), together with a number of other hon. Members, to discuss many of these problems. My hon. Friend came away from that meeting encouraged by the Minister's helpful attitude. I hope that the Minister departed feeling equally contented, given that he had just been in the company of a man who, to my knowledge, is the only serving Member of Parliament to have won an Irish cup winner's medal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Soccer Grounds (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ve by giving some form of subsidy, especially bearing in mind the long-term savings to the public purse through the reduction in policing costs at such matches. To conclude, I leave the Minister with this thought and a fair length of time in which to reply. I know that he is a keen follower of Celtic football club in Glasgow and hon. Members might be aware that that club has a link with Coleraine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Public Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "It is a mere drop in the ocean, given the £330 billion that the Government spend overall. It is well worth spending that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.6", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — People's Panel", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that my hon. Friend ask the people's panel to consider the Government's Budget priorities? In particular, will he ask whether the panel would rather see the doubling of support for children, or the freezing of child benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.6", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — People's Panel", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that my hon. Friend ask the people's panel to consider the Government's Budget priorities? In particular, will he ask whether the panel would rather see the doubling of support for children, or the freezing of child benefit—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—whether the panel would rather see £100 support for fuel payments for all pensioner households, or an increase on VAT on fuel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "In so far as the Brussels fiasco of the past few days was a scandal waiting to happen, is it not worth remembering that no Government in Europe were more responsible for the appointment of Mr. Santer and for resisting any expansion in the powers of the European Parliament to hold that Commission to account than the Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give him the job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "uropean Parliament to hold that Commission to account than the Conservative Government? [Interruption.] A little more quiet regret from this side of the channel would be most welcome. What urgent steps will the Prime Minister take to ensure that, following the welcome resignation of Mr. Santer today, the Commission is not left leaderless, Europe is not left incapacitated and the essential reforms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The working families tax credit will help precisely such a person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fact that Jock Santer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, that is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "For a Conservative Member who disagrees fundamentally with the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen's policy on Europe, that was a remarkably supportive question. The answer to it is that the committee of inquiry looked into Commissioners of all political hues. I believe that the people of this country would be better voting for a party that is united on Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "ir parents may want that as well. To rule out such provision would be short-sighted, and might not benefit children. A school of thought is emerging in the world of education. As we all know, after a day at school children are tired and their blood sugar is low. In my day, children went home and had tea and sandwiches to raise their blood sugar levels, went out to play and then did their homework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "I used the word in its wider definition. The fact is that they are based not in the home, but somewhere else. If the hon. Lady wishes to dispute semantics, Mr. Deputy Speaker will only call us to order. Children would not be at home, but in another building, which—using a wide definition—could be called an institutionalised form of care. It may be more appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "rred to in the Budget will almost certainly face the same problems. As the payment cannot go through the PAYE code, it must be separately identified as a tax credit on the pay slip. It is now clear that paying working families tax credit through the payroll will increase stigma. That was the view of Bill Knox, of the Federation of Small Businesses, in his evidence to the Social Security Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On-message.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "Revenue forms P14 and P60. At the end of the tax year, another form—a P35—must be filled for all employees, including the total amount of any Inland Revenue funding for the year. Finally, the employer must produce certificates of payments for leavers. All that places a huge extra burden on small businesses. Most of the work is carried out by the boss at the kitchen table, using up time and energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I am always anxious to assist the promotion prospects of Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "oyers that will operate both before and after April 2000. We shall pay very close attention to providing information. The plan is that employers' information packs will be issued next January and will include detailed tax credit examples, showing employers exactly what they have to do. I am glad to see that Opposition Members are paying attention to the important information that I am giving them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "mple, but he failed to say that in the United States there is a minimum wage, which is good not only for the employer but for employees and everyone else, as it increases productivity and gives everyone a stake. The Bill is a major reform of the tax and benefit system. It will deliver real benefits to those families who most need help, with a minimum income guarantee and proper child care support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-17", "file": "debates1999-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "a087795577ed07b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Rural Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ons about modernity, its fascination with everything new and its metropolitan culture, is particularly hostile to rural traditions. It is certainly true that the Government have treated rural Britain relatively badly. Evidence of that can be found in the on-going crisis in agriculture, but I particularly want to concentrate on public services and the Government's settlements for local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-17a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Joan Walley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "due and say how pleased I am that we have such a huge programme for new classrooms and school building programmes, particularly in Staffordshire and in Stoke-on-Trent? I thank my hon. Friend for the £2.5 million under the new deal, which will fund 10 new classrooms at Holden Lane high school in my constituency, where work commences tomorrow. My hon. Friend's policy is one of innovation and vision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, let me finish. Even the Home Secretary concedes that the past three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "That was constantly done in respect of the second year, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ar, but— [Interruption.] Yes, of course it was. If the right hon. Gentleman does not know that, he does not know anything about how public spending was handled. His point is fascinating because he always goes for one or two years, but he refuses point blank to face the fact that, over the whole period of the Conservative Government, spending in real terms went up by more than 70 per cent. Does he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Both the Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "ed: not just those that are unused, but stations in busy areas such as Chislehurst and Biggin Hill. The Essex force is being forced to make economies and, as my hon. Friend the Member for South—West Bedfordshire (Sir D. Madel) said, there is a similar story in Bedfordshire, and the same applies to Cleveland. The position is so bad that even the Liberal Democrats have woken up to what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1287.4", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "I have given my reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Short straw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Chief constables, among others, have sought the freedom to decide how police money should be spent. We are all grown-ups here, and we all know that people will argue for more in the run-up to any Budget settlement. In opposition, I quickly learned when I drew the short straw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "r Sutton Coldfield referred to the increased number of police officers required to support the community policing programme in New York. The chief police officer in New York, William Bratton, has made it clear that partnership community policing is the way forward. I point to the fact that New York now has twice as many officers per head as London, and that the London figure is continuing to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "me is profound. Dealing with that fear should be part of the policing agenda. That will not be accomplished by a style of policing largely based on crime reporting, crime detection and effective emergency reaction. That brings me to my fourth point, which is about funding. In Lincolnshire, for example, we do not have enough crime or enough of the right type of crime to attract additional resource.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "tionalisation of the police by setting uniform national targets by which the police will be judged, and by decreasing the role of local police authorities, possibly even impinging on chief constables' ability to make their own decisions on operational matters. Some of those problems are long-term issues, and some are strategic issues, and it would not be fair to blame everything on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Blears", "preceding_text": "ough school visits, but through involvement in practical projects on the ground. I shall give two examples from my constituency. The Gears project is funded by the police, the probation service and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, and those bodies bring together youngsters with a particular interest in motor bikes. Those youngsters might have stolen motor bikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "preceding_text": "aight from the BBC studios—where I engaged in a debate with the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir N. Fowler)—to the streets of Peckham, where I joined two dedicated serving police officers on their patrol of a local estate. That was a necessary and salutary corrective, following my experience of debating the issue with the right hon. Gentleman. His rantings and ravings on police numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1316.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1327.4", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the exact cost, but I have looked into the matter and I can use the same example used by the hon. Member for North Essex in the weekend newspapers, and give the costs for 50 trucks of 38 tonnes each, assuming that they are flagged out and paying all the relevant costs in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Netherlands respectively. We are entitled to make that comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1327.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1329.8", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Because of the delicate way in which the hon. Gentleman put his point, I shall look at it and see what can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1329.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1331.5", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ads means that we will pay more in the long term by failing to maintain our roads in the short term than we would if we spent a decent amount of money on them. We have reallocated resources, and we make no apology for that. Unlike the previous Government, we have made sure that every target road is funded and that we are capable of delivering it. We have been especially keen to construct bypasses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "preceding_text": "I begin by declaring an interest in that I am a non-executive director of a company that has a transport subsidiary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "nservative Government made a huge improvement, but we shall not see any improvement from this Government. He knows that the major A47 Norwich southern bypass has hugely improved the position in Norfolk. I must tell the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk (Dr. Turner)—I was going to make this point later—that 13 bypasses were built in my constituency while the Conservative Government were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No; I am sorry, but I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No; I am sorry, but I will not give way. [Interruption.] Well, I will give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "merous speakers about the escalator introduced by the Conservative Government. When the Conservatives are cooing to the Automobile Association about how much they sympathise with it, they should remember that between 1992–93 and 1996–97 the revenue from all duty and value-added tax on road fuel was £80 billion. During the same period, only £16.1 billion was spent on public transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1359.2", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "e of individual car growth spiralling out of control, pollution and an unfortunate increase in the number of road casualties. At last—it is about time—we have a Government who are tackling these things at a comprehensive strategic level. Most importantly, I want to take the opportunity to say thank you once again to my right hon. and hon. Friends for their approval of the A650 Bingley relief road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "eech. His concerns about the detrunking of the A36 and A46 are significant, and I am sure that the Minister of Transport took them on board. My hon. Friend's comments reflect the fact that the roads programme is a matter of life or death. We all enjoyed the speech by the Minister of Transport, possibly more than he did. We must be fair to him—he has inherited a mess that is not entirely his fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "ys. The right hon. Gentleman's contribution was also interesting because he wants to introduce motorway tolls, which I understand is not Conservative party policy, although we know that the Conservatives would introduce congestion charging. However, they would never, ever hypothecate the sums so raised to the improvement of transport, which is our policy in respect of the Greater London authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": " hon. Friends made many valid points on safety. The Government are committed to ensuring that our roads are safe. We want there to be a shift and we want to offer real choices for travel, so that we begin to reduce the dangers on our roads. Conservative Members would apparently abolish the fuel duty escalator. They have clearly given up any commitment to meeting the environmental targets of Kyoto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-18", "file": "debates1999-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "97465ae65ebae35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "reduce the dangers on our roads. Conservative Members would apparently abolish the fuel duty escalator. They have clearly given up any commitment to meeting the environmental targets of Kyoto. [Interruption.] They have washed their hands of taking any steps to improve our environment and to reduce congestion on our roads. They would go back to the old predict and provide strategy on road building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-18a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The Bill contains a risk of that happening, but it could possibly be amended in Committee to take account of the problem. The clear objective of the Neill committee, the Bill, myself and, no doubt, the hon. Gentleman is that there should be fairness as well as clarity on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tonight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. When I was researching my speech for tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1406.4", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Education Directorate (Hackney)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "ak the embargo on the information. I regret very much that no Education Minister felt able to respond to my private notice question. I think that it is unprecedented for a Member to table a private notice question and for it to be accepted by Madam Speaker, but for no Minister from the Department concerned to make themselves available to respond. That shows a rather derisory attitude to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1406.4", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Education Directorate (Hackney)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "use. I very much regret that my Government have followed that practice. It cannot be right that Ministers are engaged in a press conference instead of reporting to the House on a step of national significance. Ministers clearly believe that today's announcement is of national significance because they were on the \"Today\" programme this morning, and are holding a major press conference as we speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1419.4", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Second Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that many of us are listening to his speech with great interest? Many who support the general principle of a level playing field and more openness in the conduct of referendums also feel that the cumulative effect of the various defects and lacunae of the Bill mean that it should not be given a First Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-19", "file": "debates1999-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "269b27a41a906efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman adopted a churlish tone in dismissing what I would like to think is an objective contribution to this valuable debate. Incidentally, I congratulate the hon. Member for Blaby on raising this issue. The Government did not overstep the mark in Wales. The information that was delivered to each doorstep in Wales was objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-19a.1436.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.3.3", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "In fact, an answer to a parliamentary question reveals that retention rates deteriorated in 1998–99 for the first time in several years. Another answer tells us that 86 per cent. of land command personnel are currently committed to operations or warned to deploy. Is not an inevitable consequence of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.3.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reply. However, does he understand that Gulf war syndrome, if that is the right expression—it seems that there is a plurali—a plur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.6.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said during her flight of fantasy that it was the responsibility of central Government to provide money for local authorities to provide local services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ces. As we have said, if council tax had increased in line with the increase in SSAs, bills need not have risen by more than 4.5 per cent. However, councils have decided to increase their spending by more than that, so council tax bills will rise on average by 6.8 per cent.—less than £1 a week, and a lot less than the double digit increases predicted by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "abes thinks that this is the best deal for local people for years. Will the settlement, which the Government claim is so wonderful, enhance local services? Sadly, the evidence from budget setting throughout the country is that it will not. All over the country, there are cuts in crucial services, such as the police, due to budgetary pressures. In Essex, the mounted police section is to close down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.68.2", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blame the Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "e, or is that the fault of the mean Government settlement? Who is to blame for service cuts in many local authority areas across the country? Is it the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, who says that all increased funding should be passported to schools? Or is it the fault of local councillors, of whatever political persuasion? How can a local citizen know whom to thank or to blame?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.68.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.68.2", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "ions for people in his constituency are easy, but the answer is not so easy for people in other constituencies. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman) gave credit for the freeze in council tax in Liverpool to the Government, but she blamed service cuts on Liberal Democrat councillors. Of course, Liberal Democrat Members will say exactly the opposite, which makes my point precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.68.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.70.5", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Council Tax Increases", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. In the survey, 70 per cent. of schools said that they had to rely on fund raising by parent-teacher associations to finance delivery of the curriculum. We are talking not about extras, but about the basic curriculum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "EU-US Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "efforts to ensure that all parties work together to first reform the WTO regime to ensure compatibility with international biodiversity agreements, environmental and animal welfare objectives, and then to ensure compliance with the WTO objectives of free and fair trade. The motion stands in the names of my right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown) and other right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "EU-US Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeish", "preceding_text": "It is always a pity to undermine consensus by making a thought-provoking suggestion to a Minister at the Dispatch Box. I am in a mood, in a jocular way, to resist the hon. Gentleman's invitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "EU-US Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I shall curtail my comments to allow other hon. Members to speak. As a result, my speech will be slightly less balanced that it would otherwise have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "t goes some way towards meeting the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point. The details will be addressed after the Bill has been passed.\"—[ Official Report, 5 March 1999; Vol. 326, c. 1378.] It is very new Labour to say that things will be addressed after the Bill has been passed, but it is not quite good enough for this House. There is a middle way; no one is asking for compensation on income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-22", "file": "debates1999-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "99f3749e82166eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "overnment to accept that the cost of the computerisation project of £22 million, or whatever it turns out to be, could not be accommodated within the enormous sums that are already raised from the motorist by one route or another. It is clear that one of the purposes of the proposed legislation is to allow the Secretary of State to provide the data generated for such persons as he sees fit. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-22a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.145.4", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, with whom I have a slight rapport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.145.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is the isolationist wing of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The money that Ofsted, the SSI and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, Wales need is catered for in the legislation that established and govern those institutions. The clause relates to the ability of the Audit Commission to work effectively with those organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "e money that Ofsted, the SSI and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, Wales need is catered for in the legislation that established and govern those institutions. The clause relates to the ability of the Audit Commission to work effectively with those organisations. [Interruption.] I wish to goodness that the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire would stop winking; this is a serious business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "wishes to be inspected, the danger is that many local authorities will seek to make inspections of the same services at the same time. A county council's main functions are education, social services and roads. If all county councils decide—as I suspect many will—that they want to start with the education services, especially after the settlement this year which has left them severely underfunded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I do not see how fewer children will be abused if the fire service is included in the discussions of the inspectorate forum. That is my point. Unless we can identify a common approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "That pretty inadequate answer is an admission that the Government are applying for yet another power for they know not what, because they are making it up as they go along. That absolutely characterises the nature of the Bill. The Minister criticises Conservative Members, who are raising legitimate concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.226.7", "colnum": "226", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "as against capping. Attaching the term \"crude and universal\" to capping, suggested that capping was crude and universal by nature, but we now know that Labour meant that it would abolish one kind of capping and replace it with another. We could say that the Bill modernises capping, but I do not think that many people are impressed. As for the introduction of council tax benefit subsidy limitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.226.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend makes. As I said on Second Reading, we approach the Bill from the perspective of an Opposition party that is re-evaluating its policies on local government. My right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) has been making it clear for more than a year that we are reassessing our view of local government. He said to the Local Government Association conference last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The new clause refers to the requirement for an overriding order. Let me turn to the details. It refers to a number of powers that may be exercised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "r for Local Government and Housing keeps giving advice in a stage whisper. New clause 5 specifies a number of powers to be exercised by the Secretary of State in the best value process. Its purpose is to specify the powers which, if not exercised within three years of the implementation of the Act, would cause all the powers in the Act—including council tax limitation and capping powers—to expire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "In that case, the new clause is vastly better and more powerful than many of us thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I think that I am beginning to understand my hon. Friend's deep logic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am concerned that the Minister may come to the Dispatch Box at the end of the debate and refer to the generosity to the beacon councils as a substitute for the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "e measurement, with low council tax should be freed from the burden and be allowed to provide their services locally with the support of the voting public. I think of two authorities in particular that have been lambasted by the Government, but time and again, the public have given them enormous support. They will be burdened by the Bill, unless we can persuade the Minister to accept new clause 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Alan Meale)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Alan Meale)", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin), I find it difficult to respond to new clause 4, not least because, as the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) correctly pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "No. I have sat for more than five hours listening to a variety of speeches that have gone far wider than the scope of the amendments. Failure is failure, no matter where or when it occurs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.265.6", "colnum": "265", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "vice; the widening of the duty to consult to include non-commercial organisation; and such vital matters as whether the Henry VIII clause should be limited in duration, as such clauses should be. Serious constitutional issues are embodied in the Bill, it being the most draconian local government Bill that the House has ever seen. We are prepared to put in the time tonight to discuss these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The question before us is narrowly drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "al government had to face the Government consultation, where the Government said that it could not argue for the present system—it could have any type of democracy except what this country had been used to. I believe that the House would be right to debate the issue for an hour and a half, or two and a half hours. I believe that, if the Leader of the House, who seems to be absent from the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ut the key point for the House of Commons is that the debate could have continued until midnight, or slightly later. The only reason for the threat issued by the Leader of the House is the fact that the Government do not want the House to discuss, in detail, alternatives to their plans for local government. That will be noted in Worthing, in Arun district council and in West Sussex county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has said that no Labour Back Benchers have contributed because they had no ideas to suggest to the debate. Was that the case, or was it that the Whips prevented them from doing so—thus demonstrating the inability of those on the Government Front Bench and the Whips to allow democracy in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I do not have psychic powers, so I have no notion of what the Whips have been doing. However, having learned a bit about them in my first 11 years here, I would not be in the least surprised if my hon. Friend were correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.7", "colnum": "275", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "Exactly so. The Government cannot cope with more than five hours of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.275.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.276.7", "colnum": "276", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": " it will be voted on. However, the Leader of the House made what amounted to a statement. You, Mr. Deputy Speaker, explained to us that she had spoken in our debate. No doubt you will put me right if I am wrong, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I understand that there is a motion before us and that we are debating it. The Leader of the House has spoken in that debate. I am not an expert on Standing Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.276.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.278.8", "colnum": "278", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Not only is that my intention, but I have been willing to make it plain at any time this past hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.278.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.279.6", "colnum": "279", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "er leak. Before the business statement has been made, we know what will be in it. That is yet another leak from the Labour party. I shall return to the subject of the Government's so far botched attempt to stop debate on the Bill. Before we got into this situation, we were discussing new clause 5. Our argument was that we wanted to return power to the people because the Bill would do the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.279.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] I am making the rulings and Kosovo is not a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "preceding_text": "I was here for this afternoon's statement by the Prime Minister, and heard the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), with whom I do not always agree, describe the statement as the most serious statement that he had heard in all his time in the House—for several decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Of course I have taken on board the points that have been made. It is important to make clear that even if the debate that is scheduled for Thursday remains unchanged, it will facilitate full discussion of the issues that right hon. and hon. Members wish to raise. It is not a matter of it being a different subject which would not permit those matters to be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-23", "file": "debates1999-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "344fda9fc30e3310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have already undertaken to consider what is scheduled to happen on Thursday, but none of us would be in the position that we are in now, let alone at this time, had there been the possibility of discussions to resolve these matters through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-23a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads the Audit Commission's reports and my remarks in the debate last Thursday, he will find that the Audit Commission refers to year-on-year real increases in expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree with the right hon. Gentleman that decommissioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I have communicated with Mrs. Restorick on numerous occasions, and I want to put on record yet again my sympathy and understanding for the pain that she and many others have gone through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exchange?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland made clear a few moments ago, we will observe the Good Friday agreement. The exchange of prisoners, and the freeing of prisoners, is in line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that we have achieved that balance in the Budget. I tell him that, yes, we are holding discussions with the industry—more than were held by the previous Administration—in a forum that my right hon. Friend has convened. Of course we shall discuss in that forum the concerns of the road haulage industry. As for the cheap jibe on diving, the people of the United Kingdom can make a judgment on whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.389.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "It might be necessary to put guillotines on the hon. Gentleman's interventions; they are becoming so long now that he is in his dotage. On the substantial point he made, the Conservative party's attitude is changing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "im is simply to satisfy the requirements of existing legislation, and if the current arrangements are effective and efficient, why include police authorities? In addition, the Audit Commission publishes a series of performance indicators—measurements of police efficiency. I have a copy of the document relating to 1996–97, which all hon. Members doubtless regard as essential bedtime reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-24", "file": "debates1999-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7a442d08bdf27ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Galloway", "preceding_text": "g and bloodshed in Kosovo in the recent past has been the armed separatist rebellion in the country, and that that is a two-sided, not a one-sided, fight? Given his knowledge and sense of history, will he comment on what the impact on the psyche of the Yugoslav army and people is likely to be of the knowledge that this evening the Luftwaffe, the German air force, is in action over Yugoslav skies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-24a.491.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-25", "file": "debates1999-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "41fa93ff1b48762e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.518.5", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "The regulation-making powers available to me under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 do not allow me to regulate for the safety of goods by introducing a statutory training scheme for operators of fireworks displays. Nor can I restrict the periods during which fireworks can be sold or let off. I must remind my hon. Friend that a total ban took effect on 31 December 1997 on the sale of bangers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.518.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-25", "file": "debates1999-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "41fa93ff1b48762e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "The people of Kosovo will have to be protected and we shall have to find a means of doing so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] I am being tempted to go on for longer than I anticipated. A ceasefire must be negotiated in the same way as one was negotiated last September. The idea that there cannot be negotiations and that a ceasefire cannot be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.563.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-25", "file": "debates1999-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "41fa93ff1b48762e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I know that it is very offensive to people to hear an argument that they do not like, but I am giving it and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.567.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-25", "file": "debates1999-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "41fa93ff1b48762e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.589.6", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "n Secretary, but the Foreign Secretary went to Rambouillet. At its beginning, he told that conference that we would commit up to 8,000 troops to keep a peace. Does that offer still stand and are there any circumstances in which we may move from peacekeeping to peacemaking? The Foreign Secretary was absolutely clear in his statement and, if the Defence Secretary would like, we will find it for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-25a.589.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-26", "file": "debates1999-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "16cafa0af8b23e11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Roam Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yorkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "and the parsonage where the Bronte sisters lived. They walked on the moors at Boulsworth. That was the inspiration for \"Wuthering Heights\" and Heathcliff, yet it is off limits. At some point in the past we, the public, lost the right to walk on that moorland. From the top of Boulsworth hill, which is in my constituency, on a clear day one can see for 25 miles. One can see way over to Huddersfield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-26", "file": "debates1999-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "16cafa0af8b23e11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Roam Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "and has newly been appointed to the Countryside Agency. He speaks about the feeling of spirituality, of being up there, in the clouds almost, and seeing the land spread out all round. If I stand on top of Boulsworth hill or Pendle hill, I can see my entire constituency—85,000 people in seven towns. I can look down there, and in some of those towns, people can gaze at the hills, but not walk there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-26", "file": "debates1999-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "16cafa0af8b23e11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Roam Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Yet. If I did, I should be the duke of something I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-26", "file": "debates1999-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "16cafa0af8b23e11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Roam Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene. Only he and the House can judge the propriety of revealing the contents of a letter from a Member of Parliament to his constituent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-26", "file": "debates1999-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "16cafa0af8b23e11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Right to Roam Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "That does not take us much further forward. The Channel 4 \"Dispatches\" programme broadcast a two-part series entitled \"The Lie of the Land\", but it listed none of those companies and institutions that the hon. Gentleman referred to. However, I shall make inquiries about that. I do not intend to personalise this issue in a nasty way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-26a.637.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Berlin European Council and Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "imakov. The Foreign Secretary has been in close contact with his opposite number in the Russian Government and is due to speak again to him later today. We are putting aid and peacekeeping measures together now, and part of the humanitarian package is making sure that we get aid to people there. In respect of the European Council, it is best to compare the deal that was secured by this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Berlin European Council and Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "reason for the process to slow down. Although people can always say that perhaps we should have gone further and done better—I would say that myself in relation to some of the areas of reform—it is worth underlining what we did agree. One of the great pluses for Britain was that we were not the people who were proving difficult in this negotiation. We secured every single objective that we wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Berlin European Council and Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "all that we can to ensure that people can go back in safety at a later date. What the right hon. Gentleman says about Montenegro and other areas is absolutely correct. We cannot do enough in pointing out to our own people, particularly when we have people reporting from Belgrade, that we are dealing with a state-run media. People there are shown what they are allowed to be shown, and nothing else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Berlin European Council and Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The negotiation concentrated on Agenda 2000, the structural funds and the common agricultural policy, but Britain is taking the lead on development issues in the European Union, and doing a good job of it. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman meant to say that the Berlin summit was a failure in general. I am too modest to read out quotes from newspapers from other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Berlin European Council and Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That's all right then.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, in relation to the process of selecting the Commission, we are using the same process that was used by previous Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "New Writ (Newark)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, To leave out from \"That\" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof: this House do pass to the Orders of the Day. Despite the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.750.5", "colnum": "750", "heading": "New Writ (Newark)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Contempt of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The Lawrence debate is much more important than this childish nonsense. Given that the appeal will be held in the near future—indeed, in almost as short a time as has elapsed since the case was first heard—it is in the interests of the House to move on from this business. I recommend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New Writ (Newark)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ant the by-election, to the prejudice of the electors of Newark, for the personal convenience of Mrs. Fiona Jones. I have nothing against Mrs. Fiona Jones, and do not want to be particularly critical of her—except that she has been found guilty of a criminal offence by a court. We must not lose sight of that. We have been told that we are to await an appeal. For how long are we to await an appeal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Writ (Newark)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I shall leave the hon. Gentleman to make his judgment on how effective Mrs. Fiona Jones has been in the House. I cannot say in detail what she has been doing in Newark, but I suspect that her activities in this place have been somewhat limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"I would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "er example—another \"ism\" and another institution. Let us take sexism and Parliament—the House of Commons. Let us look across the Benches. When the Home Secretary rose to speak, there was one woman on the Opposition Benches—and 26 men. Surely you would not deny that that shows that Parliament as an institution is biased against women? Would the hon. Gentleman deny that? I presume that he would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I do not have the time to give way, but I am willing to engage in a debate with the hon. Gentleman outside the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": " for they introduce the concept that the police will be chastised if they treat everyone equally before the law. British citizens expect their police service to treat everybody equally before the law, but even my right hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mrs. Bottomley) suggests that we are all out of touch and must abandon that approach, and must take myriad considerations into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-29", "file": "debates1999-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "f38ec72bad9536bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Stephen Lawrence Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I will not, if the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me. Time is short and not many people have had an opportunity to put the kind of argument that I want to put to the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-29a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "They look depressed today because we can announce that waiting lists in February fell by 39,000, taking the figure 38,000 below the one that we inherited. Over the past year, more than 450,000 extra operations have been carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "Today is not the triumph for the Minister that he would like people to believe it is. Instead of a serious improvement in what is really happening to patients who need treatment, there has been a published fall in the number of people on waiting lists together with a parallel rise in the number of people waiting to get on waiting lists in the first place. The real figure is far higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "at is really happening to patients who need treatment, there has been a published fall in the number of people on waiting lists together with a parallel rise in the number of people waiting to get on waiting lists in the first place. The real figure is far higher— [Interruption.] —as the Secretary of State, who is barracking from the Front Bench, well knows. People on the lists are waiting longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Modernising Government", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " to do. It will target resources for new activities of this kind, in which more than one agency is involved, with the aim of providing services more efficiently. That applies to local government, Government agencies and Departments of State in Whitehall. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that the proposals raise questions about accountability. We have asked the performance and innovation unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "conomy. In 1998, 38,000 small businesses in this country closed. That represented a 6 per cent. increase on the figure for 1997. I hope that the House will be interested to know, and disturbed to learn, that in the first quarter of this year, no fewer than 11,000 small companies have ceased to trade. There are a variety of reasons for closures and cessation of trade, but two reasons are paramount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "irst quarter of this year, no fewer than 11,000 small companies have ceased to trade. There are a variety of reasons for closures and cessation of trade, but two reasons are paramount. [Interruption.] Before the hon. Member for Eccles (Mr. Stewart) chunters on any further, for all the world as if his main ambition this afternoon were to resemble the village idiot, let me favour him with the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "her side of the Chamber. However, the Government and I have different perspectives. I have run a business and converted a small enterprise into a bigger one, facing many trials and tribulations in the process. My son continues that business—he is the sixth generation family member to do so—and we have a joke in our family that I am here running the country while he is at home running the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Not only did businesses not invest in the United Kingdom, there was a brain drain in the 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.966.4", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ery way, apart from firmly on the record, that there will be no increase—or a very small increase—in strikes, that this country will not go back to the bad old ways, that it will still be one of the best locations in which to invest, that he will be able to say to visiting companies that our industrial relations record is still good and a reason why they should come here, rather than go elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.966.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ive lawyers and court actions. The proposal for the derecognition of so-called sweetheart unions could cause difficulties in deciding whether a union qualified for such a term, and whether it was right to go ahead with its derecognition if the employers felt that it was a good union. Many of the members of the union may take the view that that was a reasonable way of proceeding for representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Lady been present at the beginning of our proceedings, she would have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) and myself explain that we had interests in companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Lady been present at the beginning of our proceedings, she would have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) and myself explain that we had interests in companies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]. Companies would be affected by all the measures in the new clauses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "lain that we had interests in companies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]. Companies would be affected by all the measures in the new clauses— [Interruption.] Neither my hon. Friend nor I spoke on behalf of a particular company, nor did we table our new clauses at the request of particular companies. We are being extremely careful by saying, \"Yes, we are practical people with knowledge of the business world\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "ter appointed to control the offshore oil industry still held £2 million-worth of British Petroleum shares. If the former Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), had been responsible for controlling or regulating the financial services industry while engaging in creative mortgage practices, he might also have been put in a difficult position by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have noise from hon. Members on the Government Benches—it is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Personal remarks against other hon. Members are uncalled for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "tion would be an offence which was tied to UK employees and would take place in the UK. Secondly, lists could be compiled for a number of reasons, which may or may not, within the Government's terms, be malicious. One could compile a list at random. One could compile a list of trade unionists because one liked them or even wished to give preference to them rather than to discriminate against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because it is in the interests of the House that I finish my speech relatively quickly, and interventions take time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-30", "file": "debates1999-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "963b507770219587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "The amendments relate to a tighter definition of the circumstances at a disciplinary or grievance hearing. They seek to tighten up the circumstances within which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-30a.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "o, hon. Members were invited to a reception in this place. We were told that our constituents would be able to call a dedicated telephone line and have their legal matters dealt with immediately. However, there is a backlog of 32,000 calls at present, and it is obvious that Government have not funded the service properly. I am not having a dig at any solicitors who are in the Chamber this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1071.8", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "I agree that Welsh MPs, especially members of the Labour Government, have delivered to Wales an Assembly and an opportunity to be properly represented in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1071.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1076.4", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ood settlement for local government in Wales—the best for very many years. Central Government support for local government is 4.8 per cent., which is well above the rate of inflation. Government support has also allowed a record increase in service spending—15 per cent. over 3 years, and a £145 million increase in the next year alone. That is more money for schools, more money for social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "We will certainly not impose any tax, let alone an energy tax, in a discriminatory way. I am aware of the problems that high energy users, such as steel, face. For that reason, the Deputy Prime Minister is meeting to consider and consult on the matter. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor will also be consulting on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "portive question. First, I will say that, in relation to the new deal money, I seem to remember that it was the Labour party that wanted the windfall tax on the utilities in order to fund the new deal, but other parties did not. In relation to the money that is going in, I should like to look into the figures that the hon. Gentleman has given before I accept them simply because he has stated them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister fritters away the golden economic inheritance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman misheard me. The £500,000 that has been made available to the World Food Programme is for logistics. It has enough food. The money is not for food; that is being provided anyway. The money has been provided so that we can move the food to the people. NATO is not killing civilians. The very carefulness of our operations is to ensure that there is minimum damage to civilians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "e who is critical of the military action should have more humility and should listen to the voices of those who are suffering. The refugees, the people in Kosovo and the Albanian Government strongly support the NATO action and are asking that we go on to finish the job. Finishing that job means reversing Serbian aggression, reaching a political settlement, putting in ground forces to make it safe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I have studied law for far too long not to know that one should not try to define what is meant by \"reasonable\" in any hypothetical situation. It must always be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I shall just develop my point. I do not want to lose track of what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1145.6", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "While the Secretary of State is undertaking his investigation and consultation, will he take note of an issue that has come to my attention and which affects the teaching profession? Apparently there is increased casualisation of the teaching profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1159.4", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "New Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising that specific aspect of amendment No. 46.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "New Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I freely admit that the fault is entirely mine, and that it does me no credit; but I was educated south of the border, albeit at a very fine grammar school. I know that you would not want me to pursue matters relating to the English education system, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so I shall not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-03-31", "file": "debates1999-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f3792809c2403750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "New Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": "nication at that time. Indeed, the most sophisticated was the telegram. The Scottish trade union movement sent telegrams to Scottish Members of Parliament of various parties, pleading with them to vote for the Bill to save the aircraft and shipbuilding industries in Scotland. I remember the disdain with which those telegrams were treated by some members of the SNP. I think that it was Hamish Watt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-03-31a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is due to privatisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I always talk to my colleagues about these matters. Any transport matter has environmental consequences, whether it be noise or exhaust emissions. Those are a matter of concern in our comprehensive approach. I am pleased at the growth in rail traffic, which has also occurred through the channel tunnel—much of it due to the changes that we have made in policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.4.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "I certainly thank the Minister for the last part of his reply. I share his view entirely, as I think would my constituents. However, may I ask him three questions on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "visited Belgrade, that it will go on for 100 days if necessary? That is the nature of the reaction of people who are bombed. I have one specific question. Has the Prime Minister had across his desk the considered report of the German Federal Criminal Agency—I gather backed by Scotland Yard—which points out that the ethnic Albanian community is the most prominent group in Europe in the trafficking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "The association said that the changes made in the House of Lords have, by and large, met the needs of the industry, and so they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "en from early morning until late at night and at weekends. They will provide information and advice and will treat minor conditions without appointment. Some will be located next to existing accident and emergency departments and others will be in shopping centres. They, too, are intended to go with the grain of local developments and we shall work with primary care groups and primary care trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.50.8", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.50.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "No. I have made it clear that I am making progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "preceding_text": "came from a levelling down process. Those who were not fundholders' patients suffered the levelling down produced by the system introduced by the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe. Fundholders were in a privileged win-win position in respect of surpluses and deficits. They were able to keep their savings and leave to the health authority the task of bailing them out when they overspent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Truswell", "preceding_text": " Member for Rushcliffe. Fundholders were in a privileged win-win position in respect of surpluses and deficits. They were able to keep their savings and leave to the health authority the task of bailing them out when they overspent. [Interruption.] One would not even run a whist drive in Maidstone, or wherever the right hon. Lady's constituency is, let alone a national health service, in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Truswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Truswell", "preceding_text": "nservatives display a slavish adherence to GP fundholding, but they should answer a few questions in defence of that wonderful system. Why, if it was so good, did it perversely have to rely on its shortcomings to attract recruits? Why did GPs have to be bribed with cash, staff and computers, at the expense of other patients and non-fundholders? Why was such a blind eye turned to issues of probity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "preceding_text": " not share the enthusiasm of the hon. Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt) for the Bill one jot, and nor do doctors in my constituency. Instead, I share the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess). The Bill exemplifies everything that new Labour stands for. Like others before it, it sounds like a major advance, an improvement and a benefit to our people. It is not. In fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "preceding_text": "ll. Too many decisions can be made by the Secretary of State, and there is no real information about funding. Fourthly, the majority of GPs are prepared to assist in fair rationalisation of resources; but, if the system is to be fair, all patients and all doctors should start with a level playing field. I am sure that the Minister and the whole House would agree with that. But—and it is a big but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant)", "preceding_text": " this year, will that money be sliced off PCG funding for the year 1999–2000? That is very important because it is not just Lichfield and Tamworth and the South Staffordshire health authority that have an overspend. I notice that the House has now gone very quiet, because hon. Members had not thought of that. If the money were sliced off PCG funding, it would unfairly penalise GP practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-13", "file": "debates1999-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "87bfabd0179754d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Denham)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Denham)", "preceding_text": "ut the country, as we have urged, primary care groups are protecting services that are delivered cost-effectively at practice level, and levelling them up. Three primary care groups in Calderdale, Kirklees have worked together to develop an out-of-hours service in partnership with NHS Direct. In north Cumbria, extending single practice-based vasectomy and ophthalmology services to other practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-13a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "BBC Parliamentary Coverage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which team?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "nother important aspect: it reflects the kaleidoscope of what we are as a people. Many Back Benchers, some of whom are present on both sides of the Chamber—I shall not lessen their reputations by naming them—make a significant contribution. They are the ones who \"Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, And dare to make it known.\" As is well known, I am a team player—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "BBC Parliamentary Coverage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": ". Many Back Benchers, some of whom are present on both sides of the Chamber—I shall not lessen their reputations by naming them—make a significant contribution. They are the ones who \"Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, And dare to make it known.\" As is well known, I am a team player—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which team?\"]—but we need strong, independent Back-Bench voices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.218.7", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked whether we were on target for reducing class sizes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.218.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I fully accept what my hon. Friend says. Lincolnshire is not the only authority that professes to want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.220.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "[79138] Mr. Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "[79138] Mr. Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.221.8", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have made it clear that we are not reopening any of the proposals that were made in the Budget. We think that the proposals affecting the road haulage industry have been confirmed by the latest reports that show that costs are lower for our industry than for many of its competitors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.221.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.223.8", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Friend asked how we could improve the railway service in the area. Without doubt, we want improvements in the railways and in access to the wonderful countryside. Rail routes that have been discontinued or are not properly used are being reviewed by the Strategic Rail Authority, which started business on 1 April. We believe that it will improve access to the industry and to those beautiful areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.223.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.223.9", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the House would come to order and hon. Members would read their Order Papers, they would know which question was being answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.223.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "[79142] Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "[79142] Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "Is it not time to put on record what my right hon. Friend will remember well—that, during our years in opposition, we gave support to the Conservative party in government, particularly on Northern Ireland, and particularly when the United Kingdom was at war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "[79142] Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "[79142] Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "Is it not time to put on record what my right hon. Friend will remember well—that, during our years in opposition, we gave support to the Conservative party in government, particularly on Northern Ireland, and particularly when the United Kingdom was at war? [Interruption.] We did not attempt to seek narrow party advantage, as we have heard today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Bournemouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reality of the agreement on council tax increases, on average—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "id away from those at present below the limit. If the hon. Lady supports such a policy, no doubt she will troop through the Lobby along with all the other whipped Members of her party this evening. However, I advise her to listen carefully to what I and my hon. Friends will say, and indeed to some of her own hon. Friends, I suspect. She may well be persuaded that what the Government are proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "In my personal experience, there is no such thing as a win in a matrimonial matter. Perhaps this is the moment for me to talk about the contribution in chief made by the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Dr. Clark). Here is my lost innocence: the hon. and learned Lady does not blame the lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.333.6", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ent, however, that there exists a theoretical possibility that the Bill might be passed, it is very important for us to be absolutely clear about its purport; and, within that, about the potential effect of new clause 12, why the time period covered by the clause is so narrow, and the difference between the regime proposed for that particular period and the longer-term regime proposed by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.333.6", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ime period covered by the clause is so narrow, and the difference between the regime proposed for that particular period and the longer-term regime proposed by the Bill. [Interruption.] I said that, at first sight, the measure seems to be sensible because the Government's intention seems to be to cease claiming back from recipients of disability-linked benefits—such as disability living allowance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that way from beneficiaries in the category that 1 have defined, and how much was paid. Presumably, the gap has been or is being written off; we should know also that figure. I hope that the Minister has come to the House armed with the figures, as it would be very wrong to try to ask the House to pass a money resolution without telling hon. Members the money consequences of the measure proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.342.5", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "l-party support for the Government's proposals, he must persuade us that they are worthy of support. If he wishes to do so, I shall be happy to give way. It is obvious that he does not wish to answer my questions. It seems that the £15 million is a red herring. We have a right to know what the Government propose. Is the sum of £15 million outstanding, to be recovered or to be written off? This is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "ssurance that the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) seeks. As I said, the regulations will be introduced to change the position from 1 June. The £15 million is benefit that was paid to disabled people prior to their benefit integrity project reassessments and which, under existing law, should be recovered from them. The question is: does the House wish to go ahead and recover that £15 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-14", "file": "debates1999-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "c599e59f9d4e212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": " integrity project reassessments and which, under existing law, should be recovered from them. The question is: does the House wish to go ahead and recover that £15 million? [Interruption.] I put it to the House that it would be unfair to disabled people and utterly wrong if Opposition Members were to insist on recovering £15 million from large numbers of disabled people who received that benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-14a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "As he took part in the Budget debate, the shadow Chancellor should realise that we have not only cut corporation tax in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance that there was no horse-trading on the matter that would have been in any way damaging to Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a bare-faced cheek. The Conservative party raised taxation and broke its promises to the British people 22 times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.360.4", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "competitiveness is simply not the issue. In the context of the total tax and cost burdens on business, this country is the favoured environment for road hauliers, as for other businesses. A typical road haulier setting up in the Netherlands would face costs £600,000 higher than those in this country, and, for Belgium, that figure would be £800,000. We are helping the road hauliers by freezing VED—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.382.4", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Could the Leader of the House arrange for an early debate next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.382.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "It is always helpful to have hon. Members taking part in our debates who have recent practical experience of working in the areas concerned, and not just lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-15", "file": "debates1999-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "d941a02cc88f46cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, that is a typical legal intervention and an attempt to humiliate the witness, plaintiff, or victim—as I consider myself to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-15a.449.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "We have not declared war on Serbia. I say to my hon. Friends that, as I keep repeating, the people who represent and work for Serbia in this country are perfectly welcome here because we have not declared war on Serbia. Nor do we seek a war in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.574.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the monitors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": " time? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] In that case, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, but I will proceed. I wish to make two points that I hope will be answered when the Minister winds up. First, will the Foreign Secretary confirm that our post in Belgrade told him what the consequences of a NATO bombing attack were likely to be and that that was also reported to the Prime Minister's office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "d they were all represented on the bridge. I and the journalists who accompanied me were allowed to mix freely with the people. We were under no restrictions as we talked to the people about the refugee crisis and the bombing. We heard many expressions of sympathy from the ordinary people on that bridge. They overwhelmingly blamed NATO for the escalation of the problem in Kosovo; that united them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Members who have already spoken and to the House that I was not able to be present earlier. I hope that the House will forgive me when I explain that I left Skopje at 3 o'clock this morning and have been travelling ever since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "o note that arms and training were supplied to the Croatian forces by the United States. That brings us to Clinton. I do not know enough about domestic politics in America to criticise President Clinton, but I shall quote what an American said to me two weeks ago. He said, \"I can understand why President Clinton is doing this—it is to establish himself as a war leader after his domestic problems.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Medicines (Children)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Love", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-19", "file": "debates1999-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "d63c8617b74b8632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Medicines (Children)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Those hon. Members who are leaving will please do so or resume their seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-19a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "dget will do that by locking in the economic stability that the Government have been creating over the past two years. Our approach has been right and necessary. When we came to office, we inherited an economy that was going off the rails. The national debt had doubled, the public finances were spiralling out of control, inflation was back in the system, and the economy was fundamentally weakened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.703.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the reference?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "al Studies. Mr. Dilnot specifically said that, although it appears that families are better off, the taxes raised by increases in corporation tax and the removal of tax credits are, in effect, eventually borne by individuals. He said that we can be certain it is people who will pay them. The distinction between company taxation and the taxation of individuals is, to that extent, rather artificial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ernment of fiddling the figures. That is a stupid charge to make against them. It is also absurd to talk about smoke and minors—everything is in the Red Book, if hon. Members trouble to read it. I accept that, in some instances, the Red Book is not as clear as it might be and takes some reading. Therefore, our report contains some presentational suggestions, which I hope the Treasury will look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": " the Bank of England was made independent. That was part of our election strategy, and because the Government adopted that policy that is exactly what has happened. The Government, perfectly reasonably I suppose, are claiming the credit. That being the case, should we not produce policies to encourage more long-term borrowing that can import those lower, long-term interest rates to the short term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "It has often been said that Liberal Democrats provide policy initiatives for the Tories. Perhaps that was one that the Tories should not have taken up. The hon. Gentleman cannot cite the words of one candidate as the official policy. The truth is that our policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "t those of the CBI, and it makes other detailed criticisms of the Bill. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants made another damning criticism of the cost of administration of the Budget, especially to small and medium-sized enterprises. It said: The cost of administration is around a third of the total tax bill. These new measures will impose further costs. That is a damning criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman was aware of the duties of the Financial Secretary when I had the honour to hold that post, he would realise that I personally did not introduce that tax. However, I take collective responsibility. The Administration of whom I was a part did that. I do not want to trespass into an \"all our yesterdays\" debate on the state of the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "g features of the economic landscape, we see at least two reasons for being concerned about the figures. The first, which has already been mentioned, is the strength of the pound, especially against the euro. Unless the euro is expected suddenly, out of the blue, to strengthen against the pound, that relative position is likely to be maintained through the period to which the GDP forecast applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "up taxes and expenditure.\" That is what socialism is all about. That is what people vote for or against at general elections. That is why most of the time they vote Conservative, and why they will go on voting Conservative in the future—because, basically, they do not like that approach to life. None the less, it could be seen as perfectly reasonable. Indeed, it has gone on for thousands of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": " article in a newspaper backing up Liberal Democrat policy for targeted increases in pensions. Let me tell Labour Members what that policy is. For over-75s, we would increase the basic pension by £3 a week. For the over-80s, instead of the derisory 25p a week that they get, we would give them an increase of £5 a week. Yes, that is targeted, because the poorest pensioners are the oldest pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "y, \"That is a bit complicated,\" and I advise them to come and see me. I am more than happy to help them out, but, if the Government want to get the benefits of their own policies, they should make them simpler. I remember when Labour Members were in opposition. They used to complain about the Tory Government and say that they were fiddling the figures, with 21 changes to the employment statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, there are clear environmental and health objectives underlying all our policies on those matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-20", "file": "debates1999-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "256afbbac95406b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is as that on the Order Paper. As many as are of that opinion say, \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-20a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Education Funding (Cornwall)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "not yet mentioned an issue that I always broached with Conservative Ministers, who had a truly abysmal record in that area. I refer to investment in school buildings and infrastructure. I offer the Government a bouquet because those allocations have been much better. Cornwall's allocation this year is probably more than the county expected to receive—and is almost more than it can manage to spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "In that case, why is the Prime Minister ignoring his own task force? That was not a very straight answer, although I suppose that after last week's performance, we should be grateful that it was at least on the same subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.903.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is precisely because we have appointed Lord Haskins as chairman of the better regulation task force that we are in a position to consider the views that he has put forward. As for deputy leaders, I would rather have my deputy leader than the right hon. Gentleman's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall say exactly what I think: that is a matter for my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Digital Television Broadcasting", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": "e delivery of certain digital television services and with respect to the delivery of regional television services; and for related purposes. Access to television is much more important than might be suggested by television's entertainment content. Television is part of the fabric of today's society and a key provider of information, and access to information can be central to the quality of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "It is odd to hear the hon. Gentleman, of all people, advocating tax harmonisation policies in Europe: I thought he was on the Euro-sceptical wing of the Conservative party. What the French Government decide to do is a matter for them. As far as Kyoto is concerned, I remind the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman, who has expertise in this area, would consider the facts rather than relying on conjecture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "the figure that the right hon. Gentleman quoted in respect of job losses, and which the Opposition motion repeats, is pure make-believe. Before the Budget, the Opposition were citing job losses of 26,000; now, that figure is 53,000. In all candour, I have to tell Opposition Members that thinking of a figure and then doubling it overnight is hardly the most credible way to win a political argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": "ts, so it is not in our interest to have congestion or environmental problems. For all those reasons, we must find solutions. My hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Kali Mountford) referred to the environmental health costs; the problems associated with increased asthma and the costs of ill health to the national health service. We must reduce emissions; that is why green taxes are important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": "solutions. My hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley (Kali Mountford) referred to the environmental health costs; the problems associated with increased asthma and the costs of ill health to the national health service. We must reduce emissions; that is why green taxes are important. [Interruption.] I apologise for coughing, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I think I must take a break to let my voice recover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.959.7", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "esponsibility that they keep increasing taxes. The Conservative party's record on the environment is unimpeachable. When we were in office, we met all the targets. The Labour party inherited environmental targets that were eminently achievable, if only it would pursue them. To say that our tax announcements would leave a hole in the Government's finances, when they are raising an extra £9 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.959.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ight costs are probably more than two years out of date and do not reflect Labour's first three Budgets. On top of that, the data are based on only one UK haulier, Brian Yeardley Continental Ltd., of Featherstone in West Yorkshire. As my hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire pointed out, Mr. Yeardley wrote to us: The Chancellor has ensured that we are uncompetitive against foreign hauliers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Conversations are breaking out across the Chamber. Hon. Members must listen to the hon. Gentleman who is addressing the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I shall return to that shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " on—might not be better carried out by the Select Committee. We do not necessarily want only a Government-sponsored and controlled assessment and consultation process; we might want an all-party consultation process driven by the Chairman of the Select Committee, who would then report to the Government in due course. We cannot make decisions about that tonight; the matter is well beyond the remit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "t rigidity appears to have taken on a new realism under this Administration in terms of their interpretation of some of the schemes. Without invoking the principle of subsidiarity, I wonder whether there is not a little more that can creatively be done to advise people in advance, before the mistake is logged and entered, so that the clawback or the reference backwards does not have to be invoked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-21", "file": "debates1999-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "908e65b6d4d62eef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Curry", "preceding_text": "rade has been emphasised and we must start to think about how we move beyond the 30-month scheme with the measures that are in place and the agrimonetary compensation to which the Minister has referred. People in the pig industry are losing money. The road to bankruptcy used to be gambling, women or drink, but there is now a short-cut to it—raising pigs. The Minister said something very important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-21a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Food Hygiene and Animal Welfare", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must give me his evidence of illegal payments by any other national Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Food Standards Agency", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I realise that the idea of charging registered food premises the sum of £ 1.73 a week is very onerous to many such businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to an earlier answer, will my right hon. Friend reconsider the position on a vote on the military action against Serbia, bearing it in mind that, if such a vote were to take place, there would undoubtedly be an overwhelming majority in favour of dealing with ethnic cleansing, mass murder and rapes in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Although the right hon. Lady is committed to a more structured parliamentary year, she was not able to answer the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir G. Young) about the Whitsun recess. Is it her intention for the House to sit on 11 June, the day of the European elections, or not? It would be helpful to Members of this House, and, more particularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that about 80 per cent. of companies are not covered by the arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1075.6", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Twenty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "We have not set a threshold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1075.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Erdington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "n almost impossible task: to make the previous Government's policies appear decent. In the spirit of this debate, I congratulate those who should take pride in today's achievement. Such people include my hon. Friends the Members for Kingswood (Mr. Berry) and for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes), and a wonderful colleague in my disability team, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-22", "file": "debates1999-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "7bc618eada8e490b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "at long last, legislation was introduced that turned its back on the suggestion that there was no discrimination against the disabled. That legislation, however much it achieved or did not achieve, was entitled the Disability Discrimination Act. Reality had surfaced, even if many problems were not addressed. We did not get a Disability Rights Commission, but I warned then that its time would come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-22a.1076.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-26", "file": "debates1999-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "385649fa24d14562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "London Bombings", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "he or she has information which might help the police to contact them immediately. Sir Paul Condon has already stated that he considers that the bombings were racially motivated. Brixton is at the heart of London's African-Caribbean community. Brick lane is at the heart of Britain's Bangladeshi community. I want to make clear that any attack on those communities is an attack on all British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-26", "file": "debates1999-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "385649fa24d14562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Spellar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Spellar)", "preceding_text": "971.] In that context, I start by focusing on smart procurement. One of the key differences between this and previous attempts to reform defence procurement—which we have drawn on freely—has been the creation of an implementation team to drive the changes through. That has been mirrored in defence logistics and the SDR as a whole. When we announced the outcome of the review to the House last July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-26", "file": "debates1999-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "385649fa24d14562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "Ms Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Squire", "preceding_text": "entleman gives such significance to what I say in any and every debate that he can remember exactly what I said last year. I take my hat off to his portrayal of the 28 per cent. cut in the UK's armed forces that was undertaken by the Conservative Government in the 1990s and their reduction in the Army, Navy and RAF by up to a third, which left the forces feeling that they had been cut to the bone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-26", "file": "debates1999-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "385649fa24d14562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": " cheap again. It would be remiss of me not to mention the Territorial Army. Ultimately, the TA's equipment has to be stored and we must take a strategic view on that. We have made a slight mistake, especially as regards Chorley and the 101 TA battalion at Lancaster house. Even at this late stage, I urge the Minister to recognise that Chorley has a part to play. if buildings are to be knocked down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-26", "file": "debates1999-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "385649fa24d14562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Defence Equipment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simpson", "preceding_text": "n the Government Benches—were surprised and disappointed by the Minister's opening. statement, and it seems that we have the worst of all possible worlds: we will have the PAAMS missile system, but we may not get the hulls of the frigates on board which it is to he fitted. That is an odd decision, to say the least, and it does not sit well with Government policy on the European defence initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-26a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should begin by apologising for not congratulating the Secretary of State on anything much at all. Has the Minister explained to the consultative steering group why there is no provision for recounts at regional level in the Scottish elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "May I answer one question at a time? I know that the hon. Gentleman is very keen in such debates, but can he contain himself for a moment? It is important that, on this issue, we do not reinvent the wheel. If my hon. Friend the Member for Workington has put to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "If there is a choice between believing what is in the Red Book and what is in The Daily Telegraph, I know which I would opt for. It is a matter for the Scottish National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "t there is a balance to be struck between environmental objectives and the needs of the industry. We have established the road haulage forum to allow us to hear the industry's concerns, and, where possible, to deal with them. Dialogue rather than disruption will best serve the industry. Similarly, the industry will be best served by keeping a comfortable distance between itself and the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I am not giving way. I have given way on countless occasions, and frankly , I wish that I had not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that we had about the lowest price. Certainly, the then Chancellor believed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "We expect a little more from the hon. Lady than that she should tamely read out junk mail from Labour party headquarters. Last July, in responding to the Chancellor's spending plans, I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " election on that manifesto. The fact is that an escalator was introduced when our petrol and fuel prices were among the lowest in Europe. We always said that there was a place for an escalator, until we reached the point at which it inflicted grave and excessive damage—then we needed to get off it. The point at which the escalator is doing disproportionate harm has now been reached, and exceeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I shall carry on. It is no wonder that scores of companies have complained that they face a huge competitive disadvantage compared to their continental counterparts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Is that party policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Of course not; I am saying that we should get off the escalator now. In other words, broadly speaking, fuel duty should rise in line with inflation. That is, broadly speaking, the approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak to the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to hear Labour Members complaining about the position of the previous Government. We have suffered three Budgets in two years and the haulage industry has suffered three extremely large increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.205.5", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Lucidity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend speaks with great alacrity on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "ecause of this measure.\" We are told that it was all right for the previous Government to introduce a fuel escalator—I shall not go into history—because our fuel prices were the lowest in Europe. Figures from the Library, which I quoted in an earlier intervention, show that, short of Italy, of the 12 member states of the EU at the time, Britain was second. Ten other countries had lower fuel rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "gain if that is the best that he can do. He has said nothing. Since the escalator was introduced, 26p on each litre is accounted for by what one might call the Tory escalator, and only 7p is accounted for by the last three Budgets. Conservative Members do not dwell on the fact that the Treasury has picked up on the Select Committee's suggestion and will review the entire use of this tax next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gorman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman. He has talked enough piffle for one day. I met a driver who works in the haulage business, and he explained how many people of relatively low skills find their occupation in those industries, which are extremely important to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " change behaviour in respect of freight. A shift to rail would be a good thing but I do not think that Conservative Members want it. They were against rail services throughout their period of office and they maintain that still. They wanted to privatise the rail service, which they said would improve competition and efficiency but it has signally failed to do so. Now we must do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "It certainly was not me. Although it was my wedding anniversary that day, we had not started drinking then. That gentleman challenged me about rail freight and said, even before the present debate started, that we favoured rail over road. Once we started discussing how he could link to a proper transport system and create a service alongside rail, he became much more amenable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I am terribly sorry, but the hon. Gentleman is wrong on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ht about that. Conservative Members, who used to understand some of the basic principles of market economics, used to make the case for environmental taxation, but they seem to have given up on that as they have given up on so much. The hon. Member for Twickenham and many of my hon. Friends referred to the costs of pollution that are imposed by the road haulage industry and by motorists generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-27", "file": "debates1999-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "07b4c6c11b8a2360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. Conversations are breaking out throughout the Chamber. Hon. Members must listen to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-27a.245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Broadcasting (Regional Coverage)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "r bills to Yorkshire Water or their electricity bills to Yorkshire Electricity. Thanks to what the Conservatives did, Yorkshire Electricity may now be owned by Americans, but that identity and that sense of place is still important. When my West Craven constituents switch on their televisions, they see Yorkshire Television. About 25 per cent. of my constituents never see me on regional television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The attacks have been attacks not just on the Afro-Caribbean and Bangladeshi communities; we regard them as attacks on the whole of British society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.335.5", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is at a moment like this that I look along the Front Bench in search of inspiration, but do not find any.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The record actually shows that we were the only party at the general election to publish a fully costed manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was the hooker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "I suggested that the hon. Lady might make exactly that point, and she has done so. Unlike my right hon. Friend the Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) on the front row—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.363.13", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that the proposal was made clear in the Chancellor's fine speech. We also had a green Budget, which Conservative Governments never even tried to achieve. Under Conservative Administrations, people were never given a six-month opportunity to consider the direction that the Government should take. That argument is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.363.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.368.9", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman overlooking the fact that other parts of the tax system benefit married couples? MIRAS—mortgage interest relief at source—can be claimed by both partners if they are married, but not if they are unmarried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.368.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ly income tax. The measure that we are discussing is a straightforward hike that will affect 10 million couples. Increased income tax bills are being introduced by stealth. This hike will raise £1.6 billion next year and £2 billion the year after that. The sleight of hand is worse. In his Budget speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer implied that pensioners would be protected from these measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ouples allowance despite having made their financial arrangements on the basis that the allowance would remain. Throughout all the reductions in the value of the married couples allowance under the Conservative Government and under the present Government until now, its value had always been retained for pensioners. That is no longer the position. Its value has not been retained for new pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "All that is rich from a party in government that is introducing stealth tax after stealth tax. The impression is given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "I have letters in my file from the hon. Lady which she has not signed. Many Members received letters from her when she was the Financial Secretary which she had not signed. If I am wrong, I shall withdraw my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "You will be pleased to hear, Mr. Lord, that, having explained the broad philosophy on which my view is based, I am about to deal with the specific question of why the date is important. It is important because the Government have deliberately structured all their proposed changes to ensure that they are introduced—dare I say it—by stealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "married couple and if a child was born 10 years ago to an unmarried couple living in an allegedly stable relationship, what chance would there be that the parents would still be together today? The answer was 81 per cent. in respect of the former case, and a mere 15 per cent. in the latter case, unless the couple had got married during that 10 years. If one turns the statistic the other way round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "ty. If people who are buying large properties have to pay more in stamp duty, they will have less to spend on improvements and other work on their properties that they might want to undertake. Therefore, they will be less able to carry out those improvements and one of the ways in which there is synergy between different sectors of the economy will be lost. There will clearly be a knock-on effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Barbara Roche)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mrs. Barbara Roche)", "preceding_text": " I know that that is very popular in the country. He also spoke about something that is known as the slice system; I say that for the benefit of those Members who have just joined us in the Chamber. This is an example of the Opposition not fully costing their proposals. Such a proposal would be incredibly expensive—it would cost £890 million—and lead to higher rates and a much more complex system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way and I must make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ses raised some £500 million a year in extra stamp duty revenues, and Labour's first Budget in July 1997 also raised £500 million a year in extra stamp duty revenues. That is £1.3 billion of yearly extra stamp duty to be paid by the British people and British business as a result of electing a Labour Government to power in May 1997. The Government were elected on a clear pledge not to raise taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "s his reason for doing so. He said: I will not allow house prices to get out of control\".— [Official Report, 2 July 1997; Vol. 297, c. 313.] However, house prices in the residential sector are rising, and the stamp duty increases are having little or no effect on prices. That is the view of residential property estate agents. Simon Tyler of Chase de Vere was quoted in The Sunday Times on 14 March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": " transactions of over £250,000. It will affect only a small proportion of domestic properties, but a much larger proportion of business properties. The institute goes on to make the important point that transfers of goodwill and patents will also be affected. Moreover, a written answer from the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, referred to by my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-28", "file": "debates1999-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ad6eb6c6ea55d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor has given regarding corporation tax rates—that there will be no further increases for the remainder of this Parliament? In Labour's first three Budgets, we have seen three stamp duty rises. We have seen the rate increased from 1 to 2.5 and 3.5 per cent. As with all stealth tax rises, the effects of this are capricious and unplanned. The impact on residential properties is more severe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-28a.440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "December. The slippage and the pedestrian attitude that has highlighted the Government's general approach suggest that there is no sense of urgency. The Government seem to be oblivious to the fact that local government, the industry and environmental interests all eagerly await the regulations. The sooner they are in force, the sooner the clean-up and development of brown-field sites can go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": " them extremely carefully—as well as the assumptions that underlie them—when all the reasons for the Government's decision are available to us and to the rest of the country. However, we can calculate on the basis of the former figures that, if the Government have got the figures wrong, 600,000 families or individuals will have nowhere to live during the time span of the projected housing figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "or housing and urban renewal? We are decentralising decision making and replacing the top-down mentality, with its predict-and-provide approach, with a more flexible system of plan, monitor and manage. I shall contrast the previous Administration's role with the actions of this Government and past Labour Governments. The post-war Labour Government introduced the Town and Country Planning Act 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "how the prosperity and competitiveness of the rural economy can be strengthened, how development and regeneration policies can help those areas in need, and how we can ensure that all rural people have opportunities to participate fully in society. Our consultation on the discussion document \"Rural England\" ends tomorrow, and we shall consider the responses carefully as we prepare the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "nsure that all rural people have opportunities to participate fully in society. Our consultation on the discussion document \"Rural England\" ends tomorrow, and we shall consider the responses carefully as we prepare the White Paper. [Interruption.] It is no good Conservative Members complaining. They initiated the debate, and I thank them heartily for enabling me to present the Government's record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "er quality of urban life and to bring life back to the hearts of our towns and cities. That will relieve pressure on the countryside. The Government aim to provide sufficient housing so that everyone who wants one can have a decent home. We also aim to ensure that houses are of better quality, built in a better environment, and provide for sustainable communities in which people are proud to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " assured the people of Devon that local views will be listened to. I took the Prime Minister at his word—more fool me: not only did he not intervene, but local people have not been listened to. I as a Member of Parliament have not been listened to, and the district council has not been listened to. The Liberal Democrat-controlled Devon county council has been bullied into pursuing a certain route—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "ts Liberal Democrat leader, \"You have this wrong. Ministers are not going to foist anything on you. Democracy is alive and well and is living in Devon. Local people will be listened to, as the Prime Minister promised.\" But I was not able to do that. We must therefore assume, in the absence of the type of assurance that I was seeking from the Minister, that perhaps the Liberal Democrats were right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "preceding_text": "disbanded their urban design team. According to the Civic Trust, there is not a single person with sole responsibility for design in the DETR, although the Government managed to find £8 million for the Highways Agency to increase its maintenance programme. I understand also that the Government are not willing to fund the Urban Design Alliance, which is supported by many professional organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": " homes on previously developed land. Even with the Government's new projections, a 60 per cent. target for new brown-field development would still mean that 1.5 million homes were built on green-field sites. If they meant what they said before, the Government could still build 2.6 million homes on brown-field sites, so that only 1.2 million would need to be placed on land not previously developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "lion would need to be placed on land not previously developed. [Interruption.] I wish that, instead of keeping up a running commentary on my speech, Ministers would address these genuine problems. The plain fact is that, even with the reduced household projections, there will be a one-fifth increase in new households in England over 25 years. On the Government's own target, which they are failing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "listen, is the establishment of the new national land use database. Believe it or not, until now—despite the 18 years during which the Conservatives were in power—there has been no consistent system for recording and making use of information about land in urban areas that might be available for redevelopment. The Conservatives talked about it, but they did nothing about it. The Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.529.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ot, until now—despite the 18 years during which the Conservatives were in power—there has been no consistent system for recording and making use of information about land in urban areas that might be available for redevelopment. The Conservatives talked about it, but they did nothing about it. The Labour Government— [Interruption.] — I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Mrs. Jones).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "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 next debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "eregulator; my hon. Friend has done the work for him by giving him the very Bill that would solve some of his problems. I look forward to the Secretary of State graciously accepting it. I should be happy for him to amend it—I am sure that it could be improved—and we would give it a fair wind. I would not bring the Conservative army in to try to vote it down; I would come to the House to praise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "etter was highly political, we sent a highly political answer; but at least we dealt with the letter there and then. If the letter was written in a different spirit and a different tone—we all know the different tones that are used in our job—it would be answered in a similar tone. We would accept that the shadow Minister had a point, and was speaking for his constituents or in the wider interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e—we all know the different tones that are used in our job—it would be answered in a similar tone. We would accept that the shadow Minister had a point, and was speaking for his constituents or in the wider interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] Hon. Members should not order me to get on with it. This is about how industry should present its case, and about whether the Government will listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "d. The authority recommended turning it down, and the Secretary of State turned it down. Why did the Secretary of State not tell us that at the beginning? He could have saved the fans all the worry and the trouble of campaigning to try to influence the decision that he and his colleagues had already made. He also put Mr. Murdoch to considerable expense and trouble on the other side of the account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "Labour Members should read the motion, because it is about the state of British business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The previous Government's policy was kinder on the coal industry than the current Government's policy has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ng for part-time work and parents with family responsibilities who are not seeking work. The claimant count—those who want employment—is down by more than a third under the new deal. That is the best way to count the figures for the new deal. My right hon. Friend the Minister for Employment, Welfare to Work and Equal Opportunities will address the issue of the new deal when he winds up the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "ty did not matter, because we had lower business costs, lower insurance costs and lower corporation tax. I shall show the House that the Government are completely wrong. The Deputy Prime Minister, who may not be the brightest, gave us figures during Prime Minister's questions showing that Belgium and Holland had business costs that were unaccountably £800,000 and £600,000 more expensive that ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that the head of the Government's own skills task force, Chris Humphries, said in a recent letter to the Evening Standard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-29", "file": "debates1999-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0a4a5fc8adc9337b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "t we should be told about the financial consequences of Bills, even Bills that have received cross-party support as this Bill has. I note that, according to the Government's estimate, the total additional administrative expenditure will amount to £100,000 per annum. I believe that that is to pay for the extra civil servants who will be required to administer international football banning orders —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-29a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-30", "file": "debates1999-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0b0fa78858d552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "he same fee unless the Government tell me otherwise and say that, as the matter was raised in Committee, they have reflected on the possibility of a graded scale of fees. Such a scale would entail the Government's saying that some organisations were more deserving than others. That is a very difficult decision. I am not pressing on the Government, as I did not want to have to take such a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-30", "file": "debates1999-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0b0fa78858d552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": ". We are merely carrying on what the hon. Member for Stourbridge and her hon. Friends did in Committee. The hon. Lady has introduced amendments that have been accepted. In my inadequate way, I advanced similar amendments. Of course, they were not as well drafted as the hon. Lady's. If I had the resources that are available to Ministers and that the hon. Lady might have had available to assist her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-30", "file": "debates1999-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0b0fa78858d552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "course, they were not as well drafted as the hon. Lady's. If I had the resources that are available to Ministers and that the hon. Lady might have had available to assist her— [Interruption.] No, I did not mean that; I apologise. I think that the hon. Lady had £200 with which to hire the best legal advice. She spent her money wisely. The hon. Lady's amendments have improved the Bill still further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.668.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-04-30", "file": "debates1999-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "a0b0fa78858d552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Assisted Area Status (Southend)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "icy seems to be building up to our entry into the euro, the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be in somewhat of a quandary. I mention Europe because I am a democrat. We were slaughtered in the referendum in the '70s, and I want to take advantage of our involvement in Europe. Surely to goodness that can be achieved by the Government advancing the position of Southend to be given assisted area status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-04-30a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "If he will make a statement on appointments to primary care group boards. [81810] The Secretary of State has clearly forgotten that he asked for Questions 2 and 3 to be linked. He has also forgotten, apparently, that it is customary in the circumstances to attempt to answer both questions, not just one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "New clause 33 states unequivocally that The Authority shall not by virtue of\"— the general powers— incur expenditure in providing … any housing\". The old-fashioned Greater London council housing estates were some of the most damaging housing developments for the environment in London and they brought about a division in housing provision that has had adverse social consequences to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"New York.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "o all taxi drivers, smoking and non-smoking, in the front and in the back. We are all deeply indebted to London cabbies. Those who have travelled abroad and experienced cabs overseas will know what I mean when I say that we have the best cab service in the world. In my personal experience, a visitor to York is lucky to find a cab driver who not only knows where one wants to go, but speaks English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "of conscience and they have a free vote. They may pick either side of this rather difficult argument, as was the position in Committee. The matter is one for the individual to decide. I do not accept the argument advanced by the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake) that there is a passive smoking risk. If one is sitting next to someone on the underground and smoke is wafting past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "tee. The matter is one for the individual to decide. I do not accept the argument advanced by the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake) that there is a passive smoking risk. If one is sitting next to someone on the underground and smoke is wafting past— [Interruption.] Very well, if one is sitting in a public place and smoke is wafting past, and one is inhaling it, there is a risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.790.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "that is likely to be generated by the smoking of a cigarette in a hansom cab? In proposing the new clause—this is a serious matter—the hon. Gentleman is intellectually confused to the extent that he still cannot give us a definitive answer about whether he believes that the owner of a taxi should have the absolute right, as the driver, to smoke in his own cab. Yea or nay—I think we should be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-04", "file": "debates1999-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b4774772fcf215d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to do his work for him in what the Minister described as the other place. There is always work to be done in the other place. I must not neglect to pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake), who has just gone to catch his train. He prompted me to table the amendments. He is sorry that he cannot be here now, but he wants to share in the glory of the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-04a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is right that the Council of Europe stands for those values, and we are fighting for them in Kosovo. It is worth pointing out that, since the second world war and the formation of the European Union, there have been tremendous strides forward within the EU in peace, prosperity and security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Football Regulator", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "ations and people of all races together —even in disagreement on the merits of a particular player or team, or even of a referee's decision. Football also plays a major role in the House, as witnessed by the excellent work of the all-party football group—which is expertly chaired by my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton)—not to mention the exploits of the parliamentary football team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.975.7", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "mics—is that the mayor will have no say in the best way in which to run the underground. In response to interventions from the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), the Minister said that, if the PPP was not ready by the time of the election, it was inevitable that the mayor would be involved. That does not seem to be a pledge of any sort, or perhaps I have read it wrongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.975.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "preceding_text": "eing given the chance to introduce this tax ahead of the rest of the country, largely because if it cannot work here, it will not work anywhere else in Britain. We still have a good public transport infrastructure and a degree of congestion that makes the case. I think that there is wide public acceptance that something like a congestion tax must be introduced. The debate will be about the levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not London Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": " I have detected a certain frisson in the Chamber. It is beginning to dawn on Members that the Conservatives are right on this matter, and that the other parties are wrong. It is beginning to dawn on people that the Government's policy will not work. It will hit people hard, as my hon. Friends the Members for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) and for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) have pointed out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-05", "file": "debates1999-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "44a672ea01ef7d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "form, but—would you believe it? —when we present them with a proportional electoral system for London, do they say, \"Yes, we welcome it\"? No, they carp, whinge and criticise. It is typical that they should fail to welcome the proposal. The fact that the Liberal Democrats will abstain in the vote on Third Reading—sitting on their hands while we are creating a new structure of government for London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-05a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-06", "file": "debates1999-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab608aedfccf2322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-06a.1106.7", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "London's Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "l very well as a target, but they did not get around to achieving it. Sixteen trusts and health authorities in London serving areas with more than 10 per cent. ethnic minority populations did not meet that target before the general election. Now all but three of them do. In total, 46 NHS boards in London have one ethnic minority member; 17 boards have two such members; and three boards have three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-06a.1106.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-06", "file": "debates1999-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab608aedfccf2322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-06a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "London's Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "ld to account, so that their actions since being elected to government may be judged by their statements before the general election. There is rationing in London, as there is in the whole country. The Secretary of State attended the London school of economics—albeit at a time when it was teaching some pretty funny things—and studied economics. He should therefore know the definition of rationing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-06a.1111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-10", "file": "debates1999-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a4e97977153a319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-10a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "l Naumann retired at the agreed date with his consent and that of the allies. He could speak freely and he said that he would make no change to the military campaign, which was achieving its objectives. We are fighting an immense and great evil in Kosovo. It would have been helpful if the right hon. and learned Gentleman had endorsed any of the statements that I made about the nature of that evil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-10a.25.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "If the Minister met representatives of the road haulage industry in my constituency—I have some big road haulage companies which operate not only nationally, but internationally—one of the road projects that they would like to see included in a roads programme would be the Poynton bypass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.108.7", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "The question refers to the problems facing the road haulage industry one of which is the problem of inadequate roads. In that particular area, there are grave problems with the road infrastructure, not least because the second runway at Manchester airport is shortly to be opened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.119.4", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a U-turn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "the biggest mis-selling exercise of all, and one for whose results future taxpayers will have to pick up the bill. In the midst of all that, the Secretary of State wobbled. On 6 May, hidden away in Money Marketing, a spokesman for the DSS stated: It is true we are considering the arrangements for provision of advice for stakeholder pension schemes. He had suddenly realised that they had a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Darling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Security (Mr. Alistair Darling)", "preceding_text": "t and a kind man. Our thoughts are with his wife and two children and with his family. I thank. the hon. Gentleman for his courtesy. We have listened to the hon. Gentleman speak about pensions policy and it is noteworthy that he did not mention his own policy once. Indeed, it is not at all clear whether the Conservative party, after 18 years in Government and two years in opposition, has a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The Government are not doing that. I did not read those particular remarks, but I recall that what the actuaries said in July 1997 was rather different from what they were saying 12 months later. One of the effects of the reform of corporation tax is that we now have the lowest rate of corporation tax that the country has ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "keeps raising that point and I keep giving the same answer—he might want to look at it again. The Government are aware that, because of the present capital and income rules, many pensioners who have modest savings or a modest income stream are adversely affected by the benefits system. We said in the Green Paper that we are determined to tackle that, but one thing that the Liberals really have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "It does not sound as though the hon. Gentleman understood the policy that I was proposing, as it had nothing to do with increasing national insurance or tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "It is a particular pleasure to speak in this debate, as the most cursory examination of the Chamber will reveal that Labour Members have fled the field on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "Advice, as we have always said, is important, and the charging regime for stakeholder schemes will reflect the need for advice. People will receive the advice that they need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is well aware that those are matters for the boundary commission, which is independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.185.8", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "I am intrigued by that question, which leads me to ask whether we are to assume that the view of the official Opposition is that there should be a referendum for an English Parliament. That is a significant admission by the Opposition that they favour an English Parliament. Does the Leader of the Opposition accept that position? I think that we should be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.185.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady shrieks, \"English, too.\" Let me say to her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-11", "file": "debates1999-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1a165efe055f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much longer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "miliar points—it was like listening to an old gramophone record that we heard during the passage of Government of Wales Act and the Scotland Act. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has made it clear that, after the transfer order goes through on 1 July, he does not think it appropriate that he should stay in post much longer because the two roles will eventually be incompatible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-11a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Kate Hoey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Kate Hoey)", "preceding_text": "for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) reminding us of what we did or did not say when we were in opposition. I would like to remind the hon. Gentleman of plenty of things that the Conservatives said when they were in government—things that they said they would do, and then did not do—but I feel that, when we are debating prisons, we should be looking forward and asking how we can improve things generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "preceding_text": " we have arrived at for Kidderminster is not a closure but a positive change reflecting the needs of a modern health service. I am sad to say that both the hon. Members who have spoken in this debate have given the false impression that we are closing the hospital. The hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Miss Kirkbride) made that allegation, which is untrue. Such misleading statements do nothing whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's point is well made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "Today is the 50th day of NATO's air campaign in Yugoslavia. We support the Government in their aims of getting the Serbs out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huw Edwards", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tory gain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huw Edwards", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.315.4", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I love the way that the Tories celebrate their Scottish and Welsh election results; it is a marvellous thing to behold. In relation to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-12", "file": "debates1999-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5270f369bac152ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.357.8", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Location of Victims' Remains) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "eeping with subsection (1)(a) are those that will identify the victim. Any other information could be used to prosecute. The Government have clearly decided to avoid that. How on earth are they to resolve that conundrum? It is clear to anyone who reads the Bill that the Government have done some deal with the IRA to avoid its members being brought before courts and charged with torture and murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-12a.357.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the hon. Gentleman, who I would have expected to know rather more about the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "ly because his hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey), his party's spokesman on this matter, said during a debate on the Finance Bill: The vast majority of cider makers will not be affected … the industry as a whole is not worried. It has been consulted, and has agreed with the Government's approach.\"— [Official Report, Standing Committee B, 4 May 1999; c.41–3.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "gures show that manufacturing output rose last month, despite everything that the Opposition have been saying about manufacturing. I am surprised that, when tabling a question about unemployment, the hon. Gentleman chose not to refer to the new deal on unemployment, which is doing much for his constituency and many others. The shadow Chancellor has called the new deal a fraud and a waste of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.404.4", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor will recall that, in 1989, when the European Commission last proposed a job-destroying withholding tax on savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.404.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cousins", "preceding_text": "nder-Secretary of State for Wales, my hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain), as being part of the Government's constitutional reform programme. May I ask my right hon. Friend when she expects that it will be possible for that Committee to be recalled in some new form? She is well aware that there is considerable anticipation of that event among Members of Parliament from the English regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way once and I have made my point. No doubt the hon. Lady will have an opportunity in due course to expand her thoughts and expose herself to interventions to test the validity of her arguments. Not a day goes by without more horror headlines in the popular press, including warnings that GM foods could cause untreatable strains of killer diseases, such as meningitis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ar difficulty. The Government offered up to £40 million in guarantee payments. Since the ruling went against the European Union, however, the Government have done nothing. No doubt through the diplomacy of the Prime Minister in conversation with the President of the United States, the Government managed to exempt cashmere from the list of products that would be the subject of 100 per cent. tariff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "he one referred to by my hon. Friend. Those firms are now suffering as a result of the 100 per cent. tariff barrier. They are losing business and some of them will be threatened with bankruptcy. In any event, many will have to shed a large number of jobs. The Government should have anticipated the situation, and even now they should be getting on and ensuring that a compliant regime is introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "rs—but that the Government were very concerned about the outcome of the imminent Scottish general election. In retrospect, they were right to be so concerned. They went out of their way to help Scottish industries, but not English ones. I should mention a few of the industries that will continue to be damaged by the US sanctions. They include the handbag industry; the uncoated felt paper industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "All the victims of the banana dispute are innocent, especially the ACP countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.480.7", "colnum": "480", "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": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot use a point of order to make a speech. There has been no request from any Minister to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.480.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.483.8", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.483.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members are doing half my job for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "bers, such as the hon. Member for Buckingham, show great assiduity in their personal opposition. They have been consistent in opposing. The only regret is they have been consistently opposing different things at different times and are mutually incompatible in their opposition. That is the real charge and our real problem with the current official Opposition. The Conservative party at Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have heard nothing about reneging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ould certainly not be the leader of the Welsh Conservatives. Not only did he lose his personal seat, but his vote has gone down since the general election. The real charge is that the Conservative party at Westminster is so divided, so incoherent and so unable to maintain a consistent position on almost anything that its Members are giving the Government an easy ride. That is the greatest failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall can make his own points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ernment. Only one party has been consistent in its opposition to the uniform business rate—the Liberal Democrat party. The performance of the Conservative Opposition so concerned members of the press that, after six months, The Sunday Times concluded that the Tories had simply given up on Westminster—I think that was right. I have seen very little reason for The Sunday Times to revise its opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I could not possibly comment on the hon. Gentleman's suggestion. On 3 December, we had the introduction of the \"statute for MEPs\", setting pay and conditions and allowances. What was the reaction of the Conservatives in Europe to that? Two Conservatives were for it, 12 abstained this time, and four did not bother to turn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-13", "file": "debates1999-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7e10840aa157778a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Since we have reached December, may I tell the hon. Gentleman that he is doing a very good impression of the man with the nice white beard who gave my young son a gift at Christmas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-13a.489.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-14", "file": "debates1999-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "26d080c8b90bd413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "not say who should carry out the forfeiture order. We have repeatedly brought pressure to bear on that subject. If the Minister intends to speak on this group of amendments, I should like him to say what the timetable will be and exactly where the responsibilities will fall. The only people who really understand how to look after mink are the farmers, and the handover of responsibility is crucial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-14", "file": "debates1999-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "26d080c8b90bd413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "That must be the primary purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-14", "file": "debates1999-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "26d080c8b90bd413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.578.7", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "These are rather cheap sedentary interventions. I am making a desperately serious point. People in a totally separate trade may be swept up by the provisions of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.578.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-14", "file": "debates1999-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "26d080c8b90bd413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "d show how it could be improved. I find it amazing that, in her speech on the clause, the hon. Member for Garston showed that she did not know what a fitch was, yet here she is, in cahoots with her Front-Bench colleagues, grandly trying to sweep away a whole industry. For her information, a fitch is from the mustela putorius species and it is a polecat. Other polecats should have been on the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-14a.596.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "I like to think that the hon. Lady and I are old friends. She tempts me, but I have to give her the same reply that I gave in Committee. When we return to power, that is one of the measures that we will——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a betrayal of everything that the Labour party used to stand for. My great grandfather helped found the Independent Labour party. He would be ashamed of the decision taken tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " shall not take the right hon. Gentleman too far down an Anglo-Catholic road, but it is important to recognise that Labour does not have a monopoly on care and compassion, or on regard and concern for disadvantaged and needy people. Labour never has had such a monopoly, throughout the history of this place and of British politics. The Conservative party has a proud history. I shall not go into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "s the antithesis of the hedonistic live-for-today attitude that characterises the worst extremes of pop culture. The right hon. Gentleman is right to draw our attention to that. The attack on the contributory principle implicit in the measure is an erosion of values which are bigger than working class culture. It is a deeper instinct still. That attack is also an attack on the trust of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I am fascinated by the debate, and am delighted that I stayed up to listen to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Back to bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "My remarks seem to be so unpleasing to the Secretary of State that he has left the Chamber again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the two and a half hours of debate since my hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) moved the new clause. I do not normally speak to the House at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "husbands have paid for them to have a pension. They will have believed that they were protected and will suddenly find that they are not. The Government will have to do a lot to make certain people understand what they are doing. They should not do it in the dark. My constituency contains the second largest proportion of retired people, at 38 per cent. Many of those people have much younger wives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-17", "file": "debates1999-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "24605b468701dd0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that the hon. Gentleman is wrong. Those payments are means tested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-17a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-18", "file": "debates1999-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d5e70e04c8717a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "It is no good his shouting at me—what he said yesterday was not true. The new clause on maternity allowances to which he referred yesterday was known to the House and had been tabled prior to the last business statement. The hon. Gentleman is trying to defend himself. This business has been before the House for two weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-18", "file": "debates1999-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d5e70e04c8717a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.903.8", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "vernment where that is necessary or appropriate, seems to me to be entirely possible. That serves both national and party interest, and the Leader of the Opposition himself appeared to recognise those matters last week at Prime Minister's questions when the tone that he used was in sharp distinction from that which we have previously heard from the Conservatives on occasions. He was wise to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.903.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-18", "file": "debates1999-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d5e70e04c8717a2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Kosovo", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-18a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Eurostar Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "akers who need access to the continent for their business. They need to be attracted to places such as Wolverhampton, Manchester and ultimately to Glasgow and other parts of the United Kingdom. They attract the business, so they are crucial for economic development. We share those concerns. I shall keep my remarks as short as possible, as the House deserves a comprehensive reply from the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Eurostar Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We are entitled to point out that the forecasts for the financing proposals for the original channel tunnel rail link were thrown out of kilter by the fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Primary Schools (Admissions)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for School Standards (Ms Estelle Morris)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for School Standards (Ms Estelle Morris)", "preceding_text": "owing them to latch on to that one reason. Let me give the context of the progress that has been made in class size policy. It is ironic that the hon. Member for Northavon should say that there is not enough money, given that his hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr. Foster), his party's education spokesman, keeps saying that we spend more than we said we would spend. They cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister proud or slightly embarrassed that he is the only member of the Cabinet with his own flag? Does that not dramatically underline what a terrible anachronism the Duchy of Lancaster is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Jury Trial", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary sends his apologies. He has a longstanding commitment to speak at the Police Federation conference. I am sure that hon. Members would want him to keep that commitment. In response to a written question that appeared on Tuesday's Order Paper, the Home Secretary has announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1082.9", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "getting married on the island. We are utterly confident that the taxpayer was absolutely delighted to be helping with those travel expenses. How sensible Mrs. Green was to send her driver out to Cyprus three days before the conference began. He said: We always go early to places, otherwise we get stopped in traffic\". He went three days early—that is some traffic jam, particularly as he flew there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1082.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1090.8", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is a good question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1090.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unparliamentary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "alistic mode. If any Member of the House were to go out into the highways and byways of Westminster to ask the average British citizen what he or she thought about the financial control of Europe, or what that person thought about the way in which Europe looked after taxpayers' money, there would be, first, a snort of derision, followed by a reply that could probably not be repeated in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I shall answer that in the course of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "egion in England, one trust per region. I was told that no trust had paid the increase in April. My assistant phoned Bromley in London, Kettering in the south-east, Gloucestershire Royal NHS trust in the south and west, Allington in the eastern region, Wolverhampton health care in the west midlands, Barnsley in Trent, Blackpool Victoria in the north-west and Harrogate Healthcare. Not one had paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "ind, but the words \"mealy mouthed\" did. The Opposition did not attack nurses' pay, but they are now attacking the administration behind it. They say that—although the Government have agreed with the pay review body and agreed that the nurses can have the money straight away, at the beginning of the financial year—the trusts are not administering the pay rise properly and that they are the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1169.10", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "We want to cut the hours of the 15 per cent. of junior doctors working more than an average of 56 hours per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1169.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-05-19", "file": "debates1999-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "5f83ddfce5661cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It may be for the convenience of the House if we take motions Nos. 5 to 12 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-19a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "Why is the Minister so hostile to the poor old British beef farmer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1206.4", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "We shall have to be careful choosing our words now that we have devolution, especially as we are working in partnership in different parts of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1209.4", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Write!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "aker, given what you have said. I can tell my hon. Friend who is assiduous in pursuing criminal justice issues in his area, that there are no plans at present to transfer work that is being undertaken by the Bexley team at London Bridge to Croydon. Also, as a result of an earlier review, the branch has already implemented a system whereby a dedicated team of staff work at Bexley magistrates court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I do wish that the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) could possess his soul in some slight silence—Whips are normally silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1216.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": ", that there would be a real clash and that he was looking forward to it. We have a bargain basement Arnold Schwarzenegger who has pumped up the debate; but half way through consideration, he cut and ran, failing to face up to a serious debate. The Secretary of State now blames everyone else. Apparently, we were going to bump the Kosovo debate the following day or we were filibustering the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because we are being brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Members for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) and for Boston and Skegness (Sir R. Body) have always spoken against guillotine motions. They spent 18 years supporting the Tory Government, but arguing against those motions, so there is nothing new there. I understand their views, which are well held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " views, which are well held— [Interruption.] I know that the hon. Members did not vote for them. Indeed, they were something of a bother to the previous Administration and they are entitled to take their view. However, it is important to point out that by 3am on Tuesday morning, we were halfway through all the amendments that had been put down for debate. It does not do anyone any good to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "For example, that was the justification for the specific policy of removing the earnings-related element of the benefit. The growth in occupational pensions was taken into account four years ago. With the greatest respect, that argument has already been used to cut incapacity benefit. What on earth could be the justification for doing so again? I do not know; perhaps the Tories did not cut enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ches about the Labour party discovering itself. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) also said something about the Conservative party; he accused us of being the Unification church. I for one would remind him that the religion of which he is one of the prime advocates in this country also believes in the road to Damascus. The Conservative party has gone through that sort of conversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "so realise that many of the concerns expressed in the House today stem from the effects of long-term structural unemployment—people have low skills and low expectations; a second generation of people are growing up who really do not expect any better for themselves or their children; and children do not expect to do any better than their parents. The Tories saw that as the natural order of things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives do not want to hear this. We are helping disabled people get into work. We are making work pay. The minimum wage will bring 700,000 women into the national insurance system. The disabled persons tax credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1289.5", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "I said that on 23 February. The number does not appear in the Bill because it was always within my contemplation that it would have to be increased on occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1290.5", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "It is because people contribute to their pensions and other such savings precisely to make provision for such contingencies. I repeat that it is right that there should be a partnership between individuals and the state to make provision in such cases, although I recognise that some of my hon. Friends disagree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1290.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-20", "file": "debates1999-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a28b97290114c074", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1298.4", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has any human feelings —I am sure that he has —he must be feeling intensely embarrassed. As my hon. Friend knows, when one feels intensely embarrassed and one has got oneself and one's party into a terrible mess, one tends to avoid other human company, particularly in places as public as the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-20a.1298.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Freedom of Information Draft Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ong to say that we are reversing the presumption. I ask him to look at clause 8, which establishes for the first time the clear right of every citizen to seek information from Departments and other public authorities. The authority must argue the case for an exemption. [Mr. Straw] We are publishing a large amount of information about BSE—a process that may have begun under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Freedom of Information Draft Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The serious answer is that the usual dialectical process will take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ht that the hon. Gentleman would understand the meanings of words. Privatisation takes something that is owned by the Government and allows commercial rules and market forces to determine its future. A public-private partnership means that the Government retain a stake and that some public sector objectives are entrenched in the relationship with the private sector. That is what we seek to secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. George Foulkes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. George Foulkes)", "preceding_text": "ne the CDC's development role. This is not a privatisation. Under public-private partnerships, there will not be windfall gains or fat cats, as we saw under Tory privatisations. That has been assured through a combination of measures, such as the 25 per cent. shareholding, the golden share, the memorandum of understanding, the deed, the memorandum and articles of association and investment policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ot done is provide what the hon. Member for South-West Devon described as \"a piece of paper\". We all know the value of some pieces of paper. We have given a clear indication of what has been agreed on the tax proposals. Detailed, technical amendments—that is all that we are talking about—to give effect to what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have said will be tabled in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "State explained why CDC returns have been modest. She also described the 1998 results. I can tell the House, and particularly the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan), who has been asking about this matter, that the CDC—not the Government—expects a return to profitability in 1999. I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in hoping that that is so and encouraging the CDC in its efforts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.112.4", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ladyman", "preceding_text": "only an experiment. It would be a relatively minor change. I do not believe that it is the fundamental shift in importance from this Chamber that other hon. Members are suggesting. It is a way in which to enhance this Chamber and our debate—a means by which we may debate some subjects that will make our constituents sit up and take notice once more, instead of ignoring us as they do at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "mbers who have said that what happens in this Chamber is of paramount importance. These proposals can only enhance the Chamber. I agree with the right hon. Member for North—West Hampshire (Sir G. Young) who believes—as you do, Madam Speaker—that ministerial statements should be made to the House and not on Radio 4. These proposals will leave the Chamber free for Ministers to make their statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "That was not my point at all. This is the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-24", "file": "debates1999-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "594c253bcf06e25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " Wednesdays so that some of my northern comrades and Opposition colleagues could pop along and see what the process is all about. I come into the House every Friday, as do some other Members. The proposals are not revolutionary. It is a shame that the Procedure Committee and the Modernisation Committee did not hold a joint meeting. We need to address the issue of furniture. I am not a hemispheric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-24a.125.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.146.9", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the Liberal Democrats, I welcome the whole of the renewed Scottish Office team to the Front Bench. I appreciate the constructive way in which they seem to be engaging in the new politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.146.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ves us a strength when we argue for reform which the previous Government never had. At Cologne, Romano Prodi will report on his plans for modernising the Commission. We very much welcome his commitment to the guiding principles of transparency, accountability and efficiency, and his pledge to the European Parliament that he wants a culture in the Commission that has \"zero tolerance of corruption\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.187.8", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "earned Member for Folkestone and Hythe is right to say that the Conservatives have their own manifesto. It is a manifesto dripping with commitments to oppose, to fight, and to opt out of what other member states want to do. The Tory manifesto was plainly written by people who regard Brussels as a dangerous beast that must be wrestled to the ground. In their hearts, the Tories are afraid of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.187.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "preceding_text": "t treaty, which was signed by the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude), the shadow Chancellor. It is a shame that he is not in his place at present. If he is to respond to the debate later, I look forward to his sharing with us his special thoughts about how it feels to have been the British politician who put his name to the Maastricht treaty. He has never given us his views on that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "I will happily acknowledge that and I certainly did not mean to cause my hon. Friend offence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-25", "file": "debates1999-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "be9f0e4f829b0a99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Trend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Trend", "preceding_text": "e payroll. Many hope to be reappointed. Would a British Government, after losing a confidence vote in this House, be prepared to go away, lick their wounds and then slink back into office a few months later, having dropped only a few of their more unsavoury characters? No: it would have been a bag and baggage job. A British Government in that situation would have gone at the moment of resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-25a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "a Labour Government and in spite of much rhetoric from Ministers, they are worse off? They are worse off financially because of additional hidden taxes, an enormous hike in petrol prices and higher council tax bills, such as Labour and Liberal-controlled Hertfordshire county council's 9.5 per cent. increase this year. Their commuter journeys to London are disrupted by deteriorating train services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are not getting larger. For the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.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": "As I have just pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.351.5", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I may begin by dealing with one of them, on the gold reserves, throughout the world countries have been selling gold in order to diversify their reserves. It has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Line of Route", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I shall answer in a second. The Minister is not in opposition; he must get used to sitting on the Treasury Bench, and perhaps I will answer him in my own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Line of Route", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Whatever this is, it is consensus and there is something rather vulgar about consensus when it involves the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and those on the Treasury Bench. I listened with incredulity once again this week when the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) suggested that it is our duty to our constituents to travel to Rome in August or to Lisbon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-05-26", "file": "debates1999-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "9c2de75c66810ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Line of Route", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "One bitter lesson that we have learned under new Labour is not to give interviews to journalists from The Guardian. The right hon. Gentleman might follow that advice. He is saying that paid trips are okay for Ministers and for members of Select Committees, but Back Benchers can get stuffed. I speak for Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-05-26a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "That was one of the innumerable shambles that we inherited from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "has defined the modern Conservative party by its hostility to Europe. At the very beginning of his questions, the right hon. Gentleman asked me why I did not go to the European Council and argue the points that he made in his Budapest speech a few weeks ago. In his first question, he asked me for what is effectively a renegotiation of the treaty of Rome and Britain's entry into the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fact that not one European Union Government would support the Conservative party's proposals to renegotiate European Union treaties suggests that that policy is tantamount to a call to withdraw from the European Union? Is not that the reason why respected former Conservative Members of Parliament, such as Nicholas Scott and Sir Julian Critchley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a measure of the new extremism in the Conservative party today that people such as Ian Gilmour, Nicholas Scott and Julian Critchley are derided when their names are mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Entirely new?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are going. An entirely new Commission is going in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are going. An entirely new Commission is going in. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Entirely new?\"] The Commission has to be reappointed again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.4", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Kosovo/Cologne European Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r policy is sensible. The hon. Gentleman's policy would effectively rule out the euro and cancel the changeover plan, which would mean that we could not join the euro even if we wanted to. That is not a sensible policy. If I were him—one of the younger, aspiring Members on the Conservative Back Benches—I would think about where he wants his party to be in a few years' time, rather than joining in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Food Contamination(Belgium)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is very tempting, but no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pollution Prevention and Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister continues, he has not answered my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pollution Prevention and Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "n the consultations, and I welcome the fact that in another place the Government accepted an amendment on the consultation process to include agriculture in the specified organisations and bodies that were to be consulted. However, after a Government have gone through the process of consultation, there is nothing to oblige them to take account of the representations that they receive. That is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-08", "file": "debates1999-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "4fe252d649029e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pollution Prevention and Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Walley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Walley", "preceding_text": "nergy efficiency is to be part and parcel of integrated pollution control, but we must get it right. There are intensive industrial users of energy in my constituency, two of whom have contacted me. One is well known in the House: we daily drink tea and coffee from Dudson Duraline ware. The other company is Steelite, which manufactures wonderful table ware that is used in hotels and, indeed, here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-08a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Constitutional Reform (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am trying to talk about England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Constitutional Reform (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am trying to talk about England. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends, who took a great deal of time to talk in absurdly inflated and extravagant language, had allowed me rather more time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What have you achieved?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I have lost count of the number of times I have met my ministerial colleagues in the Department of Trade and Industry to discuss concerns from business in Wales and other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is precisely for those reasons that we are committed to introducing legislation. It was this Government who ensured that we could scrutinise party funding properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "As we know, the only group who can buy votes and influence in a party are the trade unions in the Labour party. The comments of the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) are total rubbish. Does the Prime Minister think that the story of the euro so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "osition, which is that he rules out joining as a matter of principle at the next election, but that he rules it in as a matter of principle at the election after that. The right hon. Gentleman has decided to define the modern Conservative party by its anti—Europeanism. For example, he is now saying—he said it again today—that he would renegotiate the terms of British entry into the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Is not it the truth that, irrespective of all the evidence, the Prime Minister wants to con the country into thinking that joining the euro is inevitable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Judging by the exchanges that we have heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "sing world stature in the interest of reducing world poverty and, in particular, will he use it to help to persuade our more reluctant partners among the G8 countries, at the forthcoming Cologne summit, at least to support the proposals made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer so that we can make a substantive start on reducing the burden of international debt on the poorest countries in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e of the signing of the Good Friday agreement is not eligible for early release, so that response would not be appropriate. Those who are responsible for that appalling attack will not be eligible for early release. Secondly, the hon. Gentleman and many other Conservative Members have, in effect, been saying for a significant period of time that we should bring the Good Friday agreement to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.645.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I do not particularly want to make a partisan point, and agree with much of what the right hon. Gentleman has said—perhaps more than he has recognised. However, the notion that the practice has been introduced by the Government and is a consequence of our majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Wright", "preceding_text": "I confine myself to the point at issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "preceding_text": "rguments for reflecting the new constitutional settlement, with representatives from the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, once it is established, and the English regions. Those people would be there to ensure that the overall constitutional settlement was taken into account. There is also a strong case for Members of the European Parliament to be represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-09", "file": "debates1999-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f5f031fed0580e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "preceding_text": "he noble Lord Mackay has said. I wish to stress something that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said. We are committed to ensuring that no party has an overall majority in the upper Chamber. I do not accept the disparaging remarks of Opposition Members on either that commitment or on the appointments commission. For the first time ever, we have a Prime Minister who is giving up powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-09a.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the reminder to all Departments—we have issued exactly such a reminder ourselves—of the importance of their role in such schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Remploy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "e entirely with the sentiments expressed by my hon. Friend. We consider the retention of people in jobs to be such a high priority that we are working with colleagues in the Department of Health, the Department of Social Security and local government social services to find out what new measures we can take to ensure that there is better rehabilitation and retention of people who fall ill at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Charles Clarke)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Charles Clarke)", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "d Lord Wilson—Prime Ministers used to take part in a greater variety of debates, as my hon. Friend rightly says. He will recall, as I do, that that tradition was sharply changed by Lady Thatcher. I am sure that I am right in saying that that policy was not much altered, if at all, by her successor and that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister comes to the House more often than his predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ty by any standards. When I say that we produced a strategic defence review and that I intend to have it implemented, I am talking not from complacency but from a driving ambition that we shall match our ambitions as a nation with our capabilities. I shall not be partisan because I know that most people have forgotten that there was a Government before the Labour Government. However, we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.808.4", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "A public consultation is taking place on the Government's proposals for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, and we will respond in some detail to that, but we are concerned about total privatisation. Certainly partial privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.808.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.808.4", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "sal of British policy, which was traditionally hostile to the European Union's responsibility for security and defence matters. It may not have been seen as a reversal of policy by Defence Ministers, but that is how it was seen by our allies and partners in Europe. My hon. Friend the Member for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) was so concerned about the change of attitude that he secured an Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.808.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "After some redrafting. The communiqué makes it perfectly clear that development should take place within the WEU. It reaffirms our commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "After some redrafting. The communiqué makes it perfectly clear that development should take place within the WEU. It reaffirms our commitment— [Interruption.] The Secretary of State should listen before he crows too hard about his reading of the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "e ground, to bring about what has so far been achieved. We should not forget the enormous commitment of our service men and women to alleviating the plight of refugees in Macedonia, Albania and elsewhere in the region. I also offer my compliments—I am sorry that Conservative Members do not feel able to do likewise—to the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Healey", "preceding_text": " return to civilian life. Members of Parliament, especially those who represent areas such as mine with deep-seated high unemployment, will be familiar with the situation of constituents who, having served in our armed forces for five, eight, 10 or even 12 years, return to their home areas ill equipped to take the opportunities that may exist, and unskilled for the sort of civilian jobs available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "r-in-chief should go. If people have legitimate doubts in a democracy, they can express them, but in their role as politicians rather than in the military, they must accept that with their democratic freedoms come real responsibilities. Yesterday was the fifth anniversary, or perhaps the 10th—it may be even longer; I cannot remember—of the introduction of broadcasting of the Chamber on television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-10", "file": "debates1999-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "14d9d8a3d1fc24cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNulty", "preceding_text": "an even I had anticipated—and stress that defence and military interests are crucial. I wish that hon. Members would take more interest in those issues: they should not constitute the undignified and untrendy wing of international or foreign affairs. The defence industry is a significant employer. When we embark upon military action—I hope that we will not do so again during my term in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-10a.853.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-14", "file": "debates1999-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "35c56eae5362df4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As ever, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his gratuitous advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.10.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-14", "file": "debates1999-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "35c56eae5362df4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " would have won more, not fewer, seats, and his party would have lost more. Does he not understand that? The answers to my questions, which the right hon. Gentleman was unable to give, were yes and yes. Will he concede that we had debate after debate on the Floor of the House in which, although we opposed the closed-list system, the Liberal Democrats did not? I believe that they will concede that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.12.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-14", "file": "debates1999-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "35c56eae5362df4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.66.6", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BORDER PROVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I could comment on that point of order, but I had better not. Every Scottish Member should note the second part of subsection (5). Sadly, we have no Conservative Members of Parliament in Scotland at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-14a.66.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Distinguished\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could help the hon. Lady with her difficulty with descriptions. I understand that she was an adviser to the right hon. Member for South Norfolk (Mr. MacGregor) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport in the previous Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Safety At Sea", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "n my garage, I have a canoe that has not been out for several years. I suspect that, if I had to have it licensed, or to have something of that nature, it would never get out because I would always think, \"Is it going out this year?\" I have a windsurfer. Unfortunately, I have been out with it only once this year, but, again, the opportunity to go out is important. People do have to operate simply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "ate. The Government stand accused of making no attempt to avert that motion. They could have done so, if they had wished, by offering a programme motion. I serve on the Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee, and we have experimented successfully with agreed programme motions involving all parties. I would like to extend that process further by ensuring that Back Benchers have some input.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "We can take it that the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Mr. Tyler) is not a candidate for the Liberal Democrat leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. My hon. Friend, who spoke yesterday and did his duty as a Member of the House to try to scrutinise a piece of ill-considered legislation, is right to point out that it was a Government new clause. It was introduced late in the day and took up time which would otherwise have been available to debate other elements of the Bill. It is utterly outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Lady wanted to intervene. No doubt she would have been in trouble with her Whips Office had she done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There's one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend as interested as I am in noticing that, while all the Conservative members of the Committee are present, not one Labour member of the Committee, apart from the Front Benchers, has bothered to turn up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "the then Home Secretary. However, I have to inform her that she is plainly suffering from the most profound amnesia, for on every single occasion that the House was invited by the Conservative Government of which she was a member to vote for a double guillotine, she went into the Lobby to do so. She did not miss a single occasion, so strong was her support for the concept of the double guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.228.6", "colnum": "228", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "No, I will resist the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) spoke for over an hour last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-15", "file": "debates1999-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9198512fcdc3df01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "WHO Environment and Health Conference", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Colman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Colman", "preceding_text": "I thank Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-15a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.380.4", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EU Aid Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You don't answer them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "If I did as the hon. Gentleman asks, I might not answer many more questions from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.380.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "0 years, arbitrarily, is the wrong policy. As I said to him last week, he may well get a short-term gain, but it will be at the expense of the long-term interests of the country. I thought that one of the most significant moments yesterday was when the previous hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Cash), who was one of the people who had the Whip withdrawn from him under the last Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "not vote in these elections. However, on the single currency, we have a position that is very sensible, surely—to say that the test is the national economic interest, and that what is wrong is to rule the single currency out in the next Parliament, even if it should be in the interests of British jobs, British industry and British investment to join. The right hon. Gentleman has made his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it clear why we believe that it is right for Britain to be part of a successful single currency, provided our economic conditions are met. That is the sensible position. The Conservative position, which is to rule out joining the single currency for 10 years or for ever, is not sensible. If it is correct that Conservative MEPs will not join the Conservative party group in the European Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Greenway", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, following reports of cross-contamination of animal feeds in France leading to further cases of BSE, the French Government are reported to be seeking a Europe-wide ban on the use of meat and bonemeal in animal rations? When will his Government give British consumers and farmers the protection and support that they deserve, by seeking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I did not hear the last sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am glad that we have got on to d'Hondt. I could go on at great length about d'Hondt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ance. Those that provide assistance have worked commendably hard, and on the whole the results have been good. Their problem, and ours—it is a problem in my hon. Friend's area, as it is in many other parts of inner London—is that the burden on individual authorities is far too great. That is why we need a national system. I know that many of my hon. Friends wish to speak, as do Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "islation or possibly—although they did not contemplate it at the time—immigration and asylum legislation failed children. Their intention was that all children should receive comprehensive protection. That was the assurance that was sought by the then Opposition. That was the assurance that was given by the then Government. I give way to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "It is a separate point. However, if the Home Secretary wants to move on to the matter of dispersal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "benefit system by introducing a separate regime for refugees and asylum seekers that is voucher-driven? It is a retreat from any joined-up thinking process to say that that helps us move in an appropriate direction. There is fraud in the benefit system, but were we to suggest that we put everyone who is currently on benefits on vouchers, we would quickly realise how absurd and unworkable that was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.469.9", "colnum": "469", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that we are reaching a degree of consensus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.469.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ncerns the time that we intend that family applications should take within the new system. My hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow has made many points, both in the House and in other meetings, about the need for speed in getting family applications through. That point has been made by many other hon. Friends, including my hon. Friend the Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North (Ms Buck)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "em. My hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow has made many points, both in the House and in other meetings, about the need for speed in getting family applications through. That point has been made by many other hon. Friends, including my hon. Friend the Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North (Ms Buck)— [Interruption.] Was that right? Oh well, it is somewhere on the District line, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "for most asylum decisions to be made within two months of receipt and for asylum appeals to be dealt with within a further four months. We are determined to achieve those targets. Average waiting times for appeals are already less than four months. It is important to put on record, too, the fact that when we came into office, and for the two years in which the spending plans were those left to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "ens computer system has been delivered, but if there is a five-month testing period, it will come on-line on about 1 January 2000, which may not be the best of ideas. The system is so delayed that it may calculate people's vouchers in pounds, shillings and pence. While that may be proper money, it would not be useful to asylum seekers to receive vouchers for half a crown or three bob and sixpence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-16", "file": "debates1999-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1eb4e918916434f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "itted. One sees from the Bill that the onus is cast on the carrier to establish that there has been a good defence. One of the considerations that arise is whether the provisions of the code are satisfied. The code is therefore relevant to whether the carrier can establish a defence. It seems wholly unsatisfactory that a code can be established other than by an affirmative resolution of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-16a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-17", "file": "debates1999-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e84d289e2db381d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "all certainly draw that matter, too, to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. I will not disguise it from the hon. Gentleman—I hope that I am not doing wrong by saying this, so I stress that, very incorrectly and very unusually, I am giving my personal opinion—that I have long thought it unfortunate that we cannot do more to encourage people to carry donor cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-17", "file": "debates1999-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e84d289e2db381d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "r which he calls should include all the circumstances leading up to the intervention in Kosovo, right from the time when the EU, and the Federal Republic of Germany in particular, began to persuade the international community unilaterally—without agreement—to recognise Croatia and Slovenia as independent states, as well as the conduct of the international community's relationships with Yugoslavia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-17", "file": "debates1999-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e84d289e2db381d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "preceding_text": "argaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill; but I could certainly do so. My list would include a number of Members of Parliament, as well as journalists, academics and alleged experts. I hope that the people to whom I have referred will at least have the decency to admit that they were wrong in expressing with such certainty the view that NATO would fail. One of my colleagues on the Defence Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-17", "file": "debates1999-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e84d289e2db381d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "Government's views on the Reserves, I was delighted to see that one of the heroes of the early days of the entry into Kosovo was a member of the German reserve. That German officer defused a major crisis between the Albanians and the Serbs. The gentleman, a major I believe, was a professor of oriental languages—oh, that our own Reserves had such an opportunity of proving their military competence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-17", "file": "debates1999-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e84d289e2db381d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "Yes, but all of those people did not go to Macedonia or Albania, as many of them settled in the forests and mountains of Kosovo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-17a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-18", "file": "debates1999-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8c7b8e2050d8951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-18a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": " that expansion, we must find out what barriers are preventing expansion. He makes claims, which have been put to him by the Pre-School Learning Alliance, of extensive closures. He will know that our figures do not show that. The figures that we have published in the education statistics on children's day care facilities show a reduction of about only 100 pre-schools to the year ending March 1998.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-18a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Kosovo and G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng, as were parts of the press. The suggestion that studies should be done came from, among other countries, Britain. What France was proposing was that we set up a separate international regulatory body. There may be merit in that, but that was not what the G8 finally agreed. In respect of GM foods generally, those of us who know the ins and outs of the subject know the sheer and total hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Kosovo and G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as wondering when we would get some passion. The Conservative party is the single-issue party, and Europe is its obsession. I said that two propositions were daft. Daft proposition No. 1 is to join the euro, regardless of the economic conditions. Daft proposition No. 2 is the one that the right hon. Gentleman espouses, which is to rule out joining for ever, or does he now rule it out for 10 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Kosovo and G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "itain will face a fierce economic backlash as a result. If I were, as the Leader of the Opposition suggests, to try to renegotiate the entire treaty of Rome as my first act as a leader, I would not have the slightest prospect of getting anything done in Europe. In the end, what is important, as we can see by the decision on droit de suite today, is to engage properly with other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "City of London Demonstration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course, I would congratulate any Government who introduced CCTV, but I am sure that the right hon. Lady will know about the proportions involved. When we came to office, only £1 million of free money was available for closed circuit television. We are now investing £150 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a telling point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "The concern to which the hon. Lady referred is a different one from my anxiety about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I recall clearly that when the Conservative Government were in power the concern about GM crops and food with GM ingredients was not running at its present level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " scrutinised by Parliament. I believe that the Special Select Committee should be asked to review such concordats, together with the other workings of the FSA. Concordats should be published and scrutinised before being signed. There was praise for the guiding principles of the FSA as set out in the consultation document, but I wonder why some of them were not expressed in the Bill; all should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it straightforwardly and logically follows that this should be a United Kingdom agency. We might as well say that we should have one Parliament to make everything administratively simpler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "n 16 June, the First Minister said, in relation to Westminster legislating on devolved matters: that can happen only with the consent of this Parliament\"— that is, the Scottish Parliament— consent specifically given after due process. The Scottish Parliament has not been asked thus far. The Administration and the coalition may have been asked, but not the Parliament. When will its views be sought?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "ities of the Government, the Food Industry and the individual consumer is also required. There has been only a deathly hush in response to that, but I hope that the Minister will today provide us with a response. The Consumers Association survey said that 97 per cent. of people wanted the agency to guarantee that food was safe. Many hon. Members have described the true absurdity of that objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "ood is 100 per cent. safe, expectations have risen far beyond that which is attainable by anyone, however clever he may be. Do Ministers accept that it is impossible to remove risk? Do they also agree that—as the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd) said—it could even be undesirable to pursue the goal of removing risk, as that might render the population sensitive to all manner of ailments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": " enjoyed in the Republic of Ireland, not to mention some of the tax incentives there. Let us look at Labour's record. Instead of making it easier to employ people, the Government have been piling extra red tape, regulations and burdens on to business. The social chapter, the working time directive, the national minimum wage and statutory union recognition will all saddle business with extra costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-21", "file": "debates1999-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "579a95df4fdcd720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "g concern for something that really is a centre of excellence in the United Kingdom. The Armagh observatory, in particular, is now participating in a proactive way in the international effort to track and catalogue asteroids and other heavenly objects that might collide with the earth. You will recall, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that when I first raised this matter I was regarded as something of a crank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-21a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — European Common Foreign and Security Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his role, but have to say that the initiative goes back long before Cologne, to last autumn, when we met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — European Common Foreign and Security Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ome the hon. Gentleman to his role, but have to say that the initiative goes back long before Cologne, to last autumn, when we met— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but I was there at St. Malo. The initiative goes back to St. Malo and the Portschach decision of last autumn. As for NATO, I tell Opposition Members that not a single ally in NATO failed to welcome what we have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — European Common Foreign and Security Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "on of last autumn. As for NATO, I tell Opposition Members that not a single ally in NATO failed to welcome what we have done— [Interruption.] I was also at Washington, but do not think that the hon. Gentleman was. I have the Washington communiqué, which records the welcome for what the European Union has done to strengthen the initiative. I have had many discussions with Madeleine Albright—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.911.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "ates? Fourthly, the Paymaster General suggested that somehow the CBI, the TUC and the National Council for One Parent Families were all in favour of the proposal and would no doubt oppose the amendments. Those organisations do not represent small business. The CBI certainly does not. There cannot be an employer with fewer than 10 employees in the country who can afford to belong to the CBI dinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that others may have had different experiences. The hon. Member for Dismore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-22", "file": "debates1999-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "621c2be31e0e20c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "New Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask the Parliamentary Secretary one question. Is it the Government's intention—it may be made clear elsewhere in the Bill—to allow employed lawyers to appear in court on behalf of third parties; that is, for people other than their employer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-22a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1151.8", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Norman Baker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1151.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What about decommissioning?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in and we try to change that reality, which is what the whole process has been about. Before people dismiss that and say that nothing has been gained from the past two years, I remind them that we have agreement on the constitutional basis for Northern Ireland, agreement to the principle of consent, agreement to an Assembly, agreement to north-south bodies, agreement to the British-Irish Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall carry on arguing for our point of view, which is better than the ridiculous position in which the right hon. Gentleman has put himself. After all, it was Lord Gilmour who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " I have made our position clear. We do not agree with joining the euro irrespective of the economic conditions, and we do not agree with ruling it out irrespective of the economic conditions. We believe in testing it and keeping the option open, by reference to the economic conditions that we have laid down. That is a clear position. Now can the right hon. Gentleman answer us this? Is it 10 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "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 am delighted to pay tribute to the Transport and General Workers Union—of which I am a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Waiting times?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Actually, waiting lists are down substantially on what they were a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Actually, waiting lists are down substantially on what they were a year ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Waiting times?\"] Waiting times are down as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Actually, waiting lists are down substantially on what they were a year ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Waiting times?\"] Waiting times are down as well. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They are up.\"] No, that is wrong; waiting times are down and waiting lists are down but, yes, people are still waiting for treatment. The idea that the problems of people waiting in the health service were created by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1168.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "of it from a fax and a criminal law journal. But there we are. The right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed asked what I said to people in the Home Office: I said that I have now become a fully paid-up member of the Home Secretary club. I see the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) is smiling; he knows what I am saying. What can one say when things like this happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": " final decision on the voting system for the House of Commons be made by the people in a referendum; and welcomes the Government's approach which allows for a full debate in the country on the merits of the Jenkins system before a referendum is held.\". I congratulate the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir G. Young) on his debut in this position, and on a witty and entertaining speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "ountries. I believe that the objective that we set for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly has been achieved. As my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase said—notwithstanding the answer given by the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire—it is worth recording that, without the proportional voting system, the Conservative party would have not a single Member of the Welsh Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leominster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " of the Conservative party, the list of Conservative Members who voted for proportional representation reads like a rogue's gallery of Euro-fanatics. The right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) voted for it. So did the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden (Sir A. Haselhurst), and the former Conservative Member, now my hon. Friend, whose constituency I have temporarily forgotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. Gentleman, we are debating the motion and the amendment; I am speaking to my amendment. I shall turn to those matters later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1193.7", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "quently to affect the nature of the institutions. This is not a casuistical point. The right hon. Gentleman also asked whether first-class or second-class Members are emerging in Scotland and Wales. The nature of the electoral system plainly has an impact on the institution, so we must wait and see whether we will end up with a two-tier system or whether there will be another, more benign, effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1193.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I have only 10 minutes. At present, in some parts of the country, some votes have no influence on the overall election result. Under the Jenkins proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-23", "file": "debates1999-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd73dd49ea716e5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way as there are only two minutes left. The answer to when the referendum will be has been so often given today that I need not repeat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-23a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The confusion is on the Conservative Front Bench, where there is someone supporting the single currency and someone opposing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seventy-seven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association or the Inter-Parliamentary Union? It is slightly absurd that, although the House of Commons will know who is paying for a particular trip—it will be recorded—the hon. Members involved cannot raise any issue about that particular country. As, presumably, the whole point of hon. Members travelling the globe is to get a mild inkling of what is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Stephen Timms)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Stephen Timms)", "preceding_text": "bereavement benefits. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel) for pointing out an error in the drafting of the motion, which is indeed incomprehensible in the form in which it appears on the Order Paper. I must say, having seen his correction to it, it is still a pretty ill-focused, ramshackle and loosely connected collection of topics—but at least now it makes grammatical sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Stephen Timms)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Stephen Timms)", "preceding_text": " is indeed incomprehensible in the form in which it appears on the Order Paper. I must say, having seen his correction to it, it is still a pretty ill-focused, ramshackle and loosely connected collection of topics—but at least now it makes grammatical sense. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman said that it was the fault of the Liberal Democrats Whips that the motion appeared in that form initially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1315.3", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "d they do not need the present provision. The world has not changed that much and the majority of women, particularly working-class women, still earn less than the majority of men. The hon. Lady was absolutely right about \"spurious feminism\". The Government put on a veneer of sexual equality. They are using widows as the battering ram of social change, rather than as a reflection of social change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "n of £70 million\".—[ Official Report, 20 May 1999; Vol. 331, c. 429–30. ] She also said that information on the use of discretion by local authorities could not be provided because of the \"disproportionate cost\". The sum of £70 million is a full £10 million less than the Government spend annually on publicity. They could find £70 million by reducing the number of leaflets that they produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " widows: the restriction of council tax benefit. The Conservatives propose that someone who lives in a property above band E—a big house or a house in London—should get only as much council tax benefit as they would if they lived in a band E property. The Conservatives proposed that for everyone. The Government backed down on their proposal following pressure from the Liberal Democrats and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": ") has gone because he raised the important problem of widows who suffer further the bereavement of losing a child. That is a dreadful situation that one would wish on no one. He seemed to be unaware that the Government's proposal not only fails to deal with the situation, but makes it worse. Previously, a widow who lost a dependent child would move from widowed mothers allowance to widows pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Widows", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "es not matter, the Government count only the money that is being spent this year. They are disregarding cuts down the track of £500 million for widows to focus only on this year. The Minister spoke to representatives of Help the Aged yesterday. I saw the press release issued by the Department of Social Security. Its headline claimed that the Government were spending £4 billion extra on pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "me Minister received courtesy visits from the bosses of one of the world's biggest companies when it does not even operate in Britain? Are we seriously being asked to believe that there was no discussion about the potential for Wal-Mart to enter this country or the consequences of that? Clearly, The Sunday Telegraph was also briefed on the subject. It said: Earlier this year, Wal-Mart executives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "They were either from Wal-Mart or Asda, or from the Prime Minister's office. Either way, somebody within the industry believes that Wal-Mart was given the green light for those developments. The article said that Wal-Mart executives shared a glass of sherry with Tony Blair at Number 10 Downing Street. They wanted to know whether their company would be welcome in Britain and were warmly received. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Wal-Mart was given the green light for those developments. The article said that Wal-Mart executives shared a glass of sherry with Tony Blair at Number 10 Downing Street. They wanted to know whether their company would be welcome in Britain and were warmly received. — [Interruption.] Labour Members may not like it, but that is what we were told. Perhaps they should ask the Prime Minister's office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning (Mr. Richard Caborn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Regions, Regeneration and Planning (Mr. Richard Caborn)", "preceding_text": "mean simply an assertion by the developer that there is a market demand. It means that the local planning authority must consider the wider needs of the community as well as the market demand for a plan before it accepts the development plan. If the local authority is satisfied that a need exists, it must also be satisfied that the sequential test has been applied in selecting the site. Even then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "he prices that they charge are considerably higher than in similar enterprises in the United States. An effective campaign has been run by The Sunday Times to expose such price differentials. There may be many reasons for those differentials, as no doubt the Competition Commission will report. Transport costs are higher in this country, especially after the Government's huge hike in diesel prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "stic understanding. The Minister is confusing the comparison between prices in large out-of-town supermarkets in Europe and America and in Britain with the comparison between prices in out-of-town supermarkets and prices in town centres. If supermarkets had not been allowed to develop, there would not have been the huge falls in prices that have occurred in the past 20 to 25 years. That is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1362.5", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "kets and the future of food retailing is centrally important to us all. Regardless of what one may say about town centres, village shops and the detrimental effects of the supermarket revolution, the truth is that we all use supermarkets. I challenge hon. Members who are present in the Chamber to say that they do not visit supermarkets—or perhaps it is a wife, a husband or a servant in some cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1362.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1362.5", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray", "preceding_text": "nd or a servant in some cases. [Interruption.] There is not a single person in this nation who does not use supermarkets. For example, 88,000 people in the town of Chippenham go through supermarket checkouts every month—and Chippenham has a population of 30,000. It has three supermarkets, yet 88,000 people visit Safeway alone. Sainsbury and Somerfield presumably have a similar number of customers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1362.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "mesbury in my constituency, a site is available on which Tesco is trying to get permission to build a new supermarket. Malmesbury is five miles from Chippenham, which already has two gigantic superstores, and three miles from Tetbury. There is a huge Tesco store just outside Tetbury. The people of Malmesbury, where there is a vibrant high street, would be much better off without a new supermarket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lepper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lepper", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I have already described my own humility in planning debates, although my wife was able to advise me on the issues. We should perhaps avoid lurching into addressing issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-24", "file": "debates1999-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0257d810143532a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Supermarkets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ier by my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and St. Austell and is something that I support. The DETR was considering that as part of its transport White Paper until No. 10 stopped it in its tracks. Many people, quite erroneously, decide to shop where parking is free. They object to paying 20p to park in a town centre but they will drive 25 miles to an out-of-town supermarket where parking is free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-24a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I almost give up when faced with such a silly question, asked by an equally silly person. The hon. Gentleman should know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " will shortly launch a £5 million partnership campaign to stimulate many more such innovative partnerships at work. However, Government cannot solve the skills gap by themselves. Upskilling is a challenge for everyone. It has the potential to deliver great benefits. A culture of continuous improvement, in which the contributions of individuals are valued, benefits both individuals and the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1421.5", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, Scotland has many call centres because people like the Scots accent. It has a truthful and honest ring to it. I think that that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should wait a while. He should listen to the debate. He has only been present for about 15 seconds. Well, perhaps 30 seconds. I am prone to exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "there: although it may have learned its lines, it does not really understand the meaning of the lines it utters. Increasingly—particularly in the past few weeks—we have seen that, now that it is in government, Labour is schizophrenic and divided. As on other issues—such as proportional representation, Europe and welfare—it is gradually crumbling and dividing into groups composed of the old rebels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " The state of the economy is mixed. The Minister declined to admit that manufacturing was having a difficult time. There is a big squeeze on profits and orders. We have a double-headed economy in which some sectors are doing well and others are having a hard time. We are in the middle of a technological revolution. Fifteen years ago, I thought that I was a big shot because I had a car in my phone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1437.3", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "e are to have a state-backed bank—an announcement made not in the House of Commons, but in a press release to The Times —and states: The Government have given the go-ahead to radical plans to create a new state-backed bank, UK Capital— it even has a name— aimed at injecting fresh enthusiasm into the Private Finance Initiative. Not only does it have a name: it looks as if it has someone to head it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "siness Service is a good idea and I welcome the Government's proposals, but I want more detail—something I can get my teeth into. We need to follow the American model and establish a national network of genuine one-stop shops. An alarming situation was revealed in the community innovation survey, which took in 5,000 firms of different sizes throughout the country. It asked about their involvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1481.3", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "I will make progress, if I may. We will help small firms with the critical equity gap by rolling out regional venture capital funds, which will help with the smaller packets of venture capital that are so lacking at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "In waxing lyrical about the fortunes of small firms under the Government, the Minister exudes alarming complacency. Does he accept the findings of the Dun and Bradstreet survey, which shows in the first quarter of this year a 32 per cent. increase in small company liquidations relative to the same period last year? In particular, does he acknowledge that the percentage increase in his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "pean single market, it was perhaps inevitable that a debate about innovation and enterprise would somehow end up on that issue. Labour Members believe that the innovative genius and enterprise of our people could run to waste unless this country is actively engaged with our trading partners to ensure that our companies can sell as easily overseas as they can at home. We are a great trading people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that, from a sedentary position, the hon. Gentleman has agreed with that proposition. We are a great trading people and we need to engage actively with our trading partners overseas, so I am unclear why Conservative Members lash out at the EU and at the single market, where we do more than 50 per cent. of our trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-25", "file": "debates1999-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9e2c450f8984b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1484.5", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Innovation and Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "ngle market is a key part of our economic future. I still have not received an answer to my basic question. How does the hon. Gentleman think that the co-operation and partnership that are necessary to make that single market work, and to enable our companies and businesses to take advantage of the single market, to be in Europe, to shape Europe and to reform Europe, while not being run by Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-25a.1484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-28", "file": "debates1999-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fc9f47f6f99e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-28a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The whole House will know that the Minister brings his personal energy to the world cup bid with all the animation of Roland Rat, but what is he doing about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-28a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-28", "file": "debates1999-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "62fc9f47f6f99e18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-28a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Wormwood Scrubs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "have never been prisons Minister and I doubt that I ever shall be, but if I were, one of my first tasks would be try to ensure that prisoners were not locked up for 23 hours out of 24, a practice which has been far too prevalent for many years. I would also try to insist that every prisoner received a full day of education, training, constructive work and sport. In that way, we could move towards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-28a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.124.9", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "cottish universities this year will pay no tuition fees. It is also a fact that Scotland has the highest attendance rates in the country for higher and further education. The Government intend to ensure that we extend to a generation of young people the opportunities that were denied to those of the same economic and social backgrounds in the past. That is the socially just and decent thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.124.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Well, I am surprised by the Secretary of State's response. The Conservatives are honest enough and principled enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "As a supporter of proportional representation—such a voice should be heard on the Government Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.133.5", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.133.7", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burnett", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What about Chorley?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burnett", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Madam Speaker. As a precursor to my question, I should remind the Minister that, last week, he stressed the importance of abolishing legal aid for personal injury matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.133.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Well, the right hon. Lady took interventions from two Members of her own party before I could get in to speak—and the right hon. Lady says that she is fair. May I say to her that she was misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I make the point that the right hon. Lady is not misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking that families with children and individual applicants who have their holidays wrecked, or who cannot meet their travel date for any other reason, will receive full compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that his constituent will get her passport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ntleman the assurance that his constituent will get her passport. [Interruption.] Whether Opposition Members raise their eyebrows or not, we will move heaven and earth to make sure that she gets her passport. I have had constituents in similar circumstances. I do not ask special favours of the passport office—any more than I do of any other part of government—because I happen to be Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.156.9", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are always useful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I actually wanted to ask what I hoped might be a useful question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.156.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": " broke down coming back from Australia, and I found that, because my passport had the stamp of Israel in it, I was not allowed in. Everyone else was put up in a Hilton and given lots of nice food and drink for 48 hours; I was stuck in the airport. I was able to get a second British passport—I do not know whether that is still possible. If one goes to funny countries, one can get a second passport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is close to denigrating the role that he plays as a representative of his constituents. Does he hold them so cheap that he believes that when they come to him he should be able to do nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "leman is close to denigrating the role that he plays as a representative of his constituents. Does he hold them so cheap that he believes that when they come to him he should be able to do nothing? [Interruption.] When my constituents come to me, they expect me to be able to do something to try to resolve their problems. The hon. Gentleman may want to be impotent in the face of problems; I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "m either to own or to drive them himself. I am upset that the Deputy Prime Minister is presiding over the collapse of our transport system. It is becoming more difficult, if not impossible, to get around the country. New Labour does not travel well. The Deputy Prime Minister is none too keen on new Labour, but he proves how new and old Labour, acting together, are bringing Britain to a standstill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "irely empty bus lane and wondering whether the Prime Minister would sweep by on that day as its only user. This Government are out of touch—and in such a short space of time. The Deputy Prime Minister already seems to think that buses and tubes are there for others to use, or there for a photo opportunity with a Jaguar waiting to whisk him off to where he wants to go once the photo has been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": ". There are many villages with no bus services, or with only a few buses a week. People have to go by car if they are going to travel. For them, new Labour's transport policy is going nowhere fast. The difference is that the Conservatives did not make it impossible for people to use cars in those rural areas—this Government are making it impossible for people to use their cars, as well as denying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ress briefings. He is letting it be known, in the usual backhand way, that he holds him to blame for stand-still Britain. The Prime Minister is determined that, as Britain grinds to a halt, it will be his deputy who is in the political jam. The Deputy Prime Minister is not taking all that lying down. For once, I do not blame him—in fact, I find myself becoming extremely sympathetic towards to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister should take the blame for the bash-the-motorist policies, for they are the policies of the Labour party as a whole. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is right to take that view. Why blame the steward when you can blame the man who threw the party in the first place? For once, I admire the fact that the Deputy Prime Minister is the real thing; he oozes hatred of the motorist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "hose of the previous Tory Administration. This Government believe in strong public-private partnerships, in which the risk is carried by the private sector. In recent years, a great deal of my time has been spent trying to rescue the incompetent deals done by the Tories. We salvaged the channel tunnel rail link, which was on the brink of collapse, refusing to meet the extra demands for £1 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Day", "preceding_text": "ts the policy. There is no question that the congestion difficulties that out-of-town shopping centres have undoubtedly brought about must be dealt with. But the answer for new Labour is to tell people that they cannot shop in such places. It says, \"That is wrong, bad. Do as you are told. Do as I say, not as I do.\" That is not the answer to Britain's transport problems. On the M6 in Staffordshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Day", "preceding_text": "illages are awaiting one development to rid their communities of pollution: bypasses. This Deputy Prime Minister and this Government have cancelled their one hope of being saved from pollution. Bypasses are the one way in which communities that suffer dense traffic may be relieved in the short term and for the future, yet the resolution of their problems has been taken away from under their noses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "rt for them? I could not believe that I heard the right hon. Member for Wokingham describe safety measures and road traffic calming devices as \"impediments\". They are not there to save lives, or to help pedestrians and cyclists. They get in the way—they get in the way of people, such as the right hon. Gentleman, who want to drive very fast down roads so that people on foot must get out of the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.232.7", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Winterton", "preceding_text": "rtant to the Government's aims. The survey also showed that 49 per cent. of motorists said that, if charging were introduced, they would try to car share; and, of those, 94 per cent. said that they thought that that could be achieved. That survey was only of motorists—it did not take into account the views of those who do not have cars. In my constituency, 40 per cent. of people do not have a car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.232.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right; the decision does nothing about caring for the environment. Nor will it reduce traffic and congestion. It is perfectly all right for the Minister for Transport, who represents a Scottish constituency, to sit in her place and pontificate about policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "Ah—Opposition Members all want in now. They all want their mark in the register, now that they have come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.11", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "s conscious of the fact that the shadow Transport Minister beside him not only did not support him when he ran for the leadership of the Conservative party, but has made it clear in the past that he supported Mr. Michael Portillo. I have no doubt that tonight's debate was much more about posturing within the Conservative party than about making a meaningful contribution to public transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.13", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "repeatedly mentioned the problems of the Circle and Northern lines. Had there been the investment in London Underground that there should have been, the difficulties that are being experienced on the Circle line would not have arisen. Labour Members are committed to taking concrete and practical approaches to public transport and to the use of the car. We believe in an integrated transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.238.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make progress. If I have time, I shall give way. A number of points have been made by hon. Members about the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-29", "file": "debates1999-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "299894438e7860fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make progress. If I have time, I shall give way. A number of points have been made by hon. Members about the difficulties— [Interruption.] Conservative Members ask about the points that have been put to me. I am about to respond to them, not least those made by the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mr. Day).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-29a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meale", "preceding_text": "or that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, and our postbags always contain letters about those matters. Hon. Members will not be surprised when I confirm that I shall not today make any statement about the Government's conclusions on those matters. I can, however, confirm that they remain under active consideration in my Department and that we intend to announce conclusions very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "te success of grant-maintained schools in my constituency was a consequence of their rather generous funding, and that fairness required that that advantage be withdrawn and that all schools be placed in the same funding boat. I would always suggest that the grant-maintained schools had enjoyed better funding, but I do not think that that equates to more generous funding. Grant-maintained schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.304.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.339.7", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " his mind to the major crisis in the milk industry, which was brought about by the delay of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in publishing the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on Milk Marque? The publication of the report is well over 10 weeks late, and it is of great importance that publication be effected. Many in the milk industry are hanging on by their fingernails—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.339.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a powerful point and it should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at deal, but the statistics speak for themselves: 100,000 young people were found jobs through the new deal and 85 per cent. were not subsidised in any way. Among young people, long-term unemployment has fallen by 60 per cent. since May 1997, so we have another record for a Labour Government—the lowest youth unemployment since 1975. There is a very good contrast. After 18 years of Tory government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has made clear, he is treating these problems seriously and putting new measures in place to tackle them. He said that in his statement to the House yesterday. Hundreds of new staff have been taken on to deal with the problems and, to be fair, let us recognise that they are due particularly to the number of passport applications being made for children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Those are indeed matters for negotiation, as the hon. Gentleman knows. I hope to see a peaceful agreement in Northern Ireland, and I hope that all matters of free and open information should be available as much as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.353.2", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Post-16 Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "f industry will be very upset with what the Government are saying about doing away with TECs. I am sure that the Secretary of State knows that the governing bodies of colleges such as Weymouth had to sack business governors because they were not allowed to have as many governors as under the previous Government. The input from TECs has been the reason why our economy is working as well as it will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "sultees and should be consulted by the commission. What slightly concerns me about the amendment is that it gives the commission the right to remove from the list any organisation that it has not consulted for the past 12 months, without a right of appeal by that organisation. Whether that is a small business organisation of the kind described by my hon. Friend, or a small disability rights lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-06-30", "file": "debates1999-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7f1a4dff5c3d2fde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disability Rights Commission Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "san comments from other hon. Members. It is no doubt true that the Bill would probably not have been introduced by the previous Conservative Government—we can say that with a reasonable degree of certainty—but I am not so sure that that could be said of a Government led by my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague), the Leader of the Opposition. He is committed to the measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-06-30a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "It was the hon. Gentleman's final inquiry that gave me the clue to whether his supplementary related to Question 9 or Question 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the supply of vets in this country is restricted for reasons connected with education and the requirements of the royal college of veterinary Surgeons. The Government have been addressing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ed with education and the requirements of the royal college of veterinary Surgeons. The Government have been addressing that. [Interruption.] It is no good saying that we do not need vets in the first place; there is a European requirement, and a legal requirement, for us to have qualified vets. Nothing that the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) says can knock that on the head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Child Support Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with all the points that the hon. Gentleman mentioned, although when he refers to \"we on the Liberal Benches\" I think that he uses the word \"we\" rather loosely. The others, presumably, are away on the leadership campaign. He has been left a somewhat lonely figure on the Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Child Support Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "In terms of responsibility for this mess, the figure of the absent parent has now been joined by the absent-minded shadow Minister, given his version of history. However, this is a serious matter. Hundreds of thousands of children in Britain will spend all or some of their childhood away from one parent. It is my guess that family insecurity is now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-01", "file": "debates1999-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "f06bd97e85ccccfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "aven and earth to ensure that people received their passports in time, but that they did not give a categoric pledge that people would receive their passports in time? May we have a statement to enable such a pledge to be made? Secondly, will the right hon. Lady take account of the genuine and widespread concern that, although Ministers are saying that the passport in person charge will be waived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-01a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " want to ensure that many more go into higher education to achieve better skills and qualifications. Secondly, the new ONE service, which will bring together the Employment Service and the Benefits Agency, will mean, for the first time, that someone of working age will receive advice immediately on entering the system. Thirdly, I am well aware of NIRS2 problems, which we inherited from the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "n low incomes? He will be aware from comments that have already been made that there is widespread concern among hon. Members on both sides of the House as to why someone should take out a stakeholder pension if all it does is reduce their entitlement to means-tested assistance. He was talking about arithmetic earlier. Let me ask him an arithmetical question. How much money do people have to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "FINANCE BILL [WAYS AND MEANS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "idated Fund—as we would expect—what projections have been made as part of the forward look, how far have the figures already been incorporated in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's projections, and will any revisions to those projections be required? In Committee, the Paymaster General waxed eloquent about the Government's difficulty in forecasting the financial effects with any degree of accuracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "FINANCE BILL [WAYS AND MEANS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": " Ways and Means motion. My hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin), who leads from the Front Bench so expertly and fluently, asked about pet foods. Will VAT be applied only to products used in alcoholic beverages, such as yeast and egg—which I suppose is used in egg nog or advocaat—or will it be applied to Marmite and Bovril? We need an assurance that VAT will not be applied to Bovril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.673.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I am fully expecting detailed answers to all my questions. Although some Labour Members may think that I am being a bit of a nuisance, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I am fully expecting detailed answers to all my questions. Although some Labour Members may think that I am being a bit of a nuisance, Mr. Deputy Speaker— [Interruption.] I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "he Member for Shipley (Mr. Leslie) asked the shadow Paymaster General, the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory), whether he was Paymaster General in 1994, when the previous, Conservative Government agreed the VAT increase from 2.5 to 5 per cent.—about which Conservative Members have been whingeing today, but which they agreed—but he said that he was not Paymaster General at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Obviously the right hon. Gentleman has some sort of memory problem. Perhaps that is why he has a majority of only 528.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ow much revenue would be raised by increasing the levy to 5 per cent. and the results of the concession. The British Art Market Federation has said that it believes that the overall package will enable the art market to remain as competitive as it is already. Therefore, the Government's figures of a £10 million rise, as well as the cost of the concession, will result in a revenue-neutral position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "d in shares are at the wealthier end of the income ladder. However, the most distressing letters that I have received on the issue are from those who admit that being able to reclaim tax paid on dividends makes a difference, not between wealth and poverty for themselves but between being able to afford small luxuries—such as Christmas presents for their grandchildren, or visits to their relatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "nts on the issue. Why did we make the change? We wanted to remove a distortion in the corporation tax system that encouraged companies to distribute their profits as dividends rather than reinvesting them in their business. Reinvestment is essential for growth in the economy, which we want to encourage. We know what the Conservatives did to our economy and we are determined not to see it repeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.763.3", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I would certainly not want to give advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn) is no longer interested in ISAs, as he is busy talking. However, for many poorer people, ISAs have been a great boon and we are proud of them. The £1 billion Budget package for older people included a new minimum tax guarantee for pensioners; and the age-related personal allowances were increased by up to £200, more than required by statutory indexation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "vative Members do not recognise the importance of that minimum guarantee. It is certainly important for the majority of pensioners whom the Government represent. The proposal would have the effect of increasing the personal allowance for many lower income pensioners to £6,000 a year. As I have explained, the Budget package already includes generous increases in the age-related personal allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.769.9", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "This debate gives us an opportunity to review the logic of the Government's proposals on vehicle excise duty and carefully to examine their credentials on the fiscal encouragement that they may be contemplating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.769.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ld be a cut-off point of 1100 cc, not specified a cut-off point that is related to the emission of particulates or carbon dioxide? Why, for example, have they not encouraged, as has the republic—that is the right way to put it—of California, the introduction of catalytic converters to Californian standards, which can reduce the emission of carbon dioxide to less than 110 g per kilometre. There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "y, for example, have they not encouraged, as has the republic—that is the right way to put it—of California, the introduction of catalytic converters to Californian standards, which can reduce the emission of carbon dioxide to less than 110 g per kilometre. There is— [Interruption.] The Secretary of State for Scotland says from a sedentary position that it is typical that I do not mention British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-05", "file": "debates1999-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "42271864eede6eb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "nt towards a lower tax regime. To take a current example of the way in which electronic means are enabling companies to avoid tax, a well-known bookmaker has set up its operation in Gibraltar, letting its clients off the requirement to pay betting tax of some 6 per cent. on winnings—a loss to Government revenues. The age of digital cash is before us; we ignore it at our peril. It is late at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-05a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "e most people start smoking when they are children. Anything that we can do to counter what they have been doing is to be welcomed. There is clear evidence that, almost 20 years ago, they were looking at ways of countering the possibility that tobacco advertising might be banned. Tobacco advertising will be banned here from December; we will be the first in Europe to ban it, of which we are proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is a doctor, but I noticed a quick shift in his question from radiology to obstetrics and gynaecology. Certainly I am very well aware that we do not have sufficient radiologists to do the work that we should all like to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.813.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Frank Dobson)", "preceding_text": "y represent in Surrey or Sutton Coldfield is shared by the people we represent in Barnsley or Bethnal Green. That is what we mean when we say that we want to end the divisions that mar our society and instead create a genuine one nation. I believe that that is what all decent people want, wherever they live and whatever their own state of health. That is why I commend the White Paper to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "I have already given the figures. There has been an increase of 100,000 lorry trips a year over the past three to four years. Those are the Treasury's figures. If only one Treasury Minister would stand on a motorway and carry out a survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "No, because plenty of other hon. Members want to speak in the debate. I have given way a great many times and I want to make progress. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I find myself in a quandary. To misquote Oscar Wilde, I can resist everything but flattery. I have heard two flattering speeches, from the hon. Members for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and for Lichfield (Mr. Fabricant); however, I must disappoint them this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.918.7", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "ic rate of income tax in some 70 years. On any count, those are major reforms to the tax system. They will make working families better off. They will cut the tax burden on the average family to below 20 per cent. for the first time in more than 20 years. In contrast to the practice of the Conservative party when it was in power, those tax cuts honour the pledges that we made at the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.918.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "Government. He must know that social security spending is rising at half the rate under this Government, so we will take no lectures from him. During our proceedings on the Bill, the Conservative party tabled amendments that would rob the public purse of almost £25 billion over the next three years and Conservative amendments to last year's Finance Bill would add another £15 billion to that total.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "heat, and sometimes they shed a great deal of light. Unfortunately, the former is true of this Third Reading debate. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory), failed to mention the two most historic tax changes in the Bill. Those truly historic changes are the abolition of mortgage interest tax relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have already explained why I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-06", "file": "debates1999-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e8d4194263f41ef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "regard it as a joke—and neither will members of the public in the hon. Gentleman's constituency when he goes into the Lobby tonight to vote against the Bill. The hon. Gentleman spoke about the road haulage industry. The total tax burden on UK hauliers is lower than that in other major EU states, and is below the EU average. The Government have been able to achieve that because we support business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-06a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Wildlife Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": " there was a very good chance of obtaining that legislative slot, and then he played his trump card: \"Tony Blair is strongly in support of this.\" So what is the problem? The Prime Minister apparently supports strongly the need for early legislation. The problem is that too many people just do not believe it. Philip Rothwell, head of policy operation at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Wildlife Protection", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Alan Meale)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Alan Meale)", "preceding_text": "of the support and greatly impressed by it. It is very large—one of the largest gatherings of support on an issue since the last election. The Government are reassured by the level of interest and the swell of opinion on the need for legislation. We are aware of that and keep it in mind in all our considerations. My hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster raised the question of peat working on SSSIs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the Minister announces that it is a matter for the National Assembly for Wales, I cannot allow the House to trespass on those responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "It is a good job that there is not a waiting list for a straight answer, or we would be here for a very long time indeed. The number of consultants is down; the number of complaints is up; the waiting list to get on the waiting list has been doubled; junior doctors have been betrayed; the head of the MBA said in his speech on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "It is a good job that there is not a waiting list for a straight answer, or we would be here for a very long time indeed. The number of consultants is down; the number of complaints is up; the waiting list to get on the waiting list has been doubled; junior doctors have been betrayed; the head of the MBA said in his speech on Monday— [Interruption.] The head of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The head of the BMA said in his speech on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The waiting lists are 62,000 below the level that we inherited. The present figure is just over 1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course we will take my hon. Friend's points seriously. As he knows, the problem of reducing the rate to zero has been caused by a European regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Laxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Laxton", "preceding_text": "I welcome my right on. Friend's announcement this morning of £650 million-worth of private finance initiative investment and contracts in the national health service. In my constituency and in Derby, South and Derby city, the £177 million-worth of investment that will bring together acute services, possibly on one site, will enhance and improve health care in southern Derbyshire. In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the Secretary of State has to take into account the recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, and the right hon. Gentleman would expect that. I understand his claim that we should put Government money into the dairy sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Libya", "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": "With permission, Madam Speaker, I should like to make a statement on relations with Libya. I am grateful to the Opposition for agreeing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1053.4", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ding its disgraceful neglect of the dairy industry, strengthening Milk Marque and implementing the Krebs Report without further delay\". I welcome the presence not only of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food but of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. It is rare for not just one but two members of the Cabinet to attend an agriculture debate—although both represent urban seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Views are shared within government, but decisions on this matter of the competition authorities are for the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry alone. The responsibility is not shared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No he did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "d comment on the response of the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) to the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew)? The hon. Member for South Suffolk made it clear that the Tories want to do away with quotas. When he was asked whether that would lead to a collapse in prices, he said that it would not, because farmers would be allowed to sell only in local markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "I have two unremunerated interests to declare. I am a vice-president of Devon young farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "artment in government\", and brought forward proposals that represent a centralist approach, with significant powers and budgets controlled by unelected people responsible to Whitehall, not local communities. Those are not my words, nor even the words of a Conservative Member. They are the words of Sir Jeremy Beecham, chairman of the Local Government Association and Labour's most senior councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " Supplement last week, Mike Baker wrote an article about the problems of his local primary school. He said: the schools where I live have a very high proportion of primary classes of 30-plus pupils. Under pressure from the Government, the council plans to reduce class sizes…If my daughter's school cuts class sizes it would be turning away even more children from a good and popular school.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will know that the impending closure of Potter Heigham school and the impact of the Government's decisions on it caused considerable concern in the village.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "preceding_text": "Potter Heigham school is in my constituency. The failure of the Labour and Liberal Democrat-controlled local education authority to support that school led many parents to take their children away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Prior", "preceding_text": "Potter Heigham school is in my constituency. The failure of the Labour and Liberal Democrat-controlled local education authority to support that school led many parents to take their children away from it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"] The school has almost closed thanks to this Government's policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "t. It is not bureaucratic; it is not being run from Sanctuary buildings. It is being run in conjunction with schools and authorities. Secondly, if Opposition Members are to give the hon. Lady information and she is to use it in this House, she should for God's sake ensure that she has done her homework on it. If she uses an example of a school in north Norfolk in which there are only three pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "But why was the decision made to close the school?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "he funding to carry out their work. He has suggested that a lot more money is getting through to schools, but the reality on the ground is that schools are not getting that extra money—it is almost as if the cheque is still in the post. He might want to claim that that is the fault of local education authorities, as he tried to do in respect of the league tables that were published a few days ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about ballots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": " campaign to get rid of grammar schools. I agreed with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury. What do those activists think will be the effect on children and teachers in those schools of the prospect of upheaval of months and months of campaigning? Nothing could be more calculated to damage the provision of education in those schools. What will be the consequence in the long run?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-07", "file": "debates1999-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "30e270f1270dc948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": ", if those schools become independent, the only people who will go to them are those who can afford to pay full fees. The Government are delivering educational opportunity for the few at the expense of educational opportunity for the many, as Labour Members might say. When one looks at the picture and sees what the Government have done to take away opportunities, by abolishing the assisted places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-07a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his appointment to the Front-Bench team. It is the first opportunity I have had so to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1164.5", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hodge", "preceding_text": "I had better engage the hon. Gentleman about falling off logs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stupid question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "pt if it does not manage its financial affairs properly, or will they step in and underwrite the £75 million borrowing facility? If the Government are prepared to do that—we should like a specific answer—anyone who lends will be lending virtually risk free, which, in other words, is a gilt-edged security. Would not that create a strong competitive advantage over other companies in the marketplace?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "preceding_text": "ney, but, for a business that is turning over some £7 billion, it cannot be seen as a particularly huge borrowing requirement. If a business that was turning over £7 billion was likely to go bust by borrowing £75 million, something would clearly be wrong. Therefore, the borrowing limit that might be available to the Post Office of £75 million per year is not excessive. May I make two other points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ffence is not endorsable. However, under the Bill, that young person might well have to spend 12 months in a multidisciplinary panel approach because of that one transgression, which is not even endorsable. I am sure that there are many other examples. I am not trying to clever—I am making a point about the inflexibility of the Government's mandatory approach. There are huge resource implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "riminal behaviour. However, such reporting does not occur often, thank heavens. By and large, we have a responsible press. Like all hon. Members, I receive letters from the regional press. I refer especially to the Western Mail and the Daily Post —the daily newspapers that serve Wales. Those papers do a good job, although they do not report enough of my party's doings—I shall not go into that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "nce victims, but not to people who are, in many cases, maliciously and falsely accused. There is a human rights dimension to the question of anonymity for those who are falsely accused of rape and sexual offences. It will be clear that I do not seek to press this matter further. Early Thursday evening, when the House is about to adjourn for the week, may be an unfortunate time to have this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-08", "file": "debates1999-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "238a6a0a6288ba9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "dation. The Bill provides ways of protecting witnesses from some of the more distressing aspects of the trial process, while preserving defendants' rights. There has been much discussion about the balance of the provisions, particularly on protections in the reporting of cases involving juvenile defendants to age 18. There has also been very considerable discussion—I have no need detain the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-08a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware of the story that appeared over the weeekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.2.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall answer the question. Our voting arrangements were last changed to any degree in 1883, and life has moved on since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.61.7", "colnum": "61", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "We move rapidly from Sierra Leone to Ofsted—one of these subjects is controversial. As Chairman of the Select Committee on Education and Employment I am pleased to report to the House on our inquiry into Ofsted. On 14 June, we published a unanimous report following a 10-month inquiry. We heard extensive evidence. We received written evidence and heard oral evidence and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.61.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "May I try to address the anxiety which I anticipated would be in your mind, Mr. Deputy Speaker? My purpose, obviously, is to highlight the problems of the former grant-maintained schools in Lincolnshire, because they are suffering from a deficit that is the direct and intended consequence of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "hat self-evaluation should be complementary to external inspection, and not a substitute for it, as the hon. Member for Croydon, North said. Rigorous external inspection is indispensable. In paragraph 110, significantly, the Committee welcomes the introduction of short inspections, which accord with the wider principle—now being given some currency—of intervention in inverse proportion to success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.106.5", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "I was happy, in my opening remarks, to try to draw a blind over our reason for not dividing the Committee, but as the hon. Gentleman asks me, perhaps the House will allow me to spell it out in detail. I made it plain to the Committee Chairman that I was determined to divide the Committee, but that, unfortunately, I was unable to be present in the Committee on the day on which the formal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "harging, congestion charging, work place charging, and the possibility of retail charging—which the Select Committee proposed, although the Government are not in favour of it, so there is a slight divide between them. How well would those charges work? What will happen if there is road pricing and road congestion charging? Imagine that you are a company executive living in a large house in Surrey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "That has nothing whatever to do with my position. We have always been against extra taxation. In the paper that we published today, we have laid out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I have given way quite a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ation to get the railway system working. That view has been endorsed by the Government. The growth in investment in all the modes of public transport that we privatised contrasts starkly with the catastrophe in the transport system for which the Government are responsible. Investment in the tube system has been slashed, after the Government cancelled the Conservative Government's investment plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Class III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has been squashed, and that is enough of that. I say to the Minister that we need more investment in public transport. That investment was secured in the industries that we privatised, but the Government's public-private partnership is a fiasco. The Minister should apologise to the people of London, who suffer every day from worsening congestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.117.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.137.7", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Motion made, and Question proposed , That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1620) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1627) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.137.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-12", "file": "debates1999-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "8a1e030b528007b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.137.8", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Object. Motion made, and Question proposed , That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1620) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-12a.137.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "ies such as Oxford to a standstill. The Council for the Protection of Rural England has criticised the damage done to green-field sites by park and ride. Transport 2000 has criticised the Government for cooking the books by misusing figures relating to park and ride. A new report from the university of London severely criticises park-and-ride schemes, arguing that traffic in urban areas increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Given the Deputy Prime Minister's strong anti-car policies, his trip in a helicopter to the British grand prix—that mecca of the finest gas-guzzlers in the world—was a thirsty way of travelling and was a mistake. Instead, should he not have gone to a cycle race by train to show us the new Labour way, and sent an apology to Bernie Ecclestone? Does he accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "This is an issue not of the right to buy, but of how councils use and organise their debt sales. The whole debt portfolio is a matter for councils. I remind the hon. Gentleman that the debt that he so complains about was sanctioned by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jackson", "preceding_text": "f the Government's vast increase in funding road maintenance, in marked contrast to the previous Administration, who slashed such funding year on year. We have increased the funding for the maintenance of local authority roads by 8 per cent. in one year. The right hon. Member for Wokingham may be an expert on motoring, but he is clearly an ignoramus on any of the measures that protect pedestrians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That was quite unnecessary. I require the hon. Lady to withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "make two points to the hon. Gentleman. First, General de Chastelain has made it very clear that he will put in place a full timetable after devolution is in place and when he is talking to all the groups. However, in his statement of the 2nd, he made it patently clear that a decommissioning process will start within days of devolution and that the first act of decommissioning will be within weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member for Hume to whom he is giving way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.194.7", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": " totally committed to the Good Friday agreement, which contains a total commitment to total demilitarisation, total disarmament and total decommissioning. We want to see that done, now. As we know, however, given our history, it is not an easy thing to do. Decommissioning is not the most important factor in ending violence, as one could decommission on Monday but secretly buy more guns on Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.194.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "have sympathy with the comments of the right hon. Member for Bracknell (Mr. MacKay), I have no process to suggest—nor, I think, does the House—that could possibly link decommissioning with prisoner releases at this stage. I remind the House that prisoner releases were linked to ceasefires, not to decommissioning. Any argument that the two should be brought together would be tenuous in the extreme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "preceding_text": "rguments that have been put forward about how we deal with the coming together of Unionism and nationalism in Northern Ireland? That is so close that we are almost in touching range of it, although we could lose because of our own genuine convictions, which may be based on that which is not valid—and it is frightening, so frightening that it has frightened many, especially on the Unionist Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Maria Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ust: it requires the making of that leap from time to time. I have taken account of what Opposition Members have said about their worries in regard to clauses 1 and 2, but, if the present Secretary of State or some future Secretary of State dragged his or her feet in regard to the implementation of the recommendation, what purpose could that serve? Why would any Secretary of State wish to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I can only say that, if the hon. and learned Gentleman thinks that the process is about giving in to fear of IRA action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "sponsibility, playing fast and loose with people's lives—which is what they are doing—by becoming the mainland political wing of Ulster Unionism. They have shown that breathtaking irresponsibility by quibbling and haggling over how many days is \"days\" and how many weeks is \"weeks\", whereas Ireland has waited not decades, but centuries to achieve the type of peace that we now have within our grasp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galloway", "preceding_text": "s has been done today—that, somehow, they have come out winners in the process. The republican tradition has abandoned for all time the notion that anything other than the consent of the majority of the people of the six counties can change the constitutional course of events. That is a monumental change in republican thinking. The Irish Republic has abandoned articles 2 and 3 of its constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "I shall speak specifically to new clause 1 and to amendments Nos. 12 and 29. I note that this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "mplication that there was something wrong in me, as the shadow Secretary of State, signing amendments that were tabled by the First Minister designate of Northern Ireland, the right hon. Member for Upper Bann. If I agree with the amendments that the right hon. Gentleman is tabling, or with amendments tabled by the hon. Members for South Down or for Newry and Armagh (Mr. Mallon), I shall sign them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "Before I allow the hon. and learned Gentleman to intervene, I must say to the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) that he is a much better lawyer than I am. My understanding now is that the commission is immune from judicial review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman obliges and, once again, fails to give a direct answer, although the implications are obvious. The question that the SDLP continues to refuse to answer is whether it will support the continuation of Sinn Fein in the Executive in the event that the IRA does not abide by a decommissioning schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "hat he was right and we were wrong. That poll showed the very opposite: it showed that we were overwhelmingly right. In its editorial, the newspaper had to admit that those who had opposed the agreement had the people with them. That being so, the House can continue to set itself against the majority of the majority. Will that bring peace? Will that give confidence to the people? We need a review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "announced that they will do nothing about articles 2 and 3 for two years. The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is the rock granite of our Province's constitutional position. Will it be taken away? Have we not the right to hold on to that, as people who prize our citizenship of the United Kingdom? Ulster has no debts to pay to the rest of the United Kingdom. It has paid its debts over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "This is a bizarre little debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "le debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—although not because of the hilarity being evinced by some Government Members below the Gangway. As we approach 12.40 am on the following day, those of us who have sat here most of the time since 4 pm yesterday—Ministers, Front-Bench spokesmen, Unionists and others on both sides of the House, including myself—are wondering what has gone on. Only an hour ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) said that it was arrogant of the Government—which indeed it is—to spend eight hours arguing for one position and then suddenly introduce an order of this magnitude and expect it to go through on the nod. This is a very important order. As my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Gainsborough; no, Lincolnshire; no, Grantham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": ") said that it was arrogant of the Government—which indeed it is—to spend eight hours arguing for one position and then suddenly introduce an order of this magnitude and expect it to go through on the nod. This is a very important order. As my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Gainsborough; no, Lincolnshire; no, Grantham— [Laughter.] I cannot think what Labour Members find so hilarious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must recognise that I have allowed him to roam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.307.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-13", "file": "debates1999-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "51be586d12055c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.313.11", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1620) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-13a.313.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Urban Renaissance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": " cent. would allow them to hit the 60 per cent. target. He recommends other ways in which the Government could improve on their appalling record. The report makes uncomfortable reading for the Deputy Prime Minister for other reasons. Despite Government claims, the report shows that Government spending on inner-city regeneration is behind Conservative levels when we left office. As the report says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Urban Renaissance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "ut: a 5 per cent. tax on new homes over the next 25 years. Perhaps he will tell us whether the Government have plans to introduce that 5 per cent. tax, or say categorically that there will be no 5 per cent. tax on new homes, now or in the foreseeable future There is no question but that harmonisation at 0 per cent. across the board would be welcomed by everyone. However, how will that be paid for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "sperate attempts to generate publicity are not very impressive. He was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying something very different: he aligned himself with the reactionary forces who do not believe that people should have choices and control over their sexual health. Perhaps he would like to tell us whether he supports the declaration agreed by all the countries of the world at the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I doubt whether the hon. Gentleman supported many of the previous Administration's policies, but he probably did support their policy of gold sales to fund debt relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed places scheme. That was one of the five pledges that we made. Thirdly, we have passed legislation which makes it clear that we will see children through to the end of their primary school stage—but we were not going to use taxpayers' money to fund them afterwards. The right hon. Gentleman talked about the many, not the few. First, he is wrong—we have brought down class sizes in primary schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend notice that the Leader of the Opposition, wisely in my view, avoided any question on the economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andy King", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend notice that the Leader of the Opposition, wisely in my view, avoided any question on the economy? [Interruption.] Could that be because last year he said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.6", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, despite the fact that the Leader of the Opposition spoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.6", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, despite the fact that the Leader of the Opposition spoke— [Interruption] He spoke of a downturn caused by Downing street, but unemployment has fallen by 80,000 this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.398.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "Do not worry; it is almost the last one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " agreement hangs by a thread, may I warmly welcome the important statement that the Prime Minister made? I and many millions of others hope that it will finally provide the reassurance to enable the process to go forward. I suspect that there is not much more that we can say to assist the process, so I shall turn to another subject. As the Prime Minister considers his reshuffle in the near future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.399.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On BSE, we are delighted with the decision to lift the beef ban, although recovering the lost export markets will not be easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Beef Exports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Which markets?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "o be exported again well into August, but 1 August is the start of August. How can that possibly be grudgingly desrcibed as \"well into August\"? The hon. Gentleman asked whether people are ready to go ahead with exports. I said in my statement that they are, at St. Merryn's in Cornwall. They believe that they already have markets lined up and are ready to start exporting immediately after 1 August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am striving to understand the Minister. I agree with him in principle, so I am not being antagonistic, but if the pollution inventory is so important, why did not the Government originally include it in the Bill? I have come late to the debate, and I apologise to the House for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.430.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "support proper efforts to reduce domestic consumption and wastage of energy when that is responsible for 38 per cent. of the energy that is used in this country. The one party that can say nothing about climate change is his party, which has constantly taken the populist view and never done anything that might damage it electorally. That has been not only my view but that of all environmentalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "preceding_text": "dvise my hon. Friend not to suggest that to the corporation. Even if we cannot achieve full, universal, adult suffrage for the corporation—as there is in the rest of the country and in America and in most European and other states—at least, given the argument that it is a business district, the employees who make the wealth of that area should be able to vote. That is the purpose of my amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ssurance that he seeks. The matter was debated extensively on Second Reading. It has been established that while there has been an overall increase in the franchise because of the proposed extension of the business vote, the interests of residents are fully protected because the number of wards with a predominance of residents remains the same. Therefore, the number of councillors who are elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.497.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ally changed by its privatisation. The Secretary of State must tell us what effect the sale of gold has had on the CDC's three gold-mining investments—the Abosso and Satellite gold fields in Ghana and the East Africa gold mines in Tanzania. Has any of those operations been directly affected by the Chancellor's actions? We have heard alarming stories about redundancies and a crisis in South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State must consider what buyers might be looking for. The price obtained for the CDC could be badly affected by the amount of Government management control of which the Under-Secretary boasted during our previous debate. The Under-Secretary must appreciate that a full transfer of ownership and management—implying an ability to act commercially—would maximise the value of CDC shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": " why the vehicle she is using to maintain the CDC's character may work against our obtaining a fair price for it. The hour is late, and I do not wish to delay the House. The Under-Secretary earlier filled some of the gaps that he had left at the Committee stage. He also sent me a letter—it arrived only yesterday—on some points raised in Committee, particularly concerning the CDC's operating costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Of course I should want that. If the hon. Gentleman wants to get investment into the CDC, he would be well advised to ensure that the investment is safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "r Chesham and Amersham is very desirable. It crystallises within the Commonwealth Development Corporation an obligation which is extraordinarily similar to that imposed on a board of directors. It provides a protection to prospective investors that means that there will be more prospective investors and it provides them with a remedy. The House should seek to assert and protect all those measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "ts? If they do all that, the price that they obtain may be very different from what it would be in the open marketplace. The Government cannot have it both ways. They must be honest with the House and with others who take an interest in these matters. They must make clear their aim. If it is to maintain the corporation in its present form following a pseudo-privatisation and to maintain its ethos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "ppointed because she has let down both herself and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. Observers will find it difficult to understand why the Secretary of State did not accept the new clause. In particular, she has signalled to the market that she is willing to sell the CDC off cheap to her friends—at a low price. That is a betrayal of what the CDC has stood for during its 50-year existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "First, it is sensible and reasonable for the hon. Gentleman to raise the question, particularly in the terms and manner that he did. These are tortuous provisions, as are a number of the Bill's provisions. It is not the only such Bill that I have experienced in 20 years. I had the honour earlier tonight of celebrating 20 years in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.526.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I listened carefully to the Minister. I am of course flattered by what he said about my drafting skills or otherwise. I do not believe that they are exceptional. There is an ambiguity in the clause, but I accept entirely the intention behind the original wording. I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "preceding_text": " shall be interested in what the Minister says in response to the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) on the mental incapacity of a person who is the donor of a power of attorney or who has had powers delegated by trustees to him. However, tonight is not the night to be prolix, nor is it the night to be verbose. We discussed the Bill at great length on 17 March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.536.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Motion in the name of Mr. Secretary Straw relating to the salary of the Data Protection Registrar shall be treated as if it related to an instrument subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 118 (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) in respect of which notice has been given that the instrument be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.8", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1585) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.12", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1627) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.14", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed , That the National Health Service (General Medical Services) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 (S.I., 1999, No. 1620) be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.537.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-14", "file": "debates1999-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "db082162befcdea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "our modernisation of the national health service, we are supporting the biggest hospital-building programme ever in this country. Since 1 May 1997, 31 major hospital developments, worth more than £2.9 billion, have been given approval to proceed under the private finance initiative. The PFI was much vaunted by the previous Government, but not a single hospital was started as a result of their PFI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-14a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": " the draft of the statement very far in advance. This is a sad day for the people of Northern Ireland, because it is clear from what the Secretary of State said that a devolved, inclusive Administration for the people of Northern Ireland is sadly still some way off. Will she confirm again that the real stumbling block to progress was non-decommissioning? Will she lay the blame fairly and squarely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Formula one is the classic example where we did not change policy. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is so ill informed. As I was the shadow Minister in charge of the policy at the time, I am perfectly well aware of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "We cannot leak the papers. I am just making the point that there is no access to them. It is not open to Ministers in this Government to see them or to have access to their contents, let alone to leak them. They are the property of the previous Government. They could be released—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ute between him and my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister. Someone in the hon. Gentleman's constituency is under the impression that he has seen my—I had hitherto thought unmistakeable—right hon. Friend in the constituency. My right hon. Friend says that he has not visited the hon. Gentleman's constituency, and that his office has written to the hon. Gentleman to say so. We all recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Frit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I really do not have time, as I have promised to limit my remarks to 20 minutes, to give hon. Members on both sides of the House the chance to debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ake the books balance and to make the investment that they would like. It is no wonder that local government is in trouble. Compared with the final year of the Conservative Government—one of their least generous years—in the first year of the Labour Government, there was a £70 million cut in local transport expenditure; in the subsequent year, a £169 million cut; and, this year, a £48 million cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "embers cannot argue with them. The same document on roads and traffic shows the damage that the Government are doing across the board on investment, including big cuts in overall national road expenditure. In Labour's first full year, national road expenditure was down £138 million; in their second year, it was down £87 million. That expenditure reduction explains quite a lot of the current chaos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e reduction explains quite a lot of the current chaos— [Interruption.] Labour Members ask whether we would reverse the reduction. If they had listened, they would know that I am announcing—both today and in the document that we announced earlier this week—that, yes, a much better deal is needed for the motorist, and that it will have to include additional road building in areas that need bypasses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "investment programme, as we did when we were in office, thanks to privatisation. Instead of spending money on reducing the amount of road space available with dangerous projects such as the M4 bus lane, we would free up the main roads and spend the money on safer routers to school and work for pedestrians, away from the main road. The Government wrongly claim that we want to make things less safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "t stop all traffic moving at a sensible speed, as the Government want to do. It is because they are so muddled up, and because their policy is disintegrating, that we have frustrated motorists. However, they have not made things as safe for pedestrians as they should have done. We are offering these positive suggestions, and we are offering 10 pledges to the motorist and traveller in our document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "he car has given and that congestion can remove the convenience and pleasure from driving. In his last few words, the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) made it clear why he has rejected so much of previous Conservative policy, to which I shall refer—he has discovered new Conservatism. Am I to accept that that is a complete change from everything the previous Administration believed in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give way to an intellectual?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I did not say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Truro and St. Austell (Mr. Taylor), in true Liberal Democrat fashion, managed to misrepresent Conservative policies launched this week. For the record, we are not against traffic calming where it is fair. In rural areas and in villages, it is often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Laxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Laxton", "preceding_text": "Only yesterday, at the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, of which I am a member, I tried to elicit some information about the Horizon project. I am unclear about an issue on which evidence was not forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.654.2", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. Probably the only body that would be capable of getting to the bottom of the Horizon story is the National Audit Office. The capabilities of Select Committees are somewhat limited in that respect. The National Audit Office would be better equipped to scrape below the surface —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-15", "file": "debates1999-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "f1f98877a16f9d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the nerve to question my integrity. I seem to remember that he belonged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-15a.673.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-16", "file": "debates1999-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "20adb7d84324bfd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I shall finish the story. I am quite happy to give way to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-16", "file": "debates1999-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "20adb7d84324bfd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I have made the point that three 16-year-old coloured boys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-16", "file": "debates1999-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "20adb7d84324bfd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I have made the point that three 16-year-old coloured boys— [Interruption.] Black boys. The fact that the police know who these people are adds to the situation that we have to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-16", "file": "debates1999-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "20adb7d84324bfd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.12", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "It is entirely appropriate, is it not, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for an hon. Member, whether from the Front Bench or the Back Benches, to describe the characteristics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.707.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-16", "file": "debates1999-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "20adb7d84324bfd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "d shown greater trust and confidence in the Metropolitan police by granting them more time to read and consider the report in advance of publication. It was thanks to the vigilance of police officers, rather than of officials in the Home Office, that the mistake was spotted so quickly. Police officers are left to provide the round-the-clock protection for those who were affected. I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-16a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "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": "ads, which appears to be the policy of new Conservatism after the debate last week. Our aim is to improve choice. We want people to have greater choice, rather than a greater dependence on their cars. That means providing a better, more reliable public transport alternative. The Bill is about providing a more punctual, reliable, accountable railway system as part of an integrated transport system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has spoken of the importance of enhancing the system. Does that include the infrastructure and, in particular, stations? Has my right hon. Friend seen the condition of some of the great railway stations of this country? They are dilapidated; they are falling down; rubble is strewn across areas surrounding tracks. They were never like that in the old days of public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Another 15 per cent. should certainly have been added. Scenario planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "dershot station, it was some time before I realised that the flower baskets hanging from the station contained not real but plastic flowers. However, rather than leaving each basket of flowers in place for three or four years, station staff rotate the baskets about every six weeks so that it looks like there are new flowers. The whole atmosphere and presentation of the railways have been enhanced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "f achieving what he wants. The remote possibility that he will achieve it has been created by privatisation. He should be thankful to the Conservative party for that. As I have said, Conservative Members are not necessarily opposed to the principle of the Strategic Rail Authority. There may be some merit in it. I was one of those who voted in favour of the Select Committee's report on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s; they have introduced no legislation. Sir Alastair Morton has read too much of the newspaper hype circulated by the Government at rail summits rather than looking at the actual state of the railways. He said that he was pleasantly surprised by how much was being achieved under privatisation. He stated: I believe our railways have moved into a growth scenario above and beyond the economic cycle.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ontinued: In the past few years domestic rail passenger kilometres have risen over 20 per cent. and freight something not dissimilar or better. One thousand extra trains are running every day. This is not failure, neither at the policy nor the practical level. It is about time that the Government stopped running down the industry that is so vital to delivering their policy of integrated transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ppened already? He mentioned the requirement for a \"decade of change\" during the 10 years after privatisation. We are now in the middle of that. Labour's attitude, which lies behind the Bill, is that everything to do with integration will lead to central planning and to greater planning, and that anything to do with competition is bad. If there is competition on the railway, that is fragmentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Railtrack has published a network statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "That was not in the report's conclusions. I have here the report's conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House (Railways Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We shall have to await events. Perhaps the Minister may be allowed to explain, as far as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House (Railways Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We produced a policy for the railways which doubled rail investment. The right hon. Gentleman had 18 years in opposition to think of a railways policy. He changed it at the last minute and has been left in this mess. The Minister for Transport talked about trying to reflect the will of the House, but this procedure is about the frustration of the will of the Secretary of State, who failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House (Railways Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ill raises some very complicated issues, and I very much doubt whether, in the time available, the Committee would be able to address them. Moreover, would the Select Committee's consideration of the Bill constitute real scrutiny? Given that the Committee has already expressed a view on the Bill's provisions, it is no longer independent in that respect, but has a pre-determined view of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House (Railways Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "As I have already asked the right hon. Gentleman, what is the point of passing a Bill with no new powers? None the less, I think that the Bill contains new powers, such as to compel investment and to make the gift of franchises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House (Railways Bill)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ob—I do not doubt for a minute that that is what the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich will seek to do—but the deadline is tight, unless a mere re-run of the issues and evidence that it has already considered is to take place. In that case, the process would become rather superfluous and it would appear to be a face-saving measure rather than genuine scrutiny. We have one real anxiety about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.905.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-19", "file": "debates1999-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ebd97d7406746ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Nick Hawkins be discharged from the Home Affairs Committee, and Mr. Michael Fabricant be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Tyler.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-19a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "No question of order arises. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman that the devolution statutes have, of course, altered ministerial responsibility, and they therefore affect questions and Adjournment debates to which such responsibility is directly linked, but debates on abstract motions, such as the one to which the hon. Gentleman refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": " the previous Conservative Government in reducing junior doctors' hours would continue. Apparently, however, the move is in the other direction. That is extremely demoralising for junior doctors and terrifying for patients. Another worry is the rise in non-UK doctors in the national health service. I was surprised at the figures showing the proportion of our doctors who were born and trained here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": ", where there is no debate. All that appears to be happening is that we are wasting huge amounts of public money in keeping in this place large numbers of people—the staff—who could be better off at home in their beds, preparing for the following day's work. I do not understand those tactics, and I do not understand the tactics of the Tory motion which I read at 9.30 am—after half a night's sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "cognised the dangers of upheaval in the service, yet they have introduced wholesale change, which the BMA has called \"frightening\". The Government have abolished GP fundholding, and have created a levelling down of expectations in primary care. They betrayed the nurses in their first year of office by staging the nurses's pay claim, which did irreparable damage to morale in the nursing profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Energy Tax", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. There is no moratorium on gas-fired power stations; every application is considered on its merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Energy Tax", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ossible for any business user to tell how much of his electricity comes from a particular source—whether it be coal, gas or a renewable source. The hon. Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) simply reveals the fact that he does not understand the electricity pool arrangements. The prices paid by industry for gas and electricity have tumbled in recent years. Between 1990 and 1998, average industrial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Energy Tax", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "r for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) simply reveals the fact that he does not understand the electricity pool arrangements. The prices paid by industry for gas and electricity have tumbled in recent years. Between 1990 and 1998, average industrial— [Interruption.] Conservative Members might not want to hear the facts, but it is important to understand them. Average industrial gas and electricity prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Energy Tax", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) has said, it is unprecedented for a Government to allow that period of consultation, and we shall ensure that it takes place. I tell my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, East that we would be happy to receive any suggestions for the design of the levy that would increase its environmental effectiveness while protecting competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-07-20", "file": "debates1999-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b7831df3cad512a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1086.4", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "DEREGULATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall put the Questions on motions 4 and 5 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-20a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": " should be made of every application to erect such towers and that it should include a health risk assessment? As I was one of the first Members of Parliaments to raise the risk of genetically modified crops in the House about a year and a half ago, it is fitting that I should also raise the health risk from mobile phone towers and base stations. My third point concerns First Great Western Trains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that when millions of parents and others in Britain are wrestling with the problems of drug abuse among young people, and when the Government are trying to do their level best to tackle those problems, it is a sad state of affairs that the Tory Opposition receive £1 million a year from one of the biggest drug runners in the west?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "There was a very loud reception for my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) when he mentioned an individual. I think it is extremely sad that the right hon. Lady has named an individual on the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The changes that have been made in the Territorial Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1182.4", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Ashdown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "The retirement of a leader brings many changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister does not want to read out the figures because they show that class sizes have risen. He promised smaller class sizes in all classes to the whole country. It is even written on one of his famous mugs. I will show him one; it says: \"Smaller Class Sizes\". It does not say that for five, six and seven-year-olds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ead out the figures because they show that class sizes have risen. He promised smaller class sizes in all classes to the whole country. It is even written on one of his famous mugs. I will show him one; it says: \"Smaller Class Sizes\". It does not say that for five, six and seven-year-olds. [Interruption.] I know that he wants to see the back of his mugs, but he will have to wait for the reshuffle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is a very simple response to the hon. Gentleman. The Conservative party can refer this entire case to the Neill committee. So why does it not do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would simply say that I hope very much that the bipartisan approach is maintained, because Northern Ireland should not be an issue of party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "als in the form of the Crown Prosecution Service, but the defence being represented by a Government official. 4.15 pm You may feel, Madam Speaker, that this is a deeply interesting esoteric discussion to listen to on a Wednesday afternoon. After all the excitement of Prime Minister's Question Time, it must be hideous to have to chair a discussion about arguments over one sort of lawyer or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "nment Departments and police forces, and fearlessly to represent their clients' interests, whether or not the clients are popular or appealing to the press, the judiciary or the jury. If I have not made my interest clear already, may I declare that I am a practising member of the Bar. It is our firm duty to represent our clients irrespective of our prospects of promotion or career or remuneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "en barristers take place between opponents who happen to be in the same set of chambers. A barrister survives and gets his next brief by virtue of his reputation as an independent and fearless advocate on behalf of his client. He does not recover fees or get another brief because he has greased up to some paymaster, or because he has managed to ingratiate himself with some state provider of funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Access to Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "terests involved. Opposition Members should not try to cover up who was behind the moves in the other place. It was a blatant case of those with vested interests attempting to overturn the views of the House. We will not permit that. I know that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield is the son of a recorder and practising barrister, but he wanders in in the middle of the debate and starts to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ll be supported by business. People will realise that they carry the debate forward appropriately. I realise that Opposition Members find that hard to understand; they do not understand the concept of consultation—of discussing with business what might be suitable or appropriate. We believe in consultation and that, as a result of it, the regulations that we shall introduce will be all the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "mmunities. The first question that the Secretary of State must answer is why a particular group has been singled out for what seems to be a reasonable exclusion. I would like to know also from the Secretary of State exactly what type of person is affected. He talked of about 1,000 people. These are presumably not the nuns and monks of religious communities and their opposite numbers. They are the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "preceding_text": "In view of the lack of progress on business this week, the business for tomorrow will now be: consideration of an allocation of time motion on the Employment Relations Bill and on the Food Standards Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "What has happened between last week's business statement and tonight's is clear to most hon. Members. We have had a substantial amount of time wasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "What has happened between last week's business statement and tonight's is clear to most hon. Members. We have had a substantial amount of time wasted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"]—yes, wasted, although I accept not necessarily by the official Opposition as such. Time has been taken up in the House. The Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.6", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "This is surely an extraordinary situation. One of my colleagues has just said to me, \"Try to rearrange these words: piss-up, brewery, organise\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1292.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "e will appreciate that I have said that I shall address the timetable for the Employment Relations Bill in tomorrow's business statement. I have made it plain that the Government do intend to provide proper time tomorrow for debate of the Food Standards Bill. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that he would have required more time than business would have allowed tomorrow for the Food Standards Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-21", "file": "debates1999-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "30a6017884da4793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "The House will know that the Department of Trade and Industry has been trying to bring forward Second Reading of the electronic communications Bill, and it has been trying to blame the Conservative party for not allowing it to do so. It seems extraordinarily strange that the right hon. Lady is telling us that she was worried about getting the three Bills through this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-21a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1310.6", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "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": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman reads the Rogers report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of questions about political advisers. I do not know why the House has been told that no records are kept. Perhaps it is because they are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I take on board the strong and powerful request that the right hon. Gentleman makes for the House to sit for longer and not to adjourn next Tuesday. It is not entirely clear to me whether he carries the majority of his party with him in making that request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Lady not now regret building in the extra, unnecessary week's holiday in February so that Labour Back Benchers can have a few more days off? Will she now reverse the distressing trend of the new Labour Government to give longer and longer recesses so that less and less time is spent in the House and then ruthlessly to curtail debate on every item of substance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on the so-called review of matters relating to Northern Ireland? It really is time, is it not—I hope that the Leader of the House will agree—to cut through the smoke and mirrors of the review, particularly in light of the fact that we now know that the IRA never had any intention of giving up any weapons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1339.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Consumer White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"CAB\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "e knows that trading standards officers are incredibly overstretched. What discussions has he had with his colleagues in the Cabinet to ensure that more resources are available to strengthen trading standards departments in local authorities, which are at the sharp end? I welcome the promotion of the advice network for consumers set out in the statement. How will that link in with the CBA network—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Consumer White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "hen trading standards departments in local authorities, which are at the sharp end? I welcome the promotion of the advice network for consumers set out in the statement. How will that link in with the CBA network—[HON. MEMBERS: \"CAB\".] Yes, I beg hon. Members' pardon. Citizens advice bureaux are often the first port of call when consumers seek redress if they have a problem with goods or products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "matter for the Chair, although the Leader of the House said that she thought that that was the case. On a point of accuracy, the right hon. Member for Swansea, West well knows that, on many occasions, I have mentioned his part in the matter that I raised, so I did him no discourtesy. The House will probably agree that the hon. Member for The Wrekin has already done enough discourtesy to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1357.6", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The only guidance that I can offer the hon. Gentleman is that it is nothing to do with me. The hon. Gentleman may want to take the matter up with the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ple reason that, as I have pointed out, I do not want to take time from the matters that we are now discussing-the matter raised by the hon. Gentleman is not one of them. I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends did not have the chance to raise the matter at business questions, but that is not a matter for me. The issue was not raised with me and, consequently, I did not deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1365.4", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": " about a number of my right hon. and hon. Friends, who take their duties to the House as seriously as did a number of Labour Members during the 18 years when we were in government. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wants to cast no aspersion on the late Bob Cryer or on the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). Is he directing at them the remarks that he has just made about some of my colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "It was the Lords amendments to the Employment Relations Bill that I addressed at about 6.50 pm yesterday. That business has been lost, although we could have completed it last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady misunderstood me. I made no dismissive remarks about last night's debate. Indeed, I was extremely interested in the proposals from the Intelligence and Security Committee. Had I been able to be present, I would have been in the Chamber for that debate. My concern is that the House seems to have developed a habit recently of having, very late at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "the House tried to negotiate that concept, and adduced arguments which were essentially arguments of divination. I say divination, because as one reads the arguments that the right hon. Lady adduced last night, and which my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir G. Young) cited, they have a curious ring. The right hon. Lady said: We have had a substantial amount of time wasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1378.0", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ry sour speech, if I may be allowed to say so, it is probably agreed by Members on both sides of the House that, on reflection, genuine questions were not answered. For example, although I try to follow such matters, I have no certainty about how one moves amendments in a Select Committee. So we come to the guillotine motion; in a sense, it is addressing the failure to satisfy the House on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-22", "file": "debates1999-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "10b55411d9d8a6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1386.5", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "er, I do know slightly better. It is parliamentary blackmail to phrase a motion in such a way that, every minute that one takes in protesting against the illiberal nature of the motion takes time out of the subject that we really want to debate. This motion is the Government's responsibility. They should have phrased it differently, as such motions used to be phrased on most occasions in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-22a.1386.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "make no further donations, and the Political Animal Lobby from buying policies at election time? Given that large donors to Labour have been given positions both in and by the Government, why is no effort made to ensure that all donations are not only without strings, but seen to be without strings? How does the draft legislation propose to ensure that donations do not buy positions in government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "iend the Prime Minister demand that the previous Government do so, but they point-blank refused. The right hon. Lady mentioned the interesting issue of blind trusts. The body of the report—not only the Bill, but the whole of the White Paper is subject to consultation—makes it clear that, for the simple, straightforward and very prosaic reason that parliamentary counsel ran out of time in drafting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Political Parties (Funding)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have to say that this statement is a darn sight better than the one before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ch as was invested in PEPs and TESSAs during exactly the same period last year.\"—[ Official Report, 22 July 1999; Vol. 335, c. 1324.] This morning there was a raft of press reports on the subject. I quote from page 11 of the Financial Times, which states: Gross sales of Isas in the three months to the end of June were £1.6 bn compared with £3.9 bn gross sales of Peps in the second quarter of 1998.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is raising policy matters with me. He knows very well that I have no responsibility for the comments made by Ministers or hon. Members. Certainly, I refuse to comment on reports in the national press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.156.7", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the details of where we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.156.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "peated time and again over the past 20 or 30 years. Short-term political considerations forced changes to the economy which, in the long and indeed the medium term, did not prove beneficial for the economy or for other people. Everyone now sees that Bank of England independence is working—everyone, that is, with one exception. Conservative Members have never supported Bank of England independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford has made a fool of himself, and I shall not give him an opportunity to do so again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": " got unemployment down. Part of the golden economic legacy that we handed to this Government was falling unemployment. All the measures that we undertook to achieve that were opposed by the whole Labour party—all the supply-side measures, privatisations and public sector reforms were resisted by Labour. I am proud that we created an unemployment record in this country which was the envy of the EU.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "t is a failure—another broken promise. Will the Department of Health get more money, or less? Let us hear from the Government about that Cabinet Committee—or does it meet in secret? I am willing to refer to other items of Government expenditure, but the overall picture is of a tax-and-spend Government. They have erected two huge pillars—extra taxation and extra expenditure on all the wrong things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "mber for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn) said in an intervention that was neatly sidestepped by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Perhaps we could set up a cross-party committee to consider how to meet our Maastricht obligations—including Conservative Members, now we know of their greater interest in these matters. I shall turn to the Conservative position, as the new review is extremely interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "something is failing and the automatic penalty of a cut is imposed, we may get a vicious circle, resulting in a continuing degradation of public services. Those are key questions, on which the House has not deliberated before today. My hon. Friend the Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce) and I were privileged enough to travel to New Zealand to find out how output and outcome budgeting worked in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Keeble", "preceding_text": "man for raising that. I shall answer briefly, as I want to deal with other matters. There must be careful management of public finances. Although I welcome extra money for housing, I believe that it is right for that to be phased. If a disproportionate amount of a council's budget is tied up in servicing debt rather than running services, that does no service to the public who provide the finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr: Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr: Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": " their period in office, more and more money was spent on the cost of social failure—paying unemployment and social security bills—and less was left for education. The way that the Government have managed the public finances in their first two years in office has put that shocking Tory record into its proper economic and political context and they have received a lot of independent support for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Economic Stability and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " certain contrasts. What is that background? My hon. Friends the Members for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) and for Boston and Skegness (Sir R. Body) made it quite clear: over 18 years, the economy experienced probably the most radical micro-economic surgery in economic history that has ever been experienced by any sick patient. It created not only a golden economic legacy, but a fundamentally sound economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-07-27", "file": "debates1999-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9854dc9137474a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "House Procedures (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": " form of address, but a filibuster. A former right hon. Member of this place, not content with having a title and a double-barrelled name—Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, who adorned this place from 1950 to 1962—had to be referred to as the right hon. learned and gallant Gentleman, the Member for Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough—or presumably just as the Soke of Peterborough for short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-07-27a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome my north-east colleague to his new post? His statement that he will save the lives of cancer and heart patients should have been made from the beginning. I am beginning to warm to new Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n out of the front seat. Now, she is going to be driving that flat-back lorry as it goes around the country. The only chance that the right hon. Gentleman will get to have a spin is when his L-plates are on. I shall come back to that rant in a moment. First of all, in so far as the right hon. Gentleman had any substantial points on Tampere, let me answer those points. Will the agreement undermine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t of the European family of nations again. I would have thought that Conservatives could welcome that. The report itself is an advisory report to the President of the European Commission, not a statement of the European Council. As we enlarge the European Union, from 15 to 20, or to 25, we shall have to look at the ways in which we take decisions in the European Union to make it more streamlined.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly prepared to look at it in other areas, if it is in the country's interest. That is a sensible position—not the sort of hysterical rant that we got from the right hon. Gentleman a moment or two ago. As for the right hon. Gentleman's actual policy, there are two points. First, he is saying that he will renegotiate the terms of entry for Britain into the European Union, and will block—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—Oh, yes. He is saying that, unless he is allowed to choose which areas he agrees to—other than free trade, or the internal market—he will block all European Union change. That is his policy; it cannot have changed just in the past two weeks. If the rest of Europe says no, then he will have no option but to leave. That is why his policy puts us on a conveyor belt to withdrawal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " \"politically crazy\". Douglas Hurd said: Judging from last week's speeches in Blackpool, Conservative policy in Europe is increasingly based on caricature, not on reality. Malcolm Rifkind said that the Conservative policy is a call which is little more than a euphemism for us to quit Europe. The Conservatives do not agree with any of those remarks, so let me tell the House what they do agree with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.257.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " me, who are good Europeans do not want to see the people of any European country—let alone those in Britain—denied the right to elect and remove those who make the laws and decide economic policy. European co-operation will not be durable unless it is refreshed continually through popular consent and support for those who govern Europe in the general elections of every country, including Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Special European Council (Tampere)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, no one has suggested that we have a corpus juris, and I have made it absolutely clear that we do not want a corpus juris across the whole of Europe. There is not even a proposal for that. We will always oppose anything that we believe to be contrary to this country's national interest, and trying to introduce one legal system across Europe would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Office for National Statistics", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": " enough to be the Chairman of the Sub-Committee which produced the report on the Office for National Statistics. I am sure that I speak for my erstwhile colleagues in expressing gratitude for the help that we received from the expert individuals and organisations that gave us written and oral evidence, and in saying a word in appreciation of our astute and immensely energetic Clerk, Jennifer Long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Office for National Statistics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "party. The situation is not unique—we have merely reached a pinnacle of obfuscations during the current Government's tenure—but there has been a lacuna for many years and it needs to be resolved. Alas, the concern of the Sub-Committee was not with that matter. Even more regrettable is the fact that the White Paper says nothing about it. I hope that the Select Committee will continue its good work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Parliamentary Ombudsmen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "preceding_text": "member of the Select Committee on Public Administration for only a few months. In common with the hon. Member for Winchester, my membership postdates the reports that we are debating—indeed, it postdates the chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase. However, in that short time, I have come to realise why my hon. Friend has such a reputation in these matters. I shall say no more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Parliamentary Ombudsmen", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "preceding_text": "ents. The number of people seeking the help of their Members of Parliament has increased dramatically. In the mid-1960s, the total mailbag for Parliament consisted of 10,000 letters a week. By 1997, that figure had increased to 70,000 letters, 40,000 of which were incoming mail. What does the arithmetic show? Do Members of Parliament answer 10,000 letters a week? That would be slightly disturbing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Rural Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No. Those are the facts that the right hon. Lady must bear in mind. Having said that, let us respond to the challenge that she threw down. First, we heard a reasoned approach. Only at the end did she descend into party political acrimony and knockabout. If she expects right hon. and hon. Members on the Labour Benches simply to accept that, she has another think coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-19", "file": "debates1999-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "c5ce0d786823856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Rural Crime", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "e programme is to be delivered by a challenge fund—the crime-fighting fund which is ring-fenced money. The right hon. Lady knows the meaning of ring-fenced money, because it was something that the Conservative Government, when they had stewardship of police in this country, were never prepared to introduce in respect of support for the police. The money will be ring-fenced money, which all forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-19a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.424.8", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. May I say at the outset that, whatever I am able to achieve as Secretary of State for Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.424.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have just said that the Home Secretary said that there would be 5,000 more recruits in addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, as I have already said on police numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". On waiting lists, the right hon. Gentleman is wrong. They are 60,000 below the level that we inherited. On class sizes, for five, six and seven-year-olds, they are now almost 300,000 below the level that we inherited. None of those things would have happened if we had taken his advice. His advice was not to cancel the assisted places scheme, so we would not have had the money to cut class sizes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.434.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "That is probably as good as it gets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ritish politics is that, since the consensus over the former state earnings-related pension scheme was broken under the previous Administration, we have not been able to re-establish all-party consensus for long-term basic state pension provision? Would he be willing, as Prime Minister, to hold talks on that matter with the leader of the Conservative party and myself to see whether we can achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Transgress?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m that the strategy for pensions reform, in respect of the new stakeholder pensions and of the state second pension, that we set out in the pensions Green Paper has received a widespread degree of support. We are well on the way to formulating the right framework for pensions in future, but I agree that this is something that will transgress all political parties and will move through Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Louise Ellman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Louise Ellman", "preceding_text": "What advice will my right hon. Friend offer the Leader of the Opposition when the right hon. Gentleman visits a betting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.438.6", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwyn Prosser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwyn Prosser", "preceding_text": "e inherited from the Tories? Does he accept that the Immigration and Asylum Bill and the agreements secured in Finland earlier this week will go a long way towards relieving the pressure on us? As all that hard work is being done, will he also join me in condemning those who would exploit Dover's difficulties for their own political ends? Some of them are sitting on the Opposition Front Bench now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "seekers of up to £150 a week for single adults and £220 for families. My hon. Friend is right to say that the system that we inherited was a complete shambles. That is why we want to introduce fundamental reform—and the only way in which we shall achieve that is to have a simplified, far more streamlined procedure, and to deal with the cases more quickly. That is precisely what we are introducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that I said that after the election, as well as before. On both occasions I explained that within the comprehensive spending review, all those things have to be looked at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ry, and we envisage significant coverage for south Fife. She is absolutely right—we obtained a very good result for this country by patient, sensible and constructive negotiation. As I pointed out a moment ago, Conservative party policy is to renegotiate the basic terms of the treaty of Rome and to block any change unless it is allowed to do so, and there is no support anywhere in Europe for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " As I pointed out a moment ago, Conservative party policy is to renegotiate the basic terms of the treaty of Rome and to block any change unless it is allowed to do so, and there is no support anywhere in Europe for that. [Interruption.] Let Conservative Members name a country that supports their policy. They can shout it out; they have done enough shouting. There is no country that supports them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Control of Hedgerows in Residential Areas", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber please do so quickly? They are passing in front of the hon. Member who is on his feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way. A young pig farmer in my constituency—Mr. James King of Cowley farm, Preston Bissett, near Buckingham—expressed concern about the Belgian report on dioxins in Danish and Dutch meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "h will report on how best to improve understanding of the chain and how the different parts can best work together for mutual advantage. Part of the way forward lies in adding value and seeking out market premiums for UK produce. I shall meet the British Retail Consortium shortly, and have arranged a series of meetings with senior management of all the large retailers and major caterers in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Split.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If I were the Chancellor of the Exchequer�žgiven the promotion of the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo), there is hope for us all�žI would willingly do so. I am not the Chancellor�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": "ing to omit his solutions to the problems that we have been discussing? All I have heard so far are four proposals for pig farming: two are illegal, one is already being implemented by the Government and one, concerning labelling, was not implemented by his party when it was in government. Then there was a lot of hot air about the beef on the bone ban, which is irrelevant, and criticism for delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Ms Joyce Quin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Ms Joyce Quin)", "preceding_text": " fact that we are all looking for ways to address the difficulties affecting the agriculture sector. The hon. Member for South Suffolk said that our decision to defer the charges for cattle passports for the next three years was unimportant. In my first few weeks as a Minister, that issue was raised with me at every meeting, so I know that the decision to defer those charges was extremely welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's point is extremely well made. I am in favour of the Government getting on with the task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's point is extremely well made. I am in favour of the Government getting on with the task— [Interruption.] The Deputy Prime Minister does not like it. He delegates responsibility to others to produce a decision, yet when he has to make a decision, he flies in the face of those who advise him otherwise. He may not like to be reminded of his decision, but he made it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "tulate the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) on the way in which he introduced the debate. He did it non-controversially and briefly, for which we are grateful in such a short debate. I welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill) to the Dispatch Box. I always thought that I was his mentor, but he has given that job to my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " There should be a proper investigation of every SPAD incident. All drivers involved in such incidents should be properly accountable for them and should be properly trained so that they do not take them as lightly as they have done in the past. Another common misconception is that somehow the previous Government did not introduce the proper train protection and warning systems, or the ATP system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ng schoolchildren crossing busy roads, with too many cars driven by a single adult coming to drop off and pick up children. That is environmental nonsense. I wish to suggest to the Minister and to the Deputy Prime Minister, if only he were listening instead of talking, a good scheme that was pioneered in my constituency 15 years ago. The dial-a-ride bus is a good model for the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Transport Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "nly he were listening instead of talking, a good scheme that was pioneered in my constituency 15 years ago. The dial-a-ride bus is a good model for the rest of the country. [Interruption.] I wish that the Deputy Prime Minister would listen to what I am saying about a sensible system that works, instead of muttering. A group of mothers could dial up the bus instead of all driving their cars singly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-20", "file": "debates1999-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8fbee1fc0c336e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Ricky Reel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. McDonnell) to wait a moment before opening the debate. Would those hon. Members who are not staying for the debate please leave quickly and quietly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-20a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": ", but I remind the hon. and learned Gentleman that he fought the last election on an early election pledge:—fast track punishment for persistent young offenders by halving the time from arrest to sentencing\". He may conveniently have forgotten that, now that he is a Minister. Perhaps he could tell us when that will happen; it has not happened early. Labour has now been in government for 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Mitrokhin Archive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be appointed by the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "hould take the advice of those who have the important job of ensuring the accountability of the agencies on behalf of Parliament, namely members of the ISC. When the original proposals were made, there was no oversight committee of any kind. Let me add that I find it difficult to work out how, in practice, a Select Committee could operate any differently from the way in which the ISC is operating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "n the nomination of their members. I personally should like a much more independent Committee of Selection deciding who should serve on Select Committees by looking at the credentials of the Members who apply. We want Members nominated to a Select Committee because of their particular expertise or interest in the subject concerned, rather than because they have been nominated by the Whips' Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Procedural Consequences of Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "The way in which to resolve the issue would be for the Government to say, without equivocation, that, where there is a dispute, they would accept the Procedure Committee's comments, which would override the memorandum of understanding. The report is what Parliament has said, and it is what we are debating. We are taking note of what the Procedure Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Procedural Consequences of Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "e Government's view, apparently, is that Scottish Members of Parliament should continue to vote on English Bills. As they stated in their White Paper: Scotland's Members of Parliament will continue to play a full and constructive part in the proceedings of the House of Commons. That view is not supported by public opinion in Scotland, and it is certainly not supported by public opinion in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Procedural Consequences of Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Populous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "d. As has been said in the debate, we have enacted a variable-geometry devolution, and each part of the United Kingdom has its own system and powers. Scotland and Wales—and eventually, I hope, also Northern Ireland—will have powers to determine how they, as constituent parts of the Union, should be administered. However, the largest and most popular country in the United Kingdom has no such power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Procedural Consequences of Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asserts that I have abandoned my prepared speech, but I intend to go through it page by page. This is a website extract from the Procedure Committee report and it presents a sequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-21", "file": "debates1999-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "11aacf4f8511ef7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Procedural Consequences of Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "tled \"The Scotland Office Rip-Off', which outlines the expanding costs of the office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, and I have referred already to section 96 of the Scotland Act. My speech is crafted on AS paper and written in my own hand. The next page is entitled \"Grand Committee\", so I am about to address the issue about which the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun is so concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-21a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his generous welcome. I know that it was not well meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill (Suspension)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "e rather flimsy excuses of what happened back in 1986 and on what may or may not happen in the United States, without the counter-balance of an independent inspector with the power to award compensation? That is a major issue which should have been resolved some time ago, but has not been. The timing under the Bill of the competition objective principle that we should like to see is extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.725.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill (Suspension)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has just come in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.733.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Thursday Sittings", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Don't encourage him!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sittings in Westminster Hall", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ul to the four Members who are assuming additional responsibilities. It may not be a matter for the Minister, but will the Chairmen's Panel need reinforcement if some of the existing Chairmen are diverted into other responsibilities? If they are to be additional Deputy Speakers, and I think that the Deputy Speakers are paid for their work in that role, I wonder whether any additional remuneration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sittings in Westminster Hall", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "Let me try to take my hon. Friend with me. I agree that he is a great parliamentarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-25", "file": "debates1999-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cb5269dd5998801c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sittings in Westminster Hall", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "The Minister has provoked me. In fact, I wear three hats. If the motion is passed, I shall be wearing four hats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-25a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I will answer that question directly. However, I observe in passing that for the Home Secretary to accuse anyone on either side of the House of evasion is somewhat rich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " about the shadow Chancellor's attitude to police spending. My right hon. Friend has promised me that, when we return to Government, we will reverse the decline in police numbers. We will do that without smoke and mirrors, without blaming officials and without hiding behind chief constables. We will reverse the decline—that pledge from the future Chancellor of the Exchequer is absolutely specific.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "uits, no this and that—remain to us when the Government leave office, we will make that up to the number that there were when we left office. That could hardly be clearer. Returning to the radio project, I was asking the Home Secretary for his estimate of the cost. He tried to distract me from that point, but I will not be distracted. Is the project compulsory? How much will he give police forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "t, whereas we left him with a figure of less than 40,000 a year? Does he admit that that is due to his policies? He alone decided not to implement the safe list and procedures against illegal working. He alone decided to grant an amnesty to 20,000 asylum seekers. He alone decided that—not his officials, not the Opposition, not the international community—so let him have the guts to acknowledge it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary added to a new computer system in Croydon a complete relocation. As I have said, although the right hon. Gentleman has tried to cover it up, that resulted in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.5", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Lady has pointed out, the number of asylum seekers has risen from 30,000 to nearly 80,000. Does she accept that, when the brief for the new computer system in Croydon was given to Siemens, it assumed a maximum of about 50,000? That could not satisfactorily embrace the needs of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.7", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The system did not take account of the crisis in Yugoslavia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.8", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "a case against the Government and their handling of the problem. Having increased the number of applications, they imposed a relocation on top of that. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman had thought through what he said—although I had given him a good deal of time to consider it, because I did not immediately allow him to intervene. Finally, let me deal with the issue of the Mitrokhin archive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.820.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "rs. Its record in opposition as well as in government is as incredible as it is incoherent. Let me deal with each of the points that are raised in the motion. I understand that it is a general omnibus Home Office debate and look forward to any questions that my right hon. and hon. Friends may have about the attitude of the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald to fox hunting. I deal first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.7", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady had 30 minutes in which to make her speech, but evidently felt that she had not made her points properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.7", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady had 30 minutes in which to make her speech, but evidently felt that she had not made her points properly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am addressing the issue of police numbers. If the right hon. Lady wants to go back, the fastest rate of increase in police numbers occurred between 1974 and 1979, when they increased by 2,000 annually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.823.6", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman after I have developed this point. Against the background of falling police numbers, I spoke to my good and close friends in the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.823.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.827.4", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ost incompetent public policy decision, because there are so many to choose from. We saw \"The Major Years\" last night, and it offered a cornucopia of incompetence which defies belief, and sometimes memory. None the less, I ask my hon. Friends to try to choose the single most incompetent set of policies. There was the poll tax, the Child Support Agency and, sadly, the privatisation of the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "f information. She criticised me—the champion of freedom of information, as everyone knows—for flawed plans. Yet that is the same Conservative party of BSE and arms to Iraq; the Conservative party which at the last election said that there was no need for a Freedom of Information Act\", which it said was of interest only—I have warmed to this idea, by the way—to inquisitive, left-wing busy-bodies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ed. It is as if she and her colleagues at central office now want to airbrush out of history her record and that of the last Conservative Government. It is no wonder that a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer said on television last night of the Conservative party: it is a party beyond hope\". By contrast with the Conservative party, this new Labour Government deliver on their promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ere were fewer officers. In 1995, it was neither our party nor the Labour party, which pledged—in the words of the then Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major)—5,000 more police officers, yet by the end of the Tory Administration, there were fewer officers. The truth is that, during the Tory Administration of 1992 to 1997, as the promises went up, police numbers went down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "the Labour party, which pledged—in the words of the then Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major)—5,000 more police officers, yet by the end of the Tory Administration, there were fewer officers. The truth is that, during the Tory Administration of 1992 to 1997, as the promises went up, police numbers went down. [Interruption.] The Conservatives deny that, but it is a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "00 more police officers, yet by the end of the Tory Administration, there were fewer officers. The truth is that, during the Tory Administration of 1992 to 1997, as the promises went up, police numbers went down. [Interruption.] The Conservatives deny that, but it is a fact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"] Whatever figures one takes between 1992 and 1997, although there are disputes as to the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am aware of how the Conservative party voted when it came to push and shove: it voted against the NHS. Conservative Members entered the No Lobby 51 times. Indeed, some Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " it, where they want it—and we want it on the national health service. The Opposition motion is the product of a strange Conservative form of selective amnesia. Since the Conservative party's visit to Blackpool, there seems to have been an outbreak of it. First, on that occasion, the Conservatives forgot even to mention their former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "Having heard the hon. Member for North Devon (Mr. Harvey) speaking on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, I cannot help observing—this is an old one but a good one—that in the health debate, the Liberal Democrats have bladder trouble again. I am talking about a continuation of the longest \"pee\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "I find it amazing that the hon. Gentleman is pointing out the very well known fact that we believe that health resources should be allocated on the basis of need. Yes, we do, absolutely, and we are proud of it. I shall come to the funding allocation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the health service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "Yes, there is a crisis in the national health service, but it is not only there. I must inform the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Ms King) that there is also a crisis in education in Southend, where class sizes are growing and we do not have enough places for our secondary schoolchildren. There is a crisis in policing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-26", "file": "debates1999-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a762987ef2ae709e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "Bow (Ms King) that there is also a crisis in education in Southend, where class sizes are growing and we do not have enough places for our secondary schoolchildren. There is a crisis in policing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the health service?\"] I shall come to the health service in a moment. There is a crisis in foreign affairs, but, above all, there is a real crisis in the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-26a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan W. Williams", "preceding_text": "all review each of them briefly, but critically. We have made good progress on energy efficiency. An extra £150 million has been allocated to the home energy efficiency scheme, and young, unemployed people are being recruited to the environmental task force to work on the homes of the elderly and the poorest people. The scheme cares for the elderly and provides employment and it is good socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "g over large green areas and, inevitably, the loss of much tree cover. Giving effect to such proposals would be extremely dangerous. The hon. Member for East Carmarthen and Dinefwr specifically mentioned various parts of the country that once had many trees. Our remaining areas covered by trees are precisely those that the Department's own planning inspectors are advising should be concreted over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.986.10", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Pig Industry", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "s to one side following the highly partisan approach that has been taken today. I accept that we have had accusations of many kinds levelled at us, including complacency, but Ministers have met many pig producers—our main concern today—who understand the complexities of the situation and who realise that, far from trying to run away from the issue, we are addressing it continuously and constantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.986.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.986.10", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Pig Industry", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "egretted the Commission's withdrawal in September of the private storage aid scheme and the special export refunds to Russia. Last week, as a result, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture wrote to Commissioner Fischler to press for reintroduction of the private storage aid scheme and for the restoration of the special export refunds to Russia. Some points raised by Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.986.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "earn the difference between an easy headline and a good policy. He wants to start a trade war. Having given us BSE and the beef war, the Conservatives now want a trade war. That is not a sensible policy. Listen to the words of the National Farmers Union today. Ben Gill said: I actually feel let down by those politicians who seek to make … cheap political gain at my and my members' expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and my members' expenses. [Interruption.] Just listen to this. Conservative Members do not want to hear it. Mr. Gill went on to say: I want to resolve this issue in a positive way without a full blown trade war. The right hon. Gentleman must decide whether he wants to carry on advocating a policy that would be suicidal for British commercial interests in Europe or to adopt a sensible policy that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Parliamentary Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I freely confess to my right hon. Friend that not every word of the Scotland Act is etched on my memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1030.4", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Parliamentary Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that will not be for a year or two yet. Much is often made of Parliament's ancient power to commit anyone to prison for a serious contempt. However, that has not happened since 1880. Does anyone seriously contemplate that the House, without due process of law, would do it now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1030.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Parliamentary Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "way. We must realise that the rights that had to be protected in 1689 were considerably different from those of 1999. It is a question of balance. The most important part of the Committee's report is on page 2 of the executive summary, which states: The Joint Committee concluded that corruption, a serious and insidious offence, can only be dealt with effectively by using the police and the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-27", "file": "debates1999-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "9487afe1256cefe6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1074.9", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Parliamentary Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am putting a Question to the House. Is it the House's pleasure that the motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-27a.1074.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1075.14", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1075.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "ened to the hon. Gentleman on that issue, if not about anything else. I am afraid that, as usual, the hon. Gentleman is looking at the problem in the wrong way. He needs to consider the big picture. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has already said, more than 100,000 young people have secured jobs. They have regained hope—which would never have happened under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1115.5", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "A routine bilateral meeting was arranged for Saturday which, I regret, the French Agriculture Minister has had to cancel because the French Prime Minister has asked him to accompany him on another overseas visit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have also written to all LEAs about beef, emphasising the quality and safety of British beef. Last week, I met an all-party delegation of Northern Ireland representatives—including the hon. Member for West Tyrone (Mr. Thompson), who is present, and his hon. Friend the hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley); I hope that I can describe the latter hon. Gentleman as the other's hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "debate on agriculture in Government time. One such issue is labelling. I welcome the Minister's announcement of proposed new guidance, but I regret that it has taken a long time to appear. The issue has been raised in every agriculture debate in which I have taken part in the past year. The Conservative party has been calling for honesty in labelling for the whole of that time and, indeed, longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "NO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "preceding_text": "ation farmers in my constituency are going bankrupt, losing their business, their livelihood and their homes, and not only making themselves redundant, but putting their family members out of work. I, for one, am not prepared to stand in the Chamber and score petty party political points, or to jump on the nearest Euro-sceptic bandwagon in an effort to use this tragedy to fuel your own prejudices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Breed", "preceding_text": " and not only making themselves redundant, but putting their family members out of work. I, for one, am not prepared to stand in the Chamber and score petty party political points, or to jump on the nearest Euro-sceptic bandwagon in an effort to use this tragedy to fuel your own prejudices— [Interruption.] I deplore those who try to do so, and I hope that the constituents who are listening to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "preceding_text": " Woodhead farm. He is particularly knowledgeable about agriculture because he is the milk committee chairman for the Scottish National Farmers Union. As my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries (Mr. Brown) said, we cannot overestimate the importance of agriculture to the Scottish economy. In fact, about one job in 10 in Scotland relies on agriculture. The landscape, traditions and rural way of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Cran", "preceding_text": "ot understand what is happening in the British countryside—especially in east Yorkshire. Farmers in east Yorkshire are suffering the Worst Agricultural Depression for decades. They are not my words but those of the NFU, which clearly I must heed. I read that, on Wednesday last week at the Beverley market, calves were sold for £1 a piece—to be fair, two were sold for £2 and another was sold for £3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": " been investigating the matter. The report said that the practice was not widespread but that it was illegal and unacceptable. However, as we have heard from my right hon. Friend the Minister, it does not give us a legal basis to ban meat. A trade war is not in our interests. I fail to understand why the Conservative party seems to think that the way to deal with those who are acting illegally is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-28", "file": "debates1999-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc132313b7455cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "e Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard) and the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff), agreed with me on that, as did the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry), in a very sensible speech. The Conservative party's chances of being electable are limited as long as people of the quality of the right hon. Gentleman are kept off the Front Bench because of the party's extreme policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-28a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-29", "file": "debates1999-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8cac52974adb1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "t Committee on National Heritage that it would be \"a tax on innovation\". It is the only time this morning when I shall agree with him. I hope that the Government will not go towards the digital poll tax. It would be entirely wrong for all sorts of reasons, and quite unnecessary. I pick up a point that the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) made—I think it was him; I hope it was—about subtitles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-29", "file": "debates1999-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8cac52974adb1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Audit Office a formal role in ensuring that the BBC gives value for money. When I had a rather nice dinner with BBC bosses some time ago at our party conference, they did not welcome the idea, saying that it would infringe their independence. It should be possible for the National Audit Office to be seen to be independent of the Government, yet still ensure that the BBC gives good value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-10-29", "file": "debates1999-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d8cac52974adb1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " That is not healthy for the country or for media control. I did not mind the Prime Minister going to meet Mr. Murdoch on the other side of the world down in Australia before he was elected, but he should have offered lots of promises and then stripped him of his press control a week after coming to power, or at least reduced his market penetration. In any case, the Prime Minister did not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-10-29a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-01", "file": "debates1999-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f7302048e76d974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Police Retirement Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It was a Labour gain. I wish the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) well in my home county. My speech to the Labour party conference was entirely accurate as to the effect of the 5,000 officers being additional—the inaccuracy was that the baseline information that I provided was 4,000 too low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.6.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-01", "file": "debates1999-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f7302048e76d974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Police Retirement Rates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows that I dislike the fact that there was an error in the original figures I gave, not least because it led to the most outrageous claims that I had tried to mislead the Labour party conference and the public, which I had not done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-01", "file": "debates1999-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f7302048e76d974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Police Retirement Rates", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I will pass over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-01", "file": "debates1999-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f7302048e76d974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Police Establishment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blame them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "decisions to make about where to put them. I am aware of what has happened to police numbers in Sussex. I take one period. Between 1995 and 1998, Sussex received a 12.5 per cent. increase in its budget and numbers went down, but numbers have gone up in some forces that had either the same or a lower increase. That is where chief constables' decisions on how to allocate resources make a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-01a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Housing (South-East)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rapson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rapson", "preceding_text": "I was incensed when I read in a newspaper that I had refused to sign the letter. I do not even recall receiving an invitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.282.6", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": ", the right hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram)—that there is no diminution in our concern for the Caribbean banana producers and the other Commonwealth countries. The position is quite the reverse. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has visited the Caribbean, and we have set up a Caribbean forum to discuss the problems of the region. I have visited the Caribbean on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.282.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hope", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for that answer. I recently visited Vietnam and saw at first hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.283.7", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Heal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Heal", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for her answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.283.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "recisely why we have some of the best economic circumstances that the country has seen for years. If we went down the alternative path of the Opposition's amendments to the Finance Bill, it would mean £7 billion of lost revenue. However, the Opposition have also tabled amendments to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill totalling an extra £4 billion social security spending. That makes £11 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to extend any form of means testing to incapacity benefit is wrong. We have extended means testing to other forms of contributory benefit, and of course incapacity benefit is taxed. In the end, it comes down to the simple question of how we spend the money that we propose to spend on disability and welfare. For example, during this Parliament we shall spend an extra £2 billion on disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s and the opportunity to take a break from their responsibilities. Those reforms mean that more disabled children get help with mobility, and there is more help for severely disabled people, more help with rehabilitation for those people who want to work, and more help with retention so that those developing a disability can stay in their job. That is a good package for disabled people as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ilities. Those reforms mean that more disabled children get help with mobility, and there is more help for severely disabled people, more help with rehabilitation for those people who want to work, and more help with retention so that those developing a disability can stay in their job. That is a good package for disabled people as a whole. [Interruption.] To Conservative Members who are shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is extremely time consuming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is complete nonsense. The £40 billion for schools and hospitals is extra money over and above the present allocation. Expenditure during our first two years in office, including that extra money, has been more generous than Conservative spending plans. The hon. Gentleman belongs to a party that wants to cut money for schools, hospitals, the police and transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Time is up. I call Mr. Gummer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "I have already accepted an intervention from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "ceived a letter, a fax, a telephone call or an e-mail in support of the proposals. I do not know of an organisation of or for disabled people that supports them; indeed, I do not know of any organisation that supports them. I cannot find a member of the Government's disability rights task force who supports them. I have had some difficulty finding hon. Friends who honestly support these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "ed through an occupational pension will lose 73p. The Secretary of State told us that the taper of 50 per cent. was low for the benefits system—the Department of Social Security could be much nastier in means-testing. It set one of 50 per cent. or more on the working families tax credit and 60 per cent. on housing benefit. It is set one of 73 per cent. for people who save through company pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "We have heard some outright nonsense this afternoon, and I cannot resist addressing much of it. The welfare state was created 50 years ago, and times have changed. We are asked why it is right to look at this matter—it is right because the conditions are different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Lady that she is not alone in that thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell the truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. I shall underline it by telling the House about a telephone call that I received recently from a lady in Bromsgrove who worked for 30 years and is now on incapacity benefit. I was glad to be able to reassure her that the Government's iniquitous proposals will not affect her because they do not apply to existing claimants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "etime. I think of my constituents who suffer from multiple sclerosis and who are desperate to continue working but do not receive beta interferon despite promises that a new Labour Government would fund the drug and enable sufferers to work for longer. They will be offended by the Government's proposals. Their entitlement will be much reduced because the qualifying period will be only three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Audrey Wise", "preceding_text": "lation. I commend to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State the words \"at least\". As my hon. Friend the Member for Perry Barr will tell him, if he does not already know, that was the phrase that we used to improve the position of taxpayers in 1977 and for many more years to come. After the issue received the exposure that we gave it, no Chancellor dared do other than raise the tax thresholds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levitt", "preceding_text": "y having to leave the work force early owing to incapacity. 6.30 pm Some people—increasing numbers over the years—have catered for such an eventuality by taking matters into their own hands and investing in occupational pensions. Some of them—a tiny number, I admit—receive occupational pension incomes that are higher than the salary of Back-Bench Members of Parliament. I do not begrudge them that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ligibility, but millions of people who are currently still working might have a say, as might current pensioners. The handling of this matter in the past was unfortunate and I appreciate the distress that has been caused. I appreciate also the massive media attention, which has come a bit late in the day. If the media had reported the changes over the years, we would not be in this position today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "e of a pension scheme is to provide a secure income in retirement. Valuable tax privileges are accorded to pension arrangements. The grand total of tax relief—which is essentially the Government's contribution to pension schemes in this country—stands at £11 billion a year. That is the Government's contribution to the pension scheme kitty and it makes the general public value saving for a pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "said here and in the other place, and ensure that that is properly addressed in the review. To expand on my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), the amendment on its own would cost the MOD less than £15 million a year extra. That £15 million would cover the cost of paying all service widows pensions for life, irrespective of whether the service was attributable or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.401.12", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "s of changes. First, it implements the recommendations of the Select Committee on Delegated Powers and Deregulation. Secondly, it clarifies that all claimants have the right to appeal against, or ask for a review of, a personal adviser's decision that they have failed to take part in an interview. It also makes a minor technical change to support joined-up government in the ONE service. All those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.401.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "e would not be affected by the legislation, but someone who works for a long period for a single client, sitting at a desk in the client's office, as part of a team consisting of a mixture of contractors and permanent employees, all doing identical jobs, should pay the same tax and national insurance as those permanent employees. It is wrong that the act of setting up a one-man company can enable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-03", "file": "debates1999-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4aac1b3c64213", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. After nearly two decades in this place, may I ask you please explain how, after a vote on the composition of the Committee, those who voted against its proposed composition can serve on it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-03a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " enterprise centres is to seek partnerships with people outside universities in knowledge-based industries? Why did he not make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Social Security to prevent the regulations on IR35 from going through? I have received—as, I am sure, have many hon. Members—representations from many people in the knowledge-based industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I had the great pleasure recently of opening the business park at Nottingham-Trent university, where three of the four companies incubated by the university are recipients of SMART fund awards. It is an excellent programme, and its evaluation has shown that it contributes significantly to high knowledge-based start-ups in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.481.5", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No, the OECD analysis refers to some relatively out-of-date figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.481.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I cannot undertake to find time for my right hon. Friend to make a further statement on that issue during the next few days, although, of course, if he has a major announcement to make, no doubt he will do so. However, I fear that the hon. Gentleman is whistling in the wind; most people recognise the extreme competence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ally, that would be criticised, because Ministers have often failed to do it. However, it is particularly important in this case because the money resolution carries with it significant implications. I would have thought it a proper courtesy to the House—and essential to the debate—that the Minister explained the background to the money resolution, and gave some indication of the amounts involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I meant the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst. Before he hastens to the Library to check that information, may I deal with the other questions raised by Opposition Members? I was asked how much money was involved. That entirely depends on how much the functional bodies wish to borrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.504.4", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "dy elected on a separate mandate should have the power to remove someone elected by the people of London whom they simply dislike. I should have thought that Opposition Members would be only too well aware of the unfortunate consequences of going down that route. At the end of last year and the early months of this, we saw an extraordinarily banal process develop on the other side of the Atlantic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.504.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Not at all; and the mayor would be absolutely right in saying, \"I am not guilty.\" However, would it be in the best interests of London government for the mayor to stay in office throughout those investigations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "As always, we benefit from the great advice and sagacity of the right hon. Gentleman, who entertains us with his insights into politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "ory-Liberal Democrat coalition proposes that 19 of the 25 members should have the ability to remove from office somebody who might have secured the votes of 1 million, 2 million or more Londoners—by methods that could be subject to political intrigue reminiscent of the behaviour of Republicans in the United States. It is a pity that the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) is not present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that information. I remember banging on doors in my hon. Friend's constituency to get him re-elected—in a campaign of which the Conservatives thought so much they did not even put up candidates. I shall not delay the House any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "at if we have a wrong 'tin as mayor?\" Bringing in personalities would do the argument no service, so leaving out all such arguments, why would we want to get rid of a mayor? If he had gone mad, section 28 and the other restraining sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 would give us more than enough powers to certify him, and that would take him out, just as it would anybody else in public office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I do not represent Greater London so I hesitate to take part in this debate, but it is an important constitutional matter. We are creating a uniquely powerful post. For some years I was both a London borough councillor and a member of the Greater London council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "When I introduced the debate, I focused on the key issue—whether there should be a means for the Assembly to remove a mayor from office. I gave examples of when I thought that it would be inappropriate for that power to be available. I did not set out to impugn individuals in any way—except in one aside about one candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "Phone cards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "t any mayor who acts improperly or incorrectly can be held to account. The answer is that, in our legislation, there are. Let me summarise them. First, the mayor is subject to a rigorous system of accountability. He will have to account, on a monthly basis, to the Assembly; twice a year he will be subject to open questioning at people's question time; he will have an annual state of London debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " of accountability. He will have to account, on a monthly basis, to the Assembly; twice a year he will be subject to open questioning at people's question time; he will have an annual state of London debate— [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) seems to regard a people's question time as beneath his dignity. I am sure that he would not expose himself to the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ountability. In addition to the explicit arrangements for accountability, as everyone knows, the mayor will be subject to regular scrutiny by the media and the public of London. There is also a budgetary provision under which the Assembly will have the power to veto the mayor's budget if it regards it as unsatisfactory. That provision is a safeguard against inappropriate spending, waste and abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " to regular scrutiny by the media and the public of London. There is also a budgetary provision under which the Assembly will have the power to veto the mayor's budget if it regards it as unsatisfactory. That provision is a safeguard against inappropriate spending, waste and abuse— [Interruption.] Opposition Members clearly do not wish to listen to the debate and are behaving in a childish manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-04", "file": "debates1999-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "417b2074cf5b4254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.551.11", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "This group of amendments deals with a range of matters relating to the election of the mayor and Assembly. It provides for a system of early voting, amends the Representation of the People Act 1983 to take account of the new electoral arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-04a.551.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-05", "file": "debates1999-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddbab4bd0c32bd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " been a member of the RCN parliamentary panel. I was struck by a survey which reveals that one in five nurses leave their jobs because of inflexible employer practices. The Government have some influence in the public sector and the national health service. If I were the Minister—the Minister for Health, rather than a DTI Minister—I would be interested in finding out more about the survey results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-05", "file": "debates1999-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddbab4bd0c32bd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "am intrigued. What public policy step would the hon. Gentleman take to support marriage? How would he make men and women happier in marriage, thus preventing them from becoming unhappy in their relationships and divorcing? Everyone wants to support marriage, and everyone wants everyone else to be happy, but are there any practical policies to be taken, or is the hon. Gentleman offering mood music?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-05", "file": "debates1999-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddbab4bd0c32bd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "We can all think of particular cases that contradict the rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-05a.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.698.7", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "he time—the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) turned up—but we wonder why the others do not attend, do not vote and do not take an interest. We also wonder why the Minister for Housing and Planning does all the talking, and his right hon. Friend does none, when he is only the campaign manager—an odd role to combine with that of the Minister making such important decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.698.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": ") about the proportion of the Bill considered in relative detail in Committee and the enormous number of amendments to be added with no consideration at all, this could set a dangerous precedent that could be used by a Government who might be tempted to put an entirely new Bill into one that had received detailed consideration and to push it through under a guillotine with no consideration at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " Executive Government and the function of the House of Commons comes down to the fundamental basic job of the House of Commons, which is to debate the public measures and policies put forward by the Executive. In this case, the Executive have decided to create what could be a free-standing Bill in its own right, insert it into the original Bill in the House of Lords and present it to this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Greater London Authority Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "But those may not be the occasions of my choice. I will scrutinise what my right hon. Friend says and support him in his endeavour, but if he is correct, that means that we may be unable to discuss any of the amendments scheduled for debate after 8 o'clock, if we are voting on the other amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I was in the Chamber, but I was somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.749.8", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I shall revert to that. I had intended to go on to the safety issue. Let me deal with that before I deal with the question about the role of the arbiter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.749.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.753.4", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Early pledge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Laing", "preceding_text": "I know; he has forgotten about Ongar. I was given assurances by the hon. Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson)—who might become mayor of London herself—when she was a Minister that the track between Epping and Ongar would be protected as railway track.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.753.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "iven by the mayor to the franchising director. The amendments depend heavily on good will existing between the mayor and the Secretary of State. One could envisage those two being from different political parties, but that would be as nothing compared with the possibility of their being from the same party if the mayor has been elected in spite of his right hon. and hon. Friends in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "We now come to motion No. 3, which I intend to put together with the Questions on the other motions on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-08", "file": "debates1999-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2b4a937bda80ea27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Food Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "May I make a plea, following my hon. Friend's remarks? I do not wish to receive a copy of the document; I should be very distressed if I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-08a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.871.10", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ugh, devolution has nothing to do with it because England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had CMOs before devolution. All that happens is that a consensus is reached on what is best on a United Kingdom basis. On the basis of common sense, most people would see that it is better to move forward together rather than to fragment the approach within the United Kingdom. That is what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.871.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "I hate to say it, but I am going to try to give the Minister a tutorial. The Conservatives want Scottish—and all United Kingdom—farmers to be able to sell their beef in a sensible way. He cannot possibly tell us, when it has been decided by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "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": "entally unfriendly to environmentally friendly technologies and processes. I propose to make available not, as originally announced, £50 million, but in the first year a total of £150 million to support energy efficiency in British industry. With all those measures taken together, Britain is on track to meet our country's Kyoto target. The fuel escalator was inherited from the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " of the damage that he has done to hauliers, so many of whom have already moved abroad? That business is now lost to Britain, and it will not return just because he has made this belated admission. All those taxes erode Britain's competitiveness. Is not the world already tough enough for businesses without them having to carry the Chancellor on their backs as well? The House can rarely have heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The House can rarely have heard a Chancellor speak so complacently of an economy that, last year, missed recession by a whisker and where manufacturing was in recession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ", he said that savings would collapse. Savings are rising; he has got that wrong. Last year, he said that we could not afford £40 billion on health and education. We can afford £40 billion, so he got that wrong. The only thing that is certain about the right hon. Gentleman's predictions is that he always gets them wrong. He is extreme and incompetent; so far right, and now exposed as so far wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m wrong. He is extreme and incompetent; so far right, and now exposed as so far wrong. [Interruption.] They do not like it. His words were \"fantasy forecast\", \"Peter Pan economics\", \"Wonderland politics\", \"false and fairy tale figures\" and \"reckless gambles\"—and he accuses me of trying to make the newspaper headlines. The shadow Chancellor's first question was about tax. The tax burden is falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "on which they will fight the general election. It is hardly surprising, because he was one of the architects of boom and bust. He was at the Treasury from 1990 to 1992, as spending went out of control and interest rates were at 15 per cent. On the Conservative policy on taxation and spending, the shadow Chancellor tells us that he opposed the £40 billion spending on health and education last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I said that we had to increase productivity to the world's best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Benefits Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend knows that the proportion of people on means-tested benefits during the course of their retirement will fall. It will take some time for our pension proposals to take place, because we are talking about saving over the next 30, 40 and 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Benefits Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is the first Conservative—and, for all I know, the only Conservative—to welcome the introduction of free television licences and the help with winter fuel bills. I am glad that he has done so, although it will no doubt occur to him that there is something contradictory in welcoming those while denouncing our public expenditure plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Benefits Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ill not be consoled by the fact that there are now two Conservatives prepared to welcome the Government's initiative in providing free television licences for all 75-year-olds. However, the hon. Lady will have to have a word with the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts). At the Tory party conference, he pledged that a Tory Government would slash social security spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may do that, but she has been elected to reform the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It is no good the right hon. Lady shaking her head in that embarrassed way. We all know the truth. The measure would have sustained a continuation of the burden on the local authorities in Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Behind you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me continue to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.959.6", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I wonder how long the Opposition spent on that. They spent 14 hours trying to weaken the controls on hauliers. The extraordinary U-turns of the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.959.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " highest profile deportation decisions, and on one occasion that even included getting back someone who had already been deported. Fifthly, elsewhere in the immigration system, he said that he would remove the primary purpose rule. Combined, those messages sent out a clear signal to the rest of the world that Britain was a soft touch. By his own figures, he inherited a fall in asylum applications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": " asylum seeker support. Inevitably, that will breed a certain measure of complexity and it poses a real challenge for the practical operation of the scheme. The Government are at serious risk of underestimating how difficult that challenge may prove. If I want to be partisan in the debate, I might say that the Child Support Agency is etched on the memory of many Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.990.4", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerrard", "preceding_text": " will families survive? My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made great play of a commitment that he gave in the summer that families with children would not go into the support system. None the less, they are going into local authority support systems. He said that local authorities would be able to provide cash if they chose, but if they do not have to supply cash to families, that must mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not doing himself justice. We are not talking about house arrest. When we talk about public order and public protection, we are talking about protecting everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "I have been careful not to say that the Bill as a whole is related to the wider issue and the wider build-up of problems. I say simply that the specific measure before us, which the Minister has already said was introduced in response to public order incidents involving fascists over the summer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": ", both Labour and Conservative Members made several practical points. The most humanitarian approach is to speed up applications so that we can deal swiftly with those cases that are unfounded and can grant status to those whose cases are genuine as quickly as possible. Indeed, the Government have shown their commitment to that approach by publishing a consultation document on refugee integration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-09", "file": "debates1999-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "997afc58a9f6e26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Executive and Legislature", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "ith the figures from the same period before that election. I should move on to my right hon. Friend's solution to the so-called problem of centralisation, although I simply do not believe that the problem exists. The solution is to have more free votes. Every Member of Parliament is free to pass through whatever Lobby he or she likes when a vote is held. That is not the basis on which the parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-09a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1114.3", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I was not in post when the proposal was first considered; whether my predecessor was consulted, I cannot say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "I do not have any doubt that that is the case. Let us be clear about the specifics that other Governments have adopted. When you were in government before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1120.6", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "sident of the European Commission has stated that the European Commission should be described in future as the European Government, and that the president of the European central bank has stated that the purpose of European monetary union is, and always has been, to be a stepping stone on the way to a united Europe? Does the Prime Minister agree with those aims? Before he denounces us as minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1120.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Touhig", "preceding_text": "The Tory party destroyed the great industries of Wales, especially coal, which we debated in the Chamber this morning. It never reinvested in reskilling our work force, and it left us a legacy of despair without so much as a second thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "That is not how Labour put it in opposition. That was not the rhetoric then. The right hon. Gentleman's own figures revealed yesterday that there is a £7 billion underspend in the social security budget, yet he is giving the poorest pensioners only 75p more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, in respect of the money that has been saved on social security, the vast bulk is the result, I am pleased to say, of falling unemployment, and of the new deal, which the Liberal Democrats opposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at in this Parliament we are actually spending £2 billion more on the disabled—but we are reforming the welfare state because it needs reform. That is not a promise broken, it is a promise fulfilled. We said before we were elected that we would reform welfare. Indeed, many people said that we would never dare do it, but we did. The purpose of reform is to get the help to people who really need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You voted for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that Lord Levene was saying how well the City was doing under a Labour Government, and I was delighted to hear it. In fact, just as he praised the Labour Government, I believe that he attacked the previous Conservative Government in respect of the exchange rate mechanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, let me give the right hon. Gentleman the facts from the Treasury report. The tax burden will fall next year and the year after. What is more, I have done a comparison with the spending and tax plans in the Conservatives' last Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pending cuts. Hon. Members should not take my word for it. The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) is still, I think, a member of the shadow Cabinet. He is one of the gang running the Tory show nowadays. A few weeks ago, he said: Labour's big mistake was to announce huge increases in public spending. Was it? He continued: The Opposition recommends reducing future spending plans. Do they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n public spending. Was it? He continued: The Opposition recommends reducing future spending plans. Do they? [Interruption.] One of them shouts out \"welfare\". Right, they are going to cut welfare. I shall be generous. I shall leave aside the fact that in the past few days the Opposition have announced£4 billion of extra social security spending. They say that they oppose our extra welfare spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ing plans. Do they? [Interruption.] One of them shouts out \"welfare\". Right, they are going to cut welfare. I shall be generous. I shall leave aside the fact that in the past few days the Opposition have announced£4 billion of extra social security spending. They say that they oppose our extra welfare spending. [Interruption.] Let us have a little bit of quiet. Which spending plans do they oppose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Do the Opposition oppose the working families tax credit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Do the Opposition oppose the working families tax credit? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose child benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Do the Opposition oppose the working families tax credit? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose child benefit? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose the extra money for pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Do the Opposition oppose the working families tax credit? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose child benefit? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose the extra money for pensioners? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose the new deal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "4—the Chancellor said that the shadow Chancellor had just told us that he opposed the extra spending on health and education last year. The Chancellor repeated that in column 905. In this House, we are properly prevented from calling anyone a liar—nor would I ever so call the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whom I greatly respect. However, there is an Alice in Wonderland dimension to those exchanges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am awfully sorry; I would have given way to the hon. Lady earlier, but I have almost finished. If we accept the amendment and put the Bill on to the statute book tonight, we can honestly say that Britain will have taken a massive step forward that is at least a century overdue and has been resisted by the forces of conservatism, with and without a capital C, to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "d no respect for democracy. In any other walk of life, such bizarre behaviour would disqualify a person from involvement in a given activity. Yet the Earl of Burford behaved in that manner in an attempt to defend his right to legislate on the basis of his birthright. It was a bit like the tantrum of a naughty child—and we all know that naughty children who throw tantrums do not get what they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1158.5", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "preceding_text": "I have certainly seen quotations from Hansard in the other place that have clearly shown that Conservative peers were not prepared to abide by the Salisbury convention if it did not suit their purposes. I remember specifically one Conservative peer arguing that it was a constitutional outrage to suggest such changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Jackson", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend was in the Chamber when I made my speech. Does he agree that that account of what I said is an absolute travesty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "Patronage always tends to corrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "the body—political or otherwise—it would be very sensible to cut it off, and there is much precedent for doing so. The House of Lords will be a better place in transition than it has been under the current arrangements. In the transitionary period, it still may not be entirely legitimate but it will certainly be less illegitimate than it has been. It will also hold the promise of a modern Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "No; I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We seek him here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "Yes; I remember the joke about \"The Scarlet Pimpernel\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Ladyman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Ladyman", "preceding_text": "retention of the hereditary peerage. We have heard today that we needed both stages of reform at once. Does anyone seriously believe that if we had proposed a complete reform of the House of Lords in one stage, the Conservatives would not be opposing it today, hook, line and sinker, and that they would not have fought it every step of the way through the House of Lords? Stage 2 reform will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I met him a few times when I served with him in this place and I have talked to him in the Corridor. He does not think in terms of the next election: historically, his family thinks in terms of half a millennium. It is nonsense to think that he could be bought off with a life peerage. I know many hon. Members who could not be bought off with a life peerage—except, of course, my hon. Friend and me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Gentleman's pardon; I really must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "The amendment places the appointments commission on a statutory basis. I remind the House of the Government's commitment to an independent appointments commission set up in accordance with guidelines issued by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and that the commission will be responsible for identifying Cross-Bench peers. The Prime Minister is the first to relinquish his powers of patronage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1212.7", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "he way forward rather than sitting on his hands and taking no part in the debate on the earlier amendment. How the parties choose their members is, of course, a matter for them, but I hope that they will follow our example of openness. The appointments commission will be encouraged to seek nominations from a wide field, including nominations from members of the public—the so-called people's peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1212.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "ments commission established as I have described. Were it not for Lords amendment No. 2, substantial progress would already have been made in establishing the appointments commission. Treasury permission to begin implementation of the commission has already been secured. Indeed, work had already begun in establishing it. However, Lords amendment No. 2 has brought a premature halt to that progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "t. The issue is extremely important in an unelected House. In our democracy, the party system still sometimes provides some variance from the increasingly grey membership. This is a challenge for those who serve on the appointments commission. We must not forget about the people from our industrial areas: the working class people who often do not have the opportunity to be represented in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1231.4", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ly with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) when he spoke of an elected Chamber. I believe in that, and always have. Until we can secure it, however, we must underpin legitimacy in a different way—and one way to do it is by removing the smell of patronage from the process. I believe in democracy. The hon. Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth) sniggers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " historic day. What is so sad is that the establishment—new Labour is the new establishment—will be happy. Everyone is happy. The hereditaries, who have been treated appallingly, have got something out of this. I support the retention of a small number. There should be more—we should have asked for more—but at least some will remain to retain some kind of democratic credibility in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1241.6", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment. This amendment is unnecessary, nasty and will not achieve its objective. It is a mean little amendment that purports to provide an additional safeguard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "trustworthy, at least until they survive a general election, when they miraculously become first class and honourable. When this amendment was debated in the House of Lords, the Conservatives totally failed to explain why they thought that protection against the power of a Government determined to extend their life should be needed now. They tried only two justifications for their approach. First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": " has given us for many years. This is an important and historic day. Many of our friends and colleagues in the upper House will be leaving us shortly. From the Treasury Bench, I want to thank them for their years of service. I wish them well for the future. I want it to be clear to them that my colleagues and friends on the Labour Benches acknowledge the years of service that they have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-10", "file": "debates1999-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f3c160e81c604b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1249.2", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Lords Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "am addressing those colleagues and friends in the House of Lords who have given us years of service. I place on record our thanks to them and wish them well. I wish the new life peers who will now dominate the upper House the same rights, the same traditions and the same responsibilities. Undoubtedly, the new life peers will continue to safeguard our constitution, and the amendment is unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-10a.1249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-11", "file": "debates1999-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b99bfdf0d565cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "two and a half years of opposition. Do they not understand that they lost the election because they never listen to the country? First, we have taken more pensioners out of tax. Secondly, we have reduced the savings tax rate to 10p: I would expect the Conservative party to support that. Thirdly, we have reduced the basic rate of income tax from 23p to 22p, in order to help all pensioners. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-11", "file": "debates1999-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b99bfdf0d565cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1290.4", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " they not? In the context of what the House did yesterday—to the House of Lords Bill in particular—and their Lordships' deliberations on that Bill today, we have to make our own judgment about any Messages from the Lords\", to which the motion refers, and whether to adjourn the House. We must give some thought to the possibilities that exist of their Lordships making further amendments to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1290.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-11", "file": "debates1999-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b99bfdf0d565cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hold it up; that is his script.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman enlighten me? I fail to see the logic of his position and that of his hon. Friends. My understanding of the motion on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-11", "file": "debates1999-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b99bfdf0d565cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray, he can read.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman enlighten me? I fail to see the logic of his position and that of his hon. Friends. My understanding of the motion on the Order Paper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hold it up; that is his script.\"] It is not a script, it is the Order Paper. My understanding of the motion before us is that Madam Speaker shall not adjourn the House\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-11a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ills and dales, as well as the rural parts of the coastal plain. I therefore often permitted myself a wry smile when, as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, I was frequently told that I had no knowledge or experience of the countryside. My constituency—as those hon. Members who know it realize—is dominated by one massive, magnificent, unique, and sometimes brooding and dangerous presence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "preceding_text": "tle United football club all my life. As an inexperienced Government Back Bencher, I am pleased that fell walking and climbing have taught me always to choose my foothold carefully. I know that it will be difficult to walk the narrow political path between whingeing and sycophancy. I shall probably need some tutorials from my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) before I get it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "se he went on to do a job in the Cabinet Office that did not really exist. That did not seem to worry the right hon. Gentleman, however, and one of the charming things about him is that he is an eternal optimist. I remember him visiting the Ribble Valley by-election campaign in 1991 and confidently telling everyone that Labour would win. The Labour candidate got 4,300 votes out of the 46,100 cast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "pends in this country. As Lady Richard revealed recently, the Deputy Prime Minister has even been chairing Cabinet meetings. She says in her diary for a Cabinet meeting on 19 June: Blair said he was in favour of the Millennium Dome and then disappeared, leaving John Prescott in charge. The meeting fell apart. The Deputy Prime Minister reminds me a little of an ageing Soviet leader in the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "rgets but on actual medical need. There should be Bills to bring about a revolution in crime fighting to prevent the rise in crime. There should be a Bill to protect the homes and assets of people who have saved for their long-term care. There should be help for working women to take career breaks to look after their children, with family scholarships to help them if they want to get back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "none the less he was liked by Members in all parts of the House. We all thought, in the end, that he brought something special to British politics. I join the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) in congratulating the mover and seconder of the Address. The speech by my right hon. Friend the Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) was a model of the way in which to move the Loyal Address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d my Chief Whip is—it is the only planted intervention that I have had from the Conservative party. First, I thank the hon. Gentleman for those plaudits for our management of the economy. Secondly, those who are best able to decide about the euro—subject to the consent of the British people—are those who produced this benign economic situation, not those who wrecked the economy with boom and bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not for long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "who wrecked the economy with boom and bust. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] Thank you. The new stability was delivered only by Bank of England independence and by new borrowing and spending rules. Given that the Leader of the Opposition has had two and a half years to work out his policy on Bank of England independence, I presume that it is present Conservative policy. The present shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed with another 10,000 to come through the new deal. Class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds are falling. For the first time in 10 years, in all our schools, the pupil-teacher ratio is on the way down. In two years, we have doubled the number of specialist schools and 200 beacon schools are being set up to spread excellence nationwide. The literacy and numeracy strategies in primary schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am just trying to find out who is responsible for their policy. Do they still oppose the extra £100 to pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am just trying to find out who is responsible for their policy. Do they still oppose the extra £100 to pensioners? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] Do they still want to opt out of the social chapter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am just trying to find out who is responsible for their policy. Do they still oppose the extra £100 to pensioners? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] Do they still want to opt out of the social chapter? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] Do they? Do they still oppose the literacy and numeracy strategy for schools? They are definitely still in favour of scrapping the new deal, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Norway\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tates will accept the Conservative proposal as a basis for negotiation—not because of ideological federalism, but because it does not make sense. The Tories say—this is the right hon. Gentleman's policy—that they will block any change to the European Union, including enlargement, if the renegotiation claim is not met. There is not one other member of the European Union that agrees to that—not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.30.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Everyone is leaving.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "vestment in the tube that we need and the system will fall apart. The Queen's Speech carries on the programme of radical reform of the constitution through measures on party funding and freedom of information, and measures on welfare, criminal justice, public services and the economy. It is a Queen's Speech that promotes modernisation, but, more than anything else, it illustrates the stark choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.32.6", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Along with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows more than I about that matter, because he introduced an admirable Bill in the previous Session, which unfortunately did not get through Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-17", "file": "debates1999-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fe0208adb71e8848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " education, class sizes in my constituency have risen despite the Government's promises. Our excellent grammar school is under threat because of the rigged balloting system that the Government have introduced. What is in the Queen's Speech on education? The Government are going to destroy our training and enterprise councils and bring in an alternative system. The TECs have worked incredibly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-17a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "gham (Mr. Redwood) on the \"Today\" programme this morning, it appears that the sole job of the Opposition is simply to oppose, even if it means changing their policies along the way or, indeed, doing exactly the opposite to what they did in government or what they promised to do in government. They seem to have a new park-and-ride policy: they park the old policy and ride the new one in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ould correct that statement: they huffed and puffed but failed to get agreement on legislation. They did not make it any better. People demand leasehold reform because the Tories did not deal with the problem. That is why we have agreed to introduce the measure. Perhaps they can explain to people in the forthcoming by-election how they have done enough and why they do not need to support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " a democratic vote. Will the right hon. Gentleman give the House two guarantees? First, will he guarantee that every member of the Labour party in London will get a vote on the Labour mayoral candidate? Secondly, will he back the Prime Minister in saying that the hon. Member for Brent, East reminds us of the extremism of the 80s—yes or no? Does the hon. Member for Brent, East remind us of the 80s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "f our landscape beyond the towns and cities, and my hon. Friend will stress that in his winding-up speech. The Queen's Speech reveals that new Labour is guilty of deception under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, for there is nothing new about this programme and nothing new about these Ministers. My young and active Conservative Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions team faces a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "e told who will be facing a merry Christmas in the Cabinet? We have a right to know. Is this Labour's new deal for Cabinet members—resign and be offered a job as a mayor? The Opposition think that Labour should stop bashing local government. We believe that if a council wishes to keep a committee structure, in which all councillors can be involved on an even footing, it should be allowed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.145.7", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " The Secretary of State must understand that many of the people who will be seeking new homes in the next decade—there will be many such people—would like to buy modern flats and houses in towns and cities, and it is up to the Government to do a rather better job of freeing up the brownfield sites in the public sector, cleaning them up, making them available and expediting the planning permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.145.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "y Prime Minister as he tried to persuade us that we would benefit from his innovations in local government. In London, the situation is farcical. Everyone knows that the Labour movement wants the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) to be mayor. It is quite evident that he carries the overwhelming support of the Labour movement. So what is his crime? Why are we going through this charade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "llowed to tackle the community's genuine problems. Local councils should be given a power of general competence to enable them to deal with all matters apart from those that they are specifically prohibited from tackling. There should be a fairer funding system, and the introduction of local income tax. There should also be a fairer voting system—to avoid doubt, I mean proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that intervention. He will be aware that his officials have negotiated at Eurocontrol a change in the arrangements in order to facilitate privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. They have that real fear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "e should not do so merely with early retirement schemes, although my farmers would welcome some help in leaving the industry with dignity. It has been months since we first heard from the Government about early retirement schemes, and it would help if some schemes were produced. In addition to early retirement, however, we need subsidies. Now, how can someone like me defend agricultural subsidies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "brought forth unnecessary production, imposed quotas to deal with that, and then imposed huge administration costs—in short, it has distorted the market so as to maximise the subsidies required to keep that market going. I suspect that that opinion is common ground between many Labour Members and many—in fact, almost all—Opposition Members. But none of us knows how to unmake that dreadful machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has just left the Chamber.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "preceding_text": "ntroducing full market forces into air traffic control. Nowhere else has done that: even New Zealand has a state-owned enterprise, and the United States is planning a Government-owned air traffic corporation with private borrowing powers. As I said earlier, the proposal is a gamble that many Labour Members cannot, and will not, support. I give way to my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": " of a queue. That is how the market takes effect. The Government's proposals contain no hint of a recognition that there is a case for a carrot. In rural areas, people could be released from the burden of vehicle excise duty, so long as they did not move out of their drive-to-work area. If they wanted to drive into Birmingham, I could see a sharp case for increasing the cost of access to the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Middlesex?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": ", if he became mayor, he would do something about the fact that London's waste is dumped all over various parts of the home counties. I wrote down his reply, which was as follows: This is a serious issue. We need dialogue on this. I have already spoken to the leaders of Kent and Surrey county councils and in the next few days I am due to have a meeting with the leaders of Middlesex county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-18", "file": "debates1999-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "9543b5ffc18e81c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environment, Transport and the Countryside", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "preceding_text": "ressive maiden speech. He, too, paid tribute to his predecessor, who was popular across the House. In particular, he paid tribute to Roger's important role in Anglo-Irish relations, for which I know he will be remembered here and in Ireland. My hon. Friend is clearly getting the hang of being a Labour Member of Parliament. He praised Mr. Blair, as Labour Members of Parliament are encouraged to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-18a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-19", "file": "debates1999-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "333b6e8fab997885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.247.6", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade and Industry and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looks at the procedure for the order, he will find that, if it had not completed its progress through Parliament and still had not completed its time in the House of Lords, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-19", "file": "debates1999-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "333b6e8fab997885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade and Industry and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for not being able to stay until the end of the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) appeared on \"Question Time\" last night at a distant destination. He is travelling back this morning and hopes to be with us by 11.30. He conveys his apologies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-19", "file": "debates1999-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "333b6e8fab997885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade and Industry and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Demon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "te for the Dispatch Box. The Secretary of State kindly quoted from The Mid Devon Gazette, which is an excellent newspaper that circulates in my constituency. The editor will be pleased if the Secretary of State's comments from the Dispatch Box increase circulation, but if the Secretary of State wants to know what I say and do locally, I have an extremely good website at: www.abrowning.demon.co.uk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-19", "file": "debates1999-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "333b6e8fab997885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade and Industry and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "preceding_text": " to get the economy into shape. Listening to the right hon. Gentleman, one could almost believe that everything had started in 1997, but in fact the recovery from the last economic downturn began in 1992. The present Government were fortunate enough to inherit a golden legacy of five years of growth and falling unemployment, along with an increase in tax revenue as a result of the growing economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-19a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome my hon. Friend to the Front Bench. It is a pleasure to see her there. Does she intend, in the sports strategy, to consider an audit for sports facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ecurity is not arming our frontiers but dismantling barriers to trade, mobility and co-operation. At the same time as the countries of the Balkans are keen to learn the lessons of post-war Europe, here in Britain we are faced with an opposition party that is equally keen to forget them. It would be unreasonable of me to detain the House too long in detailing why Tory policy on Europe is a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " Gentleman later because I am about to refer to him. He should be seated just now. I promise that his turn will come; he is already in my speech. The shadow Foreign Secretary may wish to take the opportunity to respond to such critics of his policy. If he is to be convincing, he must answer one question: can he name a single European member state that supports his demand for a pick-and-mix Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.367.5", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "whole of the European Union—the largest single market in the world, with 370 million consumers. We have to show that we are committed to staying in if we want business men in Tokyo and Texas to show their commitment to investing here. Membership of the largest single market in the world gives Britain a clout in international trade talks that we would never have on our own. For the past two months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.367.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "in the international community to express our condemnation of those regimes who grotesquely violate human rights\". Not, apparently, including China. He went on: Britain will fully support sanctions applied by the international community. Not, apparently, including sanctions on Cuba. He added: At multinational conferences, such as the annual meeting of the Commission on Human Rights, Britain will\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "n: Britain will fully support sanctions applied by the international community. Not, apparently, including sanctions on Cuba. He added: At multinational conferences, such as the annual meeting of the Commission on Human Rights, Britain will\"— [Interruption.] I am coming to Cuba. I have something to say about the right hon. Gentleman's views about Cuba, because he has contradicted himself about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ional community. Not, apparently, including sanctions on Cuba. He added: At multinational conferences, such as the annual meeting of the Commission on Human Rights, Britain will\"— [Interruption.] I am coming to Cuba. I have something to say about the right hon. Gentleman's views about Cuba, because he has contradicted himself about it. [Interruption.] No, there are United States sanctions on Cuba.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ngs of the Commission on Human Rights, Britain will support measures and resolutions which criticise abuses of human rights\". Under his stewardship, Britain, for the first time, failed to sponsor the United Nations resolution on human rights criticising China. He went on: Britain will support the proposal for a permanent International Criminal Court. However, as we have heard again today, not yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "meone else to take the lead on East Timor, and until last week we had nothing to say about Chechnya. I told the Foreign Secretary that I would return to the subject of Cuba. In his party conference speech, he contradicted himself in the space of half a page. Cuba is, of course, one of the left-wing dictatorships for which the Foreign Secretary has a predilection. He said, \"Britain has held talks\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "e Foreign Secretary that I would return to the subject of Cuba. In his party conference speech, he contradicted himself in the space of half a page. Cuba is, of course, one of the left-wing dictatorships for which the Foreign Secretary has a predilection. He said, \"Britain has held talks\"— [Interruption.] I bet the right hon. Gentleman had posters of Che Guevara on his walls when he was a student.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "Not yet; not to the hon. Gentleman, anyway. In his party conference speech, the Foreign Secretary said: I made it clear we want to see better human rights\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.377.14", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "l. We now discover that it was conspired in the Foreign Office. I met Wei Jingsheng during the events of that week. He had been outside Buckingham palace on the pavement, standing peacefully. He had pulled a banner out of his jacket, which said simply, \"Free political prisoners.\" He was grabbed by three policemen, two of whom pinned his arms to his sides. The other tore the banner out of his hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.377.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.380.5", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that is polite cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "n who must be removed from power as soon as possible. Our armed forces performed magnificently. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) has made clear, however, an interesting and important document entitled \"Kosovo: Law and Diplomacy\" by Mark Littman QC confirms that NATO's intervention in Kosovo was unlawful, unnecessary and unsuccessful. If his judgments are correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ne with the Gracious Speech, about what the Government were going to do. Instead, he spent a huge chunk of his speech trying to guess what the Opposition might be doing. He sounded like a man whose greatest fear was the Opposition's return to power. The Foreign Secretary made the accusation that, during the Kosovo saga, the Opposition had not supported early deployment into the surrounding region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-22", "file": "debates1999-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "8b87e637448718e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Because senior representatives of the United States Administration continue to make fairly basic statements, such as The US is for ESDI\". It was the previous Conservative Government who signed up to the idea of a European security and defence identity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-22a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "This is very good news indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.457.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "oung persons. For example, we have pledged that the \"three strikes and you're out\" penalty, which we introduced for those convicted for a third time of pushing hard drugs, will in future extend to those pushing soft drugs when the recipient is a child. Indeed, we are actively considering extending the automatic life sentence for a second offence of pushing hard drugs when the recipient is a child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "No. How many appeals will follow the decisions of magistrates on the venue for trials? Surely that will introduce even more delays into our system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "a moment ago he said, from a sedentary position—from which we have had many contributions—that I had had my 15 minutes. The right hon. Gentleman should make up his mind. What is the Home Secretary doing to allay the substantial fears that the proposals will adversely affect defendants from the ethnic minorities? The Institute of Race Relations said in its response to the Government's consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "First, it is not true to say that the Conservative Government did not seek greater freedom of information. We introduced open government measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "nce has been utterly discredited, and who has still not answered the serious questions that have been raised about his judgment. Why—I ask the right hon. Gentleman this question again, because he will not answer it—did he never correct reports that appeared in the media after his conference speech saying that police numbers would be going up, when he and his friends in the Treasury knew very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Defending Lord Archer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. The right hon. Gentleman seems to be straying into areas that are well beyond both the Queen's Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not want the debate to focus on statistics, but I shall answer the right hon. Lady's questions briefly. From 1979, when the Conservatives took office, to 1997, when they left it, recorded crime rose from 2.5 million crimes to about 4.5 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Euro elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "dums, the Government cannot seek to fix the outcome by weighting the argument with finance in advance. That must be the condition under which referendums are held. We broadly welcome the reforms in the representation of the people Bill, but the Government have failed to include the one thing that would most encourage people to vote, which is for the result to reflect the way in which people voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I think that I am the only Prime Minister in history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Ms Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will not be surprised that I welcome the excellent Queen's Speech and the continuation of the radical changes that we are making in every sphere of government. However, I am in rather rebellious mode at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Ms Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Prentice", "preceding_text": "dinance of King Ethelred II provides that in the gemot of every wapentake\"— I hope that I am pronouncing the mediaeval English correctly— the reeve and the 12 senior thegns should go out and present on oath all whom they believe to have committed any crime. The guilt or innocence of the accused had to be determined by ordeal or compurgation. Thank heavens we no longer have that form of jury trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.569.7", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear on a number of occasions that there will and must be diversity of provision available for those with special educational needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.569.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supreme Court of England and Wales", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Jane Kennedy)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Jane Kennedy)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Maximum Number of Judges Order 1999, which was laid before this House on 1st November, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved. My hon. Friends and comrades who work through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supreme Court of England and Wales", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ave an effect. I am not in a position to answer the question put to me by the hon. Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Burnett) about exactly when the Lord Chancellor will respond to such consideration, although it is urgent. The hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) raised three issues with me. I shall respond to them with as much charm as I am able—perhaps to make up for his lack of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-23", "file": "debates1999-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "17c5013ca592fe03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.588.5", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supreme Court of England and Wales", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 allows us to divert from the Court of Appeal those cases that, by their nature, do not require the attention of the most senior judges. I cannot give a figure to the House today but I shall seek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-23a.588.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"George Cross.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "In awarding the George medal to the RUC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.607.7", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the Liberal Democrats, I congratulate the Prime Minister and his wife on the fact that they are expecting their fourth child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.607.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is simply not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "x cut. I have said that, in our first two years, we had to get rid of a £28 billion borrowing requirement and a national debt that had doubled. As a result of sorting out the fiscal position, we have had the most successful set of economic forecasts that this country has seen for years. If we followed the right hon. Gentleman's proposal, we would return to the boom-and-bust economics of years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is simply wrong, and I will explain why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, it is not. I will take account of the words that the hon. Lady has just spoken in relation to her constituents and look into their cases for her. Let me just tell her in relation to extra spending on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.614.5", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They cannot say at one and the same time that the extra spending that we promised was reckless and irresponsible and that they want more spending. They cannot in particular give the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.617.6", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " it does nothing to ensure that the public accounts are honest and open, nor to prevent the Government from saying one thing and doing another; and call on the Government instead to adopt policies which will engineer a return to the golden economic legacy of enterprise, dynamism and flexibility left by the previous Government. I start by declaring my outside interests, which are registered in the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.617.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ght that a few more regulations here, a bit more tax there and, while they were at it, a few favours thrown in for the trade unions would not matter. For a time it looked all right, but slowly and surely the proof comes through. Productivity is another notable absentee from the policy pronouncements in the Queen's Speech. Last year, the Chancellor thought that it was the factor that mattered most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " it looked all right, but slowly and surely the proof comes through. Productivity is another notable absentee from the policy pronouncements in the Queen's Speech. Last year, the Chancellor thought that it was the factor that mattered most. [Interruption.] He said that it was a fundamental yardstick of economic performance and that poor productivity condemns a nation to being held back. This year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ading our productivity growth? The next part of the great Labour lie is enterprise. Within days of announcing to the CBI tax cuts said to be worth £40 million to entrepreneurs, the Chancellor confirmed his plan to rake in £500 million under his IR35 proposals. It is a bit of a shame that he did not speak first to Mr. Peach from Aberdeen, who wrote to his local Member of Parliament. Mr. Peach said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "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": "We have just heard a rerun of the speech given by the Leader of the Opposition last Wednesday, only without the good jokes. I shall answer, one by one, each of the points made by the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude). The shadow Chancellor said that the economy is doing badly. He wants to sustain the argument that he advanced last year about the state of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.627.4", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " him to answer questions on five fundamental aspects of Conservative economic policy. The shadow Chancellor cannot answer those questions because he always gets it wrong. He said last year that unemployment would rise, but it has fallen by 120,000. He said that employment would fall, but it is up by more than 200,000. He said that there would be a downturn but there has been 1.75 per cent. growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.630.8", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I repeat that the table in the pre-Budget report on net taxes and social security contributions shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.630.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.630.8", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " has fallen from 23p to 20p. Those are Labour tax cuts. The Conservatives pushed tax up to the highest burden in history. Under the Conservatives, there was the fastest rise in taxes. They misled the people in 1992 when they said that they would not impose VAT on fuel, but then did so ruthlessly, punishing pensioners. We have locked in not only action against inflation through the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.630.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Why does the Liberal party not recognise the three measures that we have introduced, the first of which was the £100 winter allowance for every pensioner household—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "measures that we have introduced, the first of which was the £100 winter allowance for every pensioner household— [Interruption.] I do not know whether the Liberal party supports that. Why does it not recognise what we have done for pensioners aged over 75, with the free colour television licence? The week before the pre-Budget report the Liberals said that they did not support that idea any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the Liberal party supports that. Why does it not recognise what we have done for pensioners aged over 75, with the free colour television licence? The week before the pre-Budget report the Liberals said that they did not support that idea any more— [Interruption.] Oh, apparently now they do. They issued a statement saying that they would not support the idea of free television licences; now they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "One example is the complication of the capital gains tax regime. We argued that it would not help, and that it was not only over-complicated but that it tied people in unnecessarily for too long. The Chancellor acknowledged that in the pre-Budget report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor is wrong. We did not oppose the new deal, although we did argue that the windfall tax was not the right way in which to fund those measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "veridge made some great claims for his version of full employment. He claimed that it was consistent with socialism, capitalism and some strange dogma, or theory, which he described as a liberal-collectivist via media. What on earth that means, I do not know. No doubt there is another sermon in it somewhere. However, when I saw it I thought, \"Eureka! I have found the antecedents of the third way.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ruro and St. Austell (Mr. Taylor). He told us his plans for a carbon tax, which would somehow offset the Liberal Democrat pledge to raise the personal income tax allowance to around £10,000. They want to spend more and more, but to cut the tax burden, too. How will they do that? And what on earth would the carbon tax mean? Would it be added to fuel duty? What sort of carbon are they talking about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "levision licence as an over-75-year-old. I suspect that the shadow Chancellor would not be in post for very much longer, in the unlikely eventuality of Michael Portillo winning the Kensington and Chelsea by-election. It will be interesting to see how swiftly he progresses to the Front Bench and exactly whose job he will take. There will probably be much nervousness on the Conservative Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-24", "file": "debates1999-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "1afa78bc07bb3ebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be injured by the hon. Lady. However, there is a 15-minute limit; she undoubtedly has ready a speech that the Whips passed to her earlier, and I know that she will read it out most capably in due course. If she would like to respond to what I have to say during her 15 minutes, I am sure that the House would be pleased. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-24a.698.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "On the subject of food safety, will the Minister tell us whether it is true, as reported in The Mail on Sunday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her question and her comments. She must have gone to a more enlightened school than I did, because I had to choose between domestic science and Latin. Domestic science was not compulsory, but it would have been a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.749.5", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "During the year ending September 1999, the Crown Prosecution Service secured convictions in respect of 9,700—no, 9,000, or rather, that figure should be 972,518—defendants in magistrates courts, amounting to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "arnings and the basic pension. Pensioners, rightly, feel insulted by this year's award of 75p. They correctly point out that the basic pension is not welfare—not a gift from a generous Government—but an entitlement for which they have paid throughout their working lives. They feel rightly contemptuous of some of the Government's other attempts to give them money in the form of a demeaning handout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "pect to my hon. Friend, that was not the promise that we made over the past 20 years. Of course, I understand that pensioners are dismayed. He will realize—as perhaps they are, perfectly understandably, less willing to do—that the scale of the proposed increase is linked to the rate of inflation. It is a consequence of the low rate of inflation that that figure translates into about 75p. He talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and the Regions (Ms Hilary Armstrong)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and the Regions (Ms Hilary Armstrong)", "preceding_text": "nd the details of revenue funding that I am announcing today confirm those totals with minor adjustments. The comprehensive spending review provides local government with the additional resources needed to deliver better services to local people. My right hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment is announcing today the provision of an extra £64 million for education spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "e night and the invitation to a ritual ticking off from the right hon. Lady. They are also intent on keeping so-called refined capping in the shape of the council tax benefit subsidy scheme. Will she acknowledge that the Local Government Association was right when it described that as the nearly poor paying for the really poor\"? In contrast, our policy is to have no capping in the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "aid that she would receive submissions in writing or from local government bodies. However, in answer to written questions tabled by me, and in correspondence, it has emerged that the Minister did not stick to that resolution for very long. Only four or five days later, on 4 November, the Minister met a delegation from Hammersmith and Fulham, which just happens to be a Labour-controlled authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I am concerned about the hon. Gentleman, who seems to have come to this House with amnesia. His statements today show that he has neglected the fact that the previous Tory Government were in power for 18 years and that they introduced the council tax and the uniform business rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "preceding_text": "tury, the Government have the best opportunity since Gladstonian times to show similar vision and to modernise public accountability as they modernise government. In that way, they will be able to meet the ever more demanding needs of the citizen, and to reinforce public confidence in the process of government. That brings me to the centre of my challenge today: to make the House—this packed House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-25", "file": "debates1999-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "87ec77b428c68c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rendel", "preceding_text": "g to the old system when the new system was introduced, causing many further and, to my mind, unnecessary problems. We must ensure that services can continue to be delivered to our fellow citizens whatever happens to a new computer system. Many of the new large systems will be introduced under the private finance initiative, whichever party is in power, even when my party takes over in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-25a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-26", "file": "debates1999-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "02d268a00931ac19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-26a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Government Support for the Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "ce records began, at 0.08 per cent. If the Secretary of State is confused about why, instead of awarding him a crown of laurels, the arts world is blowing raspberries behind his back, he need look no further than those figures. Perhaps he is unaware of the hostility that his policies have aroused in the arts world. It has taken a Labour Government to see the establishment of a shadow Arts Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-26a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that parents will be worse off. It is a parent's obligation to look after their children. The children will be better off. I remind the children—sorry, the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Yes, it was our choice. We kept to those spending limits and the policies of the previous Government will permeate for some time to come. There is no doubt about that. Everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.18.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electronic Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "U-turn.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "be more straightforward if the Minister, instead of putting propositions before the House now to save her face and that of her colleagues, admitted that her Department had made a mistake and that part I was not needed, but said that it would be possible later, if self-regulation was not working, to come back and justify the introduction of part I on the basis of the evidence available at the time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electronic Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "onger employs salesmen to lug heavy tomes from door to door. Instead, it sells student subscriptions to its multimedia website to colleges and universities around the world. Britain can and must be the nerve centre of the worldwide business revolution. This is a world in which there is a mini revolution every week. British businesses will not forgive us if we do not act fast and with a clear head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electronic Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "ial Standing Committees and Special Select Committees, and publishing draft Bills. The Government have consulted endlessly on the Bill that we are considering today. Today's debate has been a bit of an anti-climax for me because when the Government published their initial proposals, I had some major anxieties about them and I imagined myself getting involved in a rebellion and fighting for change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-29", "file": "debates1999-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d379a81aaf082049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electronic Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aha!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "t fees for electronic and paper transactions, and there is no question of the Government pocketing the savings, but we will need to consider the position of the socially excluded. The Bill is flexible and Ministers may view their areas of responsibility differently. No doubt we will return to the point in Committee. While I have time, let me draw attention to the criteria being set for regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-29a.113.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Passengers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "I have to say that, even by the right hon. Gentleman' s normal standards, that was an exceptionally cynical performance. Under the present Government, the number of trains is up by 1,000 a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e Opposition will abolish the regional development agencies, it is interesting to note that, although the Scottish Development Agency and Welsh Development Agency have been very successful, the Conservatives appear to want to deny such an agency for the English regions. However, it may be of comfort to my hon. Friend to learn that in 1979 the Conservatives promised to abolish the Welsh and Scotch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.144.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.148.6", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Help!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "If the issue is one of quality of life and is worthy of an internet guide, why are the Government reducing the particulate emissions targets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Beef on the Bone", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Nick Brown)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I am pleased to be able to announce the Government's intention to lift the retail ban on beef on the bone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Beef on the Bone", "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": " remain in place. This also has the effect of preserving explicit consumer choice. This lifting of the ban has been long awaited and I am delighted that it can now go ahead. The announcement will bring a welcome boost to the beef industry in what continue to be difficult times. I believe that we need to move forward as quickly as possible with the consultation on the lifting of the ban. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Beef on the Bone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not act on it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have complete confidence in the professional advice that I receive from the UK Government's professional advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "tes on demand. Anyone who wants a postal vote will be able to receive one, without having to satisfy any particular criteria. We intend to simplify the rules governing the issue and return of postal ballot papers. As someone who has a postal ballot, even I sometimes find it a challenge to decide into which envelope I should put which bit of paper. Some of my hon. Friends may find that task easier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": " one idea that does not increase voter turnout is mobile polling stations. He will be aware that the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions conducted an experiment in my constituency in the London borough elections in 1998. It placed a mobile polling station in a polling district in Purley ward. In that polling district, turnout dropped from the highest to the lowest in the ward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ctions with Conservative associations. I am afraid that the Epping Forest Conservatives' Christmas bazaar is already past, but I should like to check that the hon. Gentleman has received his invitation to the Epping Forest Conservatives' Christmas party. I hope that he will let me know if he has not, as it is obviously an oversight on the part of my computer. I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "sue. Linked with my previous point is the need to register one's address on a ballot paper. I know from his contribution that the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) will disagree with me. I have lived in or on the borders of my constituency since I was selected as a candidate. I confess that I live 100 yd outside my constituency, but I can throw a stone across the border—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ged for years and years. That review, along with consideration of the way in which we present politics and the plans for citizenship lessons in our schools, will go some way to increasing participation in elections. At present, the register disfranchises people through no fault of their own. I have to admit that this year is my 20th in the Labour party and I have been a campaigner all those years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "determine what method it thinks is best. If that takes a little of Parliament's time, it does not matter. Doubtless the pilot schemes, if they are successful, will present a wide variety of possibilities and choices. Listening to the hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint), I was immediately struck by the fact that she was coming up with ideas that may not be floated through the pilot schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Bill seems to have been born of a vendetta against one person, but 3 million people who live overseas can vote in elections. For goodness' sake, the Bill is supposed to increase the number of people who participate in elections, but Labour Members are threatening to table an amendment that could decrease that number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Mandelson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Peter Mandelson)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Appointed Day) Order 1999, a copy of which was laid before this House on 29 November, be approved. This is one of the most welcome pieces of legislation that any of us will be asked to enact this Session—indeed, in the whole Parliament. It is a momentous occasion for Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State's comments about Gerry Adams, who ought to be a Member of the House. Will my right hon. Friend consider that many people in Northern Ireland will be very distressed to hear the Secretary of State paying tribute to somebody whose hands are dripping with blood and who is almost certainly a member of the IRA Army Council, which is the cause of all the troubles in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "hat it is vital that all arms and explosives are handed in by May. It is very easy to forget, in this short debate, that all those arms and explosives were supposed to be handed in over a two-year period concluding next May. Eighteen months has gone by, and there has been no decommissioning. There ain't long to go. I want briefly to refer to the appointment of Mr. McGuinness as Education Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "wo-year period concluding next May. Eighteen months has gone by, and there has been no decommissioning. There ain't long to go. I want briefly to refer to the appointment of Mr. McGuinness as Education Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There seem to be complaints from Members on the Government Benches. It is absolutely right that in this House we are able to discuss developments in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "preceding_text": "should be perturbed in any way by what has happened. As the Secretary of State said, yesterday we nominated a number of people for ministerial and other offices through the application of the d'Hondt formula. I say to those Members of the House who are enthusiastic proponents of proportional representation in all its forms that, having experienced that particular form of it, I cannot recommend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Trimble", "preceding_text": "d my colleagues in the Ulster Unionist Assembly party that we were the only group that did not have to take an adjournment to work out what to do next. I have to say, too, that I look forward to working with those who have been nominated under that process—the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh and, indeed, the hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson). I hope that we shall work closely together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "nited Kingdom. I believe that another force for good is the Council of the Isles. Hon. Members, especially the right hon. Member for Upper Bann, will not be surprised to hear me say that if that council could be given a permanent secretariat, after the manner of the Nordic Council, it would make good sense to locate that secretariat in Glasgow. That is my appeal. It could not be based in Greenock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.277.2", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Diabetes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adrian Sanders", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adrian Sanders", "preceding_text": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-11-30", "file": "debates1999-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "cd2c00cc67eed109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.277.7", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Diabetes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sanders", "preceding_text": "one of the most common causes of kidney failure. Half of all lower limb amputations other than those carried out following trauma are a consequence of the disease. Diabetes consumes more than 5 per cent. of health care spending in this country, which is £2.5 billion each year or £70 a second. The Government's response has been to launch the national service framework on diabetes. It is imperative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-11-30a.277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, we should use the full force of the law to defeat those who are engaged in benefit fraud. Last year, we saved about £200 million in income support alone. During the course of a Parliament, that would add up to a saving of £1 billion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "It is no good for the right hon. Gentleman just to say that he is considering various options. That is what he has been saying to job applicants from the Liberal party for years, and nothing happened. He says these things, but nothing is done. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), who used to be Minister for Welfare Reform, said earlier this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "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 said that we were not taking any measures. We are of course taking measures. We have invested an extra £100 million in checks on housing benefit claims. We have extended, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "t answering the questions that I am putting to him today. I am asking about false claims. Anyone would think that that was his strong subject, after most of his answers in recent months. Is he aware, from today's report, that 40 per cent. of councils do not even require applicants to give their national insurance number on their application for benefit? So will he adopt this common-sense proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), which is to privatise the entirety of the tube. The second is the proposal of the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) for bonds, but to keep everything in the public sector. That would mean that we would not get the construction work done on cost and to time. The best way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have had one Leader of the Opposition's top 10 jokes, and we do not need another from the right hon. Gentleman. The policy that the right hon. Gentleman is putting forward does not answer my key point. Under that policy, the construction work of the tube would be left in the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman. The policy that the right hon. Gentleman is putting forward does not answer my key point. Under that policy, the construction work of the tube would be left in the public sector. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, it would. I had better explain the Liberal Democrats' policy to them. Their policy is to construct the London underground through bonds. Yes? Which are issued by London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would allow me to answer his question. There is already a provision in the foreign policy section for majority voting where there is implementation of an agreed strategy; unanimity is required for that. We see no case for making a change and do not intend to support one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "e not members of the European Union. This process is not suddenly being proposed; it has been continuing for a year, and now has unanimous support in the European Union and unanimous support in NATO. I doubt that any rational Member of the House could genuinely object to a prudent investment in stronger security for Europe. The Government's initiative has the full support of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last week's speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "t role, about to start. In that respect, I hope that he turns out to be a better negotiator than his boss, whose tenure in office has not been characterised by diplomatic finesse and subtlety. It has in fact been characterised, particularly in the European Union, by a succession of surrenders, rather than negotiation. We signed the social chapter and got absolutely nothing in return. At Amsterdam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maples", "preceding_text": "ere, they just go along with what others propose. They could save themselves a lot of money and trouble by just sending a power of attorney. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said: Britain's seat is never so empty as when the Prime Minister is sitting in it. The Foreign Secretary's incompetence has been added to by farce. We now have a bus called EUnice going around the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "were it not costing £60,000 of taxpayers' money, with what the parliamentary answer calls \"travel and accommodation\" on top—since the bus has recently been in Paris, I imagine that that did not come cheap. All that is being done to set out the benefits of Britain's membership of the EU\". I wholly support that objective, and concur with many of the Foreign Secretary's assessments of those benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "#x2026; Swiss bankers have been reporting unprecedented capital inflows since the Spring of last year. The uncertainty is causing enormous damage. We handled the matter by saying that we would not tolerate it and that we would not even discuss it. However, the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary have given supporters of the tax a little hope and, consequently, a messy compromise will be proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "Before I give way to the Foreign Secretary, let me make clear what the question is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.334.5", "colnum": "334", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I dealt with this matter at length in last week's foreign affairs debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that the answer to the question, \"Would we refuse to sign the treaty in such circumstances?\" is yes. Enlargement is proceeding separately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that the answer to the question, \"Would we refuse to sign the treaty in such circumstances?\" is yes. Enlargement is proceeding separately— [Interruption.] It is. The enlargement negotiations are taking place with each—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.335.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "rely 50 per cent. That is not a powerful mandate—I would have preferred an 80 per cent. turnout, and an 80 per cent. yes vote, but it was only 50 per cent. of 50 per cent. When we hold the referendum on the single currency, there will not be a 50 per cent. turnout, even though there may be a 50 per cent. vote in favour of joining. I wonder whether the result of such a referendum should be binding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.359.5", "colnum": "359", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "preceding_text": "th a country such as Norway in terms of dependency on trade with EU countries, he needs to look at the facts. It is possible for a small nation to survive on the edge of Europe, but it would not be possible for a country such as Britain, 50 per cent. of whose exports go to the EU, to survive after withdrawal, because we would face enormous retribution from our current EU partners. Let me conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": "e of the things that continental Europeans accept, given all the wars that they have endured. Their experience gives them a very different perspective of the EU. However, it is difficult to believe that, nearly 27 years after our accession, as we were told yesterday, the results of a British social attitudes survey would show that 50.3 per cent. of people want to leave the EU or reduce its powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.360.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "to Felipe González, the previous Prime Minister of Spain, who I would have expected to have more in common with my hon. Friend and I politically. He said recently that the single currency is the greatest abandonment of sovereignty since the foundation of the European Community … we need this United Europe … we must never forget that the euro is an instrument for this project\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman tempts me, but I will not be drawn down that path. He has a jaundiced idea of our partners. From having done the job, I know that, at the moment, we go into Europe, berate them and say that they have changed the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-01", "file": "debates1999-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "14b0f6a9fa104457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "by the Foreign Secretary and remains wholly unaddressed by most member states. Everyone knows that the Berlin forecasts will be blown to bits when the new members enter the EU. The President of the Commission himself has said that he \"assumes\" that expansion will result in the loss of the British rebate. Perhaps the Minister will comment on that: what is the Government's position and who will pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-01a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "bad in secondary schools, where there has been an increase of more than 25 per cent. in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils? While the Minister talks about the 36th and the 40th pupil, is that not a reality now in all too many secondary schools, the number of pupils in classes of more than 36 having doubled under the present Government, and classes of more than 40 now being more common?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "e statistic that is not moving in the right direction. I am happy to respond to his invitation to make it clear to the House and others exactly what is happening to class sizes. Class sizes for infant children are down. Average class sizes in primary schools are down. There are 4,000 extra teachers. There are extra classrooms. The pupil-teacher ratio has fallen. Key stage 2 class sizes are steady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The Government have consistently washed their hands of the Bett report, and the Minister has done so again this morning, but does he not understand that universities are getting fed up with the Government's failure to tackle the issue of university funding? The Government said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept any of that. The Government are investing more each and every year in higher education. We grasped the nettle of tuition fees so that more money could be invested. With all due respect to the hon. Lady, she should examine her Administration's record when, between 1989 and 1997, unit funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "It is so tempting to guess from the Dispatch Box. On balance, however, that is a temptation that I shall probably avoid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "s telling us that our spending plans are reckless, madness and irresponsible. The Conservatives, Back Benchers and Front Benchers, cannot have their cake and eat it on these spending issues. We will be taking four important steps to ensure greater fairness and transparency in the care system. First, today we are honouring another manifesto commitment by publishing a new charter for long-term care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " hospital, general practitioners' surgeries or from social services—as they move from hospital into care or back home. The national service framework will be ready next year for implementation by April 2001. In the meantime, we are making good progress in eliminating mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS, which many old people feel—I agree with them—threatens their dignity and self-respect. Fourthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "people outside this place—not least the majority members of the commission. The majority members will feel that much of their work—especially in respect of their main recommendation on personal care—has been jettisoned as a result of the statement made by the Secretary of State today. I shall return to that matter. I hope that the Minister will be able to reassure us when he replies to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "One thing that can be said of the last Government is that we introduced the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, which allowed people to stay in their own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "aking, I made a note of his reference to the inadequate funding of local authorities. I am sure that we will resolve the issue in the usual way. Rather interestingly too, the hon. Gentleman referred to a breach of contract represented by the existing arrangements for funding long-term care. Generally, the debate has been marked by the absence of party rancour, and I do not want to spoil that. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-02", "file": "debates1999-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "8653a9081488eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.525.4", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Long-term Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "before any final decisions have been made. With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I think that it is probably better if we all avoid that sort of cheap-shot approach to these important issues. When the hon. Gentleman tried to expound his position on the royal commission, I think that he probably left most of us completely in the dark when it came to whether he was supporting its main recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-02a.525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "If this will reassure the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Passports", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "nced in another place a set of police figures which, days earlier, had been repudiated by the Home Secretary. I have to ask the right hon. Gentleman, and not for the first time, what is going on in the Home Office. I know that he will tell me, as he has done in the past, that it is business as usual. He will be aware that I have always eschewed the practice of calling for ministerial resignations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Passports", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Helen Brinton", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's announcement. Does he agree that the 100 welcome new jobs and the drop in unemployment in Peterborough from 11.4 per cent. when we took over in 1997 to only 6.3 per cent. today, after two years of Labour Government, is evidence of the Government's excellent record on getting people back to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "Board, will make clear that Private Fiance Initiative (PFI) transactions should be accounted for in accordance with the Treasury Taskforce's Technical Note No. 1 (revised) 'How to account for PFI transactions'. The Technical Note sets out additional practical guidance on the Accounting Standards Board's Application Note (AN) 'Amendment to FRS\"'—[ Official Report, 1 November 1999; Vol. 337, c. 49.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": ". The Bill is an empty box. The most important assets and liabilities are missing; there is total discretion for the Treasury; and there is no independent check on definition or presentation. It is not a resource accounting Bill in anything but name; it is a creative accounting Bill, from a Chancellor who has proved himself to be the most brilliant creative accountant in British political history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "s who can do just that. Presumably, they face the same problems. Members of the House may be surprised to learn that more than 200 such companies—the Student Loans Company and Remploy have been mentioned—receive between £2 billion and £3 billion of public funding every year. The Minister pointed out that there had been a study on Remploy, and he is perfectly correct—the NAO did a study on Remploy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rammell", "preceding_text": "ture, and in response we need an honest and grown-up debate. One of the problems is that every party in opposition calls for better scrutiny and suggests that it would be a good idea for the Government to be defeated on a financial measure, but every party takes a different view when in government. It would be a brave Government who said that they were relaxed about their estimates being defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": " Audit Commission in local government goes well beyond normal private sector audits. Therefore, I see no circumstances in which the Comptroller and Auditor General would need such access rights and could not rely on the work of other auditors. Indeed, the danger with such suggestions is that some organisations will be audited by two separate bodies, and we would need to be very careful about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-06", "file": "debates1999-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7d267158977d4c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "It will be as progress is made on the other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-06a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Rural Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.714.5", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "le, I have placed on the public record all sorts of internal operational documents—not only factual backgrounds and analyses—including all the manuals relating to the operation of the immigration and nationality directorate, save for those that cannot safely be published for reasons of law enforcement or security. I have ensured that all research documents are published on time. As for statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.714.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.716.4", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "iate and unnecessary. Lest anyone believes that that policy was jettisoned with her premiership, the Conservative party stated in 1997, at the time of the general election, in its campaign guide: The only group in Britain who are seriously interested in a Freedom of Information Act are inquisitive left-wing busy bodies. Incredibly, the Opposition are now posing as the defenders of open government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.716.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I tell Opposition Members that it is one thing sensibly to modify policies in the light of an election defeat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I tell Opposition Members that it is one thing sensibly to modify policies in the light of an election defeat. [Interruption.] It is quite another thing to do a complete volte-face, without explanation or apology. The public tend to notice and are not impressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I have hardly said the parliamentary equivalent of \"Good afternoon\", and I should like to make some progress. As with so many Labour pledges, the Government's enthusiasm for what they said in Opposition has quickly waned. The manner in which they have treated Parliament and the public stands in stark contrast to the culture of openness that the Conservative Governments attempted to create.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Lady has not done her homework.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is ever the optimist. I shall seek to demonstrate that, in most of its essentials, the Bill has not been improved. I do not believe that it will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "r me, because he has made a clear case that it is possible to separate the advice from the information on which it is based, and that is what we accepted in part 1, section 3(i) of our 1997 \"Code of Practice on Access to Government Information\" when we said that we should publish the facts and analysis of the facts which were relevant and important in framing major policy proposals and decisions\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "You might, Mr. Deputy Speaker, rebuke me if I endeavoured to rehearse yesterday's Question Time, and I see nods from the people at whom I am not supposed to look. Therefore, I will not be tempted down that route. However, it would be high optimism to the point of folly to assume that any Freedom of Information Bill would improve ministerial answers at Question Time. Perhaps, now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ly ad idem, if I may use a lawyer's expression, with him. As he spoke for the Government, we were delighted to think that we were of one mind. It is difficult to take seriously the rather bizarre motion tabled by the official Opposition, who have been staunch opponents of freedom of information legislation for as long as I can remember. No significant Conservative voice has been raised in support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "of his right hon. Friends and publish his memoirs at an early date, so that we can be enlightened further as to why the Government have had such a remarkable change of heart. While we have serious criticisms of the Government's revised approach, which are reflected in our amendment, we want to stress our commitment to strengthening the provisions in the Bill if the House gives it a Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-07", "file": "debates1999-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "03494f83538b42a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "preceding_text": " party on openness in the public sector, which demanded that public authorities now start the process of putting in place that culture of greater openness. To some extent, as has been said, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has already published a large amount of information previously held secret. We are in the process now of creating a new culture in Whitehall and among public authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-07a.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": " in the very poorest countries, and only 5 per cent. of them are in traded sectors. It is not that their parents do not care for them; their families are poor and the children work to get food. We need development programmes that help those countries to grow their economy and reduce poverty. Trade sanctions would entrap them in perpetual poverty and perpetuate child labour. It is the wrong remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"What have you done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already explained the increased pressures and the increased usage of public transport and the roads. How do we ensure that we spend more money on transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "starkly, if not more so, are those between different income groups within regions. As for regional development and infrastructure, he is absolutely right, which is why 60 per cent. of the increased spending on development agencies is going to the northern parts that need it most. We have to get more investment into those areas to attract jobs and companies, and that is precisely what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend assure the 3 million workers who are now entitled to four weeks' paid holiday a year that we will protect those rights to the utmost? The Conservative party has said that it would scrap them. It would also scrap the minimum wage and the 26 new rights at work that we have introduced. Is that not typical of a scrap heap Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said a moment ago, when we announced the plan we said what the cost would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said a moment ago, when we announced the plan we said what the cost would be. [Interruption.] We announced what the cost would be, and people therefore know how much we will spend on the changeover plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "here is no point the right hon. Gentleman looking dazzled by that; it is true. Therefore, as ever with him, he can make as many smart comments as he likes, but, in the end, the question is: is it sensible to have the changeover plan or not? The two people whom he has just quoted support the changeover plan. They support the policy of prepare and decide. I quote the Governor of the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "repare and decide is the right one. Why? Because, first, it will affect business. From 1 January 2002, those notes and coins will be in circulation. British businesses will be doing business in Europe, so to scrap it, which is the right hon. Gentleman's policy, would be absolute rubbish. When he gets back up, let him name one single business organisation that supports that. Secondly, it allows us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.828.5", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ronment, transport and the regions has under this Secretary of State comprehensively failed. I have declared my interests in the register—including the fact that my wife works for British Airways—but I am not here to speak on behalf of those interests today. I am here to draw attention to the chaos and crisis that is the Government's transport policy. In the past two days, as I lay on my sick bed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.828.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "asier. I hope that Labour Members support me in this. We learn that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is eyeing up the Deputy Prime Minister's job. We hear that No. 10 is wild about the way in which the Deputy Prime Minister has upset the motorist. We hear of growing impatience about the lack of results from anything the Deputy Prime Minister touches. We are told by a trade union leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "the green fields of the south-east would be wrong from every point of view—wrong on grounds of transport and of planning, and wrong because it would make the north-south divide worse? Will the right hon. Gentleman today rule out the possibility of a foreign company, especially one influenced or controlled by a foreign Government, buying our air traffic services on the cheap for a knock-down price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "d our national railway system in a cut-price privatisation that planned for stagnation, and then sold the system off cheap. They introduced competition and left us with deteriorating services heading for decline. That is the common judgment on the privatisation of the railway system. The previous Government also failed to take a decision on train protection systems in the nine years after Clapham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.839.5", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "In relation to safety, it was the right hon. Member for Wokingham who appeared on television, within hours of the crash, suggesting that the issue was one for Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.839.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am trying to answer the hon. Gentleman's first intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.4", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that the Government mounted an incredible media operation to dump the blame for the crash on Railtrack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "erest. The previous Government were warned about this by the then Opposition, but they took no notice—I am now trying to correct that fatal mistake on safety. I shall take no lectures on safety from the Opposition. The Opposition's claim to be the friend of the motorist is certainly not borne out. To answer the question about fuel duty increases put by the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ncreases put by the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin)— [Interruption.] Opposition Members should recall the Chancellor's statement to the House. My right hon. Friend said that he would end the automatic fuel duty escalator; that is our position. However, my right hon. Friend offered the proposition that, if there was an agreement to increase that tax above the rate of inflation, that money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "x above the rate of inflation, that money— [Interruption.] As I understand it, for years, most of the motoring organisations have been asking why the money raised from the duty does not go into transport. The Chancellor has offered another opportunity—if the demand is there—for that money to be hypothecated for roads and public transport. That is what my right hon. Friend has done and it is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "reen Paper made it clear that congestion charging and parking charges should be considered. The Tories did not say that they would introduce the charges—they did not have the courage to do that—but they suggested them as a possibility. I am prepared to accept that the previous Administration realised that spending £70 billion on the roads did not reduce congestion, but increased it by 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ies to make public transport more attractive, so that people will make it their choice instead of using private cars. Those were the conclusions reached by the Tories. In two and half years, the Labour Government have grasped the issue, legislated for it and brought about a radical change—one that is now supported by every leading candidate for the mayor of London, including one possible Tory one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I will give a statement on that at the appropriate time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " sector, and not an inch of the road had been built by the time they left office in 1997. Seventeen years is a fast track for the private financing of roads—cor blimey! I will give the right hon. Gentleman fast track: it took me less than three months to decide to get on with it, and we will begin building the road next year. That is in the first two and a half years of a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Wokingham's remarks about the north-south divide were opportunist. They are the latest example of such opportunism. The Tories invented the divide between the north and south to which he referred. The right hon. Gentleman is now showing concern for the disparity that his party created and then widened in its 18 years in government. In two years, Labour has introduced regional development agencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ow get on with that. We have launched the process of public-private partnership to modernise the tube. That is the legacy that we shall leave for London in the coming elections. We have invested more than £5.5 billion, which the London mayor will inherit. We are proud to pass that legacy to the people of London. We are to be contrasted with a Government who stole control of their transport system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.845.9", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ient resources were going into London Underground and that something had to be done. That is a reflection of the previous Administration's record. However, the hon. Gentleman is not on his own in that respect. Even the hon. Member for North Essex was moved to confess: We did not do enough for the tube—I would be the first to acknowledge that\".—[ Official Report, 27 January 1999; Vol. 324, c. 436.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.845.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.847.6", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "is hardly ever seen in it. Anyone who believes Government statistics that claim to show that traffic is moving on the M4 should be put into a home for people who believe the Government's statistics. I am keeping an eye on the bus lane, which is currently for \"buses and taxis only\", and awaiting the day when it is for \"buses, taxis and ministerial cars only\". I was Transport Minister for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.847.6", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "r snub to the public transport user. What is the Deputy Prime Minister's vision for London? The Government have no such vision. Government investment in the underground has been lower than in any year under the Conservative Government. The Deputy Prime Minister tried to shrug that off by talking about the money that went into the Jubilee line, as if our investment in it was worthy of condemnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. [Interruption.] Because of the blockages on the roads, buses provide an extremely unreliable, slow and inefficient service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister has seen the figures. Certainly, he will have seen that all of the indications from the BBC programmes last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "that he has changed his position, but that has led to much confusion. As I said earlier, there is confusion about the Government's stance on Government funding of public transport. Only today in this Chamber, we heard the Prime Minister claim that the Government were investing more in public transport, but that simply is not the case. Over the five-year period of the comprehensive spending review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ar point, but this is the point that we are at. I was interested to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) talk about the number of different rail companies whose trains want to enter Stockport and the delays that they cause. I hope that he is not for a moment suggesting that my former colleagues in the signal box should let them all into the platform at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "rence was held every other week on its upgrading. We pressured one Chancellor of the Exchequer so much that he announced in the Budget that £500 million would be made available. When I spoke to the Minister with responsibility for transport at the time, Mr. Roger Freeman, I found that there was no money. Then, a little money was made available: enough for 13 train sets on the west coast main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "an. We are constantly being told about technology. We should remember that, of all forms of transport, pollution levels have been reduced only in automobiles. There may be schemes to allow people to reach the dome by public transport and to ensure that there is no public car-parking, but people will still drive—to an underground station, probably in a neighbourhood in London, where they will park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": " and that the Government have to balance the competing needs of commuters, social travellers, car drivers, public transport and the environment, which has received very little attention tonight. Many of my constituents commute to London for work, social activities and tourism. Despite that, I am one of the few Members speaking in tonight's debate who is not standing for election as London's mayor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "preceding_text": "r for Holborn and St. Pancras also spoke about Railtrack's involvement, and said: I am not wildly keen on them and I never have been. Within six days, a press release from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions announced that Rai1track was no longer able to deliver the integration that it had promised. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister is also a cylinder short of a V6 engine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ar is just about the most successful and sought-after of all modern inventions. The car has become an icon of personal and family freedom and independence, yet the Government have launched the most astonishing attack on millions of ordinary people for whom the car is not a luxury but a necessity. I do not know why the Deputy Prime Minister much of the time looks so bewildered by people's reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t petrol taxes in Europe: more than 85p in the pound is tax. Although the Chancellor says that he has stopped the automatic Budget increases in petrol and diesel tax, those taxes will still go up. Table B9 in the pre-Budget statement shows an increase in fuel duties well above the rate of inflation. All the Chancellor has done is to replace the fuel duty escalator with a new stealth tax escalator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister has just made a sedentary comment about it being a Tory tax. Will my hon. Friend ask him to look at the Government's figures, which clearly show that fuel duties will increase from £21.6 billion to £23.5 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e Deputy Prime Minister written questions about this issue, but he passes them to his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and we do not get an answer. The Government will not say how much of that increase will be for the DETR, and there will be further increases in fuel taxes at the next Budget. The Transport Bill imposes yet more taxes on car drives—car-parking and congestion taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "businesses make millions of individual transport choices every day. A successful transport policy must provide for those choices. Freedom of choice is not just another new Labour slogan to be wheeled out to placate public opinion. The only transport policies that will succeed are those that meet the genuine needs and aspirations of consumers. That is why privatisation is the common-sense solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ests of the consumer, the UK economy and … the Post Office. They went on to say in their evidence: That is the judgment which Ministers have reached. What happened to that judgment? The first cracks appeared on 27 July, when the hon. Member for Derby, North (Mr. Laxton) and a number of his colleagues prayed against the statutory instrument of 8 July. There followed the summer of discontent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Narrow majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "nt to speak. As an exercise in humbug, the speech of the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb) takes some beating. Those of us who were Members of the House before the general election well remember the Conservative Government's attempts to introduce the privatisation of the Post Office, and they had to retreat in the face of the refusal of 13 of their own people to support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": " commission which, as its first job, will be asked to look at where the monopoly limits should be. The speeches by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) and others were sound. For a party that is supposedly concerned about rural services, the Conservatives did not mention a word about the universal service obligation. When it was mentioned by the hon. Member for Twickenham, there was a groan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.953.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "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": "I have received no indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.958.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-08", "file": "debates1999-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "22fea4ee753afc9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Welsh", "preceding_text": "We may now move into calmer waters, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-08a.961.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Beef Ban", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " reasonable in a free society. As to whether the French decision is a rebuff to me, I do not think that the entire French Cabinet have focused on me personally in this matter. More generally, it is a mistake to personalise issues in that way. This is a difficult problem, which I have sought to resolve through mature dialogue with the Commission and with the French. We are going to keep on talking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.992.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "World Trade Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "There we are. It was by Matt Ridley—a good man. In 1551, it became a capital offence to set sail in a multi-masted ship. As a result, there were four centuries of economic decline in China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "World Trade Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "nd year that passes, it becomes more obvious that the only things that the Labour Government succeed at as far as the European Union is concerned are matters where their third way—new Labour socialism—is in total accord with the new way socialism of many of the member states in Europe. They just roll over and agree with them when they have issues of new socialism—democratic socialism—to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1035.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1094.7", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "World Trade Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ceedings under an Act or on European Union documents) shall not apply to any proceedings on the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister relating to fisheries, and the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of those proceedings not later than Seven o'clock, and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved.— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1094.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "World Trade Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That, at the sitting on Thursday 16th December, any Consolidated Fund Bill ordered to be brought in and read the first time shall be proceeded with as if the Second Reading thereof stood as an Order of the day, and Standing Order No. 56 (Consolidated Fund Bills) shall apply.— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-09", "file": "debates1999-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05697150dca94408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "World Trade Organisation", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put, That, at the sitting on Thursday 16th December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any messages from the Lords shall have been received.— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-09a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Clearly, there are concerns in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "rope's two largest countries proof that Labour in Europe is not working? Is not it time that the Prime Minister admitted that he should have lifted our own ban on beef on the bone months ago, as the Opposition demanded, and that he should have begun legal proceedings months ago, as we argued? Should he not have been actively negotiating with the French, which is what we have called for throughout?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " fatuous his policy on Europe has become. As for beef, I thought that the right hon. Gentleman's criticism today was a trifle different from before—he is now accusing me of not negotiating enough. For weeks Mr. Yo-yo has been round the television studios, saying that I was a puppet dancing to Mr. Jospin's tune and asking why I was talking to him instead of fighting. It is another fatuous position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en a party that used—no matter what one's politics—to be a serious party of government and turned it into the equivalent of a religious sect. It is that error of judgment from which all his errors stem—on the renegotiation of the treaty of Rome that would give us an exit route from the EU; on blocking enlargement; or on the absurd positions that he has taken on every policy that relates to Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ceptics and the critics say that this is an argument for disengagement, there are those of us who will strongly make the case that it is an argument for more proactive engagement in Europe, and for using the mechanisms that Europe makes available to us to ensure that the undoubted unlawful activity of the French is brought to a speedy conclusion in due course and in our national interest. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a particular situation; but should, for example, America decide not to be engaged, we can have our own force in the limited tasks that are called Petersberg tasks—humanitarian, peacekeeping and peace intervention missions. Only a Conservative party utterly in thrall to the anti-Europeans could see that in a way that NATO does not see it, as was made clear by NATO's comments at the summit in April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By Europe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " recognise that it is only because we are members of the European Union that we can sell beef in 13 of the 15 member states, that we are actually selling it now in five countries outside the European Union and that we are free to sell it outside the European Union. When we came to office, not merely was the beef ban in place in Europe, but we were banned from selling it in third countries as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t now in five countries outside the European Union and that we are free to sell it outside the European Union. When we came to office, not merely was the beef ban in place in Europe, but we were banned from selling it in third countries as well—[HON. MEMBERS: \"By Europe.\"] I do not want to get into that internal row in the Conservative party about which side of the fence it is on. It is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course all countries fight their corner on issues that affect their vital national interest, and this country should be no different from any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Helsinki European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " intention of giving over its armed forces or defence to another country. I would not do that on behalf of this country and neither would any other country do it on behalf of its armed forces. The hon. Gentleman talks about huge concern in the United States. There has been some concern, which has been mainly prompted by senior Conservatives going to the United States and talking complete nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.75.4", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "I am about to finish, anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.75.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "t was from the correspondence secretary, who will pass on the matter to the appropriate Minister. It is an absolute disgrace that Ministers think that they can adopt a cavalier attitude towards hon. Members. I am sorry, but the way in which they have chosen to handle the matter demonstrates political spite. It is disgraceful to take it out on my constituents. I have had one letter from a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.108.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, at the sitting on Thursday 16th December, any Consolidated Fund Bill ordered to be brought in and read the first time shall be proceeded with as if the Second Reading thereof stood as an Order of the day, and Standing Order No. 56 (Consolidated Fund Bills) shall apply.— [Mr. Keith Bradley.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.120.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-13", "file": "debates1999-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "2be8756dc2ea6d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.120.8", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, at the sitting on Thursday 16th December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any messages from the Lords shall have been received.— [Mr. Keith Bradley.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-13a.120.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.135.6", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have no idea why the hon. Gentleman thinks that the resignation of Pauline Green is relevant to Scottish Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.135.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister admit that 20.5 per cent. is hardly an excuse for abolishing by-elections? Will he tell the Secretary of State, who has been uncharacteristically lugubrious this afternoon, to cheer himself up by going along to his colleague the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Advocate-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Advocate-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "nd I have also inherited the opinion work of the Lord Advocate. In my role as a United Kingdom Law Officer, I advise the UK Government and Departments about devolved and reserved Scottish matters. I also advise on more general matters such as human rights and European law. I attend several Cabinet Committees—five at the last count. Is that reply sufficient for the right hon. and learned Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick), we should defend to the last the right of peaceful protest and dissent in this country. At the same time, we should not provide a haven for people who are plainly committing, organising or inciting terrorist acts here or abroad. I have witnessed only one terrorist act in this country, which was the bomb that went off at the Old Bailey in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "the Bill. Moreover, contributing money is an offence under clause 14. We should be very careful if we are feeling generous. The Home Secretary says, \"This is all artificial, because the Director of Public Prosecutions would never agree to a prosecution\". That may be true, but what is the individual citizen to reckon in advance? Does he know Mr. Calvert-Smith as well as I do? Of course he does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "cumstances that may seem odd, but it is even more peculiar at this stage of the Session and at this hour, because it does not appear to me that the House is particularly hard pressed in terms of the time that it has available to consider the business that is before it. As usual in these circumstances, we have not had the courtesy of an explanation from the business managers. It always seems to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " explanation. This gives me cause for curiosity and suspicion. We are getting all too accustomed, are we not, to the process whereby motions of this sort are put on the Order Paper on the assumption that they will be nodded through so that someone, I know not who, can have his way? The Government should be prepared to provide a brief explanation of what is behind such a motion. The House deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not gravely discourteous to the House for the Opposition to clear their Front Bench during an extremely important debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "hind motion 7, in order that the House may make up its mind on whether it wishes to approve the item. That is the old-fashioned way in which we go about our business—or so I thought until the idea seemed to gather pace that we do not even bother to debate matters any more. As far as I can see, many hon. Members would prefer that we did not bother voting on them, either. That may seem satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Consolidated Fund Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "at any Consolidated Fund Bill ordered to be brought in and read for the first time shall be proceeded with as if the Second Reading thereof stood as an Order of the day\". We are being asked to accept that First Reading becomes Second Reading as if by magic—without any due deliberation in between and just because the motion says so. It goes on—impudently, in my view—to invoke Standing Order No. 56—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Consolidated Fund Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": ". I shall watch him out of the corner of my eye to see whether he might want to intervene. He is trying to put my off me stride—I can tell because he has a mischievous glint in his eye—but fortunately I have a copy of the Standing Orders in my hand. I am working my way gradually through Standing Order No. 56 and have reached the point at which it says, the question thereon shall be put forthwith\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Consolidated Fund Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "the committal of the Bill. Even the question for Third Reading will be put forthwith. The combination of the motion and Standing Order No. 56, to which the motion refers, represents the astonishing revelation that the Government are suggesting that legislation as crucial and comprehensive as the Consolidated Fund Bill should go through First Reading, Second Reading and Third Reading all in one go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-14", "file": "debates1999-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c9f12432265da5dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "t helping the House if the Minister had broken convention and explained the motion. That is not the argument. It is a motion in the Government's name and it asks the House to do something. Therefore, it is up to the Government to explain the motion—to move it, to tell the House what it is all about and then to ask the House to agree with it. It is ridiculous for anonymous Government Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-14a.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should remember the cuts that the Conservative Government made to Customs and Excise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "We are working internationally to prevent drugs from coming into this country and co-operating across international boundaries on security and intelligence issues. We are also working with developing countries to promote alternatives to growing the poppy in the killing fields. It must be made clear that the 10-year programme introduced by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.264.7", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "While deservedly enjoying the forthcoming celebrations, will my right hon. Friend reflect that it would be right and proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.264.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Actually, the waiting list figures have fallen. It is true that the out-patient figures have risen, as they have been rising for 10 years. The in-patient waiting lists, however, are coming down, as a result of the additional money that we have put in. If I may return to police numbers for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ue that waiting lists were rising for years before we came to office, but we have reduced in-patient waiting lists by more than 70,000 from the level that we inherited. As for tax, as I told the right hon. Gentleman a couple of weeks ago, in the first two years we cleared the financial deficit, but next year—or, rather, in the current financial year—the tax burden is falling, not rising. Actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "istration come from the Treasury's public expenditure statistical analysis. Actually, that is where they come from. What is the point of spending an extra £1 billion on bureaucrats and advisers when the Prime Minister is not prepared to read out the facts that they put in front of him? The only way to get the truth about this Government from a Prime Minister is to ask the Prime Minister of France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ted to fall and are nearly 80,000 below the level that we inherited. That is the fact. Class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds are 300,000 below what we inherited. Crime is below the level that we inherited. I have already made the position on police officers clear. The tax burden is falling this year. If we are going to debate the respective positions of the two parties, it is worth saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The microphones are off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We accepted that we were going to have two difficult years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Leaving to one side—the House will be relieved to know—the year of delivery, will the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the House join me in acknowledging that, in terms of human progress and despite the terrible ravages of war along the way, it has been an unbelievable century of delivery in terms of prosperity, education, health, communications and so on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that 100 years ago, in 1899, the House of Commons was prorogued for Christmas on 27 October?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In Tanygrisiau in Meirionnydd. However, that is not terribly relevant to the debate. I remember the occasion well. We had moved away by then, but my dad and I made the long journey back and ensured that we voted. Having the right to vote was important to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.305.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Norway!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making a scintillating speech. Knowing him, I feel sure that the amendment is motivated by high principle and not by any grubby popularism. Given that he is a fervent admirer of the European Union, can he tell the Committee in which member state, if any, people are entitled to vote at the age of 16?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my young colleague—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " does. My hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Mr. Russell) lives in my constituency, as does the hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes). If they thought that they had a safe seat and decided not to vote in their constituency, they could vote in the constituency in which their parliamentary residence is located, perhaps affecting the outcome in a less-safe seat. It is terribly wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman makes a theoretical suggestion. Perhaps my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department will consider his point. Without prejudging my hon. Friend's consideration, I suspect that the hon. Gentleman's fears are unfounded. I am in a good position; as a visiting Minister, I can make commitments on behalf of hon. Friends without necessarily having to follow them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition sponsored by Shout, which is an initiative of Big Take, a registered charity raising both awareness and funds to support specific projects aimed at providing education and training for children on the fringes of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-15", "file": "debates1999-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "df2fbc852bc3c529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition sponsored by Shout, which is an initiative of Big Take, a registered charity raising both awareness and funds to support specific projects aimed at providing education and training for children on the fringes of society. [Interruption.] The petition is signed by 134—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-15a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor said on 30 September that the UK is prepared, on a case-by-case basis, to go further than 90 per cent.—and possibly up to 100 per cent., if necessary—when debt relief would finance poverty relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.385.6", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The pre-Budget report shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I had a very interesting meeting with some business men last week. They told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I had a very interesting meeting with some business men last week. They told me— [Interruption.] The Tories would do well to listen. They told me that they wanted the tax burden to increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has, as usual, got it completely wrong. The figures are as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has, as usual, got it completely wrong. The figures are as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said. [Interruption.] I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for passing the figures across the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has, as usual, got it completely wrong. The figures are as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said. [Interruption.] I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for passing the figures across the Dispatch Box— [Interruption.] I do not need to pass across the key figures that Opposition need to reflect on, because they are their predicted tax rises for 19992002.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ECHR Judgment (Thompson and Venables)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "On the right hon. and learned Gentleman's first observation, I of course accept his wide experience, as someone who practises at the criminal Bar. There are significant differences between a trial in which a 16-year-old is the defendant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "ECHR Judgment (Thompson and Venables)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I have no appetite for arguing with my own party, but the right hon. Gentleman is the Secretary of State responsible for this matter. Will he consider the proposition that a perfectly proper and proportionate response to this judgment, and to a number of others, would be to conclude that the Council of Europe may have outlived its usefulness as far as the United Kingdom is concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have every sympathy for those who care for people suffering from Alzheimer's. It is a terrible disease, and the stress that it places, particularly on the carers and families of sufferers, is extreme. However, the effectiveness of Aricept—as well as its availability—is contested, and it is not necessarily suitable for all cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.413.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "t my duties in the Chamber overrode my duties to the Select Committee. If the Minister cares to consult Hansard for that day, he will discover that I made a reasonable speech on that occasion. That is the reason why we were not present in the Select Committee. An Opposition day debate in the Chamber seemed to be an occasion of some importance, although perhaps the Minister does not recognise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.461.8", "colnum": "461", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marshall", "preceding_text": "g worldwide competition for whatever inward investment projects there are to be won. I welcome the general tenor of the Government's response to our report and their agreement with most of our findings. I especially welcome the apparent good will and co-operation between the Secretary of State's office and that of the Scottish Executive, and the desire to work together for the benefit of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.461.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "e is a Labour Government in Edinburgh and a Labour Government in Westminster. I concede that there is likely to be a Labour Government or a Lib-Lab pact in Scotland—the Liberals may have some other view on that—for some time, although I think back happily to the time when my cousin was the Conservative Member for Glasgow, Govan, so let us not laugh too much about the Scottish Conservative revival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "re is likely to be a Labour Government or a Lib-Lab pact in Scotland—the Liberals may have some other view on that—for some time, although I think back happily to the time when my cousin was the Conservative Member for Glasgow, Govan, so let us not laugh too much about the Scottish Conservative revival. [Interruption.] Let us assume that there will be a Labour Government in Scotland for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. What happens when there is a Labour Government in Edinburgh and a Conservative Government in Westminster, as will inevitably occur sooner or later?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": " sums that they give back, which are \"trivial by comparison\". How much worse that will be when the energy tax arrives. Bill Midgley, the president of the north-east chambers of commerce, has said: It was disappointing that there was no mention of moves to reduce the amount of bureaucracy which is stifling business competitiveness. Tax and regulation are going up, but competitiveness is going down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "I wondered how long it would take before the first pathetic Labour intervention on my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " and the Westminster Government. For a party in opposition—although not the hon. Gentleman's as he does not believe in the Union—an endorsement of the concordats is an endorsement of the best agreement that can be reached between the two Executives at any given moment. I do not see how the hon. Gentleman's criticism of my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) can possibly be valid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-16", "file": "debates1999-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8059b4170cf8205a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "lear whether the Secretary of State for Scotland was ever informed by the Prime Minister that an offer on beef had been made by the French Prime Minister. Although the Secretary of State would have been right to turn down the offer, I do not know whether he was told of it. If that is the level of co-operation, there is legitimate cause for anxiety. It is time for me to bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-16a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. On Friday afternoon there was a press conference at which the Foreign Secretary outlined the British-crafted United Nations resolution on Iraq—to the effect that there could be light at the end of the tunnel. Since then, Baghdad has refuted the resolution—in my opinion, for understandable reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.534.5", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that the hon. Gentleman has never made a sensible intervention. I have no intention of conceding to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman asks such a question. When the Conservative party was in government, it was well practised in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "th Essex (Mr. Jenkin). We have made it clear that a mistake was made in the double calculation of debt. The return from the sale of the proportion of shares that we propose must take into account the level of debt, the level of income, and the price that is likely to be obtained. The company's debt will be transferred and paid over a longer period, which will be negotiated as part of the contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I believe that that is a proper consideration to take into account regarding the priorities of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "l aware of the problem and members of the Committee will have a chance to examine that complaint. The Bill establishes the Strategic Rail Authority and sets out its powers to improve services for rail users. The Conservative party planned for a static railway; its solution was to price passengers off the system, rather than invest for growth. Privatisation fragmented the industry into many pieces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ch it has still not amended. Is the Deputy Prime Minister therefore saying that clause 55 is redundant? That clause strengthens the impression given by the financial memorandum because it gives him the power to write off that debt. Presumably, he seeks that power because he thinks that he may need to use it, in which case he will be selling NATS at the devastatingly cheap price of £15 million net—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "That is not a good argument for trying to prevent competition by legislating for lock-outs of the kind envisaged in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "ad charging? Presumably, we cannot have toll booths at every road that goes into a main city. When does he think that the technology will be sufficiently workable to introduce those charges? How much does he think a council will want to charge? It has been suggested that the parking tax could be as much as £3,000 a space in central London and several hundred pounds in other major towns and cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " be extra money, whereas the Treasury will use the excuse of the extra money from the higher taxes to take away some of the other money that would have gone to the transport sector. On the issue of the fuel escalator, Ministers are trying to look both ways at the same time. We are told that they will scrap the fuel escalator, which they raised well after the time that it should have been scrapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": " well after the time that it should have been scrapped— [Interruption.] The Government increased the fuel escalator when fuel taxes were already high. They made those taxes ruinously high. We now hear from the Government that they may possibly scrap the fuel escalator, and that the main source of new money to sort out transport problems will be increases in fuel duties above the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was your proposal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "t know, nor do local authorities. May I point out one last thing to the Secretary of State? The Bill will charge teachers for the car parking places at their schools. It will charge doctors and nurses for the car parking places at their hospitals. It will cost charity workers, such as those at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, for the car parking spaces at their place in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman smirks as though he has made a debating point. He might get a laugh at the Cambridge or Oxford debating society for that question, but he is comparing apples with lemons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "rships were not successful. When the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr. Hill), replies to the debate will he tell us how he thinks such quality partnerships are operating at present and how he sees them working in future? No one would claim that bus privatisation has been particularly successful, because it has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ided. The Bill appears to move in the other direction. It will move us away from deregulation and privatisation—the policies that have been successful. Ministers often boast about the fact that we have more than 1,000 new rail services and more than 1,000 new bus services, but do they not understand that those have been created by allowing freedom, but the Bill will move us in the other direction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cynog Dafis", "preceding_text": "ly essential. It would be easy to operate as it would dovetail with adjacent franchises and take in part of the English Marches. Such a franchise is the only way to rescue Wales's rail operations from their current franchise position on the periphery of the urban network franchises. They are little more than an afterthought—the tail-end of the existing franchises—and that simply has to be changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Dobbin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Dobbin", "preceding_text": "ealth service hospital, had workplace charges. Patients and visitors were charged for parking. So were doctors, nurses and other health service workers, some of them on extremely low pay. That happened during the early 1990s, under the Conservative Government. I should like to turn to local and regional matters. I welcome the Bill, with a single reservation about the air traffic control proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "imself is at a standstill. Stripped of his responsibilities, he now has time to wonder when he will be replaced by the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), the real Deputy Prime Minister. The question that the Under-Secretary must answer above all else is: has there been a U-turn? Will the Government revive the Conservatives' plans to give more communities the bypasses that they need?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill)", "preceding_text": "As this is, after all, the season of good will, I should tell the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) that he did his best. Of course, the hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Woodward) would have done far better, but he is now—I am delighted to say—my hon. Friend. The Government's gain is very definitely the Opposition's loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The strategic partner will be selected only after stringent suitability tests, and the Government will have powers to ensure that the PPP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "No, I have passed on; history has passed the right hon. Gentleman by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-20", "file": "debates1999-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dcd59b15869b9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "No, I have passed on; history has passed the right hon. Gentleman by. [Interruption.] Okay, I will make an exception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-20a.628.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Millennium Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I recall that it rained in Cornwall under the previous Administration, too. These days, we live not in a command economy but in a world of private enterprise, albeit informed by policies of social justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.685.9", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ervative health spokesman—the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox)—has said: We will have to find other ways of getting the treatment required by perhaps having medical insurance. The right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) is on the record as saying: The problem with the NHS is that we do not charge for much of what we do. The Tory health spokesman talked of Trojan horses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.685.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. Under the previous Government, the increase for the final three years was £10.5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. Under the previous Government, the increase for the final three years was £10.5 billion. [Interruption.] By contrast, we are delivering an increase in health funding of £21 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "artments acting in isolation. Departments need to work with each other to develop coherent and consistent policy and to ensure that it is delivered coherently and consistently. We must learn to work with others to build a new culture of partnership. We must reach out to service providers in local government, the voluntary sector and the private sector, and we must consult service users themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "s led to the fantastic increases in the general standard of living, among all our people, that we have witnessed this century. The same process has also exposed socialism not just as a system that is hopelessly inefficient at generating wealth, but as one that takes away human freedom. It is one of the achievements of this century that it has consigned socialism to the dustbin of history. Now the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.690.5", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "It was not the policies that lost us the election. If they did, why has the Labour party tried to adopt our policies? If there is so much wrong with the policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.690.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": " to tell the hon. Gentleman that we shall publish our alternative budget just before the Chancellor publishes the real Budget, as we have for the past decade. My hon. Friend the Member for Truro and St. Austell (Mr. Taylor) and I are already working on it, so we will he able to give a very detailed reply to that question in a few months. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will bear with me until then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Falling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": " Library figures. I quote from the Green Book, as Labour Members know it, or the pre-Budget report, PBR, from November. In it, we can discover the key information. The tax burden that Labour inherited in 1996–97 was 35.3 per cent. On the Chancellor's own figures, the outturn for 1998–99, the next year, was 37.4 per cent, the year after that 37 per cent, then rising to 36.8 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Falling.\"] and 37.2 per cent. The illiteracy, economic and otherwise, of Labour Members is astonishing. If they cannot tell the difference between the 35.3 per cent. that they inherited, and the tax burden in the last year of this Parliament, 37.2 per cent, they should not hold the office that they hold. They should start reading the material that their own Ministers produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor is guilty of many things, and being economical with the actualité is but one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "se public spending at the same time as repaying Government debt and cutting taxes. That was the agenda on which we went to the country in 1987 and on which we won a record third term in office. Those were indeed the golden years of our economy, which this Government are sadly nowhere in sight of repeating. That leads me to the question of boom and bust. Yes, there was boom and bust in our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, by the time we left office, nearly all that unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": " during the previous Parliament there was virtually no equity withdrawal, as it is called, from the housing market. In the year just ending, however, we find that equity withdrawal is on the increase again. The Bank of England's latest figures suggest that there will be almost £5 billion of equity withdrawal this year. Next year we may get perilously close to the boom conditions of the late 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "ust ending, however, we find that equity withdrawal is on the increase again. The Bank of England's latest figures suggest that there will be almost £5 billion of equity withdrawal this year. Next year we may get perilously close to the boom conditions of the late 1980s. [Interruption.] I should like the Minister to answer a question, if he will pay attention for a moment. If there is an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "od of disguising from themselves the very deficiency to which I have pointed. The accounts are not bringing out—as the Treasury must, by now, have lost sight of their own accounts—the real truth, which is that there is no proper tackling of the systemic problem in social security. Until there is, the very structural deficiencies that I have outlined will continue. The situation is worse than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1999-12-21", "file": "debates1999-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5f92e43b187ca511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timms", "preceding_text": "d about tax competition. He was right to attack the Tory tax guarantee. It is surprising that in a debate when much was said about the burden of tax, Conservative Members said strikingly little about the Tory tax guarantee. Many of us would like to know rather more about that, or whether they share the views now expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Woodward) about that guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1999-12-21a.764.1"}
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