{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The changes that we made after the general election have been widely welcomed because they will benefit companies and the economy overall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I was astonished by the coverage that the hon. Gentleman provoked in the newspapers today about a reply I gave to him. He claimed that the computer system—which, by the way, does not yet exist, because Parliament has given us no money to buy it—is in chaos and delayed already. It is not delayed. It is on time to the extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.11.3", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "e newspapers today about a reply I gave to him. He claimed that the computer system—which, by the way, does not yet exist, because Parliament has given us no money to buy it—is in chaos and delayed already. It is not delayed. It is on time to the extent— [Interruption.] We are in discussions with the providers of the computer system and we are drawing up the spec for it. The hon. Gentleman should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.11.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Influenza", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "vate sector. Now he tells us that they will. Their dogma is put ahead of patients' interests. Will he tell us clearly now whether he will guarantee that no trust will be penalised this month for failing to meet its waiting list targets because of action that it may take to deal with the flu epidemic? More importantly, in the longer term, will the Government look at a better immunisation programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Influenza", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "ably from the marketing departments of pharmaceutical companies. We take our advice from expert clinicians. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, which is staffed by a dozen professors of medicine, gave us clear advice that Relenza was not right on clinical effectiveness grounds. However, NICE is working with the drugs company to see whether Relenza could be made available in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Influenza", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ann Coffey", "preceding_text": "ere were no unacceptably long trolley waits and no ambulances stacked outside, and beds and treatment were available to all who needed them. That visit was in marked contrast to my visit to the same hospital at Christmas in 1997, when there were a record number of trolley waits, stacked ambulances and a lack of beds throughout the region. Of course, the Conservative party was in power at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-10", "file": "debates2000-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "570b359fd871900a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-10a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.134.9", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "The Minister's waffling and inaccurate answer clearly demonstrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.134.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More. More.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I thought for a moment that we were going to have another Member crossing the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "tly after it is introduced—probably in 2002. Many people will see a substantial difference in the amount of pension they will receive as a result of the changes that we are making. For example, a couple, one of whom is on low earnings, while the other spends half their time caring, will, as a result of our changes, get £30 more because of the operation of the state second pension. That is by 2025.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "On the state second pension, the answer is that the Bill increases expenditure by about £5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "preceding_text": "e to engage in little ruses in order to delay payment for three, four or five years—and, at last, attention will rightly be focused on the child rather than the absent parent. The hidden benefit will, I hope, be the abolition of the independent case examiner. Let us hope that there is no need for that person to continue in that role within six months or a year of the new system coming into effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooney", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman telling us that it would be responsible to retain the present system, under which more than 1 million children get nothing? Does not he accept that there has to be a trade-off between fairness and simplicity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "ion pot and reinvest it? After every five years they would at least have some control over the scheme In which they are and where they are. A serious issue about pensions is that they are designed to create a positive disincentive to marry. Many respectable widows and widowers in my constituency are finding it infinitely more satisfactory to live in sin. Some of these people find this distressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "I do not see it like that; all I see is a simple formula that will provide a clear direction for us to take. I hope that that will solve a lot of the problems and I am sure that my hon. Friends on the Front Bench will respond to them in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": " to them in detail. [Interruption.] It is all very well for the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) to laugh, but I was generous enough to allow the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik) to intervene. He has not been present for all of the debate, so, rather than laughing, perhaps hon. Members should listen and learn. All hon. Members would happily relinquish their role in such cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "me. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) was right when he pointed out how dissatisfied poor people are with Labour. It is also inequitable to have no upper limit. A measure supposedly designed to help children is nothing more than social engineering. The number of children involved will damage the public's confidence in the reform. It is clearly illogical not to have an upper limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "is nothing more than social engineering. The number of children involved will damage the public's confidence in the reform. It is clearly illogical not to have an upper limit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It is illogical because the measure is designed to ensure that children receive maintenance, not to ensure that they receive a share of the parent's wealth. That is a wholly new concept in English law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "sibilities and have a life style that is inconsistent with their declared income—they have new Porsches and take expensive holidays—and it is right that we should pursue them. Increasingly, however, people come to our surgeries with relationship problems. Those people fit the lyrics of the American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, who described \"uptown, uptempo women\" and \"downtown, downbeat guys.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ve confidential information. We do not think that it is right and proper to make such information available in general terms. However, respondents to the Green Paper overwhelmingly accepted the case for radical change. The hon. Lady also made a point about overtime. When overtime is a regular part of income, it rightly should be taken into account. I wish to make a couple of points about pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-11", "file": "debates2000-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "6a6eacd43ddcf3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.248.6", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ouse if he were able to tear himself away from that preoccupation for just a few moments to explain to the House why he has come to this decision now and not many, many months ago? Given the presence on the Treasury Bench of at least one Home Office Minister among the legion of Ministers there, would it not be in order for that Minister to communicate to the Home Secretary the desirability of his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-11a.248.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "It is not just down to those who administer the rule of law—the police, the Government or the criminal justice system—it is also down to the community to recognise the primacy of the rule of law and to co-operate with those schemes that have been defined and conform to the fundamental principles that I enunciated in an earlier answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would be much obliged if conversations were a little less noisy. It is difficult for Back Benchers and Ministers to be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.267.7", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heppell", "preceding_text": "May I say what an honour it is to ask the first question of the millennium?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.267.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that not a single fact of what I said did the right hon. Gentleman dispute. While we are being lectured by the Opposition, let us not forget that, under the previous, Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is precisely why we shall not implement them. If I might expand on the remarks of my hon. Friend, there were reports in The New York Times, during the past two days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.271.6", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a complete misconstruction of what the Home Secretary said. I say this as one very peaceful English person to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is certainly looking for the issues on which he can unite with others. As for the Home Secretary's comments, I find them extremely interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "e issue properly? Will he accept that from the start this matter has been handled in a bungling and incompetent way, and that at the end of it no one is satisfied? Spain is not satisfied, Chile is not satisfied, and the British people have been put through an awful lot of expense for no result whatsoever. I shall be interested to hear from the Secretary of State exactly what this seven days means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "nde and the nightmare that followed in Chile know that he personally has nothing to prove to himself, to the House or to the international community when it comes to expressing opposition to that regime, but will he reflect on what has been achieved as a result of what he has done and the steps that he has taken in the past 15 months? That odious man has effectively been tried in an English court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "taken in the past 15 months? That odious man has effectively been tried in an English court—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I shall deal with Conservative Members' comments in a moment. The man's crimes, and the infamy that he has committed, have been revealed in that court, and that court has found in the clearest possible terms that, in respect of those crimes, he has the clearest possible case to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "My Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Armed Forces (ECHR)", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the fact that the Government have accepted with good grace the ruling of the European Court. I look forward to reading, in the next defence White Paper, that sexual orientation will be included with all the other high ideals that we set for our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Armed Forces (ECHR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend tempts me to make a party political point about the incorporation of the European convention on human rights. I recall that Lord Hailsham and the late Keith Joseph conducted a campaign in the 1970s calling for its incorporation. It is unfortunate that some Conservative Members have forgotten their party's history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Armed Forces (ECHR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ostly young—people to the armed forces each year. They reflect our society, which has a mixed view of homosexuality. It would be absurd for me to pretend otherwise. Those concerns are reflected in wider society, as they will be within the armed forces and will have to be addressed by commanding officers as they implement the code of conduct and this policy. If I pretended otherwise, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Armed Forces (ECHR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman chooses to substitute his own prejudices for, first of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-12", "file": "debates2000-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "cc2c5f9a5c3ea1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "eport, 5 July 1989; Vol. 156, c. 411.] That has been the settled position ever since. The right hon. Member for Gorton has a second, more contemporary difficulty. As he admitted, his party does not agree with him. The excellent contribution from the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) shows that there is some good sense on this issue among Labour Back Benchers. I greatly applaud what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-12a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "The Minister is presiding over the biggest fall in the United Kingdom pig herd and the largest number of job losses in pig farming in any recent period. It took him a year even to issue a consultation document about guidance on labelling; it took him four months and a great deal of prodding by the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.407.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ultation document about guidance on labelling; it took him four months and a great deal of prodding by the Conservatives— [Interruption.] The Minister seems to find it amusing,—before he troubled to carry out his promise to the House to write to public authorities urging them to make their pig meat purchases from sources which meet UK standards. He misled the House, or very nearly, on that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.407.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "That is good. However, over recent years we have all been sickened by stomach churning tales of sewage in animal feedstuffs, dioxins in meat in Belgium, antibiotic growth promoters, salmonella, listeria and BSE—what a catalogue. Following yesterday's announcement, there are suggestions in the press that this new European food standards agency is neither fish nor fowl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman believes so passionately in the case that he has just put, why did not his Government do precisely that when the regulations were introduced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Some of the hon. Gentleman's comments are tendentious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-13", "file": "debates2000-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "d48fd7c74a0003e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "y experience is anything to go by, everyone to whom I speak denies that they have ever had a polling card through the letter box. We all know that they deny even that they have had the party leaflet—the one we delivered five minutes earlier. They say, \"No, I have never seen it.\" That is not treating the electorate with contempt. We are the same. We deny having received letters, cards or circulars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-13a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.562.3", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "lus of more than £1 billion every year. The package would cost half the annual surplus—about £0.5 billion. In other words, the balance in the account would continue to go up even our proposals were implemented. I have outlined what I believe should be done. It is not enough for Opposition parties—as some are wont to do— to say how terrible things are without putting forward a credible alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.572.2", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "I was merely pointing out that it has a marginal effect on any pensioner's income. The minimum income guarantee, from which we hope that many pensioners can benefit—including the 600,000 who currently do not—is an extension of means testing, with all the problems that go with that. It is only for people on income support. Pensioners with any savings do not qualify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Oona King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Oona King", "preceding_text": "l to the Government for that. I remind anyone who genuinely cares about getting a better deal for pensioners that only this Labour Government are delivering that. Only this Labour Government will deliver an even better deal in the future. As we know, if they had to, the Tories would sell the clothes off their grandmother. As for the Liberals, they are always talking about putting lp on income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "ituation of the long-term retired, whose incomes have declined because all too often they are uprated in relation to prices rather than earnings—whether occupational pensions or the basic state pension. Inflation has eroded the value of pensions, and has left pensioners in an increasingly difficult and hard-pressed situation. Where do the Conservatives stand? Very few of them stood in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "ad we restored the earnings link—as the Liberal Democrats now imply that we should have—there would have been the same cost inflation. That is what Liberal Democrat policies would have brought about. The problem is that the Liberal Democrats produced a manifesto in which their sums did not add up, and they have now added yet more expenditure by promising more to pensioners, without explaining how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was only elected in 1997.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister set out the time scale involved? If the operation is not complete by 2003, when ACT will have pushed more people to use banks, it will not be effective in saving so many post offices. In what particular way do his plans differ from those of his Conservative predecessors? I recall that, when he was on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.632.5", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "I must make some progress; I hope that my hon. Friend will understand. With him, I visited a post office in his constituency, and he knows that it was a really excellent small village shop. The people who run it are very worried about their future—not just the post office but the shop is under threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-17", "file": "debates2000-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "44472913e37ad807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ments over the counter. Will the Minister write to everyone who has received the form to make them aware that they can receive cash over the counter, or will he allow the form to let people believe mistakenly that they cannot receive child benefit in cash? The Liberal Democrats favour a fully automated, modernised, competitive, publicly owned Post Office, operating with greater commercial freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-17a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Simon Murphy\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have been plain to the House, and I have been plain everywhere in Britain, on what our objectives at the IGC will be. I have stated those objectives again today, and they are not changed by any debate in the European Parliament. However, I am happy to share common cause with parties in developing a constructive engagement in Europe with Simon Hughes and the other Labour MEPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle (Bexhill and Battle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Wardle (Bexhill and Battle)", "preceding_text": " been turned away. As of yesterday, elective surgery was still suspended, so yet more people are being turned away. Are you able to advise hand-wringing Government Back Benchers that if they wish to be bullied by their Whips and Alastair Campbell that is a matter for them, but if they are to peddle downright untruths at Prime Minister's Question Time to make the Prime Minister look more effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.696.4", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "d he was as incensed as I was at the dogmatic and nonsensical attitude. That dogmatic and nonsensical attitude persists to this day at the heart of the Department of Health. The real reason for today's debate is that matters need not be as they are. Up and down the country, doctors, nurses, other health care professionals and voters do not want the NHS to be used as a political football in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.696.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.696.4", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ence. We believe that there should be increased NHS funding year on year in real terms. We believe that there should be improved NHS management, allowing hospitals to get on with the job of treating patients, and no privatisation—instead, as now, there should be a continued commitment to publicly funded health care, free at the point of delivery. Secondly, the NHS should give patients a guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.696.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "tate of the national health service. As the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) said, it is about the future of health care itself. There are no closed minds in the Government when it comes to radical reform of the NHS. That is precisely what we have been doing for the past two and a half years. The Labour Government made the private finance initiative work in the NHS, and will continue to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "It would be an interesting development in the Conservative party if the hon. Gentleman was advocating foisting on the British people the German or French models. The Government do not support that development for reasons to which I shall come shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "precedented\". Doctors' leaders agree. Dr. Ian Bogle, the chairman of the British Medical Association, said that thanks to the high level of planning across the country the NHS is coping. The hon. Member for Woodspring has been quoting doctors. Let me quote from a letter that I received today from 20 senior clinicians throughout the country—a letter, incidentally, that The Times refused to publish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman some of the details today if that is helpful. There are extra beds at St. Mary's in London; extra beds in Norfolk and Norwich hospital; extra beds in Leicester general; extra beds in Warrington hospital and extra beds in the Royal Victoria infirmary in Newcastle. They are all extra intensive care beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "In the light of what the Secretary of State has said, what does he have to say to my constituent, Colonel Bruce Owen from Marsh Gibbon in Buckingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend makes an extremely telling point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "ublic services such as the NHS and more investment in the Conservative party's priorities, including top-rate tax cuts for the privileged few. It is no wonder that the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), said what he did about the tax guarantee. He said: To say that you are going to reduce the proportion of taxes to GDP in all circumstances is mad. You simply\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.708.6", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, who is a general practitioner, makes a good, telling point. He knows that the private insurance sector would be incapable of insuring the people whose health is most at risk. That is why Conservative arguments are so fatuous. We do not oppose them on ideological grounds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.708.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Frequently.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "lieving pressure on the NHS. If people choose to take out private insurance, that is entirely a matter for them and a positive development. We believe that the private sector could have a growing role in undertaking work commissioned by the NHS, and there is no reason why the reverse should not happen from time to time. The private sector occasionally needs to fall back on the services of the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Americans do not get particularly good value out of either their public or private systems. In total, they spend 14 per cent. of their GDP on the health system. At its best, it is very good, but, overall, I am not sure that it is all that remarkable. What was remarkable was the Prime Minister's pledge yesterday that the Government would get spending up to the EU average in the course of five days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "we set back in the 1940s. We have heard consistently during this Parliament the Tories' belief that expanding the private health sector is the only way forward for health provision. Last week, the shadow Secretary of State was quoted in The Sunday Times as saying: The Conservatives are no longer concerned with the maintenance of the NHS as the primary provider\". That is on the record in the paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "expressed in a letter from the Conservative party to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and Members in other parties, he mentioned two points in particular. The first was that the Conservatives wanted long-term funding of the NHS. The second was that they wanted increased funding year by year. That was not our experience during the last five years of the previous, Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "the health service had to be funded from taxpayers' money alone was raised to the status of a dogma. That dogma, I am afraid, has dogged the debate ever since. In 1949, the health service absorbed 3.5 per cent. of gross domestic product. Today, that figure is still under 6 per cent. Over 50 years, there has been a minimal increase in the percentage of GDP dedicated to the health service as people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "any, £1,634. We have heard that the United States spends twice the proportion of GDP that we do, but it may astound Labour Members to know that 43 per cent. of its health spending was spent by the public sector in 1993 and it is likely that that figure has increased substantially. That means that the United States public health sector spends more per head of population than the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Those Members reduced funding in overall terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.741.7", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "This Government will be providing additional resources to the national health service, over and above what the Conservative Government provided. As a constituency Member of Parliament, my experience has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.741.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": " only three people per 100,000 had flu. It was a major increase in a short time. We have to recognise that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford said, people are now suffering from flu for longer—on average, 10 to 12 days rather than four to five days—and that more older people are suffering from it. Certainly in Wales, and probably also in England, the pressures are the greatest in 25 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": " to recognise that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford said, people are now suffering from flu for longer—on average, 10 to 12 days rather than four to five days—and that more older people are suffering from it. Certainly in Wales, and probably also in England, the pressures are the greatest in 25 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Government have provided extra resources in England and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "re older people are suffering from it. Certainly in Wales, and probably also in England, the pressures are the greatest in 25 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Government have provided extra resources in England and Wales— [Interruption.] Pressures on health services in my part of Wales are certainly the greatest that they have been for 25 years, due largely to the number of people who have had flu—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.743.7", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "No; time is pressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.743.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that that Conservative Administration were rapidly reducing Government debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Cabinet Office (Marjorie Mowlam)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Cabinet Office (Marjorie Mowlam)", "preceding_text": " working families tax credit, the new deal and the national minimum wage; they would undermine child benefit and cut help for pensioners. Those are the first real cuts that they would make. The hon. Gentleman argued that the Conservative party would make a difference in the health service. Would they make as big a difference as we did in the first year, with £21 billion announced for NHS spending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Alastair Campbell is not a party spokesperson. It is right that he is not paid out of the party purse. His contract makes it clear that he is employed to speak to the media on the Government's behalf. He expresses not his own views but those of the Prime Minister, and he avoids personal attacks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Not for the moment. The fact that Alastair Campbell's is a political appointment means that civil servants are not being asked to become involved in political arguments. As with all special advisers, Alastair Campbell's appointment helps to preserve impartiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Government task forces said: We welcome the government's attempts to be more inclusive in its approach to policy review and implementation…to make the consultative and advice-seeking process more open to the public and to make it more inclusive of different kinds of expertise from civil society. The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire also implied that we appoint people out of favouritism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "r the future. The comprehensive spending review also addressed the need to realign budgets in the direction of clear political goals. As for accountability, in debates such as this, one is often struck by the shortness of Conservative memories. Few could forget the performance of the former Home Secretary, who claimed that the conduct of prisons was a matter not for him but for the Prison Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "t ask what other ways there are to hold Prime Ministers to account. Prime Ministers have, from time to time, dominated the House of Commons, but even then some checks on them have operated. Prime Ministers have historically been accountable to the Cabinet. Even Margaret Thatcher in her strongest moments was accountable to a small group in the Cabinet and she never really succeeded in ruling alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Mr. Ian McCartney)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Mr. Ian McCartney)", "preceding_text": "aps that they had not been extreme enough, right-wing enough or Conservative enough. They invented a world in which there was no Tory sleaze, no incompetence and no favours for friends. Tonight, they have entered the third phase, which I call the brass neck phase. During this phase they are brazening it out and trying to give the impression that all they left us was a golden legacy. What a legacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": " to recruit other Tory Members to lobby for him. Angela Rumbold, the former Deputy Chairman of the Tory party, was defeated in Mitcham and Maiden. She arranged meetings with Ministers for lobbying companies. William Waldegrave was criticised for being involved in misleading the House. Sir Nicholas Lyell was criticised in the arms to Iraq affair. The hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.790.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister was about to move to the list of 260 Labour councillors who have been appointed to health trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "s. That has enabled us to advance our new proposals—assuming that this House and the other place agree to them—in time for a re-opening this year. As the House may have heard, Mr. Walker, the director of finance, has been ill and recently underwent a major operation. May I take this opportunity, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to express to him the Committee's best wishes for a speedy and a complete recovery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-18", "file": "debates2000-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ac2f129c8a81d6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I echo my hon. Friend's comments about the Committee, which struggled with the issues that the House gave us to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-18a.802.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No he isn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "r from the Prime Minister, instead of that waffle about what he said. So far, we have had Frost on Sunday, panic on Monday, U-turn on Tuesday and waffle on Wednesday. If there was a pledge, why, yesterday, did the Prime Minister's spokesman say that he could not say that there would be a 5 per cent. increase year on year? That was the Prime Minister's spokesman—he is responsible for his spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are putting in a 5 per cent. real-terms growth. We are doing that. As I have said—not only on \"Breakfast with Frost\", but in the House in December—if we carry on running the economy properly, we can get these real terms rises in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tee or his patient guarantee. A short time ago, he said in the House that he would fund his way out of this problem by making savings because—people will remember this—the costs of Government had risen by more than £1 billion since we came to power. We have had that figure checked. The right hon. Gentleman gets to it in this way. First, the right hon. Gentleman deals in cash terms, not real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We believe, as we have said already, in getting rid of section 28. That is not because we believe it right to promote homosexuality but because we believe it is right for school teachers and others to be able to explain to children properly the facts of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.842.5", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The programme will make substantial differences to the way in which the Commission is run and to its accountability, transparency and efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.842.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Patten Report", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's announcement of the centrality of human rights to the reform of the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) must understand that our party, to which we are absolutely committed, had a representative on a working party that made recommendations about changes in electoral arrangements. We have considered whether it is sensible to accept the recommendation that there should be pilot schemes in respect of different ways of voting, on different days and with different procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "t he has erected. In this case, I would be prepared to leave it, as we must when considering a Bill of this kind, to the expertise, dedication and discretion of the registration officer to decide the precise mechanisms to be used to verify the contents of the register. My hon. Friend has conjured up a nightmare vision of registration officers acting as though they were Customs and Excise officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary of State is nodding. I am not surprised. The arrangements are probably buried somewhere in a schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ocal elections and general elections and the dismal turnout at the European elections of just over 23 per cent. Tonight's announcement is a slap in the face for our democratic system and will do nothing to promote representative democracy. The Representation of the People Bill has enormous repercussions for the way in which we will vote in this country. It gives the Home Secretary enormous powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "Is not this another intolerant act from an increasingly intolerant Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "When the Labour Members who are shouting and bawling—almost none of them bothered to attend today's debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-19", "file": "debates2000-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "459735453d3d9cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must sit down if I rise to my feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-19a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "It is not going to be easy for parents to find out about child care places if playgroups are closing. Can we have a straight answer to the question posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "m well aware that the hon. Gentleman is the Member for Macclesfield, through which I passed on Thursday on my way to the north-west, including Manchester, where my ear was bent about Manchester's urgent desire to have the athletics stadium. As a native of that part of the world, I recognise that Manchester is undoubtedly the capital of the universe and that that status is not properly represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's last point is particularly extraordinary as it takes more than a couple of years to train a fighter pilot, so, if there is a fighter pilot shortage, the blame cannot be laid at the door of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should not go into the detail of what happened yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Five thousand pounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Braithwaite Report", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "tonishing that we still do not have a creche. I have not investigated the matter recently, but do we still have a shooting gallery? That was the position when I arrived in the House, but I do not know whether it still is. The management of the House has a responsibility to make itself receptive to elected representatives that have either family responsibilities or simply the desire to have a life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Braithwaite Report", "cue_speaker": "Ms King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms King", "preceding_text": "o elected representatives that have either family responsibilities or simply the desire to have a life. [Interruption.] Radical, is it not? Such a conducive environment relates to a myriad of different facilities—everything from child care to toilet and sleeping facilities. I was at the French Parliament recently. It has rooms that French Deputies can book at the beginning of an all-night session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-20", "file": "debates2000-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8dc9f1f14690ad7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1092.5", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Braithwaite Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I was teasing the hon. Gentleman. It is an important point. I was astonished when I discovered the extent of the facilities up there. We had a look in the previous Parliament and were so horrified by the facilities that we spent a lot of money trying to improve fire safety and other health and safety measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-20a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I was out on an exercise on HMS Cornwall this week, where men and women were working together as a team very effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.25.11", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "There have been discussions on this, but we shall be listening closely to what is said in this debate and as the Bill proceeds through the House. There have been discussions with various representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.25.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " the Conservatives, but we are worried about how the Government have introduced it to Parliament. The approach adopted by the Government does not seem to be the most appropriate. The relationship that the United Kingdom has with Ireland is different from any other that it has. It is not the same as our relationship with Commonwealth countries, any other European Union country or any other country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ue of people representing electorates in different sovereign countries, presumably the key question is, would there be a conflict of loyalty between supporting the rights of one set of electors and supporting those of another set of electors? To take an example, although not on all fours with this, a former right hon. Member of the House, Sir David Steel, sought to represent a French constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. George Howarth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. George Howarth)", "preceding_text": "trongly and any doubts that people may have have been covered. The hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir P. Cormack) should not labour under the delusion that the Bill is the product of some arrangement between Ministers and Sinn Fein. Representations were made by the Irish Government—whether they communicated with the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Maginnis) is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I hear what you are saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hart.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point, which is often overlooked by Parliament. In December 1998, the court made a decision in Pepper v. someone or other—I cannot remember the name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-24", "file": "debates2000-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "70049d7e984ef6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that it is a point of order. I get the feeling that some hon. Members are seeking to prolong the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-24a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "from the one that went away with the excise man in his literature. However, I bow to her greater knowledge on this subject. The hon. Lady is commenting on press speculation. I understand that there may be an announcement this afternoon. After that, I think that it will be legitimate to comment on its text. It is rather difficult to comment on the detail before that has been announced. I would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the hon. Gentleman was calling for or how much he was prepared to spend. I can assure him that some people behind me will be tabulating the public expenditure cost to which he has committed the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of the claims that the hon. Gentleman has made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electronic Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "I will be happy to move the motion, Madam Speaker. I believe that my hon. Friend will be here shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, not consulted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said a few moments ago, I think somewhat disingenuously, that the Opposition were consulted through the usual channels, and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oaten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oaten", "preceding_text": "f the deal is that the Bill has to pass before decommissioning, I may accept that that is another risk on a difficult path. Being unclear whether that is the case and where the process is going is not helpful. Although it may be tempting to link the Bill and accept some of the amendments, I and others on the Opposition Benches are left to take on trust that the Government know what they are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "per democratic assent. The Government cannot get away with sitting mute and not attempting to defend their proposals. Finally, amendment No. 32 is absolutely vital. The other amendments deal with the commencement of the measures, and the point at which it will be permissible for Members of the Dail also to sit in the House of Commons. However, they do not provide permanent security for this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.238.7", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "So why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.238.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Let me make the position clear. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will have to be satisfied that there is the intention to make progress and that there will be a programme that will lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ing at me and not prepared to rise to say one thing or the other. I suspect that he is watching the clock and hoping that the sitting will be suspended at 10 o'clock. It is essential that I put on the record on behalf of the Opposition that we are four square behind the Secretary of State in suspending the Executive if he feels that he must do so if there has been no proper decommissioning. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": " repeated inadequately what he said on Second Reading yesterday. He did not elaborate at all on those points, but referred to them in the most general terms. He did not elaborate, for example, on the consultation. He indicated that the consultation involved many others, yet I know that he was inaccurate—unavoidably inaccurate, I hope—when he suggested that others besides Sinn Fein had an interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again, the hon. Gentleman is going wide of the amendment, and I think that he is aware of that. Perhaps he can get back to the confines of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "d hardly believe our luck. I do not expect an answer to any of my questions, but I do ask for one. If we do not get any answers, I am sure that we shall return to these matters on Report. The hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) has complained about remarks made by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst. If he were to stand, the hon. Gentleman might be elected to the Dail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "arliament might be able to do the same. However, if the hon. Gentleman stood in a place like Donegal, where the number of seats is carefully controlled so as to ensure that it is far more difficult to get elected—Donegal is where the pro-Union population lives—he would find it impossible to get elected. I shall not weary the House with a chapter and verse description of the STV system of election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "Our contention is that, by multiplying the potential for wrongs, the amendment would make the Bill worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be drawn on to the question of the euro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "ter intends to achieve parity between the number of Labour and Conservative Members in the House of Lords. How will an Irish Member of the Irish legislature—Senate or Dail—satisfy the qualifications? Few will be able to satisfy the qualifications we have seen recently, such as sharing a flat with the Prime Minister when first living in London—as did Lord Falconer. In drawing my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.320.6", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "This is a fairly simple and straightforward little amendment. As I am sure you will have noticed, Mr. Martin, today's selection list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "s judicial officers, civil servants, members of the armed forces, police officers and so on. I wish to dispute the Minister's point that we should leave it to the voters to decide whom they shall elect. I suspect that Ministers do not really believe that because, after a moment's thought, they might realise that there might be some people who they would want to prevent from standing for elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.337.6", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "urselves in the ludicrous position of a man coming here, taking advantage of being in the Lobby with the Foreign Secretary and saying, \"Come on. Give us a few more Hawk spares.\" He would not say that on behalf of a constituency—well, I suppose that he could be acting on behalf of both constituencies; he could represent a British Aerospace factory in the north-west. Then he would square the circle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.337.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "The Minister defended his position with regard to the amendment by saying that the electorate would be the arbiters of whether people's actions were influenced by a conflict of interest. However, we know from experience that politicians in those circumstances typically do not go before their electors. People who rat on their friends and deceive their party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ster says that there is nothing wrong with that. After all, we are not saying that a Minister in the Irish Government would become a Minister of the British Crown. He said that it was perfectly normal and satisfactory for a Minister in the Irish Government to become a British Back Bencher. But it is extraordinary. We know that smuggling goes on between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "her. But it is extraordinary. We know that smuggling goes on between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. [Interruption.] There may be instances in which an equalisation of excise duties is in the interests of the Republic of Ireland. What is to stop an Irish Government Minister, on these green Benches, wearing his British Back Bencher's hat, arguing the case for equalising excise duties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am only repeating myself because I am not being allowed to make my point without some interruption from the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Under-Secretary has considered that, but I have. It is one of the reasons for my objections to many elements of the Belfast agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I shall use my discretion and stick closely to what I intended to say. I have almost reached the end of my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is right; we shall spend a few minutes discussing clause stand part. That will take us until dawn at least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that our proposals had to be tabled in great haste, before we were able to think them through entirely. So many people are now so anxious to apply the strictures of political correctness that they might ask, \"What if it is a lady?\", forgetting that, in United Kingdom legislation, the legal definition of the male embraces the female—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "and will repent at leisure. I note that although the amendments tabled by the Conservative party and ourselves are not exactly the same, we were aiming at the same targets for the same reason. The amendments are precise enough to meet the case. It is not possible to serve two masters; it is not physically possible to be in two places at once. We must make up our mind what job to do and then do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a convenient point to stop the right hon. Gentleman. Once again, I make it clear that such arguments could have been made on clause 1. If my memory serves me correctly, they were made on clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that we are in Tuesday's business. What goes on outside the Chamber has nothing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Today is obviously Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slow down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The clause is narrow and consequential. It provides for the repeal of section 36(5) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which allows a Member of the Irish Senate to be a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.419.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Martin. We all have a problem: the Minister talked so fast that we do not know what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": " Assembly but not in the other part of the Dail which, as he rightly said, is the fully elected part of the Dail. Either everyone should be allowed to sit, or no one. The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and I have clashed in the nicest possible way about speedy legislation. That illustrates that even with the best will in the world, when it is necessary to have speedy legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.429.5", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps I can help the right hon. Gentleman. The Minister was out of order in straying from the clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "May I complete my point? I want to give way to the Minister, but I have been interrupted so often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have no doubt that, in some quarters, in the next few hours or the next few days, Labour Members will complain that my speech was tedious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is saying in his own way that he is buying time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "day inquiry is a case in point and the bill is almost £14 million, which has been spent for no good purpose. Allegations are made time and again until some foolish people actually believe them and hold inquiries. My view is that allegations and assertions, whether they relate to the events of 30 January 1972 or whatever, are only that until proof positive—proof beyond reasonable doubt—is produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "s ago and partly to answer the strictures of my hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale). There is one reason, and one reason only, why we are still debating this measure at this time. That reason sits on the Government Bench. It is the silence of the Treasury Bench that is responsible for the fact that my eloquent and hon. Friends have felt obliged to repeat points, to repeat questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "s not for hon. Members, from a sedentary position, to usurp the Chair. Where my hon. Friends have very occasionally strayed a little, they have been brought up and corrected, and they have apologised. But for the most part the speeches made by all my right hon. and hon. Friends have been apposite and absolutely within order. Successive occupants of the Chair of this Committee have acknowledged it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ght, or did not, because right through the night we have had silence; we have had no speeches from Government Back Benchers. Such interventions as we had at the very early stages of the debate came from the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) and the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), both of whom were extremely concerned. What we have had in this long debate on clause 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "Is it not possible that the note that was communicated to the Hansard reporters might not even be entirely the same as the words that were spoken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Face the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "Surely the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that that is what he said in the substance of his speech. I am sure that Hansard will bear that out, and that is fine. However, if he had said as much in an intelligible form at the time, the Committee would have been saved many hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "I accept your ruling without reservation, Sir Alan. I am establishing the point that the word \"disqualification\" in clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.476.12", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I want to raise a small point on clause 4, on which I hope the Minister can advise us. The clause provides that the Act may be cited as the Disqualifications Act 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.476.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.476.12", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I want to raise a small point on clause 4, on which I hope the Minister can advise us. The clause provides that the Act may be cited as the Disqualifications Act 2000. [Interruption.] I hope and believe that I am right in saying that it is usual for the parliamentary draftsmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.476.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.482.7", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "l position—be it as a Whip, or any other position—in the UK Government. That is in broad terms the gist of my new clause, but the hon. Members who have tabled amendments will no doubt speak to them and explain their thinking. Yesterday, the Minister largely admitted the validity of the point at issue in the amendments, so the Government are in no position to resist the principle in the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.482.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levitt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Martin. I do not know whether you noticed, but the Father of the House, the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath), entered the Chamber a few minutes ago, took one look around and left in disgust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.486.6", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By bogus points of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "r. If it is not, according to your ruling, that is the end of the matter—I would not dream of challenging your ruling. The speeches of Opposition Members are more or less in order—although I notice that you and your predecessors, Mr. Martin, have had to intervene to ensure that they are, certainly in the past few hours—but would you not agree that the proceedings are being unnecessarily prolonged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.487.6", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. In discussing new clause 2, he mentioned the power of the Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.487.6", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. In discussing new clause 2, he mentioned the power of the Whip— [Interruption.] Mr. Martin, I ask for your protection to allow me to continue. Does the hon. Member for East Londonderry think that the power of the Whips was exemplified by their marked interventions in points of order earlier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "That intervention takes us back to a very simple point: how many legislatures we belong to is a matter for us. I should have thought that in a multicultural, multipolitical Europe, being a member of more than one legislature, if we can find the time to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "t me give an example from the 17th century of a possibility that people regarded as merely theoretical. At that time, the idea that we would end up with a Hanoverian monarch would have been thought quite extraordinary—it was a possibility on which people had only theorised. However, in practice, it happened. Our history provides us with thousands of cases of people who, on a question of principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ht. Their brilliant speeches were devastatingly disturbing for the Government of the day but they were, nevertheless, a proper use of parliamentary time by the Opposition. As I listened to my right hon. and hon. Friends—and I single out my right hon. and loquacious Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth)—I thought of the late Bernard Braine, much-loved former Father of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "loquacious Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth)—I thought of the late Bernard Braine, much-loved former Father of the House. [Interruption.] That was a most unworthy and disgusting remark for the hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Dowd) to make from a sedentary position. Bernard Braine was a distinguished Father of the House and the hon. Gentleman should withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " have been politic to wait for that first report before introducing the Bill. We were told on Second Reading that the Bill would in some way facilitate the peace process—that although the Bill is not part of the Good Friday agreement and no one said that it was, nevertheless it is tangential and complementary to it, and will assist its development. The Under-Secretary is nodding at those comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "I will, of course, vote against Third Reading. I voted against the Bill on Second Reading, and I am glad to note the change of heart by my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench who, I understand, are now going to vote with us on Third Reading. It is a pity that my amendment did not receive the support that I expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "the Government want to do in their name because it is shabby legislation. The hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) made a very good speech. To correct my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), the Liberal Democrats belong to a once great party; it no longer is. Having made a good speech, the hon. Gentleman drew completely the wrong conclusions as to what he should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "veryone who took part in the Committee proceedings. Ulster Unionist Members have genuine concerns about the measure; they have repeated them throughout our consideration of the clauses and amendments. Since he became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, my right hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) has bent over backwards to accommodate the Ulster Unionists, whenever he could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-25", "file": "debates2000-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "52737325aa220597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": " to ensure that, when we approach measures in future, efforts will be made to distinguish issues about which there is a clear difference of opinion—between the Front Benches or with the minority parties—and that proper time will be given to debate them. Having done that, we should try to ascertain whether we can determine an agreed programme to tackle them in a business-like way. Having done that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-25a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "We have strengthened the operations that existed when we took over from the previous Administration. We have a new panel of Ministers, which will consider regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caborn", "preceding_text": "d when we took over from the previous Administration. We have a new panel of Ministers, which will consider regulation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"] Indeed, if the previous Administration had implemented some of their taskforce's recommendations, the system would have been more effective. We have had to clear up that mess. The taskforce is chaired by Lord Haskins and its members include David Irwin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.590.6", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider a debate in the House on rural policy? I gather that the Prime Minister will make some statements in the next week, which would be useful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": " to the industry that we are trying to regulate. The hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Mr. Cousins) was on the right track, but not with respect to schedule 1. He is absolutely right that the Treasury has huge power under the Bill, and that that power should be diminished. He is not right that the Treasury power of appointment over a chairman and a chief executive is necessarily wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "ps I could come to the point that the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) raised before coming to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point? The Treasury appoints the members to the board. The FSA has to ensure that they form a committee under paragraph 3. Paragraph 2(3) is the one that the hon. Gentleman should look at. The FSA appoints the non-executives. Perhaps that clarifies that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-27", "file": "debates2000-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "1980c2ce1704012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.672.10", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": " authority by the king. Proclamations issued by the king were always fairly minor and never affected life or property, whereas the orders that can be brought forward under the Bill may affect property in the form of people's money and investments. Proclamations in the middle ages were generally not enforced or the courts were reluctant to enforce them, whereas the Bill will be rigorously enforced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-27a.672.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-28", "file": "debates2000-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "26ba467839ecc796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "preceding_text": "That is an extremely valuable intervention and I look forward to it being expanded in a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-28", "file": "debates2000-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "26ba467839ecc796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "preceding_text": "aised? There is no doubt that there is a need for clearer guidelines, but they must be guidelines and they must be worked through, and not from the particular narrow point of view that all life needs to be sustained, no matter what is done to sustain it. The right to life should not deny a person the right to death and the fact that someone is not dying does not necessarily mean that he is living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-28", "file": "debates2000-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "26ba467839ecc796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "preceding_text": "The cardinal's views on other matters did not cover him in glory. The House should feel strongly about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-28a.736.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State explain the delay that has occurred in giving the Government's official response to the Davies report? Is it true, as newspapers suggest, that there are disagreements among Ministers on whether to accept the digital licence fee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "w electricity trading arrangements that we are seeking to introduce, and that we believe will lead to a 10 per cent. reduction in the wholesale price of electricity. I hope that the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton will welcome that. I was looking at the figures supplied for the east midlands public electricity supply area—which covers Rutland and Melton, and in which he has a personal interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Melton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Member for Rutland and wherever else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caplin", "preceding_text": "r Members will be unhappy to see that duty placed on the utilities. Thirdly, the Bill modernises the regulatory framework. It is about 15 or 16 years since the privatisation of BT. We can argue about whether the framework used then was right or wrong, but we can all agree that the world has moved on and there is clearly a need for the system to be modernised to take account of market developments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "I have already made clear my own unsuitability for membership of that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-01-31", "file": "debates2000-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9c9572279117d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " and Opposition Members so that no one will be disadvantaged as we go through the text in what will no doubt be a very long Committee stage. The Bill contains the core of our proposals for legislation, but it is not yet complete. We faced a choice between waiting until all its provisions were ready or introducing a substantial core now and completing the Bill later by way of Government amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-01-31a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-01", "file": "debates2000-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bba8b72431ffecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "None.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-01", "file": "debates2000-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bba8b72431ffecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.901.6", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that we have no intention of going to sleep on anything, unlike previous Conservative Governments who, over 30 years, never conducted any systematic research into the use of beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.901.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-01", "file": "debates2000-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bba8b72431ffecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": " industry more than they save it. We would expect the Treasury to use its intelligence to ensure that the review did not become an excessive and irredeemably burdensome examination of the FSA's activity. The Opposition have consistently argued for at least one thoroughgoing review of the fundamental change in legislation. The Government consistently refuse to say whether we can have such a review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-01", "file": "debates2000-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bba8b72431ffecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": " taker were disadvantaged, so new clause 12 tackles the point directly. Unless the courts are satisfied both that the deposit taker reasonably believed that he was not breaching the prohibition and that it would be just and equitable to uphold the agreement, the depositor will be able to obtain immediate repayment. I do not know whether that answers the right hon. and learned Gentleman's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-01", "file": "debates2000-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bba8b72431ffecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Government have proposed some provisions for excluding professionals who are regulated through their own bodies. I ought to declare an interest as a chartered accountant, although I do not intend to practise—at least not for a bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-01a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1033.7", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Khabra", "preceding_text": "May I take the opportunity to thank the Prime Minister for coming to my constituency, accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister, to celebrate Labour's first 1,000 days in power? My question concerns the economy. The Prime Minister is aware that, between 1990 and 1992, 140,000 businesses failed and 188,000 mortgage repossessions took place. That was due to the dogma of Tory party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1033.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " is always in the post, or going to be in the post. It is not just us saying that. The Labour majority on the Public Accounts Committee says that the Government are not living up to their responsibility and that the response of the Home Office is, to say the least, inadequate. He should know that, in the last full year of a Conservative Government, the number of asylum seekers fell by 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The reason why the numbers have increased is that the Prime Minister has made the United Kingdom a soft touch for asylum seekers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ers. A moment ago, I mentioned the benefit rules. I should mention another provision that Conservative Members have opposed—the provision that fines lorry drivers who bring illegal asylum seekers into the country. The right hon. Gentleman opposed that measure. Therefore, let us not have it from him that we inherited a perfect situation, because we inherited a backlog of tens of thousands of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is great news. I know that my hon. Friend worked at the Ravenscraig steelworks for 14 years, and it is good to see that regeneration project under way. People will of course remember that the previous Government closed the steelworks complex, with the loss of 1,200 jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "between Britain's health spending and the European average, will he look at the artificial ceiling on national insurance contributions and a more progressive system of corporate tax contributions, which are far lower in Britain than in most of our European counterparts? Will he also reflect on whether the current public mood would prefer us to put a penny into health rather than taking it off tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Lady accept that the real motive for this debate is to enable the Conservative party to play the race card—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "c Accounts Committee is a Conservative. He said of the project which the right hon. Lady authorised in 1996, that it it was over-ambitious from the outset. To combine a complex information technology project with a major reorganisation was always likely to be a risky venture. Why did the right hon. Lady authorise that contract, fail to take account of the risks, and bind the next Government to it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.4", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I will answer. Have you noticed, Madam Speaker, in overseeing the House, that as soon as a Member comes to the Dispatch Box to answer, hon. Members yell \"Answer\", which is rather a pointless exercise. Perhaps now they will listen to the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1051.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Let me try, for the third time, to make the right hon. Lady understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Let me try, for the third time, to make the right hon. Lady understand. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] I am happy to answer. When we discussed the Bill in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1056.9", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "and immigration, as on many other issues, they have said one thing and done another. They have lost their grip on the situation and are flirting with desperate measures and gimmicks, rather than taking the necessary tough decisions that are required to sort the situation out. The Home Secretary and his Ministers are guilty of grave misjudgment, staggering mismanagement and horrendous incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1056.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "The problem is difficult. It has various aspects such as the passage of time and the person involved growing up and having a family, but I cannot get away from the fact that we wrongly separated individuals from their family. How should we behave? The House should not look around for excuses, but face up to the fact that we made a mistake, although not deliberately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mudie", "preceding_text": "very condition and the entry clearance officer might say, \"Okay,\" but he still may face a bond. I do not think that the bond will be £10,000—that figure represents a hit of kite flying to make £5,000 satisfactory—but it will have to be substantial if it is to act as a deterrent. That is wrong. We should either introduce bonds on the facts and be able to check those facts on appeal or leave things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1077.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I was describing the difference between the glorious days of the Conservative party in the time of Disraeli and its sad, pale shadow today. That was the division that Disraeli described. It was not between north and south, but between rich and poor. Those divisions got much wider under the 18 years of Conservative Government, despite their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "As shadow Local Government Minister, I must do something about that. My right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon spoke with authority about housing, local government and regional planning guidance, which has lost the plot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "ng thoughts on which he will want to reflect. The hon. Member for Elmet (Mr. Burgon) described himself as a Leeds person and purported to lecture us—and, in particular, me—about the value of Leeds. I was born in Leeds, brought up in Leeds and educated in Leeds until I went to university, so he cannot tell me anything about Leeds that I do not already know. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The sewers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "ent that Leeds is splendid, but made an extremely eloquent case for Sussex and other parts of the south-east. I share his view. The Minister tried to pooh-pooh the genuine concern in the south-east about the Crow report, but where are the roads, the rail links, the schools, the hospitals and the natural resources such as water to meet the target of 1.1 million—or even 600,000 or 700,000—new homes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": " the motion obscures the fact that the real issues, both rural and urban, affect regions in both the north and the south of England. The quality of speeches from those on the Front Benches—the shallow, ill-informed rhetoric that we heard from the Opposition, and the detailed analysis of Government policy that we heard from my colleagues—could not have shown the difference in approach more starkly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "e north and the south of England. The quality of speeches from those on the Front Benches—the shallow, ill-informed rhetoric that we heard from the Opposition, and the detailed analysis of Government policy that we heard from my colleagues—could not have shown the difference in approach more starkly. [Interruption.] I can say that because it is true, as anyone who sat through the debate will know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.4", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "Salford (Ms Blears) and for Elmet (Mr. Burgon) for redressing the balance. Given the rather spiteful response of the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Waterson), they must have hit a raw nerve for him to be drawn to such an extent. They reminded us of the damage done to their communities by the previous Government, and the fact that people in the north—like people everywhere else—want a decent life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "ntioned the importance of housing and education to regeneration, and made several suggestions. Some of them are discussed in the report on popular housing, some we are actively considering as we develop our White Papers, and some will —are already involving—discussions with other Departments, including the Treasury. The right hon. Gentleman's comments were very helpful. In relation to rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hughes", "preceding_text": "ce an insurmountable difficulty, and that is the Conservative party's complete lack of credibility. It is the party that tried to create two Britains. It concreted over the countryside and abandoned any attempt to address the needs of the regions. Its record in the past is so dismal and its policies for the future are so bankrupt that nobody believes that its about-face from free market economics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), spoken in the Chamber on 20 January this year. During the debate on the Braithwaite report he openly and honestly described his lack of understanding of the House of Commons Commission. He also described his views on how members should be appointed to it. His desires have clearly not been met, because he has been nominated through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I very much agree with the first point made by my hon. Friend—that the person should be representative of a wide range of Members. However, her second point will be tested by the interview process in which we are engaged. Given that the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but I am a trifle perplexed by his use of the word \"interview\". In reference to these proceedings, is it customary, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for someone conducting an interview to do so by making a lengthy and rather tedious speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.6", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.8", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Never.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "Clearly, I must have been in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, or you would have rapidly stopped me. Perhaps the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) has had a word with my Whips, who from time to time accuse me of being long-winded, boring and tedious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1153.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "agree that a Member of independent mind is needed? Does he further agree that my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) is not only of independent mind but, unlike those on the green swathes opposite, he is not one of the Whips' apparatchiks? He will stand up for the rights of Parliament, and more importantly, he will stand up for nursing women employees of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1158.7", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I could keep the debate going for a full day. However, there is a serious underlying point: the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst has himself raised the issue of the process of appointments, arguing that it is unsatisfactory. We are now trying to deal with his appointment, albeit in a muddled way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1158.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "ether or not he is an appropriate candidate for the Commission. I agree that the process in which we are engaged is unsatisfactory, but it is the best one we have. I should now draw my speech to a close because others want to speak. Irrespective of the outcome, I genuinely hope that tonight's important debate will stimulate discussion within the Commission about the process of future appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I honestly do not know. I described earlier the qualities that I think the right hon. Gentleman has—his charm, his humour, his tie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "I want to finish this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1165.4", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "I want to assist the hon. Lady in making up her mind. She referred to the scrutiny exercised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst, but said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1167.2", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "o you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, when I say that I have not the slightest intention of detaining the House for more than a few moments. These motions are usually not debated but, as it has been decided that this motion will be discussed, we should ensure that the entire motion is discussed. Whatever we may want to say or not say about the Member who is being proposed, we should not let the debate go by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "r from the right hon. Gentleman's face not only that he would not want the Commission to return to the issue, but that he thought it stupid and irrelevant. The second issue that made the right hon. Gentleman's eyes do the force-10 roll was when someone talked about consensus and the important role of the Commission in building consensus among right hon. and hon. Members about how the House is run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "I am indebted to Andrew Roth's biography of the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth). I am sure that the hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) will be fascinated to learn that, while at school, the right hon. Gentleman was a communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that one pre-eminent qualification of my right hon. Friend for the appointment is that, unlike the hon. Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart), he did not have a charisma bypass operation at birth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.6", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I disagree with my hon. Friend only in that he takes for granted the outcome of the nature versus nurture argument. The operation may not have occurred at birth; it might have been when she realised that she was an inheritor of a great deal of money. That is always very embarrassing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-02", "file": "debates2000-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b151cd675534b5d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1175.4", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Register of Medical Practitioners (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "on. Friend, but for the fact that he still has time to make good that deficiency. In conclusion, I make two serious points. The first is that, if my right hon. Friend does such a great disservice to the House as is alleged, why has he been selected as one of the final four in the competition for Opposition politician of the year? I am sure that that will be acknowledged on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-02a.1175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "ration and Development? Will he now admit that millions of people are going to be paying more income tax? The Chancellor is abolishing the married couples allowance. He is abolishing mortgage interest relief. Income tax for a one-earner couple is therefore going to increase. Is he denying that that is the case? Will he further admit that those on the lowest incomes will face the biggest increases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "0s. The third said that he was not even in the House of Commons—his alibi was that he was not at the scene of the crime. We now have the person who piloted through the 22 tax rises. I think that he will want to take credit for the fact that he piloted through the House of Commons the rise in VAT on fuel, the escalator on fuel, the escalator on tobacco and the cuts in the married couples allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "d by a dead sheep or nuzzled by an old ram. Dealing with the current Chancellor is like being assaulted by Mr. Toad, with the pomposity and self-congratulation that distinguish him. I did not get very far in securing answers from him. He says that he works under shadow Chancellors. Perhaps he does not yet realise that he is here to answer questions because he is meant to be part of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I intend to. I want to be entirely open to see whether we can get some openness from the Chancellor. The next Conservative Government will respect the independence of the Bank of England and will legislate to enhance that independence and increase accountability to Parliament. The next Conservative Government will not repeal the national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "r £65 a week better off? Will he ensure that when the literature is produced for the working families tax credit, it will make much clearer the benefits of the child care credit? Will he comment on the fact that the Conservative party would destroy that benefit—if their promises are to be believed—thus throwing those women out of work and back on to benefit, damaging their families in the process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1197.2", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " The speed of progress will depend on the submission of poverty reduction plans. It is critical that we know that the debt relief will go to poverty relief. In the case of Uganda, we have already been promised that the country will halve the pupil-teacher ratio in schools from 100:1 to 50:1. We have also been promised that every child in Uganda will be educated in a classroom in a school building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "o suggestion whatever that the head of information at the Cabinet Office was sacked. He is leaving to take up a six-month post at the Centre for Management and Policy Studies. When I was President of the Board of Trade, the head of information at the Department of Trade and Industry decided to take early retirement—entirely voluntarily and very much to my regret—for purely personal considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "they should be committed to acting against xenophobia and discrimination. Obviously, we share the concerns that other Governments have expressed. On a lighter note, let me inform the right hon. Gentleman that, having read yesterday's Hansard, I am shocked and dismayed to discover that the views on the EU that he has just expressed are in clear contravention of the stance that he adopted yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "sitive as well. It is by no means the case that my right hon. Friend suggested that there was no crisis, but he drew attention also to the responsibility for that position that lies on the shoulders of Opposition Members. I understand that that does not comfort the hon. Gentleman. On sub-post offices, the hon. Gentleman may know that we had such a debate—I think only last week—in Westminster Hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1230.2", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I cannot confirm at the Dispatch Box the specific figure to which the hon. Gentleman refers. However, I can confirm, as I did earlier, that the Metropolitan police force is under serious pressure on numbers. There were substantial reductions during the final period of the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "I shall simply quote what the Police Federation said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has obviously forgotten that we changed the formula to address the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I could not have put it better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1273.4", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": " then a Labour whip against those proposals. She really should take stock. Is it the case that everyone else is wrong, and she is right? The Minister may not agree with me about Camden, although I believe that that is a matter of record. She may know, however, that there is a campaign in the Labour party for open local government, which claims to have more than 1,000 Labour councillors as members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "n local government. One of them is the growing use of specific grants. Conservative Members are friends of the block grant. We think that, in the past, our Government, too, were guilty of having too many specific grants, in which the Government think that a particular priority is important and impose that sense of priorities on local government. The figures on specific grant are quite significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": " is the growing use of specific grants. Conservative Members are friends of the block grant. We think that, in the past, our Government, too, were guilty of having too many specific grants, in which the Government think that a particular priority is important and impose that sense of priorities on local government. The figures on specific grant are quite significant. [Interruption.] For education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "e. The scheme is a precise and targeted way, as the LGA has said, of making the nearly poor pay for the really poor. The nub of what the Minister said was that she had had representations from local government and that she was not going to take a blind bit of notice of any of them. The scheme will continue, and on a cumulative basis. Our policy in the next Parliament is not to have capping at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-03", "file": "debates2000-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "530d47c63a58afec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good and serious point. The Home Secretary was unable to tell me the other day how many asylum seekers and refugees are living in my constituency. We do know that more than 200 were assigned to local GPs in Eastbourne in November and December last year. It is only when people present themselves to some branch of health or social services that one knows they are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-03a.1281.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-04", "file": "debates2000-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "a863dd7add33f862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-04a.1400.6", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Motions", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That Mr. Andrew Stunell be discharged from the Broadcasting Committee and Norman Baker be added to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-04a.1400.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-04", "file": "debates2000-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "a863dd7add33f862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-04a.1400.8", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Motions", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "I put motions 7 and 8 together. May I clarify whether objections were made to both motions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-04a.1400.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-07", "file": "debates2000-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "18b63b486b1f7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "said at Question Time that average pensioner net income is about £132. Like many other sections of the population, there are some pensioners who are well off and there are some who are appallingly badly off. The right thing to do is to help pensioners who have lost out, and to get those living in poverty out of poverty. That is the right approach for any reasonable and sensible Government to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-07", "file": "debates2000-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "18b63b486b1f7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-07", "file": "debates2000-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "18b63b486b1f7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I accept the Minister's intervention in the spirit in which it was intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-07", "file": "debates2000-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "18b63b486b1f7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "th the Islington Pensioners Forum and am pleased to have been able to do so. I work also with the Greater London Pensioners Association and the Greater London Forum for the Elderly, which meets quarterly in the House. When one considers history, one sees the great determination of 110 or 120 years ago which eventually led to the introduction of the state old-age pension in the Lloyd George Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-07", "file": "debates2000-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "18b63b486b1f7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.75.2", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " against the uprating. I tell Liberal Democrat Members now that, when the general election comes, it will be no good complaining that every Labour candidate is highlighting how the Liberal Democrats voted at the end of this debate. Liberal Democrat Members will be voting against an increase in child benefit, in disability benefit and in pensions, and no amount of pontificating outside the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-07a.75.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I think that I have dealt with the issue to most people's satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I think that I have dealt with the issue to most people's satisfaction. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Certainly to my own satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": " been surmounted. If the war is over, we have to ask the Provisional IRA why arms still need to be retained. If violence is a thing of the past, why cannot weapons of violence be put permanently beyond use, as they should be, and as the Good Friday agreement lays down that they should be? I know of absolutely no section of nationalist opinion anywhere that disagrees with that sentiment. Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Forgive me, but I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is engaging in a little bit of sophistry—he knows the precise situation. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made no secret of the fact that we are considering the Bill today because the progress on decommissioning that everyone rightly expected to be made has not been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State's words on 3 February, when he was very precise about his intentions. He said that he would not be suspending the agreement—that it would remain intact, as would the consequences of its creation and all its actions. I am not clear how the Secretary of State intends to proceed with the review. The Belfast agreement contains three conditions under which a review can take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "lection, but that would be a disaster because a majority would not be returned supporting the agreement, so the only alternative was to suspend the agreement. Thirdly, as the Secretary of State spoke from the Dispatch Box this evening, I noticed the change of tone from last week, when he told us that Sinn Fein had betrayed the Ulster Unionist people and the people of Ulster by not decommissioning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.216.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way and allow me to correct what he said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-08", "file": "debates2000-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "46a8ef841bbe7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Elliot Morley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Elliot Morley)", "preceding_text": "d, and the emergency services. Those people did a sterling job of protecting others, and we owe them a debt of gratitude. I wrote to the new chairman of the Environment Agency to ask him to pass on our appreciation to the staff who worked during that period to tackle the emergency. No Government can prevent floods, even a Government with such an impressive records as ours. We have our limitations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-08a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, as intimidation has declined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course that tax guarantee would mean cuts in basic public services, health and schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister had a chance to read the Liberal Democrat early-day motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.245.4", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister comment on the fact that within moments of his expressing full confidence in the First Secretary in Wales five or 10 minutes ago, news came through to the House that the First Secretary had resigned, before the vote of confidence had taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The one thing of which we can be sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The decision is for people in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The decision is for people in Wales. The fun and games to which I refer is the fact that the Tories and the nationalists are in an alliance together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.7", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Conservative policy, accurately described as a Trojan horse, will mean that people who are over 60 will have to take out private medical insurance at a cost to many of them of £60 to £80 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.246.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Given the Prime Minister's inadequate responses today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.354.10", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "preceding_text": "The amendment can be dealt with in seconds rather than minutes. It is a probing amendment, which reflects the interest in the problems of friendly societies expressed at an earlier stage of the Bill's progress by my hon. Friend the Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Sir R. Smith). He is on paternity leave and cannot speak to the amendment this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.354.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-09", "file": "debates2000-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f6219a54f5295d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Financial Services and Markets Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman does not mean that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": "fter such a long birth. The Opposition want an FSA that is effective and streamlined and has clarity and transparency. We do not want a leviathan or a Frankenstein's monster which threatens the competitiveness, pre-eminence and international appeal of the whole financial services community, and for which ultimately the consumer will pay. This is a major lost opportunity in the Bill. This is nanny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-09a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.385.16", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Miss McIntosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss McIntosh", "preceding_text": "he has spoken to the Commission, following the Prime Minister's undertaking to the National Farmer Union last week? The Prime Minister said: I do not rule out further measures to help. But it must be linked to a strategy that provides a long-term framework. I have received correspondence from the Commission that shows that the Commissioner is waiting to hear from the Minister that the type of aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.385.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes the same error as the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh). He is confusing two separate issues. Aid for restructuring the industry—as was given to Belgium—means taking out capacity and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to chide the parliamentary Opposition for their views on Europe. It is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This is pretty poor stuff. We have heard about the letters to support the industry. They are part of a Meat and Livestock Commission campaign that has been co-ordinated with it. There has been no unreasonable delay in my Ministry sending the letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is too weak to stand up for Northern Ireland, will he tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.400.6", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "No doubt the £12 million going to the Reading CPS office will be welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "preceding_text": "ther notes this organisation was aided by Austria's proportional electoral system; and calls on the British Government to confirm that the first past the post electoral system is fair, accountable and tends to lead to the exclusion of extremists of all kinds.] The motion notes the aid given to the fascist Freedom party by the wretched system of proportional representation that operates in Austria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cryer", "preceding_text": "lead to the exclusion of extremists of all kinds.] The motion notes the aid given to the fascist Freedom party by the wretched system of proportional representation that operates in Austria—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] May we have a debate on electoral reform so that those of us who have the odd qualm about fascists, racists and Nazis can point out the shortcomings of proportional representation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Gill", "preceding_text": "sures to mitigate the effects of the crisis, including aids for the pig sector. The other letter is from a firm of solicitors acting on behalf of the British pig industry support group, in which they seek the grant of an 'exceptional occurrence' and/or restructuring state aid to the pig industry\". I tabled a question on 27 January; I received a reply on 7 February. My question to the Minister was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.408.6", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "hat appointment is no substitute for election; and calls for a wholly elected Upper House of 100 members.] Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that according to my calculations, half of them will be dead within 11 years; 75 per cent, of them will be dead within 20 years; 90 per cent, of them will be dead within 29 years, but 10 per cent, will still be alive and kicking well into the next century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.408.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that our policy on Austria is not merely that of the Labour party, but of all the Governments of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "When are we likely to have a debate on public transport substitution? With the arrival of the tramlink in Croydon, there are fears that the 130 bus will be cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Stansted Hijacking", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I hope that that is not put on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Stansted Hijacking", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am glad that we have solved the problem of which Eric wished to speak. I was perplexed about the possibility that the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) had moved constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Stansted Hijacking", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that I am familiar with his constituency because my father lives there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I am now going to move on to the next paragraph. Most parents, I believe, want to see their children grow up and raise a family. Overwhelmingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "secute where necessary. I said that we do not at present accord sufficient protection to young girls. That is very much due to the absence of will to prosecute and to take measures to protect them. I hope that if we pass the Bill, we will not make the same mistake in respect of young boys. I recognise that the new offence will provide at least some small safeguard, but I doubt that it is adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "aces. That does not work at the moment. We must not include in our discussions the debate about clause 28. That is a separate debate, which is not about the rights of our citizens, but about what our public institutions do. I beg hon. Members to put aside extraneous matters and issues that involve our personal convictions and our faith and, to borrow a phrase from someone much more famous than me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "n of homosexual constituents. They are human beings; they are civilised; they have rights and obligations as well. And I am duty bound to take account of their interests. In essence, there are three main reasons why I feel impelled to vote tonight for change. First, the status quo provides discrimination without benefit. I am not opposed to discrimination per se in the way in which I live my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.455.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are no Tories in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "and that she has taken, and their Lordships have followed her lead and spoken for the people. The Daily Record may not be the hon. Lady's everyday reading, and I suspect that it is not the everyday reading of those hon. Members who represent Scottish constituencies and who have gone off to the Scottish Parliament. The Daily Record is not a Tory newspaper. There is not a Tory newspaper in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "e's concern, as do hon. Members' mailbags. That is not to say that we are intolerant of people who have a different life style. I do not want to know what people do in their own home, behind closed doors, provided that it does not involve young people, and I do not want to read about it in the newspapers either. The hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ann Keen), who is no longer in her place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": " it between us and have a good debate. My hon. Friend said that he did not give a tinker's cuss for what other European countries do, for the European convention on human rights or for the European Commission of Human Rights. He and I are entirely agreed on that. Labour Members should beware of the way in which, week in, week out, the House is ceding its powers to authorities beyond these islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-10", "file": "debates2000-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ef91eb941e06d95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman intervenes from a sedentary position, but has clearly not read his pager. The Armed Forces Discipline Bill has nothing to do with homosexuals serving in the armed forces and everything to do with the system of courts martial and other procedures related to military discipline. However, I would not expect him to know anything about defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-10a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-11", "file": "debates2000-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d57c43967df54db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-11a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Truswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Truswell", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I wholly agree with the right hon. Gentleman. It is a small but significant rock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-11a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-11", "file": "debates2000-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d57c43967df54db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-11a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I have to confess that the right hon. Gentleman raises an issue that I have not delved into. In view of what he has said, I shall certainly find out what the rules are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-11a.572.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "This is the refrain that we constantly hear from the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald and her colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's delight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman imagine a circumstance in which a judge would say to a jury, \"Subject to all your deliberations, I expect you to find a guilty verdict\"? That is the exact equivalent of what he said. May we move to another of the right hon. Gentleman's ploys?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I suspect that there are many who share that view on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.602.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Thames Safety Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. Outrageous.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "picion that that was a determining factor in the Marchioness disaster? The case for introducing legislation on that matter is, on the face of it, clear. Finally, given that the Deputy Prime Minister promised in 1991 that the next Labour Government will grant a public enquiry immediately on the Marchioness, why has it taken the Deputy Prime Minister nearly three years to deliver on that commitment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "dy to which we are giving wide responsibilities should have no limit to its remit, powers and scope. Some hon. Members may feel that it would be wiser to draw some boundaries around what the commission can do, at least in its early stages. The Government's approach to these matters worries me because they offer none of the pilot studies of which we, in the previous Administration, used to be fond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "n, we are heading for the other extreme. Not only will we trust it totally as we take a leap in the dark, but we will allow it to do anything that it deems fit to allow it to meet the wide responsibilities that we are giving it. I wonder whether that is wise. I hope that the Minister will take my helpful advice. On this occasion, he will have to offer an explanation at the end of our short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " The Neill report makes no call for such a Committee, but we believe that the Government are right to have included it in the Bill. The explanatory notes to the Bill say that the Speaker's Committee will have general oversight of the exercise of the Commission's functions and, in particular, responsibility for approving its budget and five-year corporate plan. If ever there were a need for a body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"100 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "There is not an awful lot of difference between one Member and two Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman of Ways and Means (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman of Ways and Means (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "f. It was certainly a first when, in a spirit of helpfulness and to ensure that the Committee proceeded at a reasonable pace, I decided not to speak to the amendments standing in my name and to let Ministers consider them as they stood. I have never before heard a Minister accept all my amendments even before I have spoken to them. It would therefore be ungracious of me to speak at any length now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who shows his characteristic courtesy. I thought that I had said that he said that he and his party thought that the order was unexceptional. However, I am glad that he clarified the point for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.727.5", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "The second point is rather trivial because there will not be a huge difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.727.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-14", "file": "debates2000-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "204e90cfeb9fdeb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "Such a view is not what the people of Northern Ireland voted for when they supported the Good Friday agreement. Is it a concession to examine the whole question of the future of policing in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-14a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is hardly relevant to the World Peace Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend read the comments of the former shadow Foreign Secretary, the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples), in The Daily Telegraph last week, when he argued that Britain should hold up European Union enlargement until it accepted his pick-and-choose interpretation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I do not know where the hon. Gentleman has been during Question Time for the past six months. I visited Israel and the Palestinian Authority in October last year. I was well received and had useful discussions with the Israeli Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am going to be nice to the hon. Gentleman because I know that he is a pro-European in a party that is anti-European. The amount of money that was spent on the last roadshow was a tiny proportion of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference White Paper", "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": ". We have no doubt that, faced with the prospect of a wider united Europe, Britain's place is playing a leading part in it and shaping its direction. The Government understand how important it is for Britain to make a success of our membership of the European Union. It is crucial to our trade, prosperity and quality of life. The majority of our exports go to existing members of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman answer these questions. Will he now rule out further loss of the British veto, so that further legislation cannot be imposed on Britain against our will? Will he reject the development of an EU defence identity outside NATO, which risks undermining NATO? Will he guarantee that the charter of fundamental human rights will never be incorporated in the treaty or made legally enforceable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "we can only conclude that it is a question of not of the white flag, but of the white van, in which that policy is still alive and still a threat to the 12 countries of central and eastern Europe. It is a piece of brass neck for the right hon. Gentleman, of all people, to demand that I should rule out any extension of majority voting. He is the man who, as a Minister, signed the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.782.8", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Intergovernmental Conference White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Arne Otter of the Estonian Youth Council recently wrote to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.782.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "As I know how many Government amendments are likely to be tabled, I would happily enter a sweepstake. I could do with the money. I was addressing the serious question of a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "d to provide such an opportunity. As it seems likely that we shall receive a report from the performance and innovation unit of the Cabinet Office while we are considering the Bill, we should be able to reflect on its recommendations. After consideration, that is what we intend to do. If the Opposition want to play games, so be it, but it will go down badly if they are seen to oppose an amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.807.4", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I do not know what comments my right hon. Friend has made. The hon. Lady might like to tell me when my right hon. Friend said that. We shall table amendments in Committee. There will be a number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.807.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "No, I should like to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "services need to he enhanced and more widely advertised. The provision of 3,000 new cash machines at post offices across the country is an indication of the new opportunities that business is exploiting. I am sure that Labour Members will have heard the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan), on behalf of Conservative Members, say that his solution is to privatise the Post Office network—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "f the Royal Mail or of the Post Office—and the effect that privatisation would have on the rural network. The reality is that the Post Office network—which is, as I said, a very good example of a public-private partnership depends on having a network that is in public ownership. That is the reality of the situation. Privatisation is the preferred approach of the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "nd deliver parochial services in Scotland. That would not be good enough—if they ever had the power to do so—because an independent Scotland would not have the finances to provide a proper service for the people of Scotland. Every economist knows that. The only people who are deluded enough not to believe it are members of the Scottish National party, who attend the Chamber sporadically—one a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stop it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "First, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I must make my excuses as I shall not be in the Chamber for the winding-up speeches. The Government and the Rugby Football Union propose to convert the Twickenham ground into a world-standard athletics stadium. There are hundreds—perhaps—thousands of people in a public hall waiting to hear what I am going to do about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "I have a degree of sympathy for the poor Minister for Competitiveness, who has to sum up tonight and deal with the Bill in Committee. I say that because this is a sad and miserable little Bill. It is badly drafted, as has already been admitted, and will be subject to thousands of amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "fices have already disappeared. With the threat of what is ill thought out legislation—its ramifications have not been properly thought through—other post offices will close, too. This does not mean that I do not believe in, as the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Galbraith) called it, taking the Post Office into the 21st century and having to commercialise. That is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ssibility to support our post offices. E-commerce and e-mail are another possibility. In some smaller villages, an internet cafe would not be sustainable, and small rural post offices could perhaps provide internet services. I ask Ministers to consider that possibility too. Ministers should also take on board the fact that the Bill's provisions could threaten the viability of selling post offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ovide internet services. I ask Ministers to consider that possibility too. Ministers should also take on board the fact that the Bill's provisions could threaten the viability of selling post offices. [Interruption.] Many small, privately owned post offices were bought by people who had other careers, took early retirement and invested in a post office, as a nest egg for when they retire for good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Alan Johnson)", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Alan Johnson)", "preceding_text": "All the self-preening pontification of Opposition Members cannot disguise their total lack of credibility on this issue. If I was being kind about their stewardship of the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "e, saying that the task of producing a composite free mailing would undermine their independent role in the elections. The Liberal Democrats may not like that, but it is the truth. If the electoral registration officers do not organise the composite free mailing, who would be acceptable to the British National party and the Liberal Democrats, who would have to share and agree the delivery process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "uring those elections, parties mount campaigns, without free mailshots, across the whole of London, exactly as they will for GLA elections. In the White Paper, we made clear our concern to ensure that the election did not become a platform for frivolous candidates or publicity seekers, who could gain unfair access to public funds simply in an-attempt to promote either themselves or obscure causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.903.8", "colnum": "903", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " not want to pursue that particular road. The concept of the frivolous candidate is common parlance in discussions about electoral practice and electoral procedure. The Government are not making a judgment about the frivolity of candidates, but I have to tell the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) that we know that there is adequate evidence that there are such candidates available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.903.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "I would prefer not to. Assuming there are about 4 million voters in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "or Fylde (Mr. Jack) a short while ago. If we are to have a referendum, and if we are to have freepost, should we not have it in all elections? Why did the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey not give way and answer that question? It is because he does not want to know the answer, which is that if we do it for one election, we must do it for every election. It must be as simple as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-15", "file": "debates2000-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "275e3e99de4029ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "London Government", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "e British National party. Therefore, I suggest that the idea that there are always frivolous candidates, and that the organisation of these expenses is designed to eliminate them, is a fantasy to bolster Ministers' confused arguments. I can understand their confusion. Last Saturday, I campaigned with our prospective candidate for the assembly in a nice, respectable, Conservative part of Beckenham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-15a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.939.8", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for the Secretary of State to tell my hon. Friends the Members for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) and for North Shropshire (Mr. Paterson) that he knows all about the problems that Welsh farmers face. The dairy and livestock industry in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.939.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it is absolutely true that we need to do even more about waiting lists and police numbers. However, all these measures require the expenditure of money. The one group of people who cannot claim that any more money should be spent is the Conservative party, which is saying that it will put the tax guarantee before any increase in public spending. In case the right hon. Gentleman should doubt that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ary, but it is firmly placed in the north-west. It is less than 10 miles to the Yorkshire and Humberside region. The hon. Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) is in the Chamber, and we share a constituency boundary even though our constituencies are in different regions. One can imagine that a referendum on the Peak district national park or related issues would necessarily cross regional boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.954.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "uct of future campaigns and how they are to be supported and funded. I am profoundly concerned that we are changing the nature of campaigning and the funding of campaigns. The Minister and I share a love of robust, honest and frank exchanges of views and a civilised concern that those matters should be dealt with in the right way. I emphasise that I know that from the previous life that we shared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "preceding_text": "ant in a referendum campaign but would not limit expenditure of one side of the argument as a whole. That seems fairer and less unequal than Conservative proposals. The right hon. Member for South Norfolk (Mr. McGregor) said clearly that he was opposed to any financial limits for general elections or referendums. We really must decide whether we prefer to use the word \"referendums\" or \"referenda\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been selected for debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "dvantage from it. It is difficult to envisage why Lord Neill's proposals would not be implemented in full if the Government were neutral in their approach. I shall not comment on amendment No. 16. Suffice it to say that it again addresses the funding problem concerning European Union institutions and foreign Governments. I shall be interested in the Minister's comments because my understanding is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1067.4", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "rayed in aid the Representation of the People Bill, but clause 11(4) of that Bill states: An order under subsection (1) shall be made by statutory instrument; and no such order shall be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament. It would be nice for the Minister to listen to what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1070.6", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "It is inappropriate that I have failed to address the important point raised by the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg). I understand that the usual channels have had their discussions about the length of the debate. Hon. Members in all parts of the House will understand that some hon. Members want to go home. One can understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1070.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-16", "file": "debates2000-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "ee635fba637afbf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "This must be one of the lowest points in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-16a.1071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "possible to change the regulations specifically for schools in areas such as mid-Suffolk, given the level of inherent wealth and employment in East Anglia. However, we would be prepared to look more closely, with the TCT, at ways in which we could link schools in areas of deprivation within areas of greater wealth and privilege, so that we can link companies that are prepared to reach out to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Jowell", "preceding_text": "If we take all the starts on the new deal, the figure is approximately £500 per person", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State would want me to correct the hon. Gentleman on one point: Sheffield is run by the Liberal Democrats, not Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "The proposals in Scotland do not involve the abolition of tuition fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": " support is working well. Student numbers are up and more money is going into colleges and universities. The Government have announced an 11 per cent. real-terms boost for higher education funding in the current Parliament, but they recognise that a debate is under way in the wider world, which should be conducted with intellectual rigour. However, we are confident that the system is working well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I understand, Madam Speaker, that the hon. Gentleman is in fact asking for a statement. As for his introductory remarks, I think that he has forgotten, or does not want to know, that the Prime Minister has spent more time in the House at Prime Minister's Question Time and answered more questions than did his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might be surprised by the availability of video conferencing links between our many theatres of operation and the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "iples that clearly cause difficulties for the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces. In recent years, history has shown that when there is a clash between Strasbourg and the Ministry of Defence in court, the Ministry—as I have said in the Select Committee—has the same success as the district attorney in \"Perry Mason\", Hamilton Burger, who, on Sunday nights, lost every case on which he embarked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "Order. It probably is a bigger issue, but today we are debating the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1192.5", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My point is simply that we chose a small Chamber because face-to-face contact and body language are important. As I say, wide-angle lenses prevent the interpretation of body language. In addition, with a 2.5 second satellite delay it would be impossible to operate the camera remotely and to zoom in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my colleagues on the Front and Back Benches, I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Defence on his elevation to the Government. I hope that his luck improves because it is absolutely clear that he has lost the argument before saying even his first word in the Government's defence from the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-17", "file": "debates2000-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "21fc9b95d1cdb125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "preceding_text": "l in the current Session. The answer, of course, springs wholly from the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates in United Kingdom law the majority of the articles of the European convention on human rights. The main provisions of the 1998 Act are due to be commenced in October 2000. A principle is that all legislation should, as far as possible, be interpreted in accordance with the convention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-17a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Eric Forth for question No. 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1234.5", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I have had no discussions with the German Foreign Minister on that matter or any other—and who is he at the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1253.4", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "r only one or two years, so I will be generous to the Government and consider the average of education spending over the previous and the present Government. The answer is still clear. Under the Conservative Government, an average of 5 per cent. of national income was spent on education; in the five years of this Government, it will be 4.7 per cent. Let us consider what that means in actual money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is only one here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I will in a moment, as I have not given way to the Liberals yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "mittees and the so-called independent adjudicators and returning admission and appeals to democratically elected local authorities, I shall stand by and support her. However, I suspect that she does not seek that. If she wants to remove from schools the necessity to produce an absurd number of individual plans on subjects ranging from literacy to asset management, my party and I shall support her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "ure that he is better informed about leading accountants in future. The consequence of even the Government's modest reduction in class sizes at key stage 1 is a grotesque denial of parental choice throughout the country, as a result of which we are all getting letters of protest from parents, teachers and head teachers, telling us that they cannot run education locally to meet the needs of pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "e of even the Government's modest reduction in class sizes at key stage 1 is a grotesque denial of parental choice throughout the country, as a result of which we are all getting letters of protest from parents, teachers and head teachers, telling us that they cannot run education locally to meet the needs of pupils. [Interruption.] The Chief Whip, from a sedentary position, expresses disapproval—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": " they want to kick the ladder of opportunity away from today's bright children from ordinary backgrounds. Why do not the Government concentrate on doing something about education in Manchester, Hackney, Calderdale, Haringey, Islington and Leicester—in the benighted areas represented by Labour Members and undermined by inadequate, ineffective, politically correct Labour local education authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "n which the project has been handled and of its public relations—obsessive secrecy illumined occasionally by flashes of the absurd or surreal. I wonder, Mr. Deputy Speaker, whether you recall the trip to Disneyworld, and the photo-call with the world's most famous mouse. In view of recent events, it was a somewhat ironic trip. Do you recall the birth of \"Baby Dome\"? Whatever became of \"Baby Dome\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "re was the tantalising glimpse of the body zone, which involved first a giant man, and then a man, a woman and a baby—another baby that disappeared. Finally, there was an androgenous figure; at that stage, no one knew that, sadly, it was infected with pubic lice. Not surprisingly, the dome became the butt of jokes. According to The Times: Attacking the Dome has become the nation's favourite sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "urse perhaps from a press office that has been heavily infiltrated by Millbank implants and described by one former insider as \"really rather nasty\". The handling of the press office and its bullying approach to journalists over time might have done more to undermine the dome's reputation than even the shenanigans on new year's eve, of which I should record that my family and I were beneficiaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "e has been conducted largely in terms that might apply to a bingo parlour: it is marvellous that the dome got up on time, or a little dangerous that it took rather long; it is splendid that so many people visited, or a pity that so few attended. The same might be said of a popular television series or some such thing, but remarkably this particular object is not like such a series or a bingo hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "reat university, what is celebrated, what is taught and what it handed on to other generations is a heritage in the proper sense. It is a cultural heritage—something that is inherited, and in that sense a heritage—but also something that is worth having; something that is the foundation of our understanding of the world. In our great universities, however, there is also a conception of the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "No, there is no time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-21", "file": "debates2000-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea4b332fbbe65f64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "d that he had had an interesting day out, but he referred to a possible clash of themes. That is not the experience of the majority of people who have gone there and confirmed that the dome offers something for everyone. It is not intended to be Disneyland; it is not a trumped-up trade show. The evidence is that so many people want to return. Many questions have been posed tonight, and I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-21a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Rail Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "which I am referring today, by my Department—which confirmed that judgment. That is why I have separated those responsibilities—I have not left responsibility for governing group safety with Railtrack. I ask the hon. Gentleman to read the reports to see why I have reached that conclusion. The separation of powers is clear to this extent: there is an independent company and an independent chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Rail Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ived a Health and Safety Commission report on the day of the collision itself. Indeed, I commissioned that report in response to the request of the Select Committee to look at the conflict of interest in Railtrack. That report made it clear—we quoted it and the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) has quoted it at the Dispatch Box—that there was a feeling that there was a conflict of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1409.7", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Instead of bobbing up and down like a superannuated teddy bear with supercharged batteries, the Minister should get on with running his end of the Department, so that we do not end up with cancelled exercises, broken equipment and failure. I take no lessons from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1409.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I hear what the Minister says, but that concerns total money. My question was, why the delay? That is the key question, and he has not answered it. The truth is that good management would not have allowed the delay, although it might have affected the total involved. He stands condemned. That element of delay creates the greatest problem for families to whom my colleagues and I have talked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Syd Rapson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Syd Rapson", "preceding_text": "secure with its members. I am writing a paper and have received information from many French sources regarding the new missions for European armed forces. That information leads me to believe that we are in an inevitable process that cannot be stopped. As a practical realist, I like to go with the flow and try to make things work rather to oppose for the sake of opposition and gain brownie points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "preceding_text": "embers. I wonder how the story of the White Paper is being spun. The first aspect of that matter, of course, is that the White Paper is being completely overshadowed by the Government's defeat in the other place on the Greater London Authority order. I fear that that issue, rather than our debate, will be grabbing the headlines. Nevertheless, that is the Government's problem, not the Opposition's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "preceding_text": "left it—was spinning that line at about 3.15 this afternoon, when she, with her minder—I am not sure whether it was a Millbank minder or a Ministry of Defence press officer—appeared with me on television. However, this is not a great White Paper at all, but a complete cop-out. It is the first White Paper that the House has been asked to consider since 1996. Earlier, the Secretary of State told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-22", "file": "debates2000-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd503dca114f09ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "Instead, it is much more about how on earth the Government are going to manage over the next hand-wringing few months to cobble together policies that can be sustained in the light of their budget cuts. My hon. Friend the Member for Romsey (Mr. Colvin) mentioned that Salisbury plain was being overrun with tanks. That is not the case as there is quite a lot else there too, not to mention AS90 guns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-22a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-28", "file": "debates2000-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9575a1cac2764418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Meanwhile, 6,500 of my constituents will be celebrating the introduction of this hugely popular policy. Yesterday, when I was canvassing in a Lancashire county council by-election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-28", "file": "debates2000-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9575a1cac2764418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "I can say only that, during half-term week, no fewer than 178,000 people visited the dome. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State mentioned earlier, attendance at the dome so far has totalled 872,367 people. Those figures speak for themselves, but I understand that the hon. Gentleman's constituency has its day at the dome tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-28", "file": "debates2000-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9575a1cac2764418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Mozambique", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ing for boats, but the floods are so bad and the tides so difficult that it is dangerous to use them. We have not got the right equipment and we are short of helicopters with winches. As we speak, my officials are hunting around the region for such helicopters. We have talked to the Ministry of Defence—shortly, I might talk to its Ministers a little more—and it has no resources within 3,000 miles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-28", "file": "debates2000-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9575a1cac2764418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Defence White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " Minister is not leaping to his feet now to give me an answer. What about BROACH? Will the Minister confirm that Lockheed Martin have been awarded a contract for the penetrating warhead for the US air force air-to-air cruise missile system, despite a 1998 memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defence that made it clear that British Aerospace was the preferred contractor? Is that true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-28a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "iously has not been listening. There are not 3,000 full-time equivalent returners; there are an extra 3,000 nurses working in the national health service—that is the full-time equivalence. There are 4,500 extra nurses. Many of them are taking advantage of precisely the sort of flexible employment that we are opening up to nurses, so the total full-time equivalence is fewer than 4,500: it is 3,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "wed. The proposed system does not require the designation of either an existing body, or a new body, to determine those policies. A framework has already been put in place—indeed, it was established by the Conservative Government—to ensure that there are limits on the Treasury's discretion. That framework is working—unlike some of the other measures introduced by the Conservatives. The Maastricht—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr. Davis), I shall respond to the point made by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell). If he thinks that our debates about setting independent standards for the public accounts were footling, his understanding of the relationship between Parliament and the Executive is more lacking than I had thought. It is a matter of the utmost importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend amusingly describes me as the expert, whereas, through his long service on the PAC and in other respects, he is the expert. Technically, he is right—the shareholders appoint the auditors. However, he will know as well as I do that de facto in the private sector, the directors act for the shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "I shall intervene briefly. I spoke on Second Reading and, if this debate were taking place at a reasonable hour, I would have delivered the speech that I spent some time working out, which I have now had to discard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "t independent audit? However, the Government say, \"No, we will not allow an independent auditor to investigate for the benefit of the state and society as a whole.\" We are going through a period in which there is mistrust of the Government's motives. We hear about financial initiatives that are merely launches of relaunches of previous launches involving fresh money that turns out not to be fresh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "se that there is disquiet in society as a whole. The Government could easily allay that by saying, \"We will allow independent auditors into all aspects of government. They can report to the Public Accounts Committee and lay reports before Parliament.\" The Treasury could also lay before Parliament information that would make all audit reports open and file it in the Library of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.301.9", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman tells me, from a sedentary position, to read the new clause. I am doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.301.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend puts it well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend suppose that, under these rules, Bob Maxwell would allow auditors to audit him, or does he think that Maxwell might decide that, in this instance, the pensions scheme ought not to be audited?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "ause 2 would end that anomaly. I am delighted that the hon. Member for Workington has returned to the Chamber. Perhaps we shall have an opportunity to hear his penetrating comments on the new clause. As far as I am concerned, however, this is fundamental. We are sent here by the public to control public expenditure—to see how taxes levied from the benighted citizenry are spent, and spent properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ult of tonight's debate, we lose tomorrow's business? That has already happened once before in this Session. Perhaps we could do without Prime Minister's Question Time, but more important, at 3.30 pm tomorrow, there is to be a debate on the report of the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges on the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman). She is accused of lying and of deceiving the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "omorrow's business? That has already happened once before in this Session. Perhaps we could do without Prime Minister's Question Time, but more important, at 3.30 pm tomorrow, there is to be a debate on the report of the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges on the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman). She is accused of lying and of deceiving the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] We can see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must take his seat when I am on my feet. He asks a hypothetical question; it is not a matter for the Chair at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "dit Office is renowned throughout the world, and it draws on professional expertise from throughout the world. It is respected in all the accounting convention conferences and is therefore able to set a benchmark on a range of international comparators for the ability of each Department to perform. It can measure the output of every Department far better than any Government internal audit service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ly contributions that we have so far had from Labour Members are snoring, baying, laughter and walk-outs by Ministers and walk-ins by Ministers. There has been great drama, but no interventions. Nevertheless, I hope that something like that might happen. Three analyses are produced in resource accounting: the equivalent of the profit and loss account, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "n the work of the new independent statistics commission, which we think is important in this regard, and the future of performance information generally. It would be premature to introduce any statutory requirement at this time as both are undergoing considerable development as we speak. Work needs to be done to achieve coherence, which was referred to by the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "mentor, usually favour perpetuating anything to do with the regime of Mr. Gladstone. We have seen that across the board the Government are following the Gladstonian example, slashing defence expenditure, undermining the integrity of the United Kingdom, pursuing a botched foreign policy, and radicalising for the sake of it. I welcome anything that results in moving away from Gladstonian principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-02-29", "file": "debates2000-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "4d632f87e37a67c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "At 7.40 in the morning, I will be extremely brief, not least because, as my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has pointed out, the Opposition have kept us from our beds for 16 hours during a long debate of dubious quality. Much of it has been of dubious quality, although there were exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-02-29a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I certainly hope that one of us can take up that offer. We really enjoy visiting schools. I went to Holy Cross school in Croy in Lanarkshire, where the children had been studying Victorian times in history. When they read about child labour, they suddenly realised that the same thing is happening in our world today, and we need to do something about it. I then went to Tunbridge Wells.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I understand that the EU has already pledged 1 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that priorities are distorted? Is it not time that the Prime Minister gave all the facts? I have here the briefing that the Department of Health sent to No. 10 for Prime Minister's questions a few weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "What would the Prime Minister say to my constituent, Mr. Thomas of Loughton, who faced the choice of either a long and dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Telecommunications Masts (Development)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to regulate the development of telecommunications masts in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " put in place a process that treats Members fairly. I do not believe that we are doing so in the case of hon. Members facing the Select Committee. The right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) said that the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon) is one of the most respected and fairest-minded Members of the House. Then he added—I think jocularly—the words, \"one of the few\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us more", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shared experiences on fishing trawlers with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The then leader of the Liberal Democrats, the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown), with regard to the windfall tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "lling us where it should be raised, and when we make proposals on how it can be raised, they object to and oppose them. Their then leader said: While we understand and support what the Government are trying to achieve in … tackling long-term unemployment and exclusion, we disagree profoundly with their means of funding it—the windfall tax.\"—[ Official Report, 2 July 1997; Vol. 297, c. 326.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "Unlike the Minister, we have moved on from our manifesto. We realise that we have to do more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-01", "file": "debates2000-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e5fd852535af4c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the hon. Gentleman's contribution with the same care with which I am sure he listened to mine. I wish to ask him two questions. First, what is the difference between moving on from the manifesto and breaking one's promises or shooting from the hip?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-01a.502.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "There is an important issue here. The Government received strong representations from the telecoms operators after announcing on 3 February that there would be a communications White Paper. That announcement came after the debate on Second Reading of the Bill. Therefore, we listened to industry and its genuine concerns. We make no apology for saying, following its representations, that we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "It was interesting that the hon. Lady referred to advice from Conservative Members that was \"freely given\". I have to say that that is a rare occurrence. I make no apology for the way in which the Bill has been amended to reflect the interests of business. Let me take Opposition Members through the sequence of events since it was considered on Second Reading. On 3 February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Business Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is remembering only half of what was said about Wakeham. We wished the royal commission to meet, discuss and come to a speedy conclusion so that the Government could then judge whether it was possible to see an emerging consensus which could be followed by further speedy action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ed that, in terms of seeking publicly to justify the conclusions I reached, it was easier for me to have that medical report on the record. I made it clear to the divisional court that I felt myself bound by the undertakings of medical confidentiality, which I had given in good faith, but of course if the court ordered otherwise I would have to follow the decision of the court. That is what I did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Senator Pinochet", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I leave aside the hon. Gentleman's gratuitous insult. What he says is wrong from top to bottom. There was no conniving at the arrest. He fails to understand that there is a separation of powers here. The hospitality department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is not also a police department that executes warrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what you say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "les, pensioners, motorists, farmers, those who are waiting for treatment on the NHS, taxpayers in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom who will see stealth taxes go up by more than £40 billion in a Parliament, those in schools in Wales who look to a better service and those who are waiting for objective 1 match funding? There is only one conclusion: \"It's worse than under the Tories\" in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "atic, as though it were not before. I am extremely proud to be Welsh, but I am also proud to live in a British community which, from my experience—I have worked as a geologist in many countries—is probably one of the best to live in and enjoys a measure of democracy that most people in the world do not achieve. I do not think that setting up the Assembly extended democracy—it extended bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.613.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Livsey", "preceding_text": "ales. The Scottish Parliament has tax-varying powers with a 3p limit. There are various ways of achieving tax-varying powers without going the whole hog, as some have suggested that we would like to do. I regret that such a hard-working and honest Member of Parliament and of the Assembly as the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth should have had such a rough ride in the Assembly, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.628.6", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "t in the hon. Lady's shaking her head. She asked for a response and I have given her a reasonable response. We all have the same problems. Let us see what happens in the coming months. Some people from the hon. Lady's own party are campaigning on the matter. Her neighbour, the hon. Member for Clwyd, West (Mr. Thomas), is campaigning on it now, a bit late in the day. He is getting on the bandwagon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.628.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am very fond of the right hon. Gentleman, but he is not at his best today. Sometimes he does all right, but today he has not been listening, or perhaps he does not want to hear. I stated clearly that £1.2 billion comes from Europe. That cheque will eventually end up in the Welsh Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-02", "file": "debates2000-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "73f9cccb0f03bd69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ialist—there is nothing wrong with redistribution of income anyway, if that is the point that he wants. We will have another debate at another time, but I argue that Wales is getting quite a raw deal from the Government. That is worsening under the Barnett formula. Consequential as it is, it makes things worse for Wales year after year. It started 20 years ago. We need a new, renegotiated formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-02a.636.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-06", "file": "debates2000-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "50f4dcc2024e1a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ems that we operate will have to be replaced. In addition, the move to make direct payment of benefits into bank accounts, of which his party is critical, will save substantial sums lost in fraud. Furthermore, we have insisted that people must now establish their identity to the satisfaction of benefit officers before they can obtain benefit. That will save £1 billion during this Parliament alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.752.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-06", "file": "debates2000-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "50f4dcc2024e1a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question is yes. I gave an answer that, on current plans, the schemes will be available from April 2001—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.759.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-06", "file": "debates2000-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "50f4dcc2024e1a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "When it comes to humility, I always defer to my hon. Friend, as she knows only too well from the time we had almost adjoining rooms in Norman Shaw North.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.771.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-06", "file": "debates2000-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "50f4dcc2024e1a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "doing were admissible to prove guilty knowledge, the guilty would be less likely to go free. If the offence were amended on those lines, we could set a tougher maximum sentence, which would actively discourage criminals from refusing to co-operate. It will be along those lines that we shall be proposing amendments to improve that aspect. Our view is that tough justice is better than rough justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.782.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-06", "file": "debates2000-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "50f4dcc2024e1a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " of split-packet technology. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald mentioned, when messages are being sent via the internet, one whole message is not sent off to be received by someone at the other end. The message is broken down into tiny split packages and sent off by any number of routes. As has been pointed out, they can go via Australia and California before arriving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-06a.822.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "e is an issue of the culture of government which we all need to address. How can we ensure that we provide minimum standards for people in the workplace that businesses will accept? The debate on the minimum wage, for example, has been interesting because most employers now agree with the principle. I am delighted that the Conservative party now endorses the principle of the national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "terial minds at the Department of Trade and Industry. It probably did not even occur to them. Well, it should have done and it should do in the future. Those, I believe, are two cogent objections to the Government's proposals for part-time employees. There are other legitimate criticisms of Government policy on regulation. The first that occurs to me is in relation to the parental leave directive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be given time to speak on this important subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dollars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ade to the document produced by the British Chambers of Commerce, which puts the cost of the burdens on its businesses at something approaching £10 billion. That is dwarfed by the calculation on the next page in which the BCC says that the stealth taxes affecting its sector equate to something approaching 32 billion dollars, which is another cost that it, like other areas of business, has to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ly £13 million. It was also this Government who acted on an important recommendation from the previous Government's deregulation taskforce back in 1995 to merge the Inland Revenue and the Contributions Agency, so that employers no longer had to deal with two different agencies and report to two different Departments. That was a recommendation that the previous Government had, but never acted upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Small Business", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "mportant recommendation from the previous Government's deregulation taskforce back in 1995 to merge the Inland Revenue and the Contributions Agency, so that employers no longer had to deal with two different agencies and report to two different Departments. That was a recommendation that the previous Government had, but never acted upon. [Interruption.] The fact is that businesses in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": " represent a constituency that, 130 years ago, was disfranchised because of the corruption there. It was not exclusive to the constituency: there was a great deal of corruption in this country. One of the traditions of our democracy, of which I hope we are all proud, is that, over the centuries, we have sought to establish higher standards for the holding of elections than exist in some countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "0. As I have already said, it is not difficult to work out that if there were 20 candidates, the cost to the taxpayer would be £15 million, and if there were 40 candidates, it might well be £30 million. We do not yet know how many candidates will come before the electorate at the mayoral election. If each candidate is entitled to a free mailshot worth £750,000, the potential for abuse is enormous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-08", "file": "debates2000-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "bde34677ff2f9b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1148.9", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "how much personation takes places in local, parliamentary, European, Welsh Assembly or Scottish Parliament elections. I hope that the Minister will reassure the House that proper research will take place into the problem of personation, particularly in regard to the areas where the pilot studies are being rolled out. The ease with which people are able to vote causes a problem with asylum seekers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-08a.1148.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1177.6", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "y sin is that they are married. Why does he intend to abolish mortgage interest relief and increase the tax on home owners by £225 a year, when their only sin is that they have saved for their houses? Why is he to make people who drive cars pay £178 more in petrol? Does he not know that those people have to drive their children to school and drive to work? Why has he taxed pensions, making people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "preceding_text": " this Parliament. If we count the fiddle on the working families tax credit, that becomes 2.5 per cent. The latest wheeze is to quote figures on average families that exclude the increases in indirect taxes. Ordinary people well know that their taxes have gone up, while the health and education services that they receive have declined. They are paying more and getting less. The Prime Minister has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "mme and will do so. That means that at present I cannot give him a date for that debate. The right hon. Gentleman suggests that there is some evidence of a deal being done in terms of behaviour in the House in return for peerages. First, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made plain yesterday, he has given more peerages already to the Liberal Democrats than did the previous Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Once!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "May I correct the right hon. Gentleman? The Prime Minister was challenged yesterday by Conservative Members to say when he had last visited his constituency, and that is why he gave the answer that he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "y committed to the equality agenda and I congratulate him on what he said. I share much of his view; indeed, my hon. Friends and I always have. I must tell him, however, that I have never thought it right for someone who was elected under one set of colours to adopt another set of colours without the authority of the electorate. I think that a Member who dissents from the view of his or her party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "pt another set of colours without the authority of the electorate. I think that a Member who dissents from the view of his or her party— [Interruption.] I have never believed that Members should cross the Floor without obtaining the view of the electorate. It is entirely honourable for those who feel that their party has left them, or they have left their party, to continue to sit as independents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So he should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "vidual police officer liable, but will make the top man vicariously liable does not meet my objections. If a police officer is referred to his superior officer as the subject of a complaint, and the chief police officer is vicariously liable, and if there is a growing list of complaints against a particular officer, of course he will be hauled up before his boss and have questions asked about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-09", "file": "debates2000-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fc3635f6e18ed1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ikely to be significant costs to the legal aid budget arising from cases starting in the Immigration Appellate Authority … Enormous costs will arise from the Bill—not only financial, but costs in terms of police morale, good race relations and effective policing. I am not only against the Bill. Personally, I should like all the race relations legislation to be removed from the statute book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-09a.1263.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hugest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "How much confidence can people who live in London have in the Home Secretary's stewardship when they have borne the hugest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.9.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As police constables have to be supervised by sergeants, inspectors and other officers—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh yes, they do. Without that supervision, there is poor management, which in the past has been a major problem in the Met. I tell the right hon. Lady that, in 1993—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.9.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ck of consultation that have shrouded the whole overseas voter issue, and I hope that overseas voters will achieve some justice in an otherwise squalid measure. It would be far better if the Government dropped all this nonsense now, undertook a comprehensive consultation on their proposals and introduced sensible and fully thought through measures. That would be the best option on overseas voters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "l run the risk of losing their vote after 10 years. 6.30 pm The way things are going, people may go abroad and work for a company for five years and then be moved to another part of the world without coming back to the United Kingdom. They may have every intention of returning to the UK at some point, and may do so at a later stage when their company decides that it is right for them to come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "n argument by adopting an aggressive style. I assure him that hon. Members who believe that the current principle is wrong—for the very reason outlined by my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman)—do not intend to extend it to include people from his ethnic grouping. Despite the fact that he comes from south Wales, the hon. Gentleman will keep the votes in Ribble Valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.81.2", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "m on any subject under the sun; secondly, that I would be invited to reduce the franchise—to reduce the rights of British people to vote. There we are, however: alas, things move on. I shall be brief, but I want to tell the House about all the e-mails, letters, faxes and telephone calls that I have received from profoundly patriotic British citizens, and all the meetings that I have had with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.81.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": ", Foreign and Commonwealth Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz), did in speculating on the date of the general election. If we do not achieve Royal Assent by the summer, the sooner the general election is after Royal Assent the more obvious it becomes that the general election will have to be fought under current rules. However, much depends on the progress that we make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "Indeed. More importantly, the Minister is making my point for me. If the Electoral Commission becomes involved in controversial issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.104.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-13", "file": "debates2000-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9bff991ca1591e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.135.9", "colnum": "135", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That, at the sitting on 14th March, Standing Order No. 55 (Questions on voting of estimates, &c.) shall apply as if the words '(aa) supplementary votes on account for the coming financial year;' were inserted after line 21.— [Mr. Pope.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-13a.135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-14", "file": "debates2000-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4f9167cc17d563b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-14a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Clause 63", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "It would be churlish not to welcome that intervention. However, I am sorry that the amendment has not been tabled already because the Bill has been before the House for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-14a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-14", "file": "debates2000-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4f9167cc17d563b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-14a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "preceding_text": "istory suggests will last for a long time. The last thorough overhaul of such legislation was in 1883—117 years ago. We are putting in place the foundations of legislation, particularly on referendums, which may not be revisited for a long time. Certainly the legislation will outlast the ministerial lifetime of the present Secretary of State and probably of several Secretaries of State after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-14a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "e of the House seems interested in decommissioning, or has asked a question on that issue? Will he confirm that he and the Secretary of State still consider decommissioning an essential part of the Belfast agreement, and that they will not be beguiled by the unilateral dissent from the 22 May date demonstrated by the junior Minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin? Can the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "Before the election, the Prime Minister promised that he had no plans to increase tax. Yesterday, his press secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.289.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is a liar.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Where did that come from? Where did that come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Cabinet in 1996. I think the House should hear them: 36.3 per cent. in 1997–98, 36.6 per cent. in 1998–99, and 37.1 per cent. and then 37.6 per cent. We can simply look at the Tory record. If it is immoral to raise taxes ever, then the last Tory Government were immoral, were they? I have looked at the record under Margaret Thatcher. The tax burden rose by 3 per cent. Was she immoral?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.2", "colnum": "291", "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": "licy? His policy is the Tory tax guarantee. That was tried before, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and what did it give us? Interest rates went through the roof, 1 million jobs were lost in manufacturing alone, there was record borrowing and recession; and then what? Twenty-two Tory tax rises. Yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman said that it was the moral duty of Government always to cut taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "r admit that he has broken all those promises? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says that Britain has the fastest-rising tax burden in the developed world. The Institute of Fiscal Studies says that there is no question that UK taxes are rising. So do the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors, the British Chambers of Commerce and the Fabian Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " says that Britain has the fastest-rising tax burden in the developed world. The Institute of Fiscal Studies says that there is no question that UK taxes are rising. So do the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors, the British Chambers of Commerce and the Fabian Society. [Interruption.] Even the Fabian Society. The Prime Minister should pays more attention to his heartland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "of Fiscal Studies says that there is no question that UK taxes are rising. So do the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors, the British Chambers of Commerce and the Fabian Society. [Interruption.] Even the Fabian Society. The Prime Minister should pays more attention to his heartland. [Interruption.] We know that Labour Members do not want to hear about what they have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend forgive me if I tell him very bluntly, man to man, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "ing the Government's decision to pay £530 million into the Airbus project, which will create 1,400 jobs in my constituency? May I also tell my right hon. Friend that, among the work force, there is just a little perplexity that there seems to be some tardiness by the Welsh Assembly in its apparent inability to pay just £25 million in grant? Will he address that issue, send for the First Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.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": "That is about the level of today's Conservative party. I do not know what nonsense there is about me having a butler—thank you very much—but, if the hon. Gentleman has any complaint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Inherited SERPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "an announcement was expected before Christmas. Was it the Secretary of State who decided not to respond to the 3,500 questions? Was it his colleague, the Minister of State? Was the decision made by officials? What is the Secretary of State's answer to that specific charge in the NAO report? We accept that there is a serious problem of maladministration. However, will the Secretary of State accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.334.10", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "t give up violence. In the last few weeks, by and large, the guns have been silent and there is no certain evidence that those who signed up to the Belfast agreement have resumed serious violence. We know that there have been beatings, mutilations and kneecappings, but let us leave those to one side for the moment. There have not been other terrorist acts by those who signed the Belfast agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.334.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "preceding_text": "would set out the way forward, but the hon. Gentleman never does that. All he does is spray around allegations, label people as criminals without evidence, and charge the Government with appeasement. There is no foundation for his allegations and I ask him to reflect on those brave men and women who serve in Northern Ireland in the armed forces and the RUC. They do not see themselves as appeasers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": " he genuinely wants to reach a successful conclusion, could none the less have certain ramifications, such as the fragmentation of the paramilitary groups. If we send out a message that fragmentation is inevitable and that it will be on such a scale that we will have to take such punitive action in the future, the right hon. Gentleman is implying the failure, not the success, of the peace process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that that analysis is correct. In certain circumstances Governments seek the withdrawal of power as a result of events changing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e a fixed requirement, and I could not advise the House to accept the amendment. My hon. Friend acknowledged that the figure of four hours was plucked out of the air. I do not suggest that as any criticism of his amendment, but that is essentially the problem in choosing a period, whether it is two hours, four hours or six hours—there is an arbitrary nature to that choice. That is why the wording—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gapes", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the legislation is important in enabling the country to play its role in the international fight against terrorism. We were told by earlier speakers that, for some reason the definition should be changed to exclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.445.7", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Amendments Nos. 27, 28 and 91 to 93 tidy up the position on how to deal with modifying codes of practice. Amendments Nos. 110, 111 and 120 remove the bar in the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 on applying the PACE codes to the detention of terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.445.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-15", "file": "debates2000-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f02d5cb927e8c2b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "stands. It has not made the progress that it ought to have made and the other place will have much work to do on it—in particular on the legal aspects and the civil and criminal justice processes—to put it right. However, as it is important that we have UK-wide legislation on terrorism and because the Bill contains some good provisions, we will not go into the Lobby against the Government tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-15a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. One does not have to believe all that John Humphrys says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Under this Government, there have been shorter recesses. I know that Conservative Members deny that, but if the hon. Lady checks, she will find that that is true. I could not disagree with the hon. Lady more. Proper timetabled debates are in the interests of Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "n tell the hon. Lady that I have been a Member of Parliament for substantially longer than her. During that time, when I have been involved with legislation, I have always made sure that the time was properly apportioned. That ensured that there was time to discuss the important issues. None of our constituents understand or have sympathy for Members of Parliament wasting hours on trivial debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way at the moment. It is important for the House—especially those who do not concern themselves with the country in question and just want to make cheap points—to know a little about the country we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "It is relevant, because the debate is about the competence of my Department in responding to emergencies and the false allegations made by the hon. Gentleman. We assisted after a cyclone in Pakistan in May 1999—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "No, but I will give in to the hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) at the end of my paragraph. I mean that I will give way—I certainly will not give in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady can hardly talk about gratuitous insults, given that she is sitting next to the hon. Member for South-West Devon. In addition, my Department has established arrangements to call in resources from other Government Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.531.8", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.531.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.534.5", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way—the answer is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "No.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "preceding_text": "I will not give way yet. Conservative Members have clearly missed the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.542.7", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had a very late night, and I will have to read his question in Hansard tomorrow to make head or tail of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.542.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "where in Africa, the situation is also extremely bad. I shall not go into all the details, but this is a problem that the world must face. It is so enormous, however, that the world is turning its back on it. The impact has a disproportionate effect on key members of society, such as teachers and doctors who have travelled more. The result is schools without teachers and hospitals without doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "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 call Mr. Iain Duncan Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "given what happened after it went. My hon. Friend said that it was a Treasury problem. There is something in that. He was critical of the MOD. I am not entirely in agreement. I do not fully agree that it bears even 50 per cent. of the blame; I think that it bears far less, if any. The hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Mr. Worthington)—I think that that is how the constituency is pronounced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "I can only quote the Minister for Small Business and E-Commerce, who said at the end of January how important that grant was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.4", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " out a go-slow policy with regard to the expedition of the grant. Furthermore, in the ensuing months, Government intervention has had an impact on all manufacturers, including car manufacturers and Rover in particular. Since 1994, when BMW stated that this was a good country in which to build motor cars, taxation on business has increased and it faces an additional £10 billion of regulatory costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.6", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "th that, as I have said before. However, it is totally indefensible for the Secretary of State, or any Minister, to set up an inquiry, pre-empt the outcome before the analysis has been made and then, as they have done with the retail and supermarket sectors, damage, for the sake of a quick-fix soundbite, an industry that is already under pressure because of the Government's running of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.574.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "esterday, asking whether, given the difficulties faced by BMW—a loss of £740 million this year on top of the loss in 1998 of £550 million—our grant of £152 million over five years would make a great difference. He said that in the context of the difficult decisions that BMW had to take today, the grant was not an issue. Opposition Members may want to make an issue of that, but it is a red herring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer seriously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman cannot resist talking about rows with Brussels. They are the entire raison d'etre of his political life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "It would be better for BMW to confirm figures that may be regarded as commercially confidential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I support my right hon. Friend in rebutting the Opposition's attempts to turn the matter into a party political issue. There is no question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.584.6", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "preceding_text": "bt whether any of us is opposed to clarifying the future. The Opposition are probably attacking the wrong Minister for the wrong reasons. I read the comments of the Conservative spokesman, the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning), in the press this morning. She said that today there would be cross-party demand to guarantee the future of Longbridge. I think that the hon. Lady knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.584.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "preceding_text": "Statistics suggest that the difficulty is not only caused by the euro, although it constitutes a large part of the problem. We are considering a European market, and the euro-sterling exchange rate matters in that context. The hon. Lady asked what we could do about that. I had already begun to develop the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.587.4", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cable", "preceding_text": "The Government missed the boat two years ago and our discussion is slightly academic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "it is no excuse for BMW to blame the exchange rate for its decision today—the responsibility for the decision is with BMW, and BMW alone—the exchange rate is an issue for manufacturing industry. I do not dispute the Bank of England's right to set interest rates. As far as I know, under their current policy, even Conservative Members do not dispute the Bank of England's right to set interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "iveaway by the Conservative Government, BAe was not allowed to relinquish control of Rover for five years on pain of incurring financial penalties. BAe waited five years and six months before selling Rover to BMW, and it is clear that BAe never had any commitment to Rover. The Conservative Government must have known that, even when they were going out of their way to flog the company on the cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "chemy this evening about the plant's prospects and future, he said that cars \"should\" continue to be produced there. I find that a worrying use of language. I would be grateful if the Minister could shed any light on what guarantees there are for employment at the factory. As the hon. Member for Northfield and others have said, many people are facing the potential loss of their job at the factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "ean Commission, but everybody knows that everything possible was done by this Government and previous Governments to get the necessary aid. Everybody knows also that European aid has not had the slightest influence on BMW's decision today to dump Rover. BMW has dumped Rover because it does not suit interests any more. That is fine for BMW, but what about us? What about our employers and employees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Indeed, she was. Our jobs, our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Future of Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "is country, and any mature democracy such as ours, must have as its basis some major industries and activities under its own ownership and managerial control. I am delighted that the Opposition initiated the debate tonight. It allows us to highlight matters that go beyond party political issues. The Opposition will regret having raised the issue this evening. We know the issues that really matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.604.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-16", "file": "debates2000-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "eac196deed86453c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.615.8", "colnum": "615", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "Some 700 residents of Halifax have given me this petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-16a.615.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-17", "file": "debates2000-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e92b791510f3f3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-17a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How often?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " also spoke about the fact that the Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill will build on the 1999 Act. We applaud that. My hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Mr. Syms), who also has experience on the Health Committee, spoke about the abuses of migrants from the UK to Australia as children. He also spoke with emotion about the fact that he can still go to his parents' house and play with his toys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-17a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.720.5", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I had forgotten to mention the fact that there will be a 10-minute limit on the speeches of Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.720.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants me to give way on the same point, I shall move on because I am not devoting any more of my speech to dry stone walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.723.4", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman can exercise a little common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.723.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.737.4", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Germany.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it is ludicrous to compare England and Wales with Norway where the population is much sparser and concentrated in the south.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.737.4", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it is ludicrous to compare England and Wales with Norway where the population is much sparser and concentrated in the south. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Germany.\"] The land mass of Germany is more than double that of the United Kingdom. At risk of repetition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.747.5", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "nity greatly to strengthen legislation on the environment and rights of access. We do not oppose the principle of the Bill; we welcome the principles that underlie much of the measure. A succession of \"buts\" will now follow. The Bill does not tackle some practicalities properly and we will have to explore them in Committee. The Bill is disappointing in many ways, and its lack of aspiration is sad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.747.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "ng and conservation lobby. They will do anything to keep out the great unwashed. That is what it is all about. It is their countryside, not ours. That was exemplified by my parliamentary neighbour, the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry), when he talked about those who owned the countryside. This may sound like a revolutionary sentiment to the House, but the land belongs to us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "ke about the Prime Minister. I remember him well from the year that we spent together on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill. He spoke with passion then, too. There is a certain irony about the Bill. Part III is about endangered species. Following the Ayr by-election, when I look across the Chamber I see about 200 endangered species. The probability is that many Labour Members will lose their seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "ave said previously in the House, I oppose the idea of the right to roam or the right to access. I oppose it because, as is abundantly clear from many of the sedentary remarks made by Labour Members during the debate and from one or two speeches, it is based on what I believe to be that most ignoble of human traits—envy. It is an anti-landowner, anti-property and anti-privacy aspect of their Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.814.6", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "I do withdraw the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.814.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.814.8", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "I do withdraw that word. May I draw the Minister's attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.814.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-20", "file": "debates2000-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4c91e630f2a371fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.827.14", "colnum": "827", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Competition Act 1998 (Director's Rules) Order 2000 be referred to a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-20a.827.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Advocate-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Advocate-General", "preceding_text": "ve competence. I also have certain powers in relation to devolution issues. These matters can arise in any court in Scotland, in civil or criminal matters. I think that today's was the 500th devolution issue intimated to me. I have looked at all 500, and I have intervened in a number of them. Some will come to the Privy Council, and I hope—certainly initially—to do those cases myself. I also have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "g in the naive belief that they have got the full picture. Then it turns out, a few hours or days later, that the full picture is rather different. This year, we have seen elements of the Red Book in the past few minutes, and they show many things to which the Chancellor did not allude in his speech. For instance, he did not give many figures on the tax burden in the speech that he just delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": " However, his new stealth tax on self-employed contractors is destroying all that. That tax did not appear in this Budget or in the previous one. It is known as IR35 because it appeared only as Inland Revenue press release No. 35. It is a £475 million tax on our future that is driving many high-tech businesses abroad. I received a letter the other day from a person with such a business, who wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "e No. 35. It is a £475 million tax on our future that is driving many high-tech businesses abroad. I received a letter the other day from a person with such a business, who wrote— [Interruption.] I will send the Chancellor the letter. He wrote that he was in the process of closing down the company because IR35 had damaged his business to the extent that it was not worth continuing any more. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " However, money for IT in schools was originally announced by the Chancellor in 1997. It was reannounced by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment in October 1997, by the Prime Minister in November 1998, and again by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment in April 1999. There were 16 announcements of the same money, with the same gullible people falling for it every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "lity? He orders up a round of speeches to show that the Government are delivering. But no amount of talking will achieve that when police numbers have fallen, the waiting lists to get on the waiting lists are longer and class sizes have actually increased. The Chancellor said that he would meet some of those problems with his increase in tobacco duty, ring-fencing it for use in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One of them is leaving.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "uccess, everyone wants to join the euro, everyone wants to get rid of section 28, and no doubt they saw Elvis in the supermarket last night. If the Chancellor said that he had seen Elvis in the supermarket, no doubt some of his right hon. and hon. Friends would run out and issue a press release saying that they had seen him too. That is how gullible Labour Back-Bench Members are about his Budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who, in his usual erudite way, has made an important point. The Opposition have a problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-21", "file": "debates2000-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "52229f837088d8a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "I think that the sooner we can join the euro, the better. However, I should like there to be better management by the European Central Bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-21a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister had a chance to consider the impact on the Phurnacite plant in the Cynon valley of the climate change levy and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Is not that answer an example of why nobody believes anything that the right hon. Gentleman says about tax cuts? The actual figure given by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce yesterday shows that the additional cost to business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " than the Liberal Democrats ever asked for. What happens with the Liberal Democrats, as ever, is that the moment we do even more than they ask, they just up the demands. It is about time that the hon. Gentleman explained to the country how he could spend even more on schools, pensioners and local government. No doubt he will be telling us that we have not spent enough on the health service either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the particular circumstances of that hospital, but I am perfectly happy to look into them. Yet again, however, a Tory has had the cheek to get up and tell us that we should spend more money on the health service, when the Conservative party is opposed to spending more money on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "ter's new, relaunched plan for the NHS to end the distortion of clinical priorities and a guarantee based on waiting times and clinical need? Why does he not set aside all the pride of the past few years and support a guarantee on that along the lines of the patients guarantee put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox)? Can he not see that there is no point announcing money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is opposed by the Conservative party. As for the health record, we are putting in a 6 per cent. real-terms increase, which is double what the Conservative party put in. The right hon. Gentleman's priorities, which include tax cuts for a few, would mean that the Tories could not possibly afford that sum of money. We know already that the right hon. Gentleman is opposed to the tobacco duty increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " As for the health record, we are putting in a 6 per cent. real-terms increase, which is double what the Conservative party put in. The right hon. Gentleman's priorities, which include tax cuts for a few, would mean that the Tories could not possibly afford that sum of money. We know already that the right hon. Gentleman is opposed to the tobacco duty increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ch is double what the Conservative party put in. The right hon. Gentleman's priorities, which include tax cuts for a few, would mean that the Tories could not possibly afford that sum of money. We know already that the right hon. Gentleman is opposed to the tobacco duty increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is right. [Interruption.] So that would be £300 million out of the £2 billion straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "NHS Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "usts and health authorities—is the best arrangement? There is much evidence nationally of waste as a consequence of that split at local level. Secondly, my right hon. Friend referred to the relationship between the NHS and social services. Will he look at combining the two organisations, as they are combined very successfully in Northern Ireland? Thirdly, will my right hon. Friend look at the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's agitation and concern are not so much directed at me as at his Front Benchers and, perhaps, the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), the former Prime Minister, with whom he had a former association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " would recommend is that he use that money to reduce taxes. The Conservatives have made their choice. They have already promised billions in tax allowances, tax reliefs and tax cuts for a privileged few. Like a half-witted Houdini, the Leader of the Opposition has put on a straitjacket on tax and spending. He can twist and turn but he cannot now escape. It is the straitjacket of the tax guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "or a privileged few. Like a half-witted Houdini, the Leader of the Opposition has put on a straitjacket on tax and spending. He can twist and turn but he cannot now escape. It is the straitjacket of the tax guarantee— [Interruption.] It is no use the hon. Member for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) getting agitated. As surely as night follows day, cuts in health service spending would follow the tax guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": "ntry is committed to the cleanest of the fossil fuels—it is second only to renewables, probably, in terms of environmental acceptability—and is going in that direction. My constituency is in East Anglia, which is characteristically rural—in fact, my constituency contains a large tract of rural north Suffolk. People have asked what the Budget contains for rural areas. What is in it for those areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-22", "file": "debates2000-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "801406827f67de3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": " very much an old Tory and he came out with some very old ideas. He harked back to the old days, when the exchange rate was DM2.50 to the pound, and he appeared to have the idea that the Conservatives would take back control of the Bank of England. He said that they would set interest rates at 6 per cent., as the remedy to high exchange rates and to revive manufacturing. What a load of codswallop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-22a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "It is a source of great sadness to me that the hon. Lady does not recognise the considerable mess that we inherited and the extraordinary strides forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "It is a source of great sadness to me that the hon. Lady does not recognise the considerable mess that we inherited and the extraordinary strides forward— [Interruption.] The hon. Lady scoffs, but the summary judgment on the Tory years of stewardship of the education system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "ecovery programme for primary pupils to be invested in booster classes, which have been so successful. That will mean a doubling of the investment we had already indicated for such classes, giving children who would not otherwise have the opportunity to do so the chance to recover on what is done in the classroom and in after-school activities. Madam Speaker—is it still Madam Speaker in the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ould otherwise be on the street. It is truancy and permanent exclusion from schools that lead to permanent exclusion from the world of work and society. That is why more than 70 per cent. of those who have been long-term truants or excluded end up in prison and why the prison population regrettably consists on average of people with a reading age of eight or below. Even those who turn to religion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will have to curb her impatience a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.4", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's confusion is not a matter for me; it is a matter for him. Again, I suggest that he looks at what the Government are claiming for the new deal and the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.4", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " was not £19 billion and that, at the best estimate, it was only £9 billion, and that was before the issues of real terms and the underfunding of teachers' pay awards were taken into account. The best description of the way in which the Government have manipulated the figures on education spending was given at the weekend in one of the newspapers by a former Member of the House, Phillip Oppenheim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-23", "file": "debates2000-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "fd8e9b1740722c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "figure—it was absent from his statement—and neither was it mentioned today by the Secretary of State. At last, some transparency and an admission that this really is new money! On 21 March, a Treasury official told The Daily Telegraph that This is new money. You haven't seen it before and there's no double counting. Clearly, he has heeded the advice in Nick Davies's recent article in The Guardian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-23a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1216.4", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Regeneration and Countryside Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "g authorities to direct development to brownfield sites. However, the guidance does not make that mandatory or statutory. The sequential approach is questionable. Paragraph 30 on page 12 of PPG3 states: In identifying sites to be allocated for housing in local plans and UDPs— I do not know what UDPs are. The document is full of such odd acronyms—UDPs, RPGs, NLUDs—but no one explains what they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Regeneration and Countryside Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What you said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that helped the House any more than it did previously, but I hear what the hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.2", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Regeneration and Countryside Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slow down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will let me try a third time. Basically, what he is saying today in his Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.3", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Regeneration and Countryside Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "evelop brownfield buildings and land, developers will always use greenfield sites because it is cheaper. The House will know that no VAT is charged on new build, but it is levied on the materials used to renovate existing structures. That is a reduction of almost one fifth on the cost of new build and an increase of one fifth on the cost of redevelopment. That is an important point. In the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Regeneration and Countryside Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "Before I became a Member of Parliament, I was involved in the argument between local government and central Government. We failed to make an impression on the previous Government when we made the case for a more sustainable policy. Our views crossed party lines. The right hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King) was in the Chamber earlier; I do not know whether he intends to contribute to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1232.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-24", "file": "debates2000-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d534337a73f94f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1285.9", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-24a.1285.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Love", "preceding_text": "International Amateur Athletic Federation in Paris next week. For national and international sport to thrive, however, we need good-quality local and community facilities. I welcome the recent changes introduced by the Government, but local sports men and women in my constituency, which is a deprived area, are still missing out. What further steps can be taken to redress the balance? Additionally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.8.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "? Should not Governments cut down on red tape and regulation and get out of business's way? Unless all that happens, the setting of targets and empty gestures will be all that is remembered in future years. All those Air Force meals will have been eaten in vain, even by the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary. It is vital to remember that such rhetoric will not create a single job. If the object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman at least welcomed the fact that the summit took place, and that it was on this topic. The trouble is that, if we pursued the policy that he outlines, no such summit would ever take place under a British initiative. He is dedicated to attending his first European Council to renegotiate the treaty of Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Norway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "] That may come as a shock to Conservative Members, but that is their party's policy. The other day, the Bruges group of MPs—to which 120 Conservative Members are signed up—told the right hon. Gentleman that the option of withdrawal should be clearly contemplated if the treaty renegotiation was not agreed. He has never been able to name a single country in favour of a treaty renegotiation—not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council (Lisbon)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "contemplated if the treaty renegotiation was not agreed. He has never been able to name a single country in favour of a treaty renegotiation—not one. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Norway.\"] We will glide over that small misunderstanding. As he cannot name one such country, it is highly unlikely that he would be able to initiate such a summit. Anyway, I shall leave that aside and come to the points that he made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "We have not heard from the Liberal Democrats yet, and since there is only one here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not so.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " less money to spend because they will give so much to the Chancellor in stamp duty. That leads to one obvious conclusion: the Government simply do not understand and do not try to understand small businesses. I appreciate that the Chancellor pays lip service to small business. However, neither he, nor members of his Treasury team, nor most Labour Members have ever worked as small business people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.117.4", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " stealth tax that also is aimed at the new economy and that also sounds like a character from \"Star Wars\". This year's IR35 is called BN2J. BN2J is the Chancellor's stealth tax on British world-beating companies and an attack on double taxation relief. The world's largest accountancy firm said that BN2J will make the United Kingdom one of the least attractive locations for international companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.117.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " not fulfilled his promise. There are many other prime ministerial promises that he has not fulfilled either. He said that class sizes would be smaller, but they are larger today. He said that waiting lists would fall, but the waiting list to get on the waiting list is double today. He said that he would be tough on crime but, for the first time in six years, crime is rising again in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must plead with the House to come to order. The right hon. Gentleman is addressing the House and there should be no private conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.119.3", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "t to be a comprehensive spending failure. Now, at least if the national health service turns out not to improve at all, we will know who is to blame. The Prime Minister has taken responsibility personally for this. The Prime Minister is running things—just as he did with welfare reform, and he ran that straight into the sands. I re-emphasise that we support the extra money on health and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "This was the Chancellor's fourth Budget. Over the previous three Budgets, the Chancellor has built for himself a reputation for slipperiness and for obfuscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s; we are introducing the 10p rate; the 22p basic rate; the working families tax credit, which the Tories would scrap; and the children's tax credit. The Tories' tax guarantee would mean tax cuts only for the privileged few. We know that from the shadow Chancellor's own words in his list of commitments. This month, he confirmed the Tory policy of transferable tax allowances. That would cost about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "om the shadow Chancellor's own words in his list of commitments. This month, he confirmed the Tory policy of transferable tax allowances. That would cost about— [Interruption.] Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that is his policy? It seems that he does. I shall go on to the next commitment. The right hon. Gentleman said that he wants tax relief for private medical insurance at a cost of at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "o on to the next commitment. The right hon. Gentleman said that he wants tax relief for private medical insurance at a cost of at least— [Interruption.] Does he deny that that is his policy? I am tempted to ask him which of our policies he disagrees with, but I shall carry on with my list. The right hon. Gentleman also said that he supported the abolition of capital gains tax. Does he still do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-27", "file": "debates2000-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e445b8d41e9fa57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " relief for private medical insurance at a cost of at least— [Interruption.] Does he deny that that is his policy? I am tempted to ask him which of our policies he disagrees with, but I shall carry on with my list. The right hon. Gentleman also said that he supported the abolition of capital gains tax. Does he still do so? [Interruption.] The Tory document of last October offers top tax rate cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-27a.123.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": " came to power. They were told that all NHS units would be modernised—untrue. The Chancellor said that there would be 15,000 more nurses—untrue. The Prime Minister told the House that spending on the NHS would be 7.6 per cent. of gross domestic product—untrue. What sort of ethical signal does it send to those joining the NHS when those at the top cannot be trusted to tell the truth on any subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.208.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.217.6", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Ms Gisela Stuart)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "peaker. With characteristic honesty, the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart), said that 182 trusts would benefit from the modernisation programme for accident and emergency departments. However, the Department of Health issued a press release stating that all accident and emergency departments would be modernised. That is obviously an untruth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I deal with one point of order at a time; I have dealt with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I always resist opportunities to take more power to myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Those are indeed the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "mstances. Even at this stage, he has no faith in the way in which his new creations will work. All appointments to the boards will be made by the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor. There is no guidance in the Bill on who will be appointed. We know from last week's report by the Commissioner for Public Appointments that the Government have packed the national health service with their cronies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "h his new creations will work. All appointments to the boards will be made by the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor. There is no guidance in the Bill on who will be appointed. We know from last week's report by the Commissioner for Public Appointments that the Government have packed the national health service with their cronies. [Interruption.] It was an independent report. We can only hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " who will be appointed. We know from last week's report by the Commissioner for Public Appointments that the Government have packed the national health service with their cronies. [Interruption.] It was an independent report. We can only hope— [Interruption.] It was probably indignation at their iniquity. We can only hope this week that the Government will not end up packing the probation service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "That means that people can be released early and let out into the community on tagging. I have explained the matter as simply as I can. If the Home Secretary still does not understand, I will ask some of my hon. Friends to try to reduce the language even more, so that he will perhaps be able to understand in Committee. The Government have squandered the legacy of falling crime that they inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "he peace and security that too many of our local communities have had stolen from them. It does the right hon. Lady's case no service to get into a stupid Dutch auction about which party will promise to put more feet on the beat in terms of police officers. It was her Government—it is no good rewriting history—who gave responsibility—properly, in my view—for spending resources to chief constables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": " which there were people of working age, no one had a job. However, when the current Government put their hands into the deep pockets of the former public utilities to extract billions for the new deal, they were opposed by the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald and her colleagues—yet the new deal has made a huge impact in getting despairing, hopeless and jobless young people into jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "It palpably is not nonsense. The new Government have replaced Tory appointees with Labour appointees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "ilitation, including basic skills training, is provided so that we can break the cycle of harm. Community sentences and post-sentence supervision are keys to this process. Electronic monitoring has a part to play in fighting crime and can make community sentences more effective. I understand that there are concerns over the technical feasibility of using electronic tagging as a means of exclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": " hear from Liberal Democrats. He also talked about the crime figures. At least he finally admitted that crime came down under the stewardship of my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald and my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard). For once, at least, the Liberal Democrats were more realistic about the figures than the Home Secretary was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "er cent. Better public protection is at the heart of the scheme, and the right hon. Lady's Front-Bench colleague, the hon. Member for Surrey Heath, signed up to it at every stage. He failed to introduce any note of dissent when he had the opportunity to do so. The right hon. Member for Fareham recognised the importance of tagging and electronic monitoring for the improved protection of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "he Prison Service and others how such lessons could be learned; and that he wanted to improve the system, rather than dismissing the 5 per cent. of failures and saying that there was a resounding success; and if he had at least attempted to express some sympathy with the victims of those whom he released before they had reached the minimum point of their sentence, things would have been different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": " all those Tory supporters who were invariably described as business consultants. When I became a Minister in the Department of Health, I did not know that business consultants had such an insight into the management of the health service. Business consultants and accountants were everywhere. Conservative Members complain when we take steps to ensure that local boards are genuinely representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I do not think that necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Television Licence Fees", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "after that date but before their licence would expire, will be able to buy a short-term licence lasting until 1 November. From 1 November, refunds will be available in respect of licences already paid for. The hon. Member for Ryedale is, I am sure, aware that, in tabling a motion to annul the regulations, he is opposing the proposal to allow pensioners aged over 75 to purchase short-term licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-28", "file": "debates2000-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d5fa585983495ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Television Licence Fees", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be clear about the effect of the motion. He wanted the regulations to be annulled. If he had been successful—of course he does not have the majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-28a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "sure him that we are working on that problem in Zimbabwe. We have had difficulties dealing with this problem, as we have in other matters, because of the lack of political leadership. We share the hon. Gentleman's concern about the situation in Zimbabwe, but we do not believe that it is right simply to cancel the whole of Britain's assistance to Zimbabwe as some of his hon. Friends have requested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.332.9", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for sharing the anger of all at Rover Longbridge, the components suppliers and all those who work in the dealerships at the bombshell dropped by BMW in its disposal of Rover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ire Member to be able to praise an initiative from Yorkshire. Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister join me in welcoming the Yorkshire building society's campaign against excessive cash machine charges? It has produced a petition with more than 100,000 names, which was presented to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on Monday. Does my right hon. Friend agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "This weekend, a senior Cabinet Minister was reported as saying that if the Government are defeated again in the Lords on section 28—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.337.5", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister is not ready to back down on this, why does he have his Ministers running around telling newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.337.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well, and let me repeat to people, section 28 has nothing whatever to do with sex education in schools. It never has had. As I say, since 1994, it has not even applied to schools. The truth of the matter is that the campaign is based on people who do not want to come out and say that they are prejudiced against gay people. They do not want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.339.6", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "elcomed to the constituency by the headline in the local paper, \"Benn-backing Barrister is Labour's Choice\"? That is Benn-backing rather than Ken-backing. Does he know that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) supports my Bill to provide targets for organic food and farming? At tomorrow's summit at No. 10 Downing street, will he explicitly acknowledge the need to expand organic foods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.339.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.340.6", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ek of the Conservative party: it asks for a commitment when it was responsible for closing hundreds of rural post offices when it was in office. We will carry on working to make sure that they have a secure future, but let us be clear about the changes on automatic credit transfer. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we inherited that investment from the previous Government. The reason for those changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mostyn's speech was given, to Manches and Co., on 7 March 2000, and is therefore quite recent. The Minister therefore cannot say that it is the same old stuff. It is new stuff, and he should pay some attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " could prevent some of the problems that can be encountered. The threat of violence between the parties was mentioned earlier. I do not suggest that the new clause would remove such threats, but recognising and dealing quickly with them would lessen the risk of violence. There would also be less risk that people would disappear into the community and never having to pay a penny for their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": "y second point. The Government suggest that the new clause, if it is interpreted in a certain way, might have a perverse effect, because of the words \"all cases\". I recall the Under-Secretary saying that there might be a possibility of officials deciding not to pursue certain cases because they would take too long. The hon. Lady understands that we interpret the words \"all cases\" differently, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickles", "preceding_text": " B on £1,350 is adequately cared for? Presumably they are. Are they suggesting that child A on £45,000 is adequately compensated? Presumably they are. However, each child is identical, which is why the figures are so perverse. 6.15 pm If there is no upper limit, the CSA will find itself increasingly taking over court order assessments. The Law Society and leading lawyers are warning us about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "I shall speak to amendment No. 87. I confess that, so far, Bill Gates has not come to my surgery to discuss the sort of issues raised in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that my hon. Friend has intervened, because we are beginning to have a real debate. Incomes of £40,000 or £45,000 are middle management incomes in many areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Him again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "fairer. There will be enormous resentment. As Families Need Fathers said in evidence, people consider the proposal a grotesque intrusion on personal liberty and it would never be tolerated if a couple were still together. The evidence was moderately put and sensible. I hope that hon. Members will not groan if I mention Mr. Mostyn, although they often do so when we pray him in aid of our arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": " a Minister. A father in a couple enters into a commitment in anticipation of his marriage continuing. He gets a new job which he has to drive to, so he takes on a car loan. The couple then splits up. He has the continuing obligation of the car loan debt to service. If he cannot keep the car, he cannot keep the job and he cannot pay the maintenance. The formula will take no account of that burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "overnment have chosen one end of the scale. The amendments would allow scope for limited discretion—not as much as in the past—with better enforcement. Enforcement is a problem, although I have not dwelt on that matter. However, there is a good argument that, when people have to fill in court papers, they do not respond as they would if they received papers from a Government agency. There is some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I must have spoken too quickly. I am sorry. The Labour party is now in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss McIntosh", "preceding_text": "rrently available. That does not detract from the Minister's earlier comments about Labour Members' constituents, who may choose to change to automated credit transfer payments in a good-will gesture to the Government to whom they owe their allegiance. A third of constituents in the Vale of York choose not to have a bank account. They have never had a bank account and they do not wish to have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-29", "file": "debates2000-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "389c2faf3eaa6ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.447.5", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) the figure of 20 people a week changing to automated credit transfer. That was referred to, in her graceful way, by the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh), when she said that the change might be a good-will gesture to Labour Members. How did I get that figure? The reality is that every week, in every one of our constituencies, 20 people change to ACT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-29a.447.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "That was a bid for the shadow position held by the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning). I say to the right hon. Gentleman, in all seriousness, that I have a degree of respect for his position because at least he has tabled questions to me about the issue, whereas the hon. Lady has not tabled a single question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "That was a bid for the shadow position held by the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning). I say to the right hon. Gentleman, in all seriousness, that I have a degree of respect for his position because at least he has tabled questions to me about the issue, whereas the hon. Lady has not tabled a single question— [Interruption.] Not a single question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "Having just heard the Secretary of State's wholly inaccurate response about tabled questions on the subject of Rover, he has only confirmed what we all suspected—that not only does he never read newspapers or his own papers, he does not read parliamentary questions either. He knows that it is grossly unfair to have said something which he must know is inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "bled questions on the subject of Rover, he has only confirmed what we all suspected—that not only does he never read newspapers or his own papers, he does not read parliamentary questions either. He knows that it is grossly unfair to have said something which he must know is inaccurate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"] The right hon. Gentleman continues to claim that all this has come out of the blue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "When I was at school, if a boy showed unnatural inclinations, he was taken in the most sensitive way to see a shrink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady please impress on her right hon. Friends that this place is a Parliament where people are meant to parley?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "isters to answer the questions of those hon. Members who are fortunate enough to be drawn high up in the ballot, and that it simply will not do to exhibit the cowardice shown by the Secretary of State and, when a statement on a crucial matter is evidently required, to shelter behind the fact that my hon. Friend was fortunate enough to think of the question in advance and to come top of the ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " allocating from my own departmental reserve another £18 million to the sixth form college and FE sector specifically for 16 to 19-year-old education, to ensure that last week's announcement on targeted funding going directly to schools—the £30,000 to £50,000 for secondary schools—does not disadvantage those in further education because of the way in which that money is dependent on pupil numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The southern Indian ocean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "uth work service and the funding of the voluntary and not for profit sector as well as the traditional local government youth support service. I pay tribute to those at local level who have agreed to provide the pathfinder areas for the new programme. We intend to learn lessons from them in developing a national system. Even though Matthew Parris is somewhere in the frosty cold of the—where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "ilable courses anywhere reasonably accessible—if their school sixth form goes. We hear behind the scenes that the Department for Education and Employment talks of sixth forms being viable only if they have 200 pupils or more. Where does that leave small sixth forms in small secondary schools—rural or urban—which provide good quality courses that pupils want in the environment where they want them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that intervention. I take it, then, that the local learning and skills council will determine which courses can be offered at which institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "a range of issues. Indeed, when challenged on their role, the Under-Secretary of State said: They are there because young people need somebody to take responsibility for them. What about their parents? The Government are telling young people, \"If you need advice, don't ask your parents, ask your Government-appointed mentor.\" Yet another way in which the Government are usurping the role of parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-03-30", "file": "debates2000-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "338c9588a4ce8754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan", "preceding_text": "rs are funded under Home Office programmes for crime prevention purposes and do good work; some are funded by social services, education departments and local authorities. They almost always work with the same client group as the ConneXions people, and we want to make sure that they all work in a co-ordinated way; otherwise, there will be confusion among that client group and money will be wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-03-30a.544.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.611.7", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "this week, who retired as head teacher of a special school last summer and, nine months later, is still waiting to have her pension entitlement sorted out. Is it not a disgrace that a Government cannot even authorise that the Benefits Agency pay pensioners their projected benefits, which they were told that they could expect when they retired, until such time as the exact figure can be sorted out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.611.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.616.6", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Gentleman does not deny the fact that there will be 18 million gainers under the state second pension. Nobody earning up to £20,000 a year will lose—that cannot be contradicted. He claims that we are abolishing SERPS, but we are not; we are reforming it, and using SERPS legislation to introduce the state second pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.616.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.619.7", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "We have not heard an argument for a repeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.619.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "staken allegation first made in the House last Wednesday by the Leader of the Opposition, when he said that the chairman of BMW, Professor Milberg, had said in our telephone conversation that BMW may have to reconsider our whole investment in Britain altogether.—[ Official Report , 29 March 2000; Vol. 347, c. 333.] I am pleased to say that last Thursday Professor Milberg made a statement. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.631.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Rover", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.636.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": "I, too, represent a constituency in which thousands of workers will be affected by the decision taken on Rover. They and their families do not look forward to facing problems in the weeks and months ahead when many of them will be laid off. I want to say to the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Rover", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": " in which thousands of workers will be affected by the decision taken on Rover. They and their families do not look forward to facing problems in the weeks and months ahead when many of them will be laid off. I want to say to the Opposition— [Interruption.] I hope that this will be the last time that we shall hear an issue as important as Rover raised in the way in which they have raised it today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burstow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not asking an awkward question; he is asking one that I am happy to answer. We did not commit ourselves to re-establishing the link.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " that is what has led to all the objections from pensioners. That is how the 75p increase came about. New clause 8 is open-ended. New clause 36 is similarly open-ended, in that it ties the Government down to a certain level of spending. Those who study the figures will become very alarmed by them. I have some sympathy with what is being proposed. I could have refrained from speaking in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£150 a year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I want to echo what hon. Members on both sides of the House have said about the view of many pensioners on our record so far. Labour Members have rightly congratulated the Government on much of what they have done, which has significantly increased the income of some pensioners. The winter fuel allowance has been increased to £150 a week: that is a significant increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Norman A. Godman", "preceding_text": "y the odd job lot opposite when they were in power for so long. I tell my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. McDonnell) that, in Scotland, disaffected elderly constituents do have a choice. Very few of them vote Conservative, rightly, but they can choose to vote for the infant Scottish Socialist party or the Scottish National party, both of which play to the gallery on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Abbott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has not been here for the entire debate, but let me explain. When she has been a Member of Parliament for a considerable time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "on after election. I have been an associate member of the Teesside pensioners' association since 1971. I qualify for full compliance next year, and I will be proud to do so. I appeal to Ministers to listen to the arguments—arguments that they themselves have made repeatedly in the past. I appeal to colleagues who perhaps have more of an eye on career development than on the retention of principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Everyone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": " is beginning to splinter. I hope that the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Kali Mountford) will not think me patronising if I say that she made a brave speech. That was a difficult thing to do in face of the emotional appeals made on behalf of elderly pensioners. I hope that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) will accept congratulations from everyone in the Opposition on his birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ervative MPs on this important issue. I am in no way, in anything that I have to say, criticising the fact that new clause 36 has been tabled for debate, because that is what this place is for; the day we forget that, we might as well all pack it in. Nevertheless, I cannot accept all the arguments, even though, as I happily admit, I have made many of them myself in the past—indeed, more than most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "nditions are right is designed to give the Government flexibility to give a strong incentive to moderate and to higher earners to move to funded schemes. We make no bones about that. We make no apology. It is not a secret policy. It is part of the overall big picture—the plan to shift pension provision from 60 per cent. state and 40 per cent. private to 40 per cent. private and 60 per cent. state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "which is why we are focusing on mothers of children below school age. We recognise that they have the fewest opportunities, as they are caring for younger children, to earn above the lower earnings limit. Many mothers of school-age children combine their caring duties with part-time work and could benefit from the state second pension's low earners' boost when they earn as little as £3,432 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "bled in Committee in June 1995, during consideration of the Pensions Act 1995, by my right hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Anniesland (Mr. Dewar), who then represented Glasgow, Garscadden and who is now Scotland's First Minister. The Government of the day rejected those new clauses—I hate to have to read this out, but it is true—for reasons that I find as persuasive today as they were in 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-03", "file": "debates2000-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "c2ea2aa56a77df45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "hat he will be listening carefully to what is said and will wish the new clause to be pressed to a Division to assist his deliberations in the review. We have been entirely consistent on this matter. If I have one small criticism of Conservative Front-Bench Members, it is the fact that I do not recall two consecutive debates in this and another place in which they have taken a consistent position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-03a.772.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.798.4", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong people?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ople should determine their local housing requirements rather than the Government setting arbitrary figures? What consultation has he had with Purbeck district council, which has written to me today, and with Poole and East Dorset district councils in my constituency, about this matter? Without consultation, the Government's proposals mean the wrong houses for the wrong people in the wrong places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions(Mr. John Prescott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions(Mr. John Prescott)", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to announce to the House that today we are publishing the housing Green Paper \"Quality and Choice: A Decent Home for All\". This is the first comprehensive review of housing for 23 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "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": "abandoned in ghettos of deprivation, and the number of homeless people and those sleeping rough has doubled. Nothing in the Opposition's latest policies suggests that they have learned any lessons. Their proposals have little to do with solving problems and nothing to do with common sense. In fact, to coin a phrase, they are all mouth and no action. We have made an early start to put things right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "nment. Fewer social houses, not more, are being built. There is an estimated £20 billion backlog of housing repairs. Housing benefit fraud is estimated to be at £2 billion and rising, with only a pathetic 700 successful prosecutions last year. The Deputy Prime Minister has now confirmed in his statement that council and housing association rents are a mess after three years. Is he not embarrassed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": ", the self-appointed guardian of the old left, who should end up starved of Treasury funding and presiding over plans finally to abolish council housing in Britain? The Green Paper is a long shopping list of ideas for consultation. The question that the House is entitled to ask is: how much of that has been costed? Who will pay? When will the Deputy Prime Minister deliver and what will he deliver?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "nce 1997. When will he increase it so that it will again reach the levels delivered by the previous Conservative Government, which he chose to deride in his statement? When will he increase the number of social houses built—which has fallen by a third since 1996, not risen—so that it will again reach the levels delivered by a Conservative Government at the end of our time in office? In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ar. Let me address a number of points. With regard to leaks and the remarks made by the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman), I can only assume, and the House might accept, that if I had leaked the statement I would hardly have said that I would give priority to prisoners. That would not be the leak that I should have wanted to give to the press, but I might say that to pick on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "re. We have some responsibility to provide them with homes. Indeed, as the hon. Gentleman may well know, some might be Tory Members of Parliament coming out of prison to whom we would want to give some consideration. With regard to the personal matter, let me say to the hon. Gentleman that I strongly resent any implications that I did wrong concerning rents and my flat. I have done what is proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Housing Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "etter if the House would at least accord me the right to wait for the report from the Parliamentary Commissioner as to whether any offence has occurred. Indeed, Members should not simply rely on press reports. Everyone should at least expect that, and I certainly expect it from the hon. Gentleman. I personally do not want to get involved in a slanging match on those matters; I make the fair point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.816.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "h perhaps not perfect—freedom of information Bill of the kind that had been promised to the electorate in 1997. We thought that that contract with the electorate was about to be fulfilled through the hard work of my right hon. Friend. I was not able to be on the Committee that considered the Bill, but that was not for the want of trying. By some alchemy, as has happened before, I was not selected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "nd that it is very clear how the purposes clause will be interpreted? It will be interpreted precisely as the right hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Mr. Maclennan) explained when moving it—in favour of a presumption for openness—and it is precisely for that reason that we wish the Government to consider it. The Minister pays tribute to himself for his amendments to clause 13—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.850.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I understand that point, but the Government have been helpful to Parliament in establishing the practice of publishing draft Bills and codes where possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "preceding_text": "I am trying to follow the hon. Gentleman's argument. Will he let me know two things? First, where does new clause 8 provide that information shall be disclosed only if it is accurate? Secondly, how is a public authority to judge whether information that it holds is or is not accurate in a dispute about its accuracy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "That is one interpretation of the difficulty in obtaining the information that I require. My argument may be regarded as unduly cynical, but if the ticket sales for the millennium dome and the associated public expenditure—almost £1 billion, or possibly even more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " witnessed the revolving door syndrome whereby civil servants and military defence people left government only to appear the following day on the boards of big companies that had just been awarded contracts. I should hate to make even a rough calculation of the number of Conservative Members who shifted out of Government posts and landed on the boards of big companies. There is a lot of hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall happily give way when I have made my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ent for me to release the reports because their contents significantly added to the public understanding of the reasons for my decisions in the case. As the House knows, the divisional court held that I had made the right decision, but the Court of Appeal decided that the public interest in publication overrode my decisions to abide by the obligations that I had made. To continue with the analogy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "eleasing information that is described as being in the public interest is because of an underlying factor which the public body or the Minister in question considers outweighs public responsibility. We must address that point if we are to reach a satisfactory conclusion. There should be no question of the mayor of London having the authority to sign such a certificate. There should be no question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-04", "file": "debates2000-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "2fbd933d1cb25ae2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions(Mr. Chris Mullin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions(Mr. Chris Mullin)", "preceding_text": "ttee chairman night need to put the question on charging provisions. Agreement of the resolution would enable a full and careful examination of the Bill to occur. It is the usual courtesy for hon. Members to agree and support such resolutions on private Members' Bills, and I trust that they will support this one. Agreement to the resolution does not commit the Government to additional expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-04a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "May I be permitted to congratulate the Minister and his colleagues on the huge enthusiasm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ments show that BMW says the decision was also due to uncertainty in the UK car market..? The Secretary of State is even now sitting on the Competition Commission report that makes that point. The decision was also due to the charges made for workplace parking. It was this Government who introduced the power for that. Does not this whole sequence lend credence to what BMW also said at the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.966.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The series of meetings with BMW took place because everyone knew there was a critical situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State is concentrating on the future, why is he spending his time doctoring BMW's statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "In a written answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb), the Government have confirmed that the share of national wealth—which is increasing—going to pensioners will decrease steadily over the course of this Parliament. In its manifesto at the previous general election, the Labour party said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.968.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Of course we should deal with tax avoidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.970.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eports that 62 per cent. of businesses expect turnover to increase, and that only 6 per cent. expect it to decline. It adds that 45 per cent. of firms expect to take on staff, and that only 7 per cent. foresee a fall in staff numbers. It reports that only 34 per cent. of firms say that they may have to raise prices, and that profit expectations are the highest for three years. That is the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "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 to have to tell the hon. Gentleman that the fact of the matter—I hope that his constituents understand this—is that if we pursued the policies that he is advocating, we would restore cash benefits. That is one big way to reduce the number of asylum seekers! The Conservative party was in favour of restoring cash benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.972.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l worldwide primary education. It is immensely important for developing countries, and it goes alongside the work that has been pioneered both by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development and by the Chancellor in debt relief. One of the things that I am most proud of in this Government is that after years of ignoring the issues of debt, overseas aid and development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ficant in the development of parliamentary democracy. Of course, there have been some moves towards this. The Government of whom I was a Member introduced Green Papers to allow consultation. However, the Bill is a disappointment. The older I get, the more I realise how difficult past reforms were. I am not sure that the Home Secretary would encourage the publication of Hansard . He might well say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "nment, and we forget that government is the mechanism by which the lives of all of us and those whom we represent are ruled. Today, on 5 April 2000, after all these years and all the good fights, we face a Bill that contains the same monstrous claim—the British Government cannot succeed unless they have the security embodied in clause 33. Our amendments, our arguments are rejected. It will not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "ction had been taken much earlier. Like other hon. Members, I am still optimistic that we will get a positive response from the Home Secretary when he replies to the debate. I know from my own contact with him that it is his natural instinct to be open with regard to information and the way in which decisions are reached. I say that not just because he gave me the name of his plumber, but because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1035.10", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "preceding_text": "I can say fairly confidently that I will not detain the House as long on this group of amendments as it was detained on the previous group. They are technical amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1035.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "hould be accessible under the terms of a freedom of information Act. We get the solemn and correct intoning of reliance on a service that virtually no one in the Chamber knows anything about. I know almost nothing about the security services. Over the years in which I have tried to advance some of the arguments to bring the security services in from the cold, if that is not a Jeffrey Archer title—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1078.10", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "he elimination of the test of harm being determined by reference to the reasonable opinion of a qualified person. That is a bizarre provision, which could sabotage the entire Bill if it is allowed to stand. The provision would allow Government Departments to claim, without any significant harm test, that disclosures would be harmful to public affairs, whereas there are provisions that would allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1078.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "Not of Jeffrey Archer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that the Third Reading of the Freedom of Information Bill would be one of the greatest occasions of my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-05", "file": "debates2000-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a90a165f16a8249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that the Third Reading of the Freedom of Information Bill would be one of the greatest occasions of my life. [Interruption.] The man is a foolish man who shouts out, \"It is\", when I have an argument to set out and a case to make. It is absurd for a Whip to tell me what I should think or say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-05a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are doing what should have been done years ago. We are making work pay for working families. I take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We are doing what should have been done years ago. We are making work pay for working families. I take it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Opposition Members will listen. I take it from the shadow Chancellor's remarks that the next Conservative Government, if there were one, would abolish the working families tax credit. What the shadow Chancellor must now explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We use \"hypocritical\" no more than we use \"misled\" in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1138.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunt", "preceding_text": "atutory instrument in a manner that will withstand legal challenge. I look forward to the Minister's comments. I hope that he will be able to tell us when the statutory instrument will be introduced, even in draft. The Committee should have been able to examine it, but the Government failed to produce it. The least we can expect is that the affirmative rather than negative procedure will be u sed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Although I accept what the hon. Gentleman says, it is interesting that his disloyalty in government has been rewarded with a post in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1190.7", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 6, in page 32, line 10, at end insert— '(1A) The Defence Council may by regulations make provision designating those persons who, either before or after the accused has elected for trial by court-martial. may counsel him on that decision'. The purpose of the amendment is to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1190.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "r Northern Ireland's constitutional status. Northern Ireland will remain a part of the United Kingdom for so long as that is the wish of a majority of its people. No matter how much smoke some people create, the name change is about effective and representative policing—nothing more and nothing else. Some have accepted, reluctantly, that the change of name is necessary and have expressed the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": ". It, too, has paid a very heavy price, with the loss of 655 soldiers since 1969. In that context, let me join the right hon. Member for Upper Bann in expressing my sympathy to the families and colleagues of the soldiers lost in the tragic accident on the River Foyle last night. Those who care about the police must resist all temptation to project self-interested political arguments on to the RUC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, let me say that the Secretary of State has been making certain suggestions, which need to be clarified. I would like to have those clarified now. I want a guarantee from him that there will be no police boards in the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "especially members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and their constabulary reserve and members of the Army. After 22 months, the Belfast agreement was suspended, but it seems to be a partial suspension, because we are talking about something that is part of the agreement—as the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) emphasised. If the agreement is suspended, why are we talking about parts of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong. I researched the internet so that I could respond to that point, but there are much more important matters to debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-06", "file": "debates2000-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "524025e7b2024f6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "net so that I could respond to that point, but there are much more important matters to debate. [Interruption.] The Quebec force, the provincial force dealing with local matters, is called la Sûreté de Quebec. That is not the French version of the Royal Canadian mounted police. I shall write to the right hon. and learned Gentleman to make sure that he is fully aware of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-06a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1264.4", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Livingstone", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. May I make it clear that I had no idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1270.10", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it not a normal courtesy that after an hon. Member makes a speech, he remains in the Chamber for the speech of the following speaker? Where is the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone)? He has vanished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1270.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The presumption always is that minorities need to be protected. It is only a presumption—that I conceded—but those who argue against it consequently have to develop an overwhelming case. Therefore, that presumption is disapplied to cock fighting, bear baiting or dog fighting because of the nature of those activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ursue on a Sunday afternoon be made criminal? The proposition is repellant. Why on earth should what they do be made criminal? What is the difference between what they do and what the people who attended my house last November do? There is no difference, except of course that Labour Members perceive a political advantage in doing what they are doing today—it is hypocrisy and dishonesty writ large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1279.5", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hment. I have always resisted that—no, that is not true, I have voted for capital punishment in the past, but I will not do so again. I suspect that the hon. Gentleman does not support capital punishment, but if he were to take samples in his constituency he would find a majority in favour. I promised to give way to the hon. Gentleman with a beard, who is not looking at me at the moment. You, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ey have been shot previously and wounded, but there is another and more important point. A fit adult fox almost always gets away from the foxhound. Those who are caught are the old, the sickly and the lame, who should be culled, in the interest of the population and, probably, in their own interest, too. An active healthy fit fox almost always gets away. I am coming to the conclusion of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1284.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-07", "file": "debates2000-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d1e19ce7bb3f2795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "de that point and was told that fish were not mammals—at least not yet. At that point, I thought that I would be in Committee for hundreds of millions of years as fish evolved into mammals. In the event, it only seemed that long. Whether fish are mammals or not is irrelevant to whether they can feel pain. There many people here whom I regard as reptilian and I am sure that they feel pain at times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-07a.1291.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "No. Clause 5, Madam Speaker, gives effect to one of the key obligations under the protocol. It is a fundamental aspect of the protocol that, if a state has provided information to the agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "ight of access for agency inspectors, we could not guarantee compliance with the United Kingdom's obligations under the additional protocols, in the—albeit unlikely—event that someone was not prepared to co-operate voluntarily. As I have said, we do not so far have an example of someone refusing to co-operate. It is also worth emphasising that the burden on business of the new measures is minimal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "orld that we are doing something productive and useful that carries us forward? I think not. I suspect that such exercises are very much a combination of factors, including the ego massage of those who attend the conferences. We have been told that one of our Ministers—the Minister for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, if I am not mistaken—will be rushing off to the conference on the protocol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neath.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "f those who attend the conferences. We have been told that one of our Ministers—the Minister for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, if I am not mistaken—will be rushing off to the conference on the protocol. [Interruption.] I realise that the conference will be attended not by the Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs, but by the Minister who represents another part of the Principality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.92.6", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "ecause elsewhere in the protocol it provides that they should be proper, authorised inspectors—so I do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's point. This is a good, important treaty that can be used for the future, and we should build on it. The alternative is dire. None of the Opposition Members who have spoken has said what would happen if the non-proliferation treaty were weakened or got rid of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.92.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "May I echo my hon. Friend's tribute? The Minister is liked and admired on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "l no doubt do so, as he bored us earlier this evening. I would not wish to trespass outside the terms of the Bill by saying what I really thought about the one hour and 10 minutes that we had from the right hon. Gentleman earlier, much of which I listened to and the rest of which I watched. As an exercise in filibustering, it was second to none, and I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "I accept unreservedly that I have once again been chastised, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In talking about the transfer of information, I was talking about what information should be transferred on the right to have, or not to have, a free television licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-10", "file": "debates2000-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "2a743d31f80461b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "There is no need for me to say it again, Mr. Deputy Speaker; I have already got it off my chest. I am concerned about the fact that we are having an important Second Reading debate after 10 pm. A matter of this importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-10a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rephrase.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the BBC World Service is respected throughout the world as an independent and authoritative source of news, especially for people living under repressive regimes? The number of people accessing BBC online services increased by 218 per cent. last year, but my real interest is in the repressive regimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "king forward rather more to a useful discussion with the Government than to one with the Opposition of the sort that we have just heard. As for why I am raising the issue only at the next meeting of the Commonwealth ministerial action group, I cannot do it any earlier than when the next meeting happens to be. I have already told the Secretary-General that it will be on the agenda on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friends will bear with me until I am further into my speech, I will develop those arguments. We will not force councils down one route. The options available to them are far more extensive than anything for the past 150 years. I remind the House that the current system was introduced when the only people who went into local government belonged to the squirearchy—the people who owned land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.207.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend obviously did not hear or understand what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "eeply concerned about many aspects of the Bill. Judging from the interventions from several of his hon. Friends, I suspect that he was speaking on behalf of all of them. The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central—and every Labour Back Bencher who has intervened—highlighted concerns about various aspects of the Bill. Like all my Liberal Democrat colleagues, I have many reservations about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "iberal Democrat policy to rearrange local government finance so that a greater proportion of the money spent locally is raised locally. At the moment, some 80 per cent. of the money spent locally comes from Government funds. That is wrong and we need to reduce the amount of money raised through income tax and increase the amount raised through local taxation. That is a clearly stated party policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "First, will the hon. Gentleman explain how it is possible to promote homosexuality—is that not a contradiction in terms? Secondly…secondly—I have forgotten what my second point is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "e Conservative Front Bench because I opposed the party's decision to force its Members through the Lobby to keep section 28. I shall say more about those events in a moment. In the weeks that followed, I received an enormous quantity of letters, more than 95 per cent. of which supported my stand. As so much of the debate has focused on family values, let me begin by quoting from a family—a mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "I'm sure that by the time they reach adulthood they would not feel ashamed and disgusted about themselves. This matter has touched me in a way I couldn't have imagined. I can't do much to help my son. I can't change the way people think. I can't educate people or make them understand what it can do to a young person—how society can make them want to commit suicide. But you and people like you can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "made positive comments about that. That duty is important. It is not in the Bill as amended. It is a pity that the Government did not use the other place to table their amendment, so that we could see what they meant by that. Nevertheless, the intention has been made clear and confirmed today. Therefore, I look forward to seeing the Government amendment to introduce the duty on community planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.260.5", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " information on which decisions are made. I pay tribute to those councillors in Wales who are now opening their cabinet structures to the public. There might be a slight Plaid Cymru balance in this, but I should like to name some of the councils involved. One can watch the meetings of Gwynedd county council's cabinet, for example, live on the internet. One can see it all happening on the internet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ple and because the procedure that it suggests is already extremely familiar to the House. The Standing Orders already contain provision for a Standing Committee on Regional Affairs, to debate primarily matters that are of concern to Members who sit for English constituencies. The Standing Order was decided and placed on, so to speak, the statute book of the House in the context of previous moves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "vernment's lack of progress in setting up regional assemblies. The proposal appeared on the Order Paper shortly after the Prime Minister gave a speech on Britishness on 28 March. His speech generated some adverse comment: PM rules out home rule for the regions…the move will be seen as a bruising rebuff to regions such as the North East and North West. That was in the Daily Mail on 29 March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "No, I want to complete my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.307.7", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "We are splitting hairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.307.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.307.7", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ure that the hon. Member for Macclesfield will remember the day. Mr. Oppenheim was the Minister. He was answering questions during the run-up to Maastricht. There was a big sitting in Committee Room 12. The proceedings had to be transferred to that Room because so many people wanted to speak. Does the hon. Gentleman remember the ambush? Did it work? It did. That is why the new procedure will work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.307.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "g administrative decisions within the county of Cumbria recognise the north-west regional authority as the entity that is responsible for the region's future. There is no problem about that—we accept the north-west as an administrative entity. However, the hon. Gentleman is raising issues that we are not addressing in this debate. There is an argument about the impact of the strength of the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": " ourselves on the issue; we can sit and talk here. I have heard a lot of guff about callings to account. We know what determines the business of the House and of the country—a majority vote. That is why one is always sensitive about Standing Orders. However, I cannot remember such a near total abrogation of due process. There has been no consultation, as was pointed out by the Procedure Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "se and of the country—a majority vote. That is why one is always sensitive about Standing Orders. However, I cannot remember such a near total abrogation of due process. There has been no consultation, as was pointed out by the Procedure Committee. [Interruption.] The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office, huffs, but he is brand new in the House, having served for no more than three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ruption.] The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office, huffs, but he is brand new in the House, having served for no more than three years. [Interruption.] I understand that he has in fact served for seven; forgive me. We are continuing the debate about how we do our business and the proposal has been plonked on us. We are being told that a majority will operate tonight on a three-line Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I am saying that we saw no detail in the Modernisation Committee, as the right hon. Lady well knows. We never had a proposed Standing Order before us. We were told about a concept, along the lines of that raised by the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, which was our fear. For the first time, we are confronted with a peripatetic House that presumably may journey to any part of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ad a proposed Standing Order before us. We were told about a concept, along the lines of that raised by the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, which was our fear. For the first time, we are confronted with a peripatetic House that presumably may journey to any part of England. [Interruption.] That is what it says in the Standing Order. What will that do? We were elected to sit and argue in Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " explain things better, because we need such explanations; but she is now taking all the wider dimensions represented by all sides back to the Cabinet table. She makes representations on our behalf, but she is not doing so on this occasion; she is saying that she must bring the matter back to the House and that she must be the engine for the mobilisation of what we are now told is a two-line Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "preceding_text": " only too well aware of the recent pressures on parliamentary time on the Floor of the House, and the effect this pressure has had on our working hours. In the present Session we have sat on numerous occasions after 10.30 pm. A number of factors have contributed to this. The major one is that the Government have a very large legislative programme.—[ Official Report, 9 June 1975; Vol. 893, c. 165.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-11", "file": "debates2000-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "11d3a3cba65e2d99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Standing Committee on Regional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "preceding_text": "n June 1975. Nothing has changed since then. As was said back in 1975 and again in the House tonight, our proposals are very modest. They are the single step that my right hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Foster) talked about. We want to revive Standing Order No. 117. Perhaps in the longer term that small step can be a move forward to develop and deliver our policies on the regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-11a.330.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "of it who have impartially upheld the rule of law over the past 30 years. Is he aware, however, that beneath that umbrella of congratulations are those who stood idly by while Belfast was burned and the ghettos were bombed, and those for whom a former Secretary of State and Attorney-General had to use the royal prerogative to prevent them from being prosecuted for perverting the course of justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t being able to do what the previous Government said it could do. No doubt that is why they did not introduce it. The information technology platform is important, which is why we are introducing it into post offices. We are also sitting down with the Post Office to see how many post offices can provide some of the banking services. Barclays has already agreed to take part, and 3,000 post offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ortant, which is why we are introducing it into post offices. We are also sitting down with the Post Office to see how many post offices can provide some of the banking services. Barclays has already agreed to take part, and 3,000 post offices— [Interruption.] It is surely sensible to take these steps. Three thousand post offices are to have cashpoint services, but we must face the hard realities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he banking services. Barclays has already agreed to take part, and 3,000 post offices— [Interruption.] It is surely sensible to take these steps. Three thousand post offices are to have cashpoint services, but we must face the hard realities. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman says that we have to make welfare savings. This system will allow us to make welfare savings of £600 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "At least we know that the Conservative party would refuse that offer. It would turn it down and not allow new services to be provided by the Post Office. What a ridiculous position to be in. More and more people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. On 13 April, the hon. Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson), speaking as a Minister, made a statement commenting on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "This year, Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "was also noted this afternoon that the Prime Minister made a point of saying that he made no apology. Those on the Treasury Bench are well known for making no apology when they close businesses, put people out of work and create chaos and confusion among some of the most vulnerable people in society. That is the hallmark of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. Let us consider alternatives to chaos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady agree that one of the reasons why there was a number of closures last year in the post office network was because of the misleading information put around by a number of Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, no figure has been agreed and the contract remains to be negotiated. It is a commercial transaction and the figure will be reached in the normal course of negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the figure of 500 that the hon. Gentleman cited is correct. He would probably be more convincing if he were able to offer options other than privatisation, because that would cause high Post Office prices. We must remember that industrial relations in the Post Office have been transformed in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.416.9", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"East Devon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman thinks that he has struck the kernel of the debate. I consider that the hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and other Conservative Members did so. I think that, if anyone did, it was the hon. Member for South Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.416.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "I say that the hon. Lady should look at the record again. She will find that my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald said repeatedly that we were prepared to support a voucher scheme in principle, but that we lacked confidence in the Government's capacity to deliver a scheme that was capable of working effectively in the way the Government had promised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "way the Government had promised. [Interruption.] We tabled our amendment when the Asylum and Immigration Bill came before the House. The Government did what they usually do when confronted with an uncomfortable debate: they introduced a timetable motion. As a result, not only our amendment on asylum seeker support, but 365 of 367 amendments that had been passed in the other place were not debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary knows perfectly well that the 1996 Act was working extremely effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " to bring my remarks to a close. Talk of \"flooding\" is wholly inappropriate, and such ill-judged language, whoever uses it, is plainly outside the statement of the Commission for Racial Equality, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees pointed out. To use the issue of asylum to play the race card is a disreputable act for any party. Those who are tempted to do it should stop doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "No. The Home Secretary asked how we would deal with arrangements on arrival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "No. The Home Secretary asked how we would deal with arrangements on arrival. [Interruption.] It is a fair question, and we could have a perfectly proper debate on how to provide adequate accommodation. The Liberal Democrats assume that most asylum seekers are not criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I dealt with precisely that point, as did the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The debate has been good in parts. Good points have been made by hon. Members on both sides of the House, but the attempt to smear the Conservative party on the issue of asylum, particularly by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) and the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott), was beneath their normal standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " have a safe haven in this country. They come here because they know that this country has essential freedoms and has safety under the law. During the past 100 years, people have come from across the world to this country for safety. The Conservative party was in power for 75 of those 100 years, standing up for the rights of refugees and the international obligations that we have towards refugees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " the law. During the past 100 years, people have come from across the world to this country for safety. The Conservative party was in power for 75 of those 100 years, standing up for the rights of refugees and the international obligations that we have towards refugees. [Interruption.] We shall therefore not take lessons from hon. Members from other parties about standing up on behalf of refugees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-12", "file": "debates2000-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "709ab46ea833237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "I do not welcome the fact that innocent lorry drivers are being penalised by the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-12a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "ccept that the waiving of the hygiene charges that he trumpeted will equal £30 or £40 to the average dairy farmer, which is not exactly a life saver? Does he not understand the crisis in the industry? As my hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Mr. Paterson) said, dairy farmers are going out of business in droves. Is it not clear that soon the only source of bullshit will be Downing street?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.497.4", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "stic courts. My hon. Friend referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, and a great deal of training has taken place. By October, when the Act comes into effect, all crown prosecutors will be thoroughly trained. It is interesting that, in the training process, a great deal of co-operation between the Crown Prosecution Service and the police has occurred; police and prosecutors have worked together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.497.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not in a position to give my hon. Friend any information about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.504.5", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman's point. However, the Prime Minister has always made it plain that it was consideration of the impact on the Government's programme primarily, though not solely in the House of Lords, which led the Government to the conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.504.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ms Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "he National Farmers Union has welcomed the package that the Government have announced. I fear that he is nurturing an illusion. There may be only one Winnie the pig, but there is a substantial number of pigs—they are working shifts, I understand—on the demonstration. The hon. Gentleman will be happy to know that it is not one solitary pig being progressively poisoned by fumes in Parliament square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Given the uncharacteristically brusque response of the Leader of the House to the important question on parliamentary accountability asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack), I hesitate to ask another question on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ee questions for the Minister on that issue. Is it the case that the Government intend to acquire not four aircraft but three, and not necessarily by outright purchase, while at the same time maintaining an interest in the airbus derivative with which British Aerospace is associated? What is the reason for delaying the decision? Has it anything to do with money and the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell). I respected his contribution to the Select Committee on Defence and miss him now that he is no longer on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": " it is not so easy to get out. Yesterday we debated the Post Office. About three years ago, I went on holiday to a lovely little village. The village magazine contained the obituary of a woman who had clearly been the life and soul of the village. It gave her life history, and mentioned that she had married the local postman, but the second world war had then arrived and he had been posted abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": " still running around the streets of Northern Ireland, working on behalf of the Government and the people of this country. Yet the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whom they were serving directly in a security role, did not thank them. He called them chinless wonders. Now the armed forces know how they are regarded at the dinner parties of the chattering classes in Hampstead and Islington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friends on speaking to the theme of the debate today. Most of what I listened to from Opposition Members was at best tangential, but one can forgive them that as clearly they have nothing worth saying on the subject of personnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-13", "file": "debates2000-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "47fed0a6aafd2024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Dr. Lewis Moonie)", "preceding_text": "ate suffering, build trust and prevent conflict. Our ability to do all those things depends, above all, on one factor—the quality of our people. I intend to concentrate most of my remarks on aspects of our services for our people, which give rise to justifiable concern. If there is any time left, I shall attempt to answer points raised during the debate. I will not have time to take interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-13a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-14", "file": "debates2000-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e2e04950bd6845f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "preceding_text": "I refute that allegation entirely. There are five new clauses in the first group, and all are detailed. When the hon. Gentleman hears how my argument develops, he will understand that consent to prosecution is an extremely important point, for the reasons that I am starting to outline. The vague wording of the Bill, the need to ensure consistency and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-14", "file": "debates2000-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e2e04950bd6845f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "e thought eligible to have their lives ended because someone has judged their lives no longer worthwhile. Hence the Bill declares unlawful the withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment or sustenance if it is part of one's purpose in doing so to end the life of the patient. Let me deal with problems that have been raised by Members who are doctors in the House and by other doctors in the BMA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-14", "file": "debates2000-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e2e04950bd6845f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "why, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I was attempting to tease out the distinction between the two words. The Bill introduces the word \"purpose\". As I mentioned, I am not a lawyer. I shall rehearse briefly what I understand to be the common-sense distinction between \"purpose\" and \"intention\". For example, if I were the person responsible for the entire conduct of Government business, which is not very likely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-14", "file": "debates2000-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e2e04950bd6845f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "In replying to the debate, I am largely expressing my own opinions, but I believe that they are shared by the vast majority of those who sit behind me. In fact, I can say with some certainty that they are shared by all those sitting around me now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.650.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-14", "file": "debates2000-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e2e04950bd6845f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Services (Southend)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": " met the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), on 10 January. I was asked to join the delegation, so many of the opinions that I shall share with the Minister for Public Health are not mine, but those of the Labour and Liberal-controlled council. The Minister of State's heart belongs to Southend. He comes from the town and was educated there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-14a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Energy Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "noted that it had exceptional technology and was developing an energy park according to a high-quality plan, which we were prepared to approve in the circumstances. I was pleased that we were able to do that. The German, Spanish and French Governments are able to subsidise their coal industries under the European Coal and Steel Community agreement, which the Conservative Government signed in 1993.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies (Llanelli)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies (Llanelli)", "preceding_text": "hich is as long and rambling—and perhaps even more complex—than the speech of the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe. It is certainly as long and rambling because it deals with a few provisions relating to double taxation relief in its various forms. I refer briefly to paragraph 4 of schedule 30. I will not say much about it except to point out that the notes on clauses are very helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With the benefit of hindsight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "finances early in the Parliament to invest in our public services, to make sure that our schools and hospitals had the money that they so desperately needed. Those of us who serve on the Select Committee on the Treasury heard City economists telling us that. Geoffrey Dicks said: With the benefit of hindsight, I would have spent the money on health and education two years ago. Those were his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liz Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Blackman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because I would like to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.772.5", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "mulate economic development in slow areas and damp it down in areas that are overheating. There was an attempt to do that in the 1960s, although it was not altogether successful. However, it is worth revisiting some of the ideas, such as the regional employment premium and selective employment tax. I am not sure about the selective employment tax, because that ossified industries in one direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.772.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie.", "preceding_text": "ferring to the Library and asking for an opinion on the matter. The figures in the document show that the right hon. Gentleman was referring to the cash figures, without taking into account inflation in wage costs. He tried to imply that we could consider the matter purely in cash terms. If we consider the figures in real terms, which we should all accept as the best way of measuring such matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": " there to be a period a bit above it. The Government's, it appears, is a unique trend, in that there is never anything below the line. That is a problem for the Government. If there is any downturn below trend, the numbers in the Red Book simply will not add up. The second factor that should be taken into account in an assessment of whether the spending can be afforded is the net borrowing figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.783.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£900 billion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": " mixer companies, the further increase in stamp duty, and the new car tax, which is almost impossible for anyone to understand but adds significantly to taxation where employers provide cars. There are the coming aggregates tax, the climate levy tax and the extra duty on tobaccoes and fuel. The biggest of the lot is not even in the Bill: IR35, which is budgeted to add some £900 billion of revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-17", "file": "debates2000-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "5368203f1cef64ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Police Firearms", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Sedgemore.", "preceding_text": ", was walking home minding his own business, carrying with him in a blue plastic bag the leg of a coffee table which had just been repaired, when he was gunned down round the corner from where he lived. It was as swift and clinical as any contract killing, except that the killing was carried out not by professional criminals, but by two armed S019 police officers. It ought not to happen like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-17a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.826.4", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "Friend is right. He will have an opportunity to discuss those matters when we debate the Wakeham commission on, I believe, 4 May. The Appointments Commission will have seven members, three of whom will be appointed by the main political parties. The present Prime Minister is the first Prime Minister to lose—or reduce—his powers of patronage as a result of a decision by the Appointments Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "One of the delights of answering interventions in my stumbling and humble fashion is that doing so pulls out of order the comments that I shall make in my few, short, immortal words to the House. Therefore, I ask my hon. Friend to relax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, like all my hon. Friends, has of course done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "the Minister gave several commitments that he would consider it again. Obviously, if he is prepared to accept it now, I should be delighted. I would sit down and waste no more time, but I see that he is shaking his head and so I must go into some detail. No doubt his severe cold is restraining his natural generosity of spirit, but I feel honour bound to repeat some of the points made in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "t short any investigation—seems strongly at variance with the Government's declared aims of promoting competition and preventing anti-competitive practices. My speech may be becoming a little too biblical, but I was going to say that that variance reminds me of the sinner who wanted to be virtuous but preferred not to be just yet—and we all remember the story of the maiden lady saying her prayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I mirror the views expressed by the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Mr. Jones) because, as with his constituency, amendment No. 76 relates to my proud county of Cheshire. It is a very ancient county. Indeed, the Earl of Chester is a member of our royal family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " I am coming to postcodes. The county name means a great deal to many people. I shall go a little further than did the hon. Member for Ynys Môn by saying that insurance companies often set lower premiums for some counties than for others. A constituent of mine who lives in or near the village of Kettleshulme who loses \"Cheshire\" from his or her address may be included in Greater Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "plicated, as pension matters are. I advise hon. Members to read Hansard. I cannot understand why anyone would not have read the Hansard report of the Committee stage by now. We explained that we could not just leave the position on the basis of that simple wording. We need to ensure that the people who work in the business, who are part of about six or seven different pension schemes, are assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "preceding_text": "The atmosphere in Committee was good natured, and I congratulate the Minister, especially on accepting my amendments and introducing measures that we welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "preceding_text": "I agree. So many issues are involved that I could wax on indefinitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep going!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cotter", "preceding_text": " but we still have the problem of the lack of clarity. There is still the question of whether the Horizon project will work well with the software that needs to be designed. Will it be able to offer a real banking service? As my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) pointed out, there are many other issues to be dealt with, but I shall not deal with them at this time of night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "That is the point of view—the untruth, in a sense—that the Opposition always present. They try to muddle up two issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "that the Opposition always present. They try to muddle up two issues. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Opposition?\"] The opposition to what I have been saying, that is. Two businesses are involved. There is Royal Mail, which is a competitive, profitable business that can be privatised; and there is Post Office Counters Ltd, an overall national structure which, I agree, cannot be privatised. We made that clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "; and there is Post Office Counters Ltd, an overall national structure which, I agree, cannot be privatised. We made that clear— [Interruption.] The national structure—Post Office Counters—is owned by the state. We made it clear when we were hoping to privatise Royal Mail that Post Office Counters would be retained in the public sector to ensure an income stream to the privatised sub-post offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "The Government constantly repeat that the Conservative party wants to privatise the Post Office, yet we intended to privatise only Royal Mail. We never intended to privatise Post Office Counters. Despite our determination to privatise Royal Mail, we would have maintained the universal tariff and universal delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "s to privatise the Post Office, yet we intended to privatise only Royal Mail. We never intended to privatise Post Office Counters. Despite our determination to privatise Royal Mail, we would have maintained the universal tariff and universal delivery. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] Through the Post Office regulator. The Bill, which we would have brought before Parliament—and we shall introduce it one day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-18", "file": "debates2000-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "807cddf85dca840d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "o amend it, and if the Government will not implement the scheme that the Secretary of State has unveiled today—they will be left to hang out to dry. As half a fish is better than none, I do not oppose new clause 1. However, it is seriously flawed by its vagueness and by the sparsity of detail on it provided to the House. I hope that the Minister who replies to the debate will address those issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-18a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. Again, in real terms, the cost of Government is falling. The percentage costs of Government are lower than when the right hon. Gentleman was in office. The right hon. Gentleman is simply dealing with cash money, not real-terms figures, as he knows perfectly well. If we take the real-terms figures, we are spending less. As for the money in No. 10 Downing street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will not answer the question. He says that he does not accept the figures, but they are the Chancellor of the Exchequer's figures. How has the Lord Chancellor spent £100 million? He cannot have spent it all on wallpaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "So, the right hon. Gentleman will not confirm the figures; he does not like the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "So now we know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.976.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the Conservative party's position that it would reintroduce private medical insurance measures, which would be an immediate £500 million cost just for those who already have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "mber of Conservative Members on the Committee was limited. It is interesting that the Minister suggested that there were not many Conservatives on the Committee, and she is absolutely right. There were only five Conservative members on the Committee and, for the majority of the time, all five were present. Usually, 50 per cent. of the Liberal Democrats turned up, but occasionally none of them did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": " the coal industry. There is no reason to accede to new clause 2. The publications of the Department for Trade and Industry contain detailed and comprehensive data and statistics which underpin the analysis of UK energy within government and beyond. The sixth annual edition of the DTI's energy report was published in December, and I commend it to the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I am trying to pin down the Government's position. If they remain committed to those targets, although one already seems to have slipped from 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "ance Bill about the Government not raising taxes, as the Labour party promised time after time before the election. I was concerned about the right hon. Lady's statement that the Government's target was that 5 per cent. of Britain's electricity requirements would be met from renewables by 2005, not 2003. My memory of the renewable energy consultation document is that the target was 2003, not 2005.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Bognor Regis (Mr. Gibb) will not be surprised to learn that I have problems with the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the Minister treated the amendments so peremptorily. The Government will impose on consumers a whole raft of new stealth taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": " at doing so by stealth. It is time that we exposed stealth taxes so that our mature democracy can assess how much tax we are paying and how much public expenditure we are prepared to pay for. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Mr. Syms) for his point about indirect and hidden ways in which the Government are raising funds to implement their social programmes. I am disappointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "There is a time limit. The penalty must be imposed within 12 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "ary of State to issue reams of regulations directing the regulator to have regard to a whole host of political imperatives and social policy aims that are more properly the role of government. We are concerned that the detail of these measures is not contained in the Bill and we have learned from past experience of this Government to be cautious of the detail that appears in secondary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-19", "file": "debates2000-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "a38b5ba61ac6dd60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibb", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the limitless fine provisions are at odds with the objective of protecting the consumer. If a fine is imposed, it will ultimately be borne by the consumer. All moneys paid out by companies will ultimately be paid by the consumer. The increased regulatory risk caused by the limitless fine will increase the cost of capital to companies, which again will be passed on to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-19a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-20", "file": "debates2000-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "3818abdbafb8432e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "es of the Tory MPs who did not know what to do about that statement. Some of them wanted to oppose it on principle, because they do not believe in public expenditure, but once they had thought about it, they said, \"Oh, I'm not sure about that.\" Their reaction was mixed. I like that disorientation—I enjoy it. When I hear that there is £20 billion to spend, I should like to do that once a fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-20", "file": "debates2000-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "3818abdbafb8432e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " work. There should be an index that identifies the costs for those pensioners who are at the bottom of the pile. We must get these current decisions settled, with a view to ensuring that the Government can announce before the next general election—probably in the autumn spending review—exactly what the new index is and what the new payments will be. I am trying to get the Government off the hook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-20", "file": "debates2000-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "3818abdbafb8432e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": " monarch and his queen to uphold the Protestant succession and the Protestant faith. In addition, since the coronation of Edgar in 987, an act of communion according to the rites of the Church is required as part of the coronation. I suspect that it would be difficult for an adherent of another religion to take such an act of communion. Therefore, the position of the monarch's wife is circumcised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-04-20", "file": "debates2000-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "3818abdbafb8432e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman acknowledges that. This is an important point. Those of us who represent areas where children receive so much less per head than children in the home counties find the logic difficult to comprehend and the fairness impossible to comprehend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-04-20a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Demonstrations (London and Manchester)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "when police and private vehicles were attacked by protesters close to Parliament square. About an hour later, 1,000 or so people moved into Whitehall from Parliament square and demonstrated outside Downing street, when missiles were thrown at police guarding the barriers. It was at around that time, I understand, that vandals desecrated the Cenotaph and defaced the statue of Sir Winston Churchill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Demonstrations (London and Manchester)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for her good wishes to those who were injured and to the police officers who policed such a difficult demonstration. She acknowledges in passing that fine judgments have to be made about the policing of demonstrations, but she then suggests that, with the benefit of hindsight, she is in a better position to make judgments than the chief officer of police was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.63.4", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "y index used to govern inflationary policy and thus to determine most of the UK's monetary economic activity—the RPIX index—continues to be well below the target level of 2.5 per cent., so it is extraordinary that an indexation device is suddenly introduced, whereby excise duties on alcohol are put up by 3.4 per cent. The Government will have to tell us more about that in the course of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.63.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "Many of the physical means have been implemented. We must grant the Government that. The Government and Customs and Excise have tried to increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.68.6", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "I do not doubt that a scanner will scan effectively and will find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.68.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is still here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " running the Government's finances, we need to view those figures with a certain caution. Few taxes are as counterproductive as those on alcohol, tobacco and road fuel. The policy that was embarked on a good many years ago has been shown to have run its course. It is time to think a new way forward. I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) has left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "n in 1999 was 12,690. Of the top 20 destinations, in my region the estimate for Chelmsford is 4,790 and for Peterborough it is 1,870. Those statistics are very real for publicans and licensed victuallers in my constituency. They think that the stuff is flooding into the centres of Chelmsford and Peterborough and percolating into market towns and surrounding areas in Bury St. Edmunds. The evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swinney", "preceding_text": "ts. That is a triple whammy—the level of the pound, the cost of transport and the cost of the climate change levy—for one of the largest private sector organisations in my constituency. The company's energy consultants have considered the details of the climate change levy, and I am sure that they will take another look at schedules 6 and 7 to determine whether they can elicit any further details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gill", "preceding_text": "No, nor must we join the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-02", "file": "debates2000-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "43056d1da5ed8031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief, as time is getting on. This proposed tax is extraordinary. I have seen nothing like it since the poll tax first appeared in the mid-1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-02a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Clarke", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister should be thanked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the comments of the Leader of the Opposition on law and order will sound pretty hollow to the people of Halifax, where the Conservatives are fielding a would-be councillor with a long criminal record, some of it as recent as last September?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ingdom as a result of the changes that are happening all over Europe because of enlargement. My hon. Friend's point about unemployment is well taken: 800,000 or more jobs have been created since the general election, 200,000 of them through the new deal. Many people in every constituency throughout the country have managed to get work that they would not otherwise have got because of the new deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "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—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "African, figure to lead the observer team, who would carry authority within Zimbabwe and beyond it. As for the engagement of the European Union, I know that Opposition Front Benchers have scant time for that body, but it is the natural and right place for Britain to start to mobilise the international community. If we cannot get the European Union behind us, who else are we going to get behind us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "elsewhere at the time—will recall the discussions 20 years ago. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept the simple fact that the power of the British Government to influence events is virtually nil and that the action he proposes will merely give Mr. Mugabe a feeling of importance and significance that he does not deserve? Does he agree that the best course we can take to help the people of Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I think that I have to remind the hon. Gentleman that the Government have not put in a single penny to land reform purchases whereas the Conservative Government whom he supported put in £44 million to the land reform programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.160.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to confirm that that is our policy, because we have just debated it under the previous clause, but it would not by any means have the same impact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman with great care, and I declare an interest as a practising lawyer. I have many clients; I have no single client. I am self-employed. I can offset the costs of going to my place of employment, and the costs of my chambers—what I have to pay towards the bill. I cannot offset anything else, except perhaps the odd course. What is the difference between me and someone in the IT sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "preceding_text": "e sole reason for their going. During the past 14 months since the Chancellor made his announcement, I have received a substantial mailbag on the issue. My hon. Friends the Members for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Savidge) and for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg) and I organised two meetings in our constituencies to meet contractors affected. More than 180 people attended and we had full and frank discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mark Gillis may be one of the first, but I am sure that he is the first of many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "s in particular. What is new is that this Government, because they are unable to understand the requirements for producing a high-technology-oriented nation, have fallen for it hook, line and sinker, and 60,000 people will he affected. Perhaps they will all go abroad. Then the Government can say, \"We've got 60,000 fewer people. That is why we are allowing so many asylum seekers into this country.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "That is exactly why I accept what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, Central (Mr. Doran). I was about to refer to exceptional circumstances in which the nature of the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swayne", "preceding_text": "employing them subsequently; it is the nature of the change in technology that has driven these things. The Government's attempts to turn back the clock by altering the tax system and the national insurance framework will fail, to the detriment of the industry as a whole and to our economy. Last night, the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) seemed unable to appreciate the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "gh there are many honourable exceptions, the majority of— service company workers— were cynically taking the rest of us for a ride…They should admit defeat gracefully and be grateful for all the years in which they got away with their rip off on society. The Government is to be congratulated for making them contribute their fair share towards the funding of our hard-pressed public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.213.7", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why the hon. Gentleman finds this point so complex. If employees pay national insurance because they are employed as employees, they will be entitled to the same rights as other employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.213.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "p service companies—my hon. Friend referred to this—to enable the client to avoid liability for PAYE and national insurance. I listened carefully to my hon. Friend's comments and to those of the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. I think that they will find that that definition is the issue and that was the requirement for companies, but I will reconsider those decisions carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beard", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me again. He has not said what criticism he has of the methodology that my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General has set out. We have heard only the vague comment that the Government picked the wrong starting date", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "We have touched on that. I am glad that the hon. Gentleman intervened for a second time to enable me to make the point yet again. Taking one exceptional year is not the best way of making the calculation. If the Government want to make the calculation properly, they should take several years and use averages and work with accountancy firms and the firms concerned to produce a more accurate figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.244.6", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was at that point quoting the people who had been consulted, and their responses. She was therefore not likely to quote a Government document that outlined what had already been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "e had been a successful Inland Revenue-run workshop, in which many double taxation arguments had been discussed. I issue her a simple challenge. Is she prepared to authorise the Inland Revenue to arrange another workshop in the intervening period, so that the protagonists can have an open discussion with the Inland Revenue and the Treasury to explore the economic, practical and real-world impacts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "General does not care what happens to the UK economy, which is unlikely, or that she—this must be the more likely case—knows that there is a real problem here, but does not want to admit it or consult on it because she knows that it would entail admitting that the Government have, in this case, as Governments do because they are composed of human beings and we are all fallible, we as much as they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "entleman dealt with the measure's effect, in the residential sector, on families. I should like to explain how the Government's actions are helping families. In our Budgets since the general election, we have done a huge amount to help families. We have reduced tax on the average family, so that for a single-earner family on average earnings with two children, tax is at the lowest rate since 1972.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-03", "file": "debates2000-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "256e7ef0975a5b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "That could indeed be so. There is a danger in changing the basis of something that has always worked well. Stamp duty was introduced in 1694.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-03a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "tile to give a statistical answer setting out how many pieces of paper I shall send out or the number of electronic communications that will be made, not least because, as the better regulation taskforce pointed out, many of the missives that schools are complaining about come from other agencies or local authorities and not from the Department, where the working party report has been implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Ms Squire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Squire", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "preceding_text": "e issues. Although I recognise that changes must be made, the way that they are carried out is extremely important. How we go about our business concerns me. As I said, I have an interest in the subject because of the bases in my constituency. It is important to emphasise how crucial those facilities are to Scotland, particularly when we hear the rantings of members of the Scottish National party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I freely acknowledge that the hon. Gentleman has been at pains to raise the issue of Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) and the right hon. Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King), both of whom speak with a real commitment to defence and enormous knowledge of the subject built up over many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ssues. The hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms Squire) made an important contribution about Rosyth, DERA and peacekeeping. However, I wonder how she has the brass neck to quote Winston Churchill when she and her hon. Friends have been prancing around with their CND badges on for a quarter of a century, blighting what we have been trying to achieve in the west. Nevertheless, hope springs eternal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "To my great disappointment, I am not returning to Scotland until tomorrow. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) told me that he would be unable to be here for the winding-up speech, and I recognise the reasons for that. The right hon. Member for Wealden (Sir G. Johnson Smith) also informed me that he would not be present as did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": ". and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) must recognise that the provision of missiles for Typhoon is a genuinely difficult argument between two competing systems. Much as we would like to have a decision in the near future, there are arguments to consider on both sides. It is not easy to weigh the relative merits of two competing systems, both of which have considerable advantages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-04", "file": "debates2000-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "15349e2ac044a359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wish to report to you that I received an e-mail this morning from a woman I have never met telling me that she loved me. That is not unusual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-04a.386.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-08", "file": "debates2000-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d11e0db8ebca299f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "ation in echoing what my hon. Friend says. The relationship is excellent. We would never have got anywhere—we certainly would not have got where we are today—without the relationship between the two Governments, the particularly close relationship between my right hon. Friend and the Taoiseach and the relationship between me and the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister. It is a very honest relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-08", "file": "debates2000-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d11e0db8ebca299f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am happy to pick up the right hon. Gentleman's second point. As I said in my statement, Britain is the leading international country providing support for the peace process. We have put in more money than any other nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-08", "file": "debates2000-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d11e0db8ebca299f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.534.2", "colnum": "534", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " to facilitate that. May I pass on to the House the apologies of my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Allan), who has particular technical expertise in the matters that we are discussing? I am told that the one south Yorkshire event of the year that he cannot miss is the cutlers feast, which is attended by 500 of the greatest and the best in the commercial world of south Yorkshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-08a.534.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Rover-BMW", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Stephen Byers)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Stephen Byers)", "preceding_text": "ch we will need to reflect upon. However, it is clear that there can be no return to outdated interventionism. The corporate state has been tried, and it simply did not work. Neither did a naive reliance on laissez-faire, which led to a crippling obsession with what Government should not do. The role for Government is to create an environment that encourages enterprise and creates wealth and jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Rover-BMW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "There has been an attempt by some Opposition Members to use the issue for narrow party advantage, but I have to say that there are some honourable exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": " be brief. The hon. Lady makes it clear that the matter must be decided by the House as a whole. She will recall that, on Second Reading, a number of Labour Members brought forward a reasoned amendment in opposition to the Government's proposals. Unfortunately, at that time, they did not believe it appropriate to move the amendment. It was in fact moved by Conservative Members, and was voted upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but there is some device here which is making a noise. Can it please be silenced as quickly as possible? Madam Speaker has made it absolutely clear that this is quite improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The thing that controlled my work in the public sector was laziness because I could not be bothered working too much, so I will just leave it at that. I drive home the point. What is the level of traffic that makes it dangerous to be owned privately, but not to be owned publicly? Let us have a figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "egic partner. The hon. Gentleman did not seem to think that that was a good idea. So why did the Conservative Government sell Rover to BMW for £1? When English, Welsh and Scottish railways came along, there were three companies to be sold. The American buyer said that it would only buy the lot. Not only did the Conservative Government give it the lot, but they gave it £250 million to take it away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ectors. Do hon. Members feel less safe when they get on board a private-sector aeroplane than they did when British Airways was a public company? When that airline was publicly owned, did they choose it because they believed it was safe? Perhaps they are the sort of people who felt better on reading the old local authority notices that said, \"This is a nuclear-free area.\" It is a load of nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "tices that said, \"This is a nuclear-free area.\" It is a load of nonsense—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"] The Conservatives invite me to cross the Floor, but I am just trying to make a point within the context of the amendments. We have been told to remember Paddington, but I remember King's Cross and Clapham—public sector disasters. Safety was not better under the public sector in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "ing's debate is new clause 5, which deals with the defence of the United Kingdom. Let us imagine going back to, say, 9 May 1940. Tomorrow happens to be my birthday, and it is also the anniversary of the day that Churchill became Prime Minister and, unfortunately, the day on which the Germans invaded the Lowlands. The RAF obtained its first Victoria Cross when Maastricht was invaded on 10 May 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "U military structure. That structure clearly identifies the roles of the commander-in-chief and the extent to which—this might come as a surprise to the Minister, who is not in the MOD—it is anticipated that our potential adversaries have weapons of mass destruction. Therefore, under the confines of title V of the Amsterdam treaty, which was passed by this Government, there is a defence dimension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "pointed out that Article 223 covers only exceptional and clearly defined cases. Because of its limited character, this article does not lend itself to a wide interpretation and it is not possible to infer from it that there is inherent in the Treaty a general proviso covering all measures taken for reasons of public security. That absolutely lays it down. It is why the Germans lost the Kreil case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "In my case, it does not matter which scheme is implemented. If I am spared, it will be a wee while before I qualify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's sedentary comment is somewhat unkind. I am not sure how vast that store is, but that is how the proposal struck me. The Liberal party wrote to various people in various parts of the country, usually in constituencies represented by Liberals. They wrote to members of the Committee, me included—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "erly gentlemen to participate in a pensioner scheme—I almost fall into that category as the magic date is approaching—came from constituencies represented by Liberals. I have no objections as that is part of the rough and tumble and hurly-burly of politics, but I still want to know how much the proposal will cost. It is incumbent on the Liberal party, before engaging in cheap populism, to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "The cost is part of the magic penny that we have heard about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "mbers who merely seek financial clarification of some of their more outrageous proposals, they should sit down with us and work out which parts of the country have the most generous pro-pensioner schemes. It will come as no surprise to them—it will certainly come as no surprise to the Conservative party—that the most generous schemes are in areas that have been controlled by Labour for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "sk the Minister about his attitude to people who are in the position of my constituents who live on the edge of greater London. The area referred to, for their purposes, will be Epping Forest or, perhaps, Essex, but not Greater London. It so happens that most of my constituents who live on the London-Essex border find themselves in an inequitable position. No, iniquitous. Well, an unfair position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t to the House—in his last transport statement: the one that did not really say anything that he had not said before—that gave the distinct impression that the Government would fund concessionary fares. Pensioners in my constituency who do not benefit from concessionary fares were extremely pleased about that, and wrote to me in droves saying how wonderful the Deputy Prime Minister was to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-09", "file": "debates2000-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5eb663579f0ae60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "oncessionary fares. Pensioners in my constituency who do not benefit from concessionary fares were extremely pleased about that, and wrote to me in droves saying how wonderful the Deputy Prime Minister was to do this. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) says \"Vote Labour\". I am glad to say that last week people did not do so. It is clear why they did not, and I will tell him why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-09a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "re exposed to drugs and some become addicts. To realise the extent of the problem, one has only to walk home from this place late at night and see the homeless being propositioned by drug pushers. On the second part of my hon. Friend's question, I agree that the Winter Comfort problem in Cambridge is a difficult issue. It is hard for me to comment in detail, because it is still under legal review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "es, there are jobs that will also be lost, particularly in a period of massive economic and structural change. The difference is that this Government, as we did with Rover, stand ready to help people through that process. If it is all right to quote the shadow Chancellor again, he described yesterday, when the problems of the strong pound were put to him, which, in fact, is worrying manufacturing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister concur that, of all the various electoral messages that were sent at the last diet of elections at the end of last week, by far the most telling was the verdict of Romsey?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "all the various electoral messages that were sent at the last diet of elections at the end of last week, by far the most telling was the verdict of Romsey? [Interruption.] Given that that is obviously taken as read, may I say to the Prime Minister that the serious verdict from Romsey was not a party political one? It was a triumph for the politics of hope and the future in our country, as opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley) on her victory in that by-election. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "eply—I could not have put it better myself. However, will he also acknowledge that what came through loud and clear from Romsey, from voters of all political persuasions and of none, was the genuine feeling—I follow the question just asked by my neighbouring Member, the hon. Member for Inverness, East, Nairn and Lochaber (Mr. Stewart)—that pensioners are getting a raw deal from the Administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": " will he also acknowledge that what came through loud and clear from Romsey, from voters of all political persuasions and of none, was the genuine feeling—I follow the question just asked by my neighbouring Member, the hon. Member for Inverness, East, Nairn and Lochaber (Mr. Stewart)—that pensioners are getting a raw deal from the Administration? [Interruption.] Would the Prime Minister therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "New Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ution from that congestion causes approximately 24,000 deaths a year. Surveys show that, in London, a motorist spends one fifth of his or her time in the motor car stationary. That is a complete waste of a motorist's time. In Victorian times, when people travelled by horse and cart, average speed was 11 mph. Today, when people travel in motor cars, the average speed in London is an amazing 11 mph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "New Clause 28", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": " listening public and to others why he intends to bring in what will without question be a very damaging new stealth tax on the motorists of Britain, following the great increases in petrol tax and in vehicle excise duty. There is no question about it: when the Minister brings in his congestion and workplace charging, it will be massively unpopular throughout the country and damaging to motorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "New Clause 30", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "railways, when most of my generation fancied becoming engine drivers. Given his demeanour and his features, the hon. Gentleman probably pretended to drive a racing car around the playground. He has not come on at all since then. His speeches give the impression that nothing matters except the road haulage industry and the motorist, and misrepresent the purpose of the Bill to a considerable extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "New Clause 30", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "s possible under the terms of the Bill to apply workplace parking provisions to out-of-town situations where there is a congestion problem, but I need to make it crystal clear that the Bill cannot apply to shoppers parking in or out of town. The hon. Member for Bath looks a little disappointed. I would be happy to learn from him that it is current Liberal Democrat policy to extend such provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Clause 182", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": " at a recent Adjournment debate initiated by my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake), who, with me, highlighted serious defects in current services. Connex is providing a quite rotten service. The amendment goes to the heart of turning the service round and meeting the needs of my constituents. My hon. Friend the Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Clause 200", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ver such broad powers is a mistake and one reason why we fundamentally oppose the Bill's railway provisions. I shall briefly refer also to amendments Nos. 414 to 417. Amendments Nos. 414 and 415 amend provisions in clause 201 on the objectives of the regulator and the Secretary of State. I am looking for amendment No. 417, and I cannot find it, but if I am not mistaken it deletes subsection(2)(b)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Clause 200", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "idance from the Secretary of State. However, no other regulated industry receives more than £1 billion per annum in financial support from the Government. There is no equivalent in other regulated industries of the SRA. Railways are different from other regulatory models. A model that suits gas and electricity is not inevitably the right one for railways. We have the right answer for the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "New Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "g band of hon. Friends, because ours has been an arduous task. We brought the Bill to the House with 237 clauses, 27 schedules and 276 pages. In the past two days, we have added a small telephone directory of Government amendments and new clauses. That underlines the fundamental shambles that is this Bill. It has been substantially rewritten during its passage. The Bill contains some good clauses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-10", "file": "debates2000-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "9b11164a2b275a51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "New Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "24 this afternoon, Nicky Gavron said that congestion charges were \"in principle\" possible in the first term of the administration in London, and that it was only a matter of technicality. She refused to retract her comments when pressed over the Prime Minister's earlier commitment. In her own personal manifesto, she stated: I will renew our tube system by 2010…and oppose congestion charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-10a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Business Start-ups", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "me this morning's launch by the Prime Minister and business organisations of Enterprise Insight, which will indeed encourage more people of all ages to take the plunge into setting up a business. As for business burdens, perhaps I can remind her of her own words when, as a Minister in the previous Government, she said that she would be the first to say that they did not do very well on regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I accept that it was the request of the Conservative Opposition, not the Liberal Democrat Opposition. Nevertheless, the debate was delayed at the Opposition's request. I am not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "acknowledge that. We have worked hard to help farmers through to better times. We have done much, but there is much more to do. Ultimately, profitability can be found only in the marketplace. Most farmers accept that—as do most hon. Members—although it sometimes seems that Opposition Front-Bench Members have not grasped the point. They tend to present every problem as though it came from Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e have done much, but there is much more to do. Ultimately, profitability can be found only in the marketplace. Most farmers accept that—as do most hon. Members—although it sometimes seems that Opposition Front-Bench Members have not grasped the point. They tend to present every problem as though it came from Brussels— [Interruption.] I am sorry—every problem comes either from Brussels or from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "ess activities. That last aim is as critical as any. As I have said, it is a good start, but it is only a start. Over a period, we must weight the balance of the budget much more in favour of measures such as those I have mentioned, and away from simple production support. I have reservations about the package, some of which I have shared with Ministers and others. I shall now share them with you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "ver a period, we must weight the balance of the budget much more in favour of measures such as those I have mentioned, and away from simple production support. I have reservations about the package, some of which I have shared with Ministers and others. I shall now share them with you. [Interruption.] I mean that I shall share them both with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and with the rest of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "an appropriate public sector investment. I would welcome details of how that might be done. The second issue, which I have touched on not in the debate but in parliamentary questions, is further scrutiny of how the regulatory burden operates and the related issue of how that impacts on the market for key farming products. I refer to fertilisers, chemicals and drugs used to support the farm sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Curry", "preceding_text": "y, but there is a Government role and it is important to know the Government's thinking. When they talk about strengthening risk assessment procedures, what has prompted that thought process? I welcome the review of the Meat Hygiene Service, and my hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire (Mr. Paterson) may wish to raise the issue of a plant with high sheep throughput which has been threatened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "rmers are losing money and going out of business. Farm workers are losing their jobs, many of which might have been saved if the right hon. Gentleman had acted more quickly. Every time the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd) speaks, I become even more concerned that he thinks of himself as a Labour Member. He always speaks on such matters with common sense and made several sensible points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-11", "file": "debates2000-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "2b29e9d31b0ed43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1110.8", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "It gives me great pleasure to present a petition on behalf of the National Service Veterans Alliance in relation to the 2.2 million of our fellow citizens—all men—conscripted for national service between 1945 and 1963—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-11a.1110.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-12", "file": "debates2000-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8838212869ae7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly proper that the House guards its privileges and it must do so for the future of democracy to be kept safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-12", "file": "debates2000-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8838212869ae7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "In a moment. It is depressing that when I am occasionally invited to give prizes at a school speech day, the 18-year-olds to whom I am giving the prizes seem considerably taller and much more mature than I. I shall now give way to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-12", "file": "debates2000-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8838212869ae7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1145.7", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": " shown in her question demonstrates that she still is. She makes an interesting point, and we can only go by common sense. \"Similar facility\" means a facility that is similar to that which has been described as a bar. If we define a bar as a place of serving, then a \"similar facility\" is inadequate. If we say that a \"similar facility\" is a facility at which alcohol can be served, that is adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1145.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-12", "file": "debates2000-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8838212869ae7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "y on the customer's honesty about age. It could probably use the defence that it had no reason to suspect that the customer was under 18. When asked why, a company could say, \"A credit card was used, therefore the customer had to be over 18, my lord.\" In the real world, many parents who are satisfied with the honesty and integrity of their 17 or 16-year-olds will happily trust them to order items.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-12", "file": "debates2000-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f8838212869ae7d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e holder working in an off-licence in an unpaid capacity may be immune from prosecution for selling to under-age children; similarly, a brother or other family member serving in the shop could escape prosecution. In 1996, the conviction of the husband of a licensee for selling to a 14-year-old girl was quashed in the divisional court, because there was no evidence of a master-servant relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-12a.1171.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.1.9", "colnum": "1", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "One of the great successes of the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.1.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Those figures are daunting, but may I express the situation in a different way? If pensions were linked to the increase in average earnings, this year, pensioners would be receiving a pension increase of £2.85 per week rather than 75p per week. I should also like to know why we cannot just tax well-off pensioners. The reason for not doing that is just lost on me. The minimum income guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.12.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "gure to four weeks. That slippage must be explained. Furthermore, it leaves us feeling rather cynical about the Government's capacity for decisiveness in the matter. When the Government said that they will withdraw our forces within four weeks, presumably they had in mind circumstances in which they could be withdrawn. In his statement, the Secretary of State referred to the build-up of UN troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Sierra Leone", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "I would be a lot more persuaded by the hon. Gentleman's assertions of complacency if he backed them up. He has just had the opportunity to say why he thinks the Government might be complacent, but he singularly failed to do so. Such rhetorical flourishes assist no one. The Chief of the Defence Staff was already due to visit Sierra Leone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.36.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which cabinet is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": " to the palings with the waft of the willow that has characterised his parliamentary style, he will, I trust, forgive some of us if we see ourselves as Eric Hollies to his Bradman, or even Lillee to his Edrich. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington. He is not yet my right hon. Friend although after tonight's tour de force, I have no doubt that the Cabinet beckons him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.109.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-15", "file": "debates2000-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "0362933f1f99531b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "preceding_text": "do not accept the arguments that have been expounded. Amendment No. 77 concerns the business college, and provides an opportunity to address the issue raised by the right hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster about businesses all being the same. In that amendment, I have tried to ensure that the business college represents and reflects the full range of businesses operating in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-15a.118.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.173.9", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "It is unfortunate that the hon. Lady did not refer to the whole statement made by the chairman of Massey Ferguson. He said that, if the Government made a commitment to join the single European currency, the company would retain its commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.173.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Given the hon. Lady's hostility to the principle of the national minimum wage, are we to take it that small firms will be exempt from paying their employees the national minimum wage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "preceding_text": "2 to 1993, the UK under the Tories invested a lower share of GDP than any G7 country. The Labour Government inherited a history of large budget deficits and a steeply rising burden of public debt, while public investment had been neglected. We have no lessons to learn from the Opposition's record of failure and mismanagement—none whatever. What have the Government done? Let us consider our record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "preceding_text": "Longbridge. He referred to the role of the banks. I emphasise that the Bank of England is keen to ensure that its existing network of 7,000 business contacts relays regional information back to it as part of the process for setting interest rates and making other decisions. We cut borrowing by £40 billion during our first three years in office. We are on course to meet the two strict fiscal rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Over there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael J. Martin)", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have these conversations between hon. Members while the Minister is speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "low the production of a new model, and last month's sales figures showed that British-built cars increased their sales against the general trend. Since 1997, more than £2.6 billion of new investment has been announced with 8,750 new jobs created. We accept that difficult decisions must be made, but that is the context in which those decisions are being made. That is the picture of the UK industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More, more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": " because her contribution recognised the wider measures that the Government are taking for business. We have the lowest corporation tax levels ever—businesses' corporation tax bills have been cut by 25 per cent.—and we have introduced the new research and development tax credit, investment allowances, the venture capital fund and the new venture capital arrangements. I could go on at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "s were given only one day of training. Teachers are rushing to get their applications in in time, and schools are worried about the funding implications of the scheme. As one governor of a small primary school in north Yorkshire told me this afternoon, the school has three good teachers, but it faces difficulty because it does not know whether it will get the funds to support future pay increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "ncourage them to enter the profession we need to show them not only the value of teachers, but that they will be treated as professionals and will be given the freedom and flexibility that they need to get on with the job, without constantly being subjected to interference from the bureaucrats in Whitehall. I shall end with a quote from a recent survey of members of the National Union of Teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the BEd qualification. My remarks were specific; I referred to postgraduate certificate of education. A BEd course is a sub-degree, undergraduate course. To put the record straight, the majority of teachers do not qualify through that route. Secondary school teachers take PGCEs; the majority do not take BEd degrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "tact time. For those watching the Parliamentary channel, contact time is time spent in contact with pupils in the classroom, which we deliberately reduced in the first year to enable the introduction of the induction programme. Funding improvements have been made for schools across the board and 17,000 benefit from the new deal for schools capital—£4.5 billion of extra money is going in this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgon", "preceding_text": "assed as our most salubrious schools so that they can be given extra support. That allows teachers to put plans in place beyond the normal curriculum to expand the learning capacity and experience of, say, a pupil who is a gifted musician, a gifted rugby player or a gifted badminton player. Thankfully, Leeds does not need too many gifted footballers, because the place is already crammed with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "hear less about class sizes for other age groups. Key stage 2 classes are larger today than when the Government took office. The Secretary of State referred to smaller junior class sizes as an achievement on the Government's part. However, they have managed only a reduction in the higher figure, which they created after taking office. The figure remains higher than when the Government took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": " increased to 18.9; in 1999, it decreased slightly to 18.8. The prediction for 2000 is that the figure will decrease to 18.6. What a wonderful achievement by new Labour. The Government have managed to return to the position that they inherited in 1997 and about which they complained. The figures increased in the subsequent three years. The Government have delivered nothing on pupil-teacher ratios.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.247.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "nly in accordance with the unequivocal undertakings that he has given to the House—for example, to my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth)—this evening, would it not follow that the consultation exercise, which is provided for in the order, would be a sham? Indeed, does it not mean that the Secretary of State would be rendering himself vulnerable to judicial review?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I defer to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's experience of judicial review, which is superior to mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "ags, if any, were flown from the building. Upon calling the Welsh Assembly, he was greeted by a long silence from a Liberal Democrat researcher, who went to look out of the window and was astounded to find not only the Welsh flag and the Union jack, but the European flag flying over Cardiff. Interestingly enough, that did not cause a walk-out or any suspension of the process of the Welsh Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Cash", "preceding_text": "is House. I say to the Secretary of State that I am extremely disappointed at the order, as I am with others in the House. It is a sell-out, and the Secretary of State knows that it is a sell-out. I have got used to sell-outs in relation to the United Kingdom with regard to a number of treaties that have been passed in the House. I need say no more, because everybody knows what I am talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "I do not have time to give way. Although I took part in most of the debates on the Scotland Act 1998, I cannot remember whether the flying of the flag is a matter devolved to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "for verification, nor shall I worry about what term is used. I shall not worry as long as the process moves forward. I have an expectation that arises from the unique statement by P. O'Neill, although I do not know whether I am right to do so. Perhaps the Secretary of State or the Minister can tell me. The IRA referred not to some of its arms, but to \"our\" arms. I expect that to mean all its arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-16", "file": "debates2000-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "a35e0b24b1b56b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCartney", "preceding_text": "there will be a renewed bombing campaign on the mainland during next year's elections. I believe, as do many people in Northern Ireland, that the fundamental policy driving the whole peace process has little to do with political settlement in Northern Ireland; the imperative is to keep bombs off the mainland at any cost. That policy of appeasement will continue and will be leeched upon by the IRA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-16a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "preceding_text": " with the Irish Government on security-related matters. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently wrote to the Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform following his announcement in the Dail on 13 April of an internal Garda investigation into allegations of Garda-PIRA collusion. That followed previous representations to the Irish Government in November and December last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr. Adam Ingram)", "preceding_text": " the Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform following his announcement in the Dail on 13 April of an internal Garda investigation into allegations of Garda-PIRA collusion. That followed previous representations to the Irish Government in November and December last year— [Interruption.] The Government welcome the investigation and hope that it will be concluded thoroughly and speedily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The actual report of Ernst and Young made it clear that the tax burden next year and the year after is falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.325.4", "colnum": "325", "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 I must tell the right hon. Gentleman this. He talked about our record in government, but the killer facts do not stop with his record. Killer fact—inflation is now at its lowest level for 25 years; killer fact—there are 920,000 more jobs under this Government; killer fact—1.2 million children have been lifted out of poverty. Killer judgment? How about this, from his very, very own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said a moment or two ago, we have already set out the timetable for an assessment of that, as we have said, early in the next Parliament. However, it is the economic conditions that count.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.327.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are we going to hear the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is right to say that I did get some briefing on her question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Armed Forces (Minimum Age of Recruitment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "out there and do something useful. There are severe limitations on what they can do, and that is right. They are not put on the streets in Northern Ireland and they will not be deployed on United Nations tours. The hon. Gentleman said that some young people in the forces have been killed, but people are killed in road accidents, too. As he admitted, they are not put in danger if it can be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Armed Forces (Minimum Age of Recruitment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " some young people in the forces have been killed, but people are killed in road accidents, too. As he admitted, they are not put in danger if it can be avoided. [Interruption.] There are approximately 6,500 16 and 17-year-olds being trained in the forces, with the vast majority in the Army. They are engaged in training and education. One might regard it as a military college of further education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Armed Forces (Minimum Age of Recruitment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "tion and are lost to the Army. What is the purpose of the Bill? The hon. Gentleman said that it was to set a good example. I have seen the photographs of boy soldiers in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. It is disgusting. We will not set a good example to Sierra Leone by not recruiting 16 and 17-year-olds. We will do it by sending out first-class troops to establish some order and help the people there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Royal Parks (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " Minister will argue that one of the reasons for the legislation and why the proposed fines are appropriate is that they match other legislation on areas other than the royal parks, so as to ensure that traders or vendors do not find an easy loophole in the law. For example, they might be fined £1,000 if they were trading on Millbank pavement, but only £200 if they nip into one of the royal parks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Kent County Council Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "the past 50 years and what will continue to happen in the next 50 years. The first thing you must recognise, Home Secretary, is that there is nothing you can do about it. Your job is to manage public expectations in the face of the inevitability of rising crime.\" I did not take that advice. In the four years during which I held the office of Home Secretary, crime fell by approximately 18 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-17", "file": "debates2000-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1670197a6f35784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Kent County Council Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fiona Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fiona Jones", "preceding_text": "May I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-17a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the whole Cabinet have been arguing the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, the right hon. Gentleman is now more on-message with the Leader of the Opposition than is the shadow Chancellor. Also if I may, I would add that the right hon. Gentleman should welcome the fact that in his constituency, since the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ", I would add that the right hon. Gentleman should welcome the fact that in his constituency, since the general election—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] Well, the right hon. Gentleman is asking about jobs and manufacturing industry. Since the general election, unemployment in his constituency has fallen by 34 per cent., and the new deal has meant a fall in youth unemployment of 69 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "No matter how good the employment figures are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " homes for the elderly. As my hon. Friends have said, that balance must focus on the quality of care, not meeting the length of a tape measure. Another good residential home has closed recently in my constituency because of financial overstretch. Its owners said, bluntly, that reading \"Fit for the Future?\"—the Government's consultation document—finally persuaded them that their home had no future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "are now too old realistically to be adopted, but they could have been candidates for adoption when they were first placed in care. I was tremendously disappointed when I read the Bill and found that, while plenty of clauses relate to regulating fostering agencies, it provides no specific ammunition on adoption. The Secretary of State made only a passing reference to adoption in his opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Secretary of State and I had the privilege of serving under my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras when he was Secretary of State for Health. Many hon. Members who spoke pointed out that the Bill owes a great deal to my right hon. Friend's commitment, vision and concern for children and frail and vulnerable people. He deserves a round of applause for the measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-18", "file": "debates2000-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "04259e10aa0b8ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman and many other Conservative Members referred repeatedly to the potential use of a 10 sq m standard. A bit of historical accuracy might be helpful. The right hon. Gentleman and other Conservative Members might be interested to know that their party is responsible for the 10 sq m standard, which it set nearly 30 years ago. Having had a standard for 30 years, people have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-18a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-19", "file": "debates2000-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "2efda3de039a3d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-19a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I assume that the same logic would apply, whichever clause we adopted. My hon. Friend nods: I am grateful for the free legal advice that I am getting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-19a.584.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.657.5", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely correct on his first point. All I can say on the baby is that I am sure that all of us wish the Prime Minister and his wife every congratulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.674.5", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Speaker. You will recall that on 17 November last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords] and Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "omley and Chislehurst, but I think that even he would concede that there is perhaps a case, with certain non-controversial but important measures, perhaps to give some regard to that. However, just for the point of the argument, he is an absolutist. In a sense, he is the—what colour is his tie today? He is the technicolour incorruptible of this place. I cannot call him the sea-green incorruptible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords] and Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I apologise in advance for having to leave this debate. I am a member of a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation and, if I do not attend it at some point. I shall doubtless be guillotined by my Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "There is a part of the clause which gives the authorised officer the right to break into people's homes, not for ship money but for additional protocol information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Safeguards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I can certainly think of Labour Members who could hold a CD in their mouths without too much difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.745.8", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Because of timetabling, we have only 40 minutes to discuss the Bill. The Minister is in the Chamber. He could intervene now and say that he will ensure that that legal advice is provided to the House before we finish the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.745.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.745.11", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for that clarification. I mentioned legal advice—whereas, in Committee, I asked him for a précis of it. I am grateful to him for circulating it to Committee members, as he promised to do; it was much appreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.745.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heath", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman suggests that that lacuna might appear this evening on further consideration when it clearly appeared in Committee, when we laid bare the deficiencies of the audit process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "At least the Minister had the courtesy and the decency to apologise immediately when he realised that he was in grave danger of misleading the House. If he had not done so before the debate ended, I would have tabled an early-day motion tomorrow, condemning the Minister for misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": "t the Minister referred to an important letter that is not available to the House as a matter of no importance. I know that we have discussed that and points of order have been raised, so I shall merely say that I thought that it was a convention of the House that if a Minister referred to a document it had to be produced. I understand that Madam Speaker takes a dim view when that does not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sea Fishing Grants (Charges) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ht otherwise arise to fund repayments. That raises a serious question about the retrospective nature of the Bill. It seems to be generally accepted that the legal advice—which is not yet available to the House—states that the Government, and not the public, are responsible for the misdirection with regard to these charges. I fully accept that the fault may lie with Governments other than this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.754.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Royal Parks (Trading) Bill and Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend does not want that to be put on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.791.8", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Royal Parks (Trading) Bill and Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "erhaps explains the difference between Opposition Members and Government Members. We think that our role is to oppose the motion, because we believe that we should be spending our time going through the Bill line by line. In the 1240s, knights came down from Shropshire to Parliament to examine Bills line by line, in the light of their own experience. They did not see themselves as middle managers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.791.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-22", "file": "debates2000-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "445ab3087cd90c75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Royal Parks (Trading) Bill and Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "crutiny. That is the point—line by line scrutiny is important. It is worth reminding the House of the wise words of John Biffen, who was a highly esteemed previous Leader of the House and greatly respected on both sides. He was also my predecessor and is now Lord Biffen. He wisely commented: All Governments are tomorrow's possible Opposition.—[ Official Report, 27 February 1986; Vol. 92, c. 1088.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-22a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-23", "file": "debates2000-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2997a80d7a612c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.843.16", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donohoe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donohoe", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that comprehensive answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.843.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-23", "file": "debates2000-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2997a80d7a612c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.847.4", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "verty measures being taken by the Government. It is important that people see them as a cohesive philosophy that joins up measures to attack poverty at the root and provides, through educational policies, the means to raise aspirations and give people in our society better prospects. The WFTC could provide help to 130,000 families in Scotland at the significant level that my hon. Friend mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.847.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-23", "file": "debates2000-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2997a80d7a612c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Limited Liability Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "akeover panel and the Competition Commission. There is regulation of plcs, but who will regulate the llps? In accountancy, regulation is provided by professional bodies such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. They are small compared with the huge might of the big five. The big five provide most of the staff when it comes to regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-23a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "nister should know what Downing street said when his right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead was appointed: Tony has enormous regard for his abilities. All pensioners will be better-off under our proposals. If the Deputy Prime Minister cannot endorse the views of his right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead, does he agree with his hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may be promising to do things for pensioners, but it is fair for us to point to the record of the previous Government: 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"75p.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Democrats' manifesto, he will know that all his party promised was pensions related to prices. That is precisely to what he referred. We have done that and more in giving pensioners the winter fuel allowance and the other measures to which I referred. We have given up to £6.5 billion more in pensions, so it is a bit much for him to berate us for simply giving what he calls the 78p on the pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "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 agree with a great deal of what my hon. Friend says because we have both been advocates of decentralisation in central and regional government. There is a point of difference between the two sides of the House on the matter, but I firmly believe in regional government. It is our manifesto position and we are presently looking at what we will put in our next manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.972.4", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "m point of their sentence. People who, having assaulted the police and been given, on average, four and a half months in jail, have served just six weeks. What message does that send out to the men and women of our police service? It is another kick in the teeth for the police when the criminals that they have caught and seen locked up for a range of other serious crimes are let out of jail early.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.972.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Falling crime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Lady confirm that the implication of the policy that she has just outlined is that there would be longer sentences and more people in prison? If so, how does she explain the fact that, when she and other Conservative Members were in government, we had rising prison numbers, falling conviction rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Lady confirm that the implication of the policy that she has just outlined is that there would be longer sentences and more people in prison? If so, how does she explain the fact that, when she and other Conservative Members were in government, we had rising prison numbers, falling conviction rates—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Falling crime.\"] No, not falling crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "o the right hon. Lady in a moment, but I have only just begun. I am always glad when right hon. and hon. Members do not become completely obsessed by politics but find other things to do with their spare time, so it is in the spirit of great affection in which I hold the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald that I congratulate her on the production of \"The Clematis Tree\", her first novel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "s of vulnerable young children, the anti-drugs strategy, and a raft of policies to tackle social exclusion. Some 376 local crime reduction partnerships between the police, councils and others are up and running, pooling resources and effort into fighting crime. The right hon. Lady complained that we had established targets for each police force area, in co-operation with those police force areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady cannot help it, Madam Speaker—we should have sympathy for her plight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ght to highlight the subject. While there cannot be said to be a clear link between police numbers and the incidence of crime, the public expect visible policing. They also expect a speedy response from the police for the victims of crime. Visible policing is vital for the elderly, because it does so much for the quality of their lives when they see a bobby on the beat when they are out and about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I should like to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " suffice. I should be grateful if he could confirm what he means. I pointed out that there were between 65,000 and 70,000 people in prison. Last year, 18,000 of them were found to have used illegal drugs. I shall not go into detail about the Cambridge Two and the slogan \"Help the Homeless—Jail the Social Workers\". However, if on only one of the 30 occasions when people in prison use illegal drugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " a surge in calls. No wonder—crime is rising at 3 per cent. The surge in calls should be no surprise. If crime is rising, it is obvious that more people will ring in. When an operator was asked about the problem, he said: On one recent shift 20 to 30 calls were being held in a queue. He explained: The problem is caused partly by…a rise in the number of calls. How can a member of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1029.2", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Archie?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " below what is required by people, business and industry; and condemns ministers for failing to secure increased funding for anything except for the growing costs of running the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions which is the Government's largest and least effective Department of State. I am afraid that the first question that I have to ask is where is the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1029.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the Minister has been given cash figures rather than figures relating to prices in real terms. In real terms, in 1994–95 we were spending £3.3 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sport. The local transport grant has been cut from £329 million in 1994 to just £13 million in the current year. Killer fact: we were spending an average of £2.25 billion on the trunk road and motorway network. Labour is planning to spend a mere £300 million in the current year and in the next year. Killer fact: on road maintenance, the top priority, in our last three years, we spent £8.6 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "the Conservative commitment? If we add up what Railtrack is investing and what the Government are spending, that easily amounts to £8 billion a year. If that is stretched over 10 years, there is no substantial change in policy. Will the Minister tell us when the great transport plan will be produced? I tabled a question, but I know that it is rather naive to expect any useful information. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "preceding_text": "rtment of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and its plans to increase spending and modernise the transport system further through its Ten Year Plan for transport investment. The people of this country want a transport system that is quicker, safer, cleaner, smarter, more reliable and good value for money, which takes them conveniently from the start of their journey to their destination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "preceding_text": "t the problems of today are the product of the past three years alone. The hon. Gentleman and every sensible Member of this place know that the problems that we inherited from the Conservative Government were considerable. There was serious congestion on the roads and a chronic backlog of maintenance, with emissions and pollution from traffic aggravating health problems, especially among children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Planning (Mr. Nick Raynsford)", "preceding_text": "would do well not to make light of. We were faced with a deregulated bus industry that was failing to deliver quality services, and there were far too many cowboy operators. We had also a fragmented railway industry that was lacking strategic management and direction. We inherited a transport system that had suffered for 20 years from the irresponsible pursuit of ideology, defective privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am only too happy to confirm that the Deputy Prime Minister and my right hon. and noble Friend Lord Macdonald are quoted on transport policy, because they represent the Government on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am only too happy to confirm that the Deputy Prime Minister and my right hon. and noble Friend Lord Macdonald are quoted on transport policy, because they represent the Government on that issue. [Interruption.] As my right hon. and noble Friend is in the other place, I am speaking for the Government at this Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ent amnesia that now afflicts them, we recognise that taxation of things that damage the environment is better than taxation of things that are good for the economy. That is one of the reasons why fuel duty revenue has increased. Indeed, the then Chancellor, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), said in 1994, when he increased the fuel duty escalator from 3 to 5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "British Airways or Virgin but find themselves on some other airline instead, because of a cosy alliance that is not in the customer's best interests, it has nothing to do with the Minister. I am grateful to the Minister for his speech, because he has produced a yardstick against which we shall continue to measure him. I have to tell him that it was a very foolish speech that reeked of complacency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brake", "preceding_text": "sened under the Labour Government. However, our answer is not the Conservative folly of privatisation, nor the Government's mish-mash of partial privatisation and fragmentation. Our response is to raise the finance needed to revitalise the tube system through the issue of bonds against guaranteed future revenue streams. I am sure that Susan Kramer—as London's transport supremo—will fight for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Syms", "preceding_text": "remely pertinent questions about congestion charging. I hope that the Minister will answer those questions when he winds up the debate, so that hon. Members can be better informed. I believe that congestion charging is a bad thing—but it will probably be a good thing for the Conservative party. We oppose such charges, and that will make a tremendous difference in the forthcoming election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Lady has had her opportunity to speak, and I am responding to her speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-05-24", "file": "debates2000-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "0cd6e59b1f201241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I shall put together the motions relating to delegated legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-24a.1082.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-05-25", "file": "debates2000-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "daac723334508586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-25a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "ermined to build consensus, and to move to a second phase. Consensus between the political parties would help. I note what the right hon. Gentleman said about foreign affairs. There is a possibility of a debate at a later stage. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will visit the dome during the Whitsun recess. If he does, he will join the two and a half million people who have already been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-05-25a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Army Strength", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "to our troops. When I was in Kosovo last week, the improvements were widely recognised. Similarly, in Sierra Leone we responded within two weeks. Secondly, there is an increase in leave at the end of an operational tour so that personnel can spend more time with their families. There is also the bonus for those who have been on an extended operational tour. We have seen the introduction of e-mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Smith", "preceding_text": "I should start by correcting my intervention, which was on the allocation of time motion. I simply wanted to clarify whether the official Opposition planned on dividing on that. If they do force a Division on it, at this stage in the debate Liberal Democrat Members would be quite happy to join them in the Lobby, to make it quite clear that allocation of time motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "No, I have limited time and I wish to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Clause 72", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is only one official Opposition amendment under discussion: the amendment to Lords amendment No. 131—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Clause 72", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "tiveness generally one of the statutory objectives. That is not what the key amendment we shall vote on does. The Government are in a complete muddle on this matter. If they are not in a muddle, they are deliberately obfuscating. They know what they ought to do, but as is so often the case they will not admit that they have got this wrong, and consequently they will not take steps to put it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Clause 72", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "le, they are deliberately obfuscating. They know what they ought to do, but as is so often the case they will not admit that they have got this wrong, and consequently they will not take steps to put it right. [Interruption.] The Government have failed to put right up front in the objectives the fact that over-regulation damages not only internal competitiveness, but international competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-05", "file": "debates2000-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "88a3c3b82a4358e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.80.9", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Clause 72", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "Right. Clause 2(3)(e) states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-05a.80.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.147.6", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NHS Reform", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "Last 0month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.150.9", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NHS Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "hould do more. The hon. Gentleman wants to have his say about the NHS but does not want patients and staff to have theirs. We know the hon. Gentleman's top three reforms of the NHS; he told the Conservative party conference what he would do. No. 1, he said: The biggest problem that we have in the NHS is that it is not a proper market. No. 2, he said that the NHS required \"less and less equipment\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.150.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NHS Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "ublic money if his party in office had not wasted billions of pounds of public money on the internal market. I know that he does not want to talk about the speech that he gave at the Conservative party conference; he does not want to be reminded of it, but the country should be, and to ensure that patients and staff throughout the country have the opportunity to read what he said, on the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": " on the Government Front Bench. However, to some extent, he is correct. In this House, it is not for Ministers to question the Opposition. The Executive are in charge; it is for the Opposition and for Government Back Benchers to scrutinise the Government, and for the Government to answer questions. No doubt, the time will come when we shall want to hear from the Opposition what their policies are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "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 Bill be now read a Second time. I gather that several colleagues have been delayed by late flights. Doubtless they will join us shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that it is a date in September. The Secretary of State is nodding, so we have an even longer time of 15 months. I see the Minister of State smiling. Whether that is a positive sign, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I am saying that this is a more sophisticated debate than can be covered in a reasoned amendment. We have already seen that there are two, or perhaps more, strongly held views on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": " is correct that that is not our remit tonight. We must be aware also of the position of the Government of the Republic of Ireland, who are our supportive partners in the implementation of the Good Friday agreement. Any casual glance at the press and media in the Republic of Ireland will confirm that we cannot underestimate the significance of the implementation of Patten in the other 28 counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.222.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-06", "file": "debates2000-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3f642c234500c9f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.254.9", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are meaningless.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should listen to what the Secretary of State said. That is why I referred to it. He said, in effect, the title deeds. That was a careful choice of words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-06a.254.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.273.6", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Given the response that the hon. Gentleman received from my hon. Friends, I am a bit reluctant to agree with him. On this occasion, however, I agree with him 100 per cent; he is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.273.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Mozambique", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": " reform, and then reform in education and health care. We are moving away from the gesture spending of the European Commission and the previous Government and towards backing reformers. That says to any country that if it goes down that road we will be behind it, and it can have fast economic growth and improved social programmes. We are beginning to get reformers setting good examples for others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.278.4", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "preceding_text": "ove the life opportunities of poor Zimbabweans, and makes clear our willingness to provide resources of up to £36 million for that purpose. Unfortunately, there has been no such reform and the economic and political situation, as everybody knows, has deteriorated very badly indeed. Our programme is therefore limited and focused on HIV-AIDS, water and rural livelihoods. Our spending is £12 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We do not have to talk about theory, we can talk about the record—of the Conservative Government when they were in power, and of this Government. Who put 3 million people on the dole? The Tories. Who doubled homelessness? The Tories. Who trebled child poverty? The Tories. Who doubled crime? The Tories. Who doubled the national debt? The Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "While the Prime Minister was away, did he have the opportunity to study the election results in Basildon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "ere Labour lost overall control, or in Southend where every Labour candidate lost? If he did not have time to do that, was he able to study the remarks of his right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), and of his hon. Friends the Members for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle), for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher), for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) and for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "o that, was he able to study the remarks of his right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field), and of his hon. Friends the Members for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle), for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher), for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) and for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright)— [Interruption.] They can be summed up by his noble Friend, Lord Sawyer who said that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House will come to order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is at its lowest level for 20 years or more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Equal Opportunities in Britain", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "evelopment of careers and the youth service, cutting across Departments and involving a range of professionals. I shall focus on three of the giants that I mentioned: idleness, want and ignorance. I shall not cover all the points raised by the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West, but I want to examine some of the aspects that he mentioned—employment, social security and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Equal Opportunities in Britain", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "the Minister some facts on the matter. In 1970—Oh, I see that the Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the hon. Member for Barking (Ms Hodge), who is herself the privileged product of a private education, regards the facts on grammar school access to Oxbridge as an appropriate occasion on which to yawn. She and other members of the Government will have to hear the facts. In 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Equal Opportunities in Britain", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am obsessed with education for all our children, and the Minister need be in no doubt that I shall come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Equal Opportunities in Britain", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "t will spend a lower proportion of GDP on education than the Conservative Government. If he wishes to correspond with me about the detailed movement of the figures in relation to unit costs, I shall be happy to oblige him. I want to focus on the big picture, and he is right to encourage me to do so. I want to focus, for example, on the further betrayal of grammar schools. The hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Britain's Strategic Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And learned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "I do apologise to the right hon. Member for North-East Fife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Britain's Strategic Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "a fundamental difference between the parties is revealed. The Conservative party is the only truly national party—the only party for which national interest is at the heart of all its considerations of foreign and international affairs. That difference is rooted in the history of political parties and parliamentary debate and is partly the result of the liberal elite and the liberal establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Britain's Strategic Interests", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman attempts to distract me from my main theme. The difference may be explained partly by the psyche of the left. National interest is always considered grudgingly and unenthusiastically, as a matter of acquiescence, by the liberal left. The hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. Russell) looks at me with some surprise, but he will remember the great debate between Gladstone and Disraeli in 1876.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-07", "file": "debates2000-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "5a70c8645ae9bae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.381.6", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Britain's Strategic Interests", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "lear-weapon-free world would be absolutely safe. There is no such thing as absolute safety. But there is no doubt in my mind that, of the two alternatives, a world without nuclear weapons would be safer than a world with them. Professor Rotblat has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Those are exactly the arguments that were used for unilateral nuclear disarmament back in the 1980s. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-07a.381.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ter accept that, sadly, the clothing and textile industry will not have a good future unless the large retailers stop pressing down the manufacturers' margins—that would encourage investment and employment—while they themselves operate margins of over 300 per cent? Will she encourage Departments of State, particularly the Ministry of Defence, to purchase British goods, and not those from overseas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Michael Wills)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Michael Wills)", "preceding_text": "s by 2002. We are also taking action to ensure access for adults. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has given a commitment that, by 2005, all those who want it will have the opportunity to access the internet. We are establishing about 700 computer learning centres to serve the country's 2,000 most deprived wards, and 50,000 free computer training courses are being made available to jobless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Michael Wills)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. Michael Wills)", "preceding_text": "ts. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has given a commitment that, by 2005, all those who want it will have the opportunity to access the internet. We are establishing about 700 computer learning centres to serve the country's 2,000 most deprived wards, and 50,000 free computer training courses are being made available to jobless— [Interruption.] I think that Conservative Members would like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "Madam Speaker, with your permission, I have not quite finished. We are taking important initiatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "e taking a scripted part in politics, I have actually read the Prime Minister's speech—I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman has not done so, and I understand if that is the case. It was excellent. It is surprising that people objected to those unexceptionable remarks about the strength and importance of the health service and the need for reform. To some degree, one does wonder why it happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ally to the very tragic experience of my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Jones). Several of my colleagues have received advice from the police and others about adopting necessary security measures in their constituencies so that they can proceed with their normal parliamentary duties. That is becoming a significant factor in the allocation of hon. Members' resources for the coming year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.424.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get a bodyguard.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "Dad's army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "May I thank my right hon. Friend for her response to my advances over recent months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that this is business questions, and it is not usual to ask for a debate while pointing out that such a debate will, in fact, take place. His question is thus rendered rather superfluous. It would be a mistake on anybody's part to assume that the Prime Minister was distressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for her gracious hospitality in giving Lady Members the welcome opportunity to see Admiralty house this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deny it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "t even some of the Secretary of State's colleagues have been saying in the privacy of unattributable briefings in the Lobby. One Labour MP was quoted as saying: It's like a poor employer who robs his workers every week, then gives them a turkey for Christmas. Perhaps one of the Labour Members who are present today said that. Perhaps it was the Minister of State, speaking unattributably; who knows?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the hon. Gentleman for the past 10 minutes or so and I have not heard one word of apology for the 18 years that resulted in 1 million pensioners living below the poverty line in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "leman for the past 10 minutes or so and I have not heard one word of apology for the 18 years that resulted in 1 million pensioners living below the poverty line in 1997— [Interruption.] The Labour Government have targeted and tackled that, much to my pleasure and much to the annoyance of Opposition Members. Will he now apologise to the 1 million pensioners whom he betrayed for more than 18 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.441.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.442.6", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "I do not think so; no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "No. I want to make a bit more progress, and then I shall give way to the hon. Lady. I do not want to leave the impression that all the blame is being heaped on the head of the poor, wretched Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "-the-scenes arrangement to collect more tax from pensioners. We do not believe in stealth taxes and it is the Government who have introduced them, not us. That is why my right hon. Friend said in his original statement: We would also adjust tax allowances for older people to compensate pensioners for any extra that they might otherwise pay. It is not the purpose of our proposal either to increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "brary. It continues by making the point that the answer is 42p. Lest the Tories think that I am being unreasonable, or that the Library was being unreasonable in telling us what it has done, I shall explain why the sum of 42p has some credibility. About five hours after the hon. Member for Havant appeared on the \"Today\" programme, his colleague the shadow Chancellor appeared on \"The World at One\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on one point. The computer did not break down—it never worked in the first place, and the bill for that should be sent to Conservative central office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.452.5", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has certainly been able to say a lot during an intervention. I call Mr. Secretary Darling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.452.5", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has certainly been able to say a lot during an intervention. I call Mr. Secretary Darling— [Interruption.] Order. Before I call the Secretary of State again, I appeal once more to hon. Members. We cannot have shouting across the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "Indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Fearn) is looking forward to benefiting from our pledge. The speech that we have just heard from the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) and Conservative literature say different things to different people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman's considerable intellect, I am surprised that he did not mention—perhaps because of partisan politics—that as well as pensioners receiving a higher weekly payment, on which future upratings will take place, the money will also be index linked in a way that I presume the £10 Christmas bonus and other payments have not been for some years. He distorts our party policy on such matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "It has been a telling debate. For our side, it has been telling to watch the massed ranks of the Government because the problem is that the opposition is on the Benches behind Ministers. To be able to say that their supporters were po-faced while the Secretary of State was, not terribly effectively, defending his own policy was a joy and pleasure to us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.476.6", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Social Security (Mr. Jeff Rooker)", "preceding_text": "ld not centre the entire debate on the basic state pension. For one thing, many people do not receive the basic state pension because they have not paid enough into the national insurance fund. There have been quirks in the national insurance system since it began, and they are grossly unfair to many pensioners. If people do not, for example, accrue 25 per cent. of a pension, they receive nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I have given way once. The Minister will get his chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cover up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "sold, so why did the company not contact its customers after it had contacted the Minister? If it had done so, it might have been able to minimise its liability. Last Friday, the general manager of Advanta, Mr. Mike Ruthven, told me that the company would have liked to warn its customers. The only reason that it did not do so was that it was asked by MAFF officials to keep the whole matter secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Gentleman's explanation. Nevertheless, the point remains that his attack on the Government is about the process, not the substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "do not believe that this is some form of trickery that will make its way across the country and destroy nature before our eyes. However, we claim to have proper precautions in place. Everyone knows about the release of oilseed rape; everyone knows that sports get everywhere in our countryside. Hardly a lane does not have a bit of oilseed rape in it. If we are seeing release, we are seeing release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "aluable, but it does not deal with the fact that farmers still had to carry all the growing costs and will get zero crop sales if they take that action. We welcome the review of separation distances announced by the Government. I remind them that in three months, farmers will be planting next year's crop, so it is urgent that conclusions are reached on that. I have some questions for the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-08", "file": "debates2000-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "7b11fead4ea20c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "an emergency package here, another one there; £1 million dressed up as £500 million; regulations imposed and then costs deferred; give with one hand and take back with the other. Only four weeks ago, I pointed out at the Dispatch Box that it took the right hon. Gentleman almost a year to implement any of the proposals that we put forward in May last year to help farming through its current crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-08a.522.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-12", "file": "debates2000-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "971f7a105dd5c228", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-12a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "It is unfair that the public should be told that a man who has assaulted a police officer will be given a sentence of six months, when that person will be out on the streets in six weeks. That cannot be honest. I emphasise those points about honesty in sentencing because I am not against tagging as such. Tagging has an interesting history. It was pioneered by the previous, Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-12a.666.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.860.5", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the Minister asked the Opposition to withdraw amendment No. 8.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.860.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. In response to the comments of the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that Mr. Angry, the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman)—who is well known for opening his mouth before he engages his brain—is prepared to snigger at the rights of his constituents and possibly others while the debate on compensation progresses. I regret that the hon. Gentleman—who is now the Chairman of a Select Committee—should behave as he has this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "pared to snigger at the rights of his constituents and possibly others while the debate on compensation progresses. I regret that the hon. Gentleman—who is now the Chairman of a Select Committee—should behave as he has this evening. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman wishes to witter on, may I suggest that he does so either on his feet—if has the guts to get on his feet—or outside this Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "aining access—for example, providing stiles, waymarks or car parks. The Bill makes it clear that the right will not interfere with landowners' ability to use and develop their land as they wish. Although we do not expect walkers to pose significant problems for landowners, we have provided for landowners to have the right to close their land for up to 28 days for any reason and without permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-13", "file": "debates2000-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "25bfea80085985a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "New Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "we are. I appreciate that there are some members of his party who, having won the 1997 election by a massive majority, thought that it was an appalling constitutional device that we should debate laws at all. None the less, that is what we in the Opposition are here for, and I shall keep the Government up late at night if it is in the interests of the public to have their laws sensibly considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-13a.914.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Criminals (Confiscation of Assets)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "empted. We are interested not just in drugs barons, but in all big-time criminals. The proposals will lead to the confiscation of their assets, whatever the crime—whether it is their house, cars, antiques, money or resources that they try to siphon off to members of their family. At last, the Government are on the side of the citizen and not, like Conservative Members, on the side of the criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Knowledge Network", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot possibly wish us to put commercially sensitive information on the net. The Government whom he supported did not do that. In his evidence to the Select Committee on Public Administration, Sir Richard Wilson, the Cabinet Secretary, made it clear that the knowledge network would not be used for party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Everyone else in the country knows that the Cabinet is divided. This Cabinet is out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Our policy on the euro is settled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Is not the real reason that the Government are in such chaos on the euro spelled out in the memo written by the right hon. Gentleman's chief guru, Philip Gould? It reads: From Philip to Alastair. Once again TB is pandering, lacking conviction, unable to hold to a position for more than a few weeks, lacking the guts to be able to tough it out …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is not careful, I shall read out what focus groups say about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is not careful, I shall read out what focus groups say about him. [Interruption.] I shall spare him that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.934.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "verty doubled. The right hon. Gentleman challenged me to read out the comments of the focus groups, so I shall read their comments about him. They say he is \"boring\", \"false\", \"he irritates me greatly\", \"pathetic\", \"drip\", \"non-entity\", \"no substance\", \"no personality\", \"no stage presence\", \"complete waste of time\", \"no policies\" and, at the end, very unimpressive team, particularly William Hague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.935.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.937.4", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tory gain.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire)", "preceding_text": "As the Liberal Democrats fight such scurrilous personalised campaigns, what is the moral justification for the Prime Minister's love-in with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.937.6", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Let us hear the question again. I did not hear it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.937.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.938.6", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rime Minister. He said: A motley crew of \"Britain's outers\" and \"wholesale renegotiators\" devote their extremist energies to the one more heave … that they believe will reverse what they see as the wrong-headed judgments of all recent Conservative Prime Ministers. The truth is that the Conservative party has moved further away from any position adopted by any previous Conservative Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.938.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "preceding_text": "y lawful, in certain circumstances, over at least the past 20 years. As it is currently a criminal offence to drive on common land without the owner's permission, I am not clear what the amendments' effect might be on someone who was convicted in the past. What would happen to their conviction? Similarly, could action be taken against a landowner who had, quite lawfully at the time, denied access?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I shall not say that I am disappointed in the response of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State, because I have long appreciated that he is under close control, if not actually on the lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Gray (North Wiltshire)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Gray (North Wiltshire)", "preceding_text": "moved from the amendment and replaced with that of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. That reassures one that one is doing something slightly useful. The next time I am in Wiltshire, relaxing after a tough week in this place, riding down a bridleway whose overhanging branches have been lopped back, or on my way to the opening meet, next season, of my local hunt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "to anyone who knows anything about the countryside. They would take the lambing season more seriously, but they have dismissed it airily. It is in fact vital, but it will be disrupted in the areas involved. The Government would also consider how we can keep our uplands going through shooting. They do not understand shooting, but it is the only way to preserve the uplands as they are at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-14", "file": "debates2000-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "d33b3f99d4d4de49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Way Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman continues to refuse to acknowledge that we have removed all occupiers' liability in respect of natural features of the landscape—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-14a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Miners' Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "the way in which the Department is handling the matter is exacerbating their problems—I received, as usual, holding answers. The Department could not give answers on a critical issue for which it is responsible. I received the answers last night. Three were of such a party political nature that I wrote to the Cabinet Office this morning asking for an investigation of the politicisation of the DTI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Miners' Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "sing of the claims, do not constitute a subject for party political spin from the Minister or other Labour Members. I issued the press release because of the inaction of the Minister and her Secretary of State, who were unable to answer questions about vital matters for which they are departmentally responsible. If the Minister believes that all is well at the DTI, and that her Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Miners' Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "If all is well, why does the Minister think the Nottingham Evening Post quoted a member of the Labour party—one of her MPs—as saying that the position was not acceptable? Other Labour MPs representing Nottinghamshire constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Textile and Clothing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Show us the jacket.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Stephen Byers)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1097.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1097.7", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Textile and Clothing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He's got style.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The Government welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1097.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "er causes the Government some difficulty. Indeed, I well remember, as I am sure he can, many occasions on which that has clearly been disproved by the Government making a statement in just such circumstances. The practice varies from occasion to occasion. One of the important criteria is that we do not allow statements to be made on an Opposition day, which I hope the hon. Gentleman would welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "May we please have an urgent debate on the role of focus groups in government? The Prime Minister's very unfortunate remarks yesterday appalled the entire country with their flippancy and superficiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "omment now? I do not wish to be referred to Foreign Office questions next Tuesday as there is no question dealing with US relations on the Order Paper. The first question that might be appropriate is Question 18 on ethical foreign policy, but that might not be reached. Any comment that the Leader of the House could make now would therefore be valuable in the campaign to save this young man's life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Of course I deplore it if the hon. Gentleman was told incorrectly that information had been placed in the Library. I shall ensure that that is taken up with the relevant Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1122.10", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "European Affairs", "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": "es of Europe and made it one of the leading players in the team. The British Government no longer go to European Councils in the undignified position to which the previous Government were reduced—being the back-seat driver complaining about the direction in which those in charge were going, but never determining it. Britain is now in the driver's seat on the big issues before the European Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Particularly, we shall approve the basis for participation in European crisis management of the six members of NATO who are European countries but not European Union members. They will have the right to be consulted before the European Union initiates any crisis operation. They will have the right to participate in it, and they will have the same rights in its management as any other participants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ached a partnership on that, Opposition Members can relax. They can perhaps even—although I recognise that this may be a hope too far—welcome the results of our efforts to achieve stronger European security. Last Thursday, I saw that the right hon. Member for Horsham claimed that European security and defence policy was inspired—I think that I have his words right—by \"a chilling anti-Americanism.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1129.5", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ople in a referendum. Indeed, the current Leader of the Opposition actually voted in the House to prevent a referendum on the Maastricht treaty. With a record like that, it seems curious that the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) should now have done a cartwheel. Of course, we know why—it was to get the millions of Mr. Paul Sykes out of the Referendum party and into the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will recall that the Foreign Secretary said that the Government were in the driving seat in Europe. Is he aware that one of the Labour Government's first actions was to give way in respect of directions on building regulations, which resulted in not a small firm, but a large one—Armitage Shanks—having to be sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the Foreign Secretary's officials put my speech into his Red Box, but he did not read it to the end. There is no change in my position. If the right hon. Gentleman had done his homework, as he claimed that he had, he would know that I said last week that we would campaign against a treaty of Nice and would demand a referendum on an integrationist treaty, which gave away powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " the IGC will tidy up some loose ends—a bit of wrangling over how many commissioners each country has, the size of the European Parliament and the re-weighting of votes. However, the Government say nothing about the major developments on which decisions could be taken or the treaty changes that would end the veto by extending qualified majority voting in many areas. He has ruled out some of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "That is precisely why I am personally acutely conscious of the need to go no further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "would oppose this because they know that it would diminish the competitive edge of France's European partners. We look for two guarantees on the charter from the Government. First, they must ensure that a new set of wide-ranging rights will not be created at European level. Secondly, they must guarantee that any charter of rights will not be incorporated in the European treaties, even as an annex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " rights will not be incorporated in the European treaties, even as an annex— [Interruption.] Even as an annex, which is the plan. Nor must it be made in any way legally enforceable. Four months ago, the Minister for Europe, who is burbling away on the Front Bench, seemed to agree with us on that point in a written answer. Someone else did the drafting and all he had to do was write his name on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1144.6", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "l forgive me. I am keen to make progress. Even if the charter does not start as a legally binding text, experience shows that that is how it may end up. Social laws started off as a social charter—a statement of general principles—and developed into a social chapter, complete with costly, binding regulations. Before the Minister for Europe gets excited about my having signed the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "itutions of some power and authority with the Crown in Parliament at their apex. I have been in the House for 30 years—perhaps too long—and I believe that Parliament and the institutions of Britain are under a greater challenge than they have ever been in that period. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister recognises that because, in his speech to the national conference of the Women's Institute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "red enthusiasm for Europe and all its works. Perhaps he should change the slogan, \"My country, right or wrong,\" to \"My Europe, right or wrong.\" I observe only that the hon. Gentleman is obviously still crazy after all these years; it is just that the nature of his asylum and the expressions on the faces of the warders around him have changed. I have not spoken in a European debate for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-15", "file": "debates2000-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "e2dc66bc4965d53c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "or the views set out by my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham in a speech made in Berlin. He may not have found them ideal, but I am glad that he approves of much of what my right hon. Friend said. He alluded to the crucial nature of our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation relationship. Very bravely, in a party of control freaks, the hon. Member for Luton, North (Mr. Hopkins) spoke genuinely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-15a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Euro 2000", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald)", "preceding_text": " an amendment to it to prevent unconvicted persons, in certain circumstances, from travelling during international matches. Is the Home Secretary aware that, far from it being my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) who stopped that, it was actually Labour Members as well? The hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey), who was the Minister responsible for the Bill, said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Euro 2000", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Yet again, we have seen a display from the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) that fails to meet the requirements of the occasion. A huge amount of work has been undertaken, by the Government, the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Euro 2000", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": " during the intervening period, they have done nothing about that; they have not introduced a Government measure. Everyone in the House understands that it must be Government legislation—not a private Member's Bill. Furthermore, the right hon. Gentleman's comments on intelligence beg the question of whether sufficient resources are being given to the police, who are generally starved of resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton)", "preceding_text": "at, under the recipe proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) and other hon. Members who believe in a wholly elected Chamber of whatever sort, they would find that there was an alternative Member of Parliament for their constituencies who would claim to represent them as much as they did and take up the same cases and claim to be able to deal with them better?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "oming to that precise point. Even with the retention of an appointed element, we accept the royal commission's proposals to reform the process by which such appointments are made, which is known as the process of patronage. We have already begun to do so voluntarily. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is the first Prime Minister to have reduced his powers of patronage over the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "earned Member for Rushcliffe and others speak for the majority of Conservative Back Benchers. If I were to advise the Leader of the Opposition—an unlikely prospect I know—I would tell him to go for the fully elected option, because it makes political sense. In the nation's consciousness there is an understanding that new Labour is associated with fixes. There was a fix in Scotland, as we all know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " spectacular. I can think of people who used to bear famous noble names who include a retired corporation gardener, a retired police sergeant, someone who owns a small grocer's shop and a retired care worker. The point of that system is that there was a mechanism sanctioned by time, not by logic, for producing a wholly representative bunch of people who were completely incapable of having a party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "s discussing the issue and listening to the debate, along with the few other hon. Members present in the Chamber. It saddens me that so many hon. Members were present when we discussed stage 1 and the removal of the right of hereditary peers to vote, but so few of those who were keen to take part in that debate are in the Chamber tonight to discuss what comes next, which is perhaps more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.104.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-19", "file": "debates2000-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "16d1c3c902e0437c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Just dim.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office (Mr. Paddy Tipping)", "preceding_text": "been substantial changes in the views held by Opposition Members. I remember both the Conservative manifesto, which stated that there would be no radical change for the upper House, and the comments of some hon. Members who supported the hereditary principle. There were dim and distant echoes of that this evening from the hon. Members for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) and for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-19a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.146.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. John Battle)", "preceding_text": "Regrettably—I am tempted to say—I have no current plans to visit St. Helena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.148.7", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Battle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman chairs the all-party St. Helena group—I understand that he takes an interest because St. Helena is the patron saint of his constituency. However, it takes about seven days by boat to get to St. Helena, and seven days to get back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.148.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady prepared her question before she heard my answer. I am sure that she listened carefully to what I said, but in case she did not, I repeat that in 1998 there was an increase of £44.2 million in the World Service budget for the following three financial years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "t I said, but in case she did not, I repeat that in 1998 there was an increase of £44.2 million in the World Service budget for the following three financial years— [Interruption.] If the hon. Lady stops talking and listens for one moment, she will realise that that was an increase, not a decrease. We fully support the World Service and will consider sympathetically all the requests that it makes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ive wrecking tactics\". He should tell his spin doctors not to claim what the record so easily disproves—or, as the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) said yesterday with admirable straightforwardness, he should not \"rewrite history\". However, the right hon. Gentleman did not instruct his spin doctors that way. Instead, he grasped hold of that ludicrous spin like a drowning man clutching at straws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I cannot speak for Burnley but a large amount of information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " than to stop people leaving, but it seems entirely consistent with the law for our police or police in other countries to be entitled to apprehend a person whom they have reasonable cause to believe might commit an offence and, in this example, to prevent that person from travelling. On that basis, I assume that the Dutch and the Belgians can stop specific people from coming into their countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "hat they are going to do about it. The Government can and must take action. Perhaps they should have done more, but, ultimately, responsibility for the scenes that we saw was entirely that of the yobs who created the mayhem and havoc. We must ensure that, whatever points we make in this House, we never lose sight of that fact. The right hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "which resulted in far less criminality by their supporters, with the lackadaisical approach of the Home Secretary, which led to 800 English people being deported from Belgium—the figure is rising all the time. To say that this national humiliation is the fault, among others, of UEFA—as did the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)—he criticised alcohol, which is fair enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " humiliation is the fault, among others, of UEFA—as did the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)—he criticised alcohol, which is fair enough— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman says that he did not criticise UEFA, but he did. He said that it was quite wrong of the organisation to make that threat, but the fact is that UEFA has had enough. His speech deserves little comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way, give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.207.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tory gain.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "h-south migration, but mainly the result of migration within the south-east, particularly from London to surrounding towns and villages— [Official Report, 7 March 2000; Vol. 345, c. 864.] The figures show that the actual pattern is one of migration, as we all know, from the cities to the countryside, from the north and midlands to London and from London to the south. The arithmetic is complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.221.6", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "The Minister knows that the targets cannot be delivered in the south-east. He knows that the weight of housebuilding is overwhelming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "No, I am about to conclude. The challenge for Britain today is to convert existing accommodation for single and elderly people, to rebuild our inner cities, to restore the ownership of neighbourhoods by local people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "No, I am about to conclude. The challenge for Britain today is to convert existing accommodation for single and elderly people, to rebuild our inner cities, to restore the ownership of neighbourhoods by local people— [Interruption.] —to revitalise local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"18.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "man) did not allow me to intervene when he suggested that the Government had to tell the people—that the people needed answers to some of his questions. I was going to ask whether he could answer one of my questions, which has baffled the nearly 2 million people who live in Hampshire. They would be interested to know why the county was singled out for special treatment under 17 years of Tory rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "tingly, when the Deputy Prime Minister was interviewed on \"Breakfast with Frost\" the other day, he said, \"What they want is an intelligent discussion, but take the Tories: they have gone to their Tory friends in Serplan and said, 'Vote against this because we want to make it an election issue.' Well, if they want to say there should be more executive homes at the expense of perhaps decent houses\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.267.7", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst)", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that we have probably had enough interventions from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.267.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "Let me make some progress first. The benefits of the Bill are important, but the cost is that we are considering introducing a principle that will lead to intrusion into private beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "That is absolute rubbish—and I know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"To Opposition Members\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "No. If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I have already given way seven or eight times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.287.5", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": " in giving way a second time, and I am grateful to him. Does he not agree that the fact that the individual may or may not be proud of his particular religion is not at all a good reason for the state to collect statistics about how many people are in that religion? It is of absolutely no relevance. One might as well say, \"I'm proud of my very active sex life\" and therefore put that in the census—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her answer, but I still do not follow her logic. The hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane), who has now left the Chamber—which is oh so typical of the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ved. The hon. Gentleman said that it would help us better to provide food. I think that he was alluding to halal and kosher food. Again, I do not see his point, because whether halal or kosher food is available is determined not by the religion one was brought up in or adheres to, but what one chooses to buy in a shop. There are halal shops and kosher shops because Jewish people and Muslim people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "nk that the Bill is a healthy one. Nor, from a legal point of view, is it elegant. I ask the Minister for an assurance that a clear statement will appear alongside the question saying that, although it is compulsory to answer—it is compulsory to answer all census questions—no penalty will attach to people who do not. Many people, particularly Muslims or those who have recently entered the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "r to undertake that the question will be followed by a statement that no penalty will be attracted by failure to answer it. I hope that she will bear in mind the fact that many of the people filling in the census will be new immigrants. Because of that, they may not have a good command of the English language. The statement needs to be made plainly and clearly so that there is no misunderstanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "I do. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his point about the Clerk to the House of Commons at the end of the 18th century who laid out 12 purposes for the census.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "need it and precisely by what means they would change the delivery of Government services as a result of having it. Will the SSA system be changed? Will education provision be changed? Will the policing services be changed? How will the Government take account of the information? Which Government services will they change as a result of having it? That is question No. 1. Question No. 2, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "rd and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) may have been right in the assertions that he made earlier—that the Bill has some dangerous precedents, that there is a danger that it will cause distortion, and that the Government will seek to move funding away from rural areas to inner-city areas, where they pronounce that they have identified a particular religious minority desperately in need of financial help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "As does my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow). The history of Jewish immigrants symbolises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.303.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "ve not yet heard any practical advantages from putting through the measure. The hon. Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) said that the police would learn the number of Sikhs in Slough. It is their business to know how many Sikhs there are in Slough. They should know already. The fact that some faulty information will almost certainly be gleaned from the census will not benefit policing in Slough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "preceding_text": "t of many hon. Members and of the faith communities that the Bill was not able to receive an unopposed Second Reading on the previous occasions when it was presented before the House. The Government recognise the importance of having a clear picture of the diversity of faith communities in the United Kingdom, to make it possible to deal with the concerns and needs of all sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-20", "file": "debates2000-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "65086e78e1cf1285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.7", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Melanie Johnson)", "preceding_text": "cerns and needs of all sections of the community. [Interruption.] The census is, indeed, a once in a decade opportunity to do that, reliably and consistently, for local areas across the country. I am grateful to some of my hon. Friends, and to the hon. Members for MidBedfordshire (Mr. Sayeed) and for Croydon, South (Mr. Ottaway), for shedding the only light cast on the subject in this long debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-20a.304.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "cly press the IRA to fulfil its commitments—not just those made in May, but those made over a period of two years—the reaction will be that, somehow, we are pressuring the IRA? General de Chastelain shares that frustration in terms of any statement that he may make to encourage disarmament by paramilitaries. If he says anything, he will be deemed to have lost the confidence of those organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": " somehow, we are pressuring the IRA? General de Chastelain shares that frustration in terms of any statement that he may make to encourage disarmament by paramilitaries. If he says anything, he will be deemed to have lost the confidence of those organisations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"] I always worry that some of the Secretary of State's colleagues are not very keen to hear criticism of the IRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.327.6", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. George Howarth)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. George Howarth)", "preceding_text": "The next summit meeting of the British-Irish Council is likely to be held after the summer. At its inaugural summit in December, the members of the council agreed an important and wide-ranging work programme covering subjects such as transport, drugs and the environment. These are being taken forward by each of the participating Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.327.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Whatever the right hon. Gentleman is responding to is an entirely different question from the one that I actually put to him. The chief executive of the MS Society said today that thousands of people are waking up this morning with the icy fingers of dread closing round their hearts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister cannot escape his responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows— [Interruption.] Once again, this Government blame everybody else for every problem. They blame problems that they created on the Opposition. They blame the media for the way in which the Government get publicity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.7", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that people are worried. However, the right hon. Gentleman is proposing to take out £1 billion for private al—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.332.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joe Ashton (Bassetlaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joe Ashton (Bassetlaw)", "preceding_text": "ware that the Football Association and the Government have mounted a magnificent campaign over the past two years, pointing out to the world that we have the best stadiums and organise football better than any other country? They have also pointed out that our police have no problems with crowds in Britain. The hooligans go abroad, but in this country we have a magnificent record of crowd control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": "How does the right hon. Gentleman justify the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer used two different rates of inflation so that the increase in tax on petrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.336.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us an answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Turner", "preceding_text": "inister. Is he aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health—bless him—last Friday announced a £12 million, state-of-the-art cardiac centre for Wolverhampton? That investment will improve the health and life chances of thousands of our citizens in Wolverhampton and the black country. Is not that an example of good old-fashioned public spending in modernising our health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "words, he would have to go to a European summit to block the very enlargement that he has the cheek to stand at the Dispatch Box and tell me that he wants more of. As for the extension of qualified majority voting, we know why the right hon. Gentleman has come up with that policy. Let me ensure that I have it right: any extension of qualified majority voting results in a referendum. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is sensible that we have a strong commitment to human rights and liberties in the European Union. We need to make sure that that does not unintentionally result in new laws which we in this country have not had an opportunity to scrutinise properly. We must guard against that. With respect to positive engagement, this country's position is far stronger in Europe than it has been for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cht treaty, which it signed. It is so obvious that when we are in co-operation and partnership with 14 other countries, the sensible way to get the best for one's own country is to form alliances, to engage constructively and to be positive. That approach yields results for this country. The Conservative party would now be blocking the very enlargement that is the next focus of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " they would be disastrous policies for the country. We would be a laughing stock in the rest of the world if we ended up saying that any extension of qualified majority voting would result in a referendum of the entire British people. If we went one further, which is what Conservative policy is now, and said that we would block enlargement unless there were a renegotiation of the essential treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The short answer is that the tests are economic tests. We have resolved the political issue. Of course, there are political implications. There are constitutional implications. But each of those has been resolved by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "sto, which will include our proposals for children's services. It is slightly disingenuous of the hon. Gentleman to misquote my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) on the subject of adoption. The hon. Gentleman knows very well what my hon. Friend meant. He was not referring to children in care for very brief periods; he was talking about children in long-term care and the desirability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "on in exemplary fashion and run with it tremendously well, and for his direct predecessor, now the Minister of State, Home Office, my right hon. Friend the Member for Brent, South (Mr. Boateng), and, above all, for my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), whose justified anger, passion and determination to change the care system have carried these measures through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-21", "file": "debates2000-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "54ce8e56aecd97b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Order of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the Minister was not here during the relevant part of my speech, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-21a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-22", "file": "debates2000-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "69c1583120bd5903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-22a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "come to admire greatly the many staff of the service whom I have met, and the leadership of its director general, Stephen Lander, who was knighted in the birthday honours. It is appropriate at this point to take the opportunity to inform hon. Members that the Prime Minister and I have agreed with the Director General of the Security Service that his term of appointment be extended to October 2002.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-22a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-22", "file": "debates2000-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "69c1583120bd5903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-22a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Security and Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "cing data protection in other respects. That seems consistent and should apply to material held by the security services. There was speculation in the newspapers a while ago that a file was held on the Home Secretary and the then Minister without Portfolio, the present Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. It is difficult to imagine anyone who is less of a security risk than the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-22a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More—not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "policing of London. As I do, I should make to the House an apology that has already been communicated to the Opposition, which is that I shall leave after the Opposition Front Bencher has spoken. I hope that the House will accept in mitigation the fact that my attendance in the House has been fairly regular—in fact, this is the fifth occasion on which I have spoken from the Dispatch Box this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Both the figure that I gave and that which my hon. Friend provided are correct, but in different ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.564.6", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ity. I have long believed in the key role of police authorities in ensuring police accountability. You will remember, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as you were elected at the same time, that back in 1979, just after I entered the House, I introduced a ten-minute Bill—the Police Authorities (Powers) Bill—which proposed, among other things, a properly representative and democratic police authority for London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.564.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that the one follows the other. The fact is that a reorganisation was taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary can ask that, but it will clearly depend on when the Conservative party retakes office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "No, not now; I should like to make a bit of progress. The point that the Home Secretary made on the establishment of the first Metropolitan Police Authority and the end of his role in the job needs a little further examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-23", "file": "debates2000-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6aaaf4f18959b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Policing (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horam (Orpington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horam (Orpington)", "preceding_text": "hairman of the Police Federation has said that there has been the largest fall in actual police numbers since the crisis days of the mid-1970s; and only yesterday Sir John Stevens said that numbers in London were at their lowest since the 1970s, and outlined the problems of retention and recruitment. It seems that every time we have a Labour Government, we have a crisis of this kind in the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-23a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-26", "file": "debates2000-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aedba2a94c2a7d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course I will answer. Crime has risen repeatedly since the war. It doubled under the Conservatives. As the right hon. Lady is, I know, particularly concerned about violent crime, she may like to know that in the year for which she was wholly responsible for crime, 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-26", "file": "debates2000-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aedba2a94c2a7d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.651.6", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "What does the Minister have to say in response to the British Chambers of Commerce report that the Bill will cost the economy £46 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.651.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-26", "file": "debates2000-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aedba2a94c2a7d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.654.6", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's cynicism is uncharacteristic. It is unfortunate that the various anti-social behaviour orders and child curfew orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.654.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-26", "file": "debates2000-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "aedba2a94c2a7d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Human Genome Project", "cue_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excellence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Hewitt", "preceding_text": "nge of treatments available to individuals. It is worth adding that we should not assume that all the new treatments that science will make available will necessarily be more expensive than those available now. Some may be cheaper, not least because they will be more effective and better targeted than those available now. Also, we have established the National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-26a.661.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"Shifting the Balance\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "s: Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich)", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Vaccine Damage Payments", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts (Havant)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts (Havant)", "preceding_text": "That is certainly true of this announcement. In December 1998, the then Minister of State said that the Government hoped to conclude our review early in the new year.—[ Official Report, 2 December 1998; Vol. 321, c. 817.] That would have been early in 1999. We were told by the Minister in the Lords that an announcement would be made \"as soon as possible.\" Now we are told by the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": " try to see a difference between city academies and city technology colleges should consult clause 124, which makes it clear that the legislative basis of city academies is a bolt-on to the city technology college provisions of a Conservative Education Act. We are, therefore, waiting for Ministers to say a big thank you to the Conservative Secretary of State who pioneered city technology colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "not it be appropriate to explore its wider application? Amendments Nos. 84, 85 and 86 attempt to widen the application of the scheme. I have tabled the amendments in a spirit of hope that Ministers will start to elucidate some of their thinking, and perhaps let hon. Members and the outside world into the secret of their aim. Apparently, they dare not speak its name. They are prepared to establish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "is own policies. To say that it is possible to select 10 per cent. of a school's intake according to aptitude for technology, but not to accept that it is possible to select 10 per cent. for aptitude for technology, 10 per cent. for science and 10 per cent. for sports is illogical. That might not be appropriate for all schools. Indeed, I am sure that it would not be. However, it would be sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": "thusiasm of parents bore the strongest correlation to pupils' results in school. Although the number of teachers was a factor, the second most important element in achieving successful outcomes in education was experienced teachers. Thirdly, and a long way down the list, came the quality of the buildings and the equipment used. It was clear then and it is clear to a blind man on a galloping horse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "l communities—including that of his hon. Friend the Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes)—are clamouring for a city academy in their area, not to knock out success and aspiration but to replace failure and under-achievement. That is the purpose of the measure. It may be a flea on an elephant's behind, to paraphrase my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East slightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Clause 135", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "t in a light or debating sense but to record that the amendment has nothing to do specifically with gay issues—and nor has it to do with the criminal law. My third point in what I might call path clearing is that the amendment has nothing directly to do with the operation of section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. That will be discussed in a different context. If the Government are intending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"South\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Blackpool, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "don to trust them, they would not necessarily be trusted because of the statutory provisions that they want to implement—especially in relation to the cessation of TECs and their assets. I do not want to leap forward to a discussion of those proposals; in tabling my provisions, I want only to be given a clearer idea of the results the Government envisage from a co-ordinating body whose importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.811.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "I did not give way to the hon. Member for South Dorset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Clause 89", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": ", but I think that the Minister is aware of a case in my constituency that is especially apposite to this debate about the proposed powers to transfer assets that have been given to a TEC for a particular purpose. Weymouth college is based at two sites. One of them was passed to the college by a local estate, with the not unusual proviso that the asset should be used only for educational purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.863.9", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "ate sixth forms. It is confined to school sixth forms. It does not include the other types of institutions, notwithstanding the fact that school sixth forms have a better record of providing good GCSE results earlier on and better academic A-level results than other types of providers. The definition of inadequate sixth forms is wholly unsatisfactory, and the amendment is designed to put it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.863.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-27", "file": "debates2000-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "81680914954cc248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Schedule 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "I appreciated the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady), although it would have been easier to hear them if there had not been so many conversations being carried out by Labour Members. I hope that they will do the House a courtesy and hear the Bill out in silence. If they have so little respect for the Bill, perhaps none of us should let it go through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-27a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.896.9", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Hunting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foxes?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": " out foxes with dogs, and he is also fully aware that other methods that are used in Wales could control pests, including foxes. It is not just hunting with hounds that can control foxes. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman also knows that the great bulk of Members of Parliament in Wales—and, for that matter, as far as we know, Members of the National Assembly—do not believe that hunting with foxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.896.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let us see who managed the economy best. The party now in government has created 1 million extra jobs, got interest rates of 6 per cent., managed to halve the deficit that we inherited—in fact, get rid of it—and taken a million children out of poverty. Was it our party or the right hon. Gentleman's party which, in government, doubled the national debt, had interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the comparison that Conservative Members do not like. Which party had interest rates averaging 10 or 11 per cent., took unemployment figures over 3 million, had manufacturing output cut by 7 per cent., devalued the national health service and our schools, and doubled crime and poverty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I am delighted that 1,000 people have started on the new deal programme in my hon. Friend's constituency, and nearly 500 of them have gained jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I think that the whole House would want to continue them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.900.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, let me point out that the targets put forward by the Deputy Prime Minister are lower than those for many of the years of the previous Conservative Government, of which the hon. Gentleman was a proud supporter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.902.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "e, and the investment of £189 million in United Kingdom plant? Will he join me in congratulating all the workers of Vauxhall Luton on the work that they have put in to secure that investment? Does he not agree that that is a significant boost to UK manufacturing industry, which stands in sharp contrast to the actions of the Conservatives, under whose regime 26 million manufacturing jobs were lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.903.0", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it was actually 2.6 million jobs that went under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "mpensation scheme, or the Government risk running into fearfully expensive legal actions in Europe. I pray in aid the National Farmers Union, which as we all know is a non-political organisation. It has made it clear in letters on the subject, including one that I received in January that Should this legislation proceed it is therefore imperative that the individuals concerned are treated fairly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I will give an honest answer: no, I do not, because I do not have the troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I will give an honest answer: no, I do not, because I do not have the troops. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Ms Atherton) may find that funny; I am answering the question. I do not intend to divide the House, because the troops are not here with which to divide the House. The point, none the less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary has given the game away, because if he wants to talk about the conditions of animals, he had better address the keeping of chickens in battery cages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "r the purposes of fur wearing. I suspect that they do not like individuals wearing fur—I am pretty agnostic about the wearing of fur, save that I do not want endangered species to be eliminated. People who take that view should try to persuade people not to do it. That is persuasion. They should not use the criminal law to impose on their fellow citizens their own moral prejudices, which is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "suasion. They should not use the criminal law to impose on their fellow citizens their own moral prejudices, which is wrong. [Interruption.] I hear wails, moans and groans from the Opposition and I am not in the least surprised. One of the characteristics of this Labour party is that it fails properly to weigh up the rights of fellow citizens. The Conservative party stands for freedom and liberty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "old no particular candle for fur farmers. I have none in my constituency. I am sorry to say that I think that I own no fur and neither does my wife. I have no reason to believe that fur farming is necessarily a good thing. My opposition to the Bill is based not on the principle, but on the Bill's sheer illogicality. I see the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) returning to her place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "culating in the Corridors as to whether or not the Government will be able to complete the passage of their important Bills. Even my constituents are asking why, if that is the case, we are wasting our time dealing with this Bill. There are only 13 fur farms left in the United Kingdom. Even if the Government hate fur farming, we should be dealing with health, education, law and order, and defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-28", "file": "debates2000-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f41db166f5328ac2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "t, politically, we would achieve an awful lot by coming down heavily on them. Despite the fact that there are 8,000 other fur farmers in Europe, we can demonstrate that we are hard on such people. We are politically correct, wonderful new Labour and we will sort out the ills of the world by wasting parliamentary time dealing with something in which the people are not the slightest bit interested.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-28a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1049.2", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ly no indication of difficulties. Any glance at the statistics will show that, under a Labour Government, discussion in the Lords—for some unaccountable reason—seems to take more time and has resulted in more defeats for the Government's programme. The statistics are incontestable. That is a cross that all Labour Governments have had to bear and, no doubt, this Government will continue to bear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours (Workington)", "preceding_text": "If we are to debate Neill's recommendations on ministerial advisers—and I presume that Tory Members think that they will have a feast—would my right hon. Friend arrange to have a document placed in the Library? I refer to the agreement on Short money, whereby taxpayers' money is paid to Conservative Members of Parliament for them to hire political advisers for Front-Bench spokesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "(Woodspring) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1058.9", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "I have hardly started, and shall take interventions later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1058.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "lthough he did say that Ministers had come round to the idea that waiting times were more important than waiting list numbers. She wanted to report what Ministers genuinely thought, while they wanted to maintain complete control because they thought that in the short term the spin would be wrong for the Government, even though the policy may be right. How twisted and perverse is it possible to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1061.5", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "I accept that that is the view of The Daily Telegraph editorial today. I shall deal with my views shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1061.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "Setting the quality of standards for all health care, in both the private and the state sector, is a legitimate role of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "We have been setting in place a system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "utely right. We want to make sure that the people on the ground have the tools and the resources to do the job. However, Conservative Members should not then ask me to intervene in each and every case. Those on the Conservative Front Bench, and those on the Conservative Back Benches, should really get their act together. We have made rebuilding the fabric of the national health service a priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "nch, and those on the Conservative Back Benches, should really get their act together. We have made rebuilding the fabric of the national health service a priority— [Interruption.] I wish that the hon. Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) would stop chuntering to himself. Accident and emergency departments in 182 hospitals are being expanded and refurbished, 1,000 GP surgeries are being modernised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows well that that is not the case. There is the clearest of differences between an assessment of clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness—which, from his speech yesterday, he now supports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "Sometimes I wonder why I bother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "e glad about something. I have just explained why we made the amendment to the establishment order. It was precisely to clarify that NICE has a role in assessing not only for clinical effectiveness but—as the hon. Member for Woodspring and his party now agree—for cost-effectiveness. As I understand it, there is no argument about that. Decisions about affordability are a separate issue for the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "r refusal to support tobacco taxation being ring-fenced for the NHS and their extension of tax perks for private medical insurance mean that they could not even hope to match the Government's spending on the NHS. The Opposition cannot match our commitment to modernisation, so they are forced to prioritise their real policy. That is not to modernise the national health service, but to privatise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": ". I can see the leaflets and the party political broadcasts. There we have it, from the lips of the hon. Gentleman; the authentic voice of today's Conservative party. The Conservatives are no longer committed to getting waiting times down for everybody in the NHS; they are committed to extending waiting times in the NHS. They are committed to taking non-urgent operations out of the NHS altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1089.5", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martlew", "preceding_text": "ons for community services. I will write to my hon. Friend the Minister, but I hope that he has noted my concern. The choice is clear: it is between a privatised NHS where—let us accept what the Tories say; we do not want to scare people—people who need life-saving operations will receive them, but people who need cataract operations or hip replacements will have to go on an extended waiting list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1089.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ree beneficial effects. First, it will drive up quality. Secondly, it will facilitate the optimal degree of specialisation within the health service. The abolition of extra-contractual referrals last April is causing a crisis in specialist care in the NHS. As my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring said, 24 surgeons issued a press release to coincide with the publication of my pamphlet last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Linda Perham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Happy birthday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Linda Perham", "preceding_text": "dedicated people in the NHS who have been involved in my father's care in the past few days. His GP, the ambulance crew and nursing and medical staff at Queen Mary's hospital, Sidcup are a testament to the NHS working at its best to deliver for patients. Unlike Conservative Members, led by the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox), I want to praise our NHS, not to run it down. Today is my birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": " her keen personal interest, but her wider political and social interest in health. I hope that all goes well with her family. There are one or two irritating factors in the debate. One is the view that the NHS was created by just one party. It was not. It came out of a coalition that was developed during the war and it was finally put into practice with the support of Governments of both parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Ms Julia Drown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Julia Drown", "preceding_text": "e NHS say that, sometimes, it does not feel like that to them. To them, I have two things to say: first, listen to Ministers—the Secretary of State has said on several occasions that clinical priority is the important thing; and secondly, look at the things that Labour Members of Parliament are doing in this country. We visit our local hospitals and community units and talk to staff working there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "A plaque is not a hospital. The right hon. Lady well knows that new hospitals were not built under the previous Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1116.4", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fiction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Again, I appeal for calm. The points are matters of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-06-29", "file": "debates2000-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "7496e91562790735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Opposition Day 15TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to somebody who has just wandered in off the street. I say that the Opposition spokesman is like a 19th century quack, because whatever symptoms and problems the NHS patient faces, the prescription is always the same: a strong dose of Doctor Fox's patent private medical insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-06-29a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "That is a sort of urban myth that the Opposition are trying to propagate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "Yes, I fully understand those sentiments. However, I should point out that many of the circumstances have existed for much of the time since 1955, when a previous Conservative Government decided not to proceed further. I should also point out that the Conservative party was in power for 18 years and chose not to make a decision. These are difficult issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that he was old and tired. He is living in the past. The policies that I have announced today are our policies now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady now answer a simple question, which she has so far refused to answer? If she disagreed so fundamentally with Lord Hurd's approach, why did she not change that approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether she is a member of my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.31.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ember for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow). If the right hon. Gentleman had said before the last election, \"Our answer to the drugs problem is to reduce the amount of time that drugs offenders will serve in prison and then let them out—tagged as they may be—so that they will still nevertheless be perfectly able to deal in drugs\", does he think that that would have inspired the confidence of the electorate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Obviously I am capable of recognising the differences in the regime, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman questions whether there is a difference in principle. I go back to the debate 10 years ago when the proposal for such a system was before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "t was discussed in Standing Committee. It is also a matter of record than when the Home Affairs Committee considered the issue in a good deal of detail, and spent some months taking evidence about it, it concluded unanimously that the HDC scheme would provide adequate protection to the public because of the tagging element, and will give prisoners an opportunity to readjust to life outside prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.40.12", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that the so-called certified normal capacity has usually been exceeded. For example, it was exceeded by 4,500 in the year in which he was Home Secretary. What is crucial is the usable operational capacity, which the Conservatives always took account of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.40.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "and on parole, or when they were under a suspended sentence? If those were totalled up, noughts would be added to that figure of 700. I concede, from the word go, that 700 is 700 too many. However, in terms of success and failure, in looking at things realistically, it is a 2 per cent. failure rate, or a 98 per cent. success rate. I reckon that 98 per cent. success is pretty good, bearing in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "? If those were totalled up, noughts would be added to that figure of 700. I concede, from the word go, that 700 is 700 too many. However, in terms of success and failure, in looking at things realistically, it is a 2 per cent. failure rate, or a 98 per cent. success rate. I reckon that 98 per cent. success is pretty good, bearing in mind— [Interruption.] The right hon. Lady has an annoying habit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I was going to point out a continuity, as those people had the sole objective of coming to the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows, because in her serious moments she has done some serious thinking on the issue, that the definition of purposeful activity is seriously flawed. In fairness, she will admit that. She also knows that, by any definition, this Government are spending more money on, and devoting more energy and resources to, basic literacy and numeracy than her Government ever did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "rk in ways that are better designed to reduce the impact of reoffending and to protect the public. Importantly, they must also be based on recognition of the vital role that can be played by the home detention curfew scheme in terms of the transition from prison into the community. It really is disappointing that, on a day on which the Conservative Opposition should have addressed the real issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "le to do as we have done, effectively to redress the impact of burglary and vehicle crime, and to take measures that have led domestic burglary and vehicle crime to fall. That is our record. Under the Conservatives' stewardship of the criminal justice system, crime doubled and the number of criminals convicted by the courts fell by a third. This Government are reversing the fall in police numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.71.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No; let me finish. Opposition Members hate being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "g a positive response to the Committee's recommendations, we have seen further evidence of the Government's arrogant disregard for standards in public life, which they claim to have been elected to uphold. On 7 May 1997, the Prime Minister told the parliamentary Labour party that Labour was not elected to enjoy the trappings of power but to do a job and uphold the highest standards in public life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. White", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": " been invited to say something about the issue, however, may I point out that I am astonished by the outbreak of what one might call political virginity among the political classes? It is though it is a shock and a revelation to learn that politicians like to be liked, like to be liked more than their colleagues and try to ensure that the world knows that they are liked more than their colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "ime Minister's website can be under any illusion about its primary purpose. It exists to build the image of the Prime Minister, but what do the rules state? They state that it is okay to build the image of a Minister so long as that is a by-product of the Government's publicity operation. The civil service code states that Ministers have a duty to use public resources for party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.111.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Killer question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kemp", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked who pays the rent for special advisers at No. 10 Downing street. Who pays the rent for the special advisers, particularly the press secretary, to the Leader of the Opposition—the Tory party or the taxpayer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-03", "file": "debates2000-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c92675e989ed34ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.121.5", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "s or the extra £40,000, on average, for every school. They do not want to talk about the working families tax credit, because they would abolish it. Opposition Members have a straightforward right-wing agenda. They want to create fear by talking about immigration and asylum seekers. The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) himself has not been afraid to advise on using the race card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-03a.121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": "hat we amended the establishment order for NICE last summer because we had received legal advice that, as the order was drafted, NICE would not have been able to consider cost-effectiveness at all. Given that the hon. Gentleman believes that NICE needs to consider cost-effectiveness as well as clinical effectiveness, he would have been required to make that amendment, had he been in that position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denham", "preceding_text": " material as part of the campaign, either at the end of this month or at the beginning of August, which will provide guidance to staff, health authorities and employers in mental health and community health settings and the ambulance services because those staff are at particular risk. On mobile phones and other forms of communication, I agree that employers should make proper assessments locally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "licy of the current Government, designed to get waiting times down for all conditions, and the Conservatives' policy, which is to force people to take out private health insurance for treatment such as cataract operations, hip and knee replacements and so on. I remind the hon. Gentleman, should he need reminding, of what the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) told The Sunday Times on 16 January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.167.4", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is simply not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Football Hooliganism", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " House is well familiar with Government Bills arriving with 500 Government amendments added at a late stage because they have not been drafted properly. We cannot proceed on a rushed basis with a Bill that has serious implications for civil liberties in this country. We will support the right hon. Gentleman in getting the Bill through and we will support speeding up the timetable, but we will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Football Hooliganism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "s…to track down and convict those who commit football violence. Only once these measures are fully used— that is, the existing measures— can we start to assess whether there is a need for further legislation. It was only a week later and a few days before the competition began that there was any promise, even on paper, from the Conservative party to support us in taking legislation through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ho were in the House last night heard the Minister with responsibility for prisons say in terms in his reply, \"We, the Government party, are not interested in hearing what the Opposition have to say. Why should we be?\" The Government do not want the House to debate the matter. Indeed, the Minister for Local Government and the Regions, who is in charge of the Bill, has just left. She may have fled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "at we put on to the statute book are as good as they possibly can be. A full debate is not just an opportunity for Opposition Back Benchers. It also allows Government Back Benchers to scrutinise the Bill. The problem with a timetable motion is that my contribution even on this motion is being shortened. Because of the guillotine motion, I am a less effective Back Bencher than I otherwise could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "al government in Wales, such as European development plans—the process for which will shortly restart in Wales—best value plans, local education plans and so on. By virtue of the fact that local government in Wales is a devolved matter and by virtue of the developing role of the National Assembly for Wales, such matters could in time—and perhaps even now, under the Bill, have come under the aegis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "hat they have adopted that approach because they are attracted by the possibility of secrecy and carrying out decision making behind closed doors. The London borough of Camden, for example, might well have embraced these wonderful modernising ideas. However, when it came to it, Camden, which is an overwhelmingly Labour-controlled council, voted 43 to zero against the Government's proposals. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "il was one of the first to go over to the cabinet system because the then leader, Lord Bassam, now a Junior Home Office Minister, wanted to pleased his close friends— the Prime Minister and the Minister for Local Government and the Regions. It is strange that two councils that might be expected to be at the cutting edge in modernising local government would vote against the Government's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "I shall not read out the amendments in this group. If I did, I would run out of time entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "e have been considering the Bill since April, when it had its Second Reading. We have had hundreds of amendments and here we are, in July, at its last knockings in this House, still fiddling with a vital section of it. That is a great indictment of the Government. The Minister, in the little tirade at the end of her speech, said that Conservative Members were a bunch of old-fashioned neanderthals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ge majority on it—even though we still do not know the definition of the key word. What is a key decision? We still do not know that. We do not know what can be interpreted as a key word. As I understand the regulations, the decision as to what a key decision is will ultimately be decided by the local authority concerned, with some guidance from the Minister in some manner, which we have not seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "wash. We have heard all the usual guff about openness, transparency and so on, and we must all learn a new theology about key decisions. The Minister had the temerity in her opening remarks to boast about the fact that the draft regulations were put out for discussion. Yes, they were, but only since yesterday—talk about legislating on the hoof. The Government have rushed out the draft regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Turner", "preceding_text": "I am not opposed to proportional representation per se.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "tests and difficult meetings that that amount was reduced. When that issue was debated in Cardiff, members of the Labour group who opposed paying the lord mayor such a salary were subsequently suspended. That demonstrates the attitude of Labour councillors towards the new cabinet system. My local newspaper, and that of the Minister for Local Government and the Regions, is The Journal in Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spell it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "That is not the case at all. We accept that people should have a reasonable allowance to enable them to be councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-04", "file": "debates2000-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7718f1fe04cedf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "that the names of the leading figures in local government in the north-east of England crop up time and again—I am sure that that also happens in other parts of the country. If one goes through the magic circle into the inner core of the Labour party in local government, one will pick up a salary of £30,000 a year, expenses, trips and, if one is lucky, a place on an NHS trust or on another quango.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-04a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State tell the House what contribution the Prime Minister's initiative group at the Department for International Development makes to the proposed Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.320.7", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Conversations are much too noisy. The House must come to order. I cannot hear, neither can Ministers. Secretary of State, did you hear the question correctly? Will the hon. Gentleman repeat the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.320.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "preceding_text": "A mechanism for international emergency relief already exists under the co-ordination of the United Nations. We are supporting the strengthening of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Our strategy paper on that work is available in the Library. The emergency relief operations of my Department are widely recognised as one of the most effective in the international system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.322.8", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Australian!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to join in those sentiments. At my meeting with the Australian Prime Minister yesterday, we agreed that we should establish here a proper and fitting war memorial to those American service men and women who lost their lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.322.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.322.8", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to join in those sentiments. At my meeting with the Australian Prime Minister yesterday, we agreed that we should establish here a proper and fitting war memorial to those American service men and women who lost their lives—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Australian!\"] Forgive me: Australian service men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.322.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The essence of the proposal of course is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The essence of the proposal of course is that— [Interruption.] The essence of the proposal is that there should be summary justice for disorderly conduct and that there should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uld just listen. There should be on-the-spot fines for those people who engage in disorderly conduct. It is correct that it may be better to do that by fixed penalty notice, but summary justice, on the spot, is the essence of the proposal. Perhaps when the right hon. Gentleman gets to his feet, he will say whether, if we introduce the proposal for summary fixed penalty notices, he will support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "idea was this? It could not have been the Home Office civil servants', because they said that they knew nothing about it. It could not have been the Home Office Ministers', because they called it an \"ill judged metaphor\". It could not have been the police's idea, because they said it was \"ludicrous\" and \"unworkable\". Could it have been anyone in the Labour party? Hands up anyone who thought of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.4", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On-the-spot fines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The child curfew orders and the anti-social behaviour orders were part of a Government strategy to deal with unruly behaviour. They are being used, and we want to see them being used more. However, I take it from what the right hon. Gentleman has just said that he will support on-the-spot fines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman well knows, that proposal was supported by his party. On football hooliganism, we now know today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "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": "es of community service orders, benefit is lost. The Opposition oppose that as well. They also oppose the fines on illegal trafficking in illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. As for their record on crime, many people in the country remember that it was under the Conservatives that crime doubled. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to be taken seriously on crime, let him stand at this Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "e taken seriously on crime, which he never will. We will support tougher measures on crime going through the House, but we will subject them to proper parliamentary scrutiny, which he has never favoured. The number of people—a figure which, again, he has not given—released early who have committed grievous bodily harm is now 1,654, many of whom have offended again. Three years into the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.325.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nce; the new hospital building programme—not spin, substance; the building work for up to 11,000 schools—not spin, but substance; today's £1 billion programme for science—not spin, but substance; the minimum wage; paid holidays; the right to union representation; the new deal; the working families tax credit—all substance. The truth is, when the debate turns to policy, we will see who is standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That does not seem to be an offer that I can refuse. I am delighted that that investment is going into my hon. Friend's constituency. Every accident and emergency department throughout the country that needs it is being refurbished. In addition, there is the largest hospital-building programme since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will not respond to the hon. Gentleman about the detail of his own constituency because I do not know it, but I will make sure that I get the response. However, if we are to reduce hospital waiting lists—of course, the in-patient lists have come down nationally by 100,000—we have to make an investment in more nurses, doctors and facilities in the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.329.2", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " I get the response. However, if we are to reduce hospital waiting lists—of course, the in-patient lists have come down nationally by 100,000—we have to make an investment in more nurses, doctors and facilities in the health service. [Interruption.] It is no use the hon. Gentleman shaking his head: he is against that extra investment in the health service. He is going to go into the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.337.6", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITION ON PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY: BULLYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) will have to contain himself, Madam Speaker. I have got as far as page 2 of my remarks. Although more heat than light has been generated on this issue, it is instructive to look at the history. The provision first saw light as a Back-Bench amendment. The Minister glowers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.337.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITION ON PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY: BULLYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "te on that Bill, during which the efforts of a number of Opposition Members to include a specific commendation of marriage were voted down. Given the overwhelming evidence that monogamy, abstinence and marriage are the best foundations for the rearing of children—that was the context of the debate, but the same applies in a number of other contexts—I am not entirely convinced by what she has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITION ON PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY: BULLYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": ", as is every other form of bullying. Some excessively thin or anorexic children are also bullied and are subject to unpleasant jibes and names such as \"beanpole\". Would any hon. Member seriously suggest, however, that overweight children should not be warned of the medical dangers of being overweight? If their condition results from a medical condition, should not they be pointed towards doctors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Clause 103", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "rds of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. McDonnell), the Government have a contempt for local government. To return to the meeting of the Local Government Association in Bournemouth last week, we had the non-appearance of the Deputy Prime Minister, although I understand that he found time to go to the British soaps awards. We had a panel discussion involving the hon. Member for Torbay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-05", "file": "debates2000-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "423e824ed7cd5e9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "y mornings outside the Bentalls centre in Claremont street and, occasionally, buskers get in the way. That is not to say that busking is not welcomed by people who shop in Kingston town centre. I have often seen large crowds gathering round both musical and performing arts buskers, enjoying the entertainment. That is welcome because it creates a happy, relaxed atmosphere in the centre of Kingston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-05a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.411.6", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "ersonal attention, I acted on behalf of his constituents. If he goes back to the correspondence and reads it, he will receive the answers to a lot of his questions. I repeat our regret that there have been delays, but we have got a grip on the problem—there are no further delays. In answer to the hon. Gentleman's question about the number of payments, we are not yet in a position to tell him that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Jacqui Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is 22.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Jacqui Smith)", "preceding_text": "The average size of classes in secondary schools is 22.0—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State admit that the rate of improvement has been no greater during the Government's term of office than it was under the previous Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I have just spelled out that there was a 15-point improvement in literacy, from 56 to 71 per cent. I do not recall the exact figures for the years between 1994 and 1997, but there certainly was not an improvement from 41 to 56 per cent. If there had been, we would have adopted the policy that Opposition Members were then following—which was to do sod all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Central (Mr. Cousins) asked why the Inland Revenue was doing some more visits while Customs was reducing its number of visits. The answer to that question is that, through closer working and shared experience, the two Departments have a better understanding of when they should visit and how to conduct such visits. Therefore, what appears to be a negative—that is, a reduction in visits—is actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dismore", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend and, in those circumstances, I shall not cite the last case, which is perhaps the most appalling of all. I shall tell him about it afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-06", "file": "debates2000-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd79966f40ca4b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew George", "preceding_text": "ul. I was one of the new intake of Members of Parliament, although we are not new any more. We all recognise that we do not have people queueing up at our casework surgeries to congratulate the Government on not taking their benefit away. They come to our constituency surgeries to complain when that happens. In comparison with the Child Support Agency, the medical services are not doing too badly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-06a.496.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-07", "file": "debates2000-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "15ee3424d82377ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.542.2", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As every Member who has spoken so far has to leave the debate early, might those who will stay to the end be given precedence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-07", "file": "debates2000-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "15ee3424d82377ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cawsey", "preceding_text": "ly dispatched with a shot in the head. Those practices do not provide good animal welfare arguments. I was pleased to see that the Burns report dealt with the argument that, when a fox is hunted by a pack of dogs, it will be killed instantly by the lead hound with a bite on the back of the neck. I have never believed that claim and am pleased that Burns seems, finally, to have destroyed that myth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-07", "file": "debates2000-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "15ee3424d82377ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "I did not know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.570.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-07", "file": "debates2000-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "15ee3424d82377ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "If today's debate results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-07a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "We on the Conservative Benches have nothing particularly against local cultural strategies, although a growing number of local authorities are coming round to our view that regional cultural consortiums are a waste of space and money. While on the subject of cultural strategies, I wonder whether the hon. Lady ever gets a chance to read the Tatler magazine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "hetoric, the misuse of language…I think they don't believe half the things they say and they are trying to find words to cover up their lack of belief. They think they are fighting for the common man, whereas they are demeaning the entire country. Next time the Government sit down to work out their cultural strategy, why do they not think of the only strategy that matters—the exit strategy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I, too, have a question. Do the amendments provide that the clause will relate only to police stations, or will its provisions apply to the three—prospectively one—detention centres in Northern Ireland. In Committee, we debated the Government's welcome plans to reduce the number of such centres, but such centres are currently in use. I cannot remember whether we are down to one yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "t answer is that I cannot do so off the cuff, but I will write to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. As he may know, we debated that extensively in Committee, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, addressed the matter at length. There are substantive safeguards in place, which would meet the reasonable concern expressed by the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a small point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am not mortally offended, but the Annunciator shows that a Mr. K. Hughes of Doncaster, North spoke between 17.43 and 17.45. I do not believe that he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Rendel", "preceding_text": "nly for the United States air force. The people of Newbury lived with the base and the aircraft disturbance until a new use for the land emerged, as a nuclear cruise missile site. The transformation of the site into a storage facility for nuclear weapons meant that local residents saw their area become the focus of sustained protest on a scale seldom seen in this country. Nuclear district council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-10", "file": "debates2000-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "aa040853bc5ebcdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greenham and Crookham Commons Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ity, the local campaigners, the local councillors and the hon. Members who have worked so hard to bring it to fruition. We all have a long-standing affection for Greenham common in our different ways. I remember being threatened with surcharge in the 1980s, as the chair of finance for the Greater London council, for seeking to send sleeping bags to the Greenham common women at ratepayers' expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-10a.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "In 18 years of a Tory Administration, we had a decline in the use of the public transport service and disinvestment on a massive scale, but in three years, this Government have produced their first White Paper, the first piece of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "s experienced a 70 per cent. decline in income under the Government, that 400 post offices closed last year and many more expect to close in the coming weeks and months, and that the Royal Mail has decided to stop delivering post by private vehicle, which will detract from the service provided to countless rural businesses, how can the Government take any credit for any development in rural areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Paice", "preceding_text": "come under the Government, that 400 post offices closed last year and many more expect to close in the coming weeks and months, and that the Royal Mail has decided to stop delivering post by private vehicle, which will detract from the service provided to countless rural businesses, how can the Government take any credit for any development in rural areas? [Interruption.] If the question is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Type 45 Destroyers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Merlin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "n the years leading up to 2007. Let me make it clear that the ship's design and development is firmly in the hands of the Royal Navy, which is advising Ministers about the decisions that are made. The Navy is happy not only with the particular decisions made about these ships, but with the sophisticated range of warship building on which the Government have embarked, so I see no cause for concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Type 45 Destroyers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Merlin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "y not only with the particular decisions made about these ships, but with the sophisticated range of warship building on which the Government have embarked, so I see no cause for concern. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Merlin?\"] This will be a very different approach from that taken in the past, when technology has overtaken the vehicle carrying the various systems. Instead, we will be able to adjust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Type 45 Destroyers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's observations. He is right to say that one of the advantages of the new designs is significantly to improve accommodation for those who work on board the ship. I know that he had to raise the question of ro-ros, but I am at a loss as to why that is considered relevant to today's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Type 45 Destroyers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ns. He is right to say that one of the advantages of the new designs is significantly to improve accommodation for those who work on board the ship. I know that he had to raise the question of ro-ros, but I am at a loss as to why that is considered relevant to today's statement. [Interruption.] One of my hon. Friends suggests that for the right hon. and learned Gentleman, every cloud has a silver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Type 45 Destroyers", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Quentin Davies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "consider a number of Government amendments—some on the name of the police that are very contentious, and others that are a response to concerns expressed by hon. Members in Committee. All the amendments need to be considered properly on Report. To allow a mere six hours, which must include the debate on this motion, is hopelessly insufficient. It is an insult to the brave men and women of the RUC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "land as they grapple with a growing drugs problem and a huge tax evasion problem—something that should interest the Government. We hear that petrol prices have to be kept high in order that we can pay for our health and education programmes, yet the Government are ruling over a Province in which up to £1 billion in petrol duty is probably being evaded by means of smuggling from the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "dent enough of their arguments to allow them to be fully debated here. For it is clear that the issues in the Bill will not be properly debated this evening: they are too many, and too great, to be considered adequately in the time allowed. The right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble), who has left the Chamber, has said outside it that he is delighted with the Bill. I am therefore surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest idea what the Minister is talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "ns at local level between the local community and the police and vice versa. That is the underlying principle of the Bill, and it seeks to achieve that. I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman would disagree with the principle that the local community should engage with the local police. The problem in too many areas of Northern Ireland is that the local community does not engage with the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "They will certainly not be cantonised in the terms suggested. The provision is not about the cantonisation of the sub-groups, any more than it is about the cantonisation of policing. There are two ways of approaching the matter. One could take a heavy-handed, interfering approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": " the basis on which I seek to communicate information on our objectives. The wide parameters within which the Policing Board and the DPPs will have responsibility will not include responsibility for national security issues. Such issues are, of course, completely precluded not just under the Northern Ireland Act but under other Acts on the devolved Administrations that this Government have set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.792.5", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is extensive. If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I am anxious to make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.792.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "vingstone), speaking about the Greater London council in the early 1980s. I am sure that, whatever the views of those in this place about that gentleman, he could hardly be regarded as a bastion of old ways or as someone who has opposed positive action to try to rebalance discrimination where he has found it. Taking that into account with the other concerns that I have voiced, my judgment is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady, who was not present for one moment of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.4", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "kly with each Member speaking briefly. We then moved on to the first group of the amendments on what you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and the rest of the House will agree are serious issues, such as who should sit on the Policing Board and on the partnerships. Rightly, the Minister of State nods his agreement. In that debate, everyone spoke briefly with one exception—the Minister took 51 minutes to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.4", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ad tabled a significant number of amendments about which they feel strongly. The Minister had to respond to the amendments that I spoke to on behalf of the official Opposition and to those that were spoken to by the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Maginnis). The Minister also responded to significant interventions from other Members representing constituencies in Northern Ireland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.820.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "e they have completely lost control of Parliament. They are trying to thrust far too many Bills through the House in this Session and there cannot, therefore, be proper consideration of serious Bills such as this. This has been a very sad day for Parliament and a very sad day for Northern Ireland. I hope that the other place will be able properly to debate amendments that we were unable to debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-11", "file": "debates2000-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e22c058401955903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallon", "preceding_text": "eaconsfield. At least sometimes, most times, almost always, he is honest, if honestly wrong on many issues. I believe that with regard to the terms in which Patten's comments are couched and also the objective of the Bill, we should consider what the Catholic Church has said through a spokesman, Father Tim Bartlett. It is on record, and I know that it represents the view of the Catholic hierarchy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-11a.823.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.852.5", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": " of my constituency, life under the last Administration was one long battle, whether they were defending small schools, defending post offices or defending the smaller hill farmers. I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the fact that we now have a Government who are providing support for small schools, an answer to the problems of rural post offices, and a proper countryside management structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.852.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.852.5", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "er hill farmers. I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the fact that we now have a Government who are providing support for small schools, an answer to the problems of rural post offices, and a proper countryside management structure. [Interruption.] Does my right hon. Friend agree that, whereas the present Government take the countryside seriously, the last Government simply took it for granted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.852.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.860.4", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary is now pursuing his own private policy on the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.860.6", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary, who has mysteriously disappeared this afternoon, is pursuing his own private policy on the euro. The Prime Minister is too weak to get a grip on the Cabinet. He said last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.860.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Three years ago, the Government announced a £1.4 billion injection into the science budget and last week we heard that an additional £1 billion would go into that budget. That money is desperately needed and is welcomed by the vast majority of scientists and engineers working in this country. Under the previous Administration, that potential was ignored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "ng the education policies that have helped excellent teachers such as Mr. Gates create excellent schools such as Chantry and adopting instead a policy of severe cuts in education spending and the abolition of the effect of local education authorities? If he did so, how long does he think it would be before we returned to falling school standards, leaking roofs and 40 books for each primary school?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "e course of a Parliament. In particular, it ensures that all Members are familiar with the qualities of potential successors. My decision will give my successor a run-in before the general election. My statement today also gives notice to my constituents in West Bromwich, West that, at the same time as relinquishing the office of Speaker, it is my intention to retire as their Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "r, it ensures that all Members are familiar with the qualities of potential successors. My decision will give my successor a run-in before the general election. My statement today also gives notice to my constituents in West Bromwich, West that, at the same time as relinquishing the office of Speaker, it is my intention to retire as their Member of Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Be happy for me!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "Regulations made in relation to this aspect of the Bill, and to the great majority of the Bill, will be subject to the negative procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "erent training, although residential care homes for elderly people provide an element of nursing care. However, if a properly run rest home has people who need nursing care there is usually someone on the staff to provide that care and it is usually the sort of care that a district nurse can provide. If somebody is too ill for that, their medical condition will dictate where they are looked after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "I questioned whether there should be rigid criteria which reduce choice and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will forgive me, I should like to look at that reference myself and confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": " the process—in which the family wanting to adopt is constrained by the immediate geographical region and by the variation in eligibility criteria under different local authorities. The new clause would do away with that. At present, adoption is a postcode lottery. My hon. Friend touched on another important aim of the new clause. It would address the problem that 54,000 children languish in care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ell as general fostering was an area where children were not being safeguarded properly. It summarised the position by saying that the present arrangements were unworkable. The tragedy is that there are 54,000 children in care, yet there is a mismatch between the 54,000 children in care, most of whom would be better looked after in foster homes, and the number of people seeking to foster children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": "d not made their proposals. We have learned a great deal more since then. We accept what the Minister says about the Government introducing legislation early in the next Session. That is entirely in the spirit of consensus in which the debate on the new clause has been conducted. If the Government introduce the legislation early in the legislative programme next year, we will certainly support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for trying to help me along. Of course, I am just setting out, but all I say to him is that, if he had a headache, the practitioner might apply two thumbs either side of his head and produce a remarkable effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "in the House. Recently, we had an exhibition in the Upper Waiting Hall, which was well supported by colleagues. Several Members from both Houses availed themselves of the treatments that were available. Colleagues do not normally bare their feet in public in the Upper Waiting Hall without good reason. Many colleagues, including me, queued up for the reflexology that was available on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "other. That might not be helpful in the run-up to the general election, whose date was let out of the bag by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz). Let us be serious about this: my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, West and other colleagues are on the right track about how the regulation works. I want to address that in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "eopaths are complementary practitioners at all. Furthermore, some therapies that were not even included in the list being considered for regulation by the House of Lords Select Committee—for example, crystal therapy, which is believed by some people to be beneficial—will probably enter mainstream medicine in the future. After those brief introductory remarks, I shall turn to the body of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief, because the hour is late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.999.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "mmittee by the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), depended. I hope that the hon. Lady takes the trouble to consider recommendation 31 of the Longcare inquiry report in detail. Perhaps she will realise that the Government are removing an important right without good cause. However, amendment No. 37—the lead amendment—is relatively minor, so I shall not press it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1033.8", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dream on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammond", "preceding_text": "owed that to show, or at least not very often. Although it may not always seem like it to the Minister, the points of difference between him and us are relatively small. The main difference is that, from where he is sitting, he can afford to take a much more relaxed view of the use of secondary legislation than we can. Perhaps if I were doing his job, I would be able to take that relaxed view too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1033.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-12", "file": "debates2000-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a9b721078cae0387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1035.14", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Care Standards Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Motion in the name of Mr. Secretary Straw relating to the salary of the Data Protection Commissioner 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.— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-12a.1035.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am surprised—the right hon. Member usually asks about the private finance initiative that was previously established, so he is changing his tack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1045.4", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is helpful in referring to Invest.UK. He will, of course, be aware that 52,000 extra jobs have come into this country as a result of the success of this Government in attracting inward investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1045.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "It does not quantify amounts. The important point is that we are dealing with several ideas to give work back to rural post offices, which have been losing work continuously over the past 20 years. In addition, we have said that we shall ring fence 10,000 rural post offices and ensure that there are no preventable closures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "If I could pronounce it, I am sure that it could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1056.2", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "were being exploited in a way that meant that some people were not paying their fair share of tax and national insurance. Entrepreneurs who are prepared to make their contribution to the United Kingdom have nothing to fear from IR35. We hear stories from Conservative Members about people walking away from the United Kingdom; it would be interesting to see some figures to support those accusations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1056.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Small?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "e introduction of automated credit transfer. The Government's document states that the universal bank and other banking schemes might bring in £50 million. In answer to an earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames), the Secretary of State raised that figure—off the cuff—to £150 million, without giving any reason. He mentioned various small things like the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "In total contrast to what the Minister has just said, a major UK haulier told me recently that, thanks to the Government's energy taxation policy, he would be £1.4 million a year better off if he moved all his 75 trucks to Luxembourg. The Government's energy policy is making every business in this country less competitive. If I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1060.5", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "It is not often that the hon. Gentleman is right, and he is wrong again. He seems to have forgotten who introduced the fuel duty escalator. That was a direct consequence of the action taken by the previous Government. The Government have listened to the representations from industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1060.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. Indeed, he may well be right. I have struggled to identify the reason why Opposition Members, who so often—not least at this Question Time—make complaints and express concerns about the farming industry, agriculture and so on, chose to abandon the scheduled debate on the crisis in agriculture to discuss the riveting subject of the House of Commons itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1068.6", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I can only confess to the hon. Gentleman my entire ignorance of the circumstances of the Iran Aid case. I shall draw his remarks to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1068.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": " But, in many parts of Britain, our transport infrastructure urgently needs substantial extra investment. We admit that. The 10-year transport plan, which will be published shortly, will show how it can be done. The Government are committed to a society of opportunity for all and responsibility from all. Crime is down since 1997, particularly car crime and burglary—in some areas, spectacularly so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "st drug dealers; we are legislating against them. In all those areas, we should recognise the immense efforts of millions of public servants—school teachers, police, NHS staff and civil servants—because their work makes our country richer. We are a Government committed to social justice. Thanks in part to the minimum wage, the working families tax credit and the biggest-ever rise in child benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear! Here's John; come on, John.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as, we should recognise the immense efforts of millions of public servants—school teachers, police, NHS staff and civil servants—because their work makes our country richer. We are a Government committed to social justice. Thanks in part to the minimum wage, the working families tax credit and the biggest-ever rise in child benefit— [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not want to hear the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "position, never mind in government. What would an annual report on him look like? The five guarantees that he put forward last October are now falling apart. When the right hon. Gentleman finally got to policy, he started to talk about £16 billion. Let us return to that and explain to him what his shadow Chancellor has done. I do not think that he realises. Let us take him through it. On Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "antees that he put forward last October are now falling apart. When the right hon. Gentleman finally got to policy, he started to talk about £16 billion. Let us return to that and explain to him what his shadow Chancellor has done. I do not think that he realises. Let us take him through it. On Thursday—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".] I am answering the question. The right hon. Gentleman attacked me on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Since we have the Prime Minister to thank for this scintillating parliamentary experience for us all, does he agree that, from the briefest scan of his statement, what is linguistically interesting is that \"but\" appears no less than 12 times? That perhaps tells us a little about the content. Now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's opening statement was a good deal more factual than what we heard from the leader of the Tory party a few minutes ago, however. Does the Prime Minister agree that if any of us could write an annual report about ourselves, we would probably want to be reasonably self-congratulatory, but to acknowledge that things could get better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Government Annual Report", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "in his constituency did not welcome the extra money that they got in the Budget? I bet they did welcome it. As a result of the commitments made by the shadow Chancellor, schools know that that investment would go if a Conservative Government were elected. The hon. Gentleman is saying that the additional investment that we are making—in schools, hospitals, transport and the police—is unsustainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I will give way again in a moment. I intend to give way many times and I will give way to the hon. Gentleman after I have finished this point. The Government's amendment also talks about devolution to Scotland and to Wales. We can debate the merits of all those things, but the House of Commons remains the keystone of democratic accountability in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1085.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "The time has come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I saw that someone had done a little research on voting records, so I did a little research of my own. In fact, I compared the voting records of the Cabinet with those of the shadow Cabinet. The Chancellor has voted in 18 per cent. of Divisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": " information. So far this year, the Chancellor has voted in 18 per cent. of Divisions, and the shadow Chancellor in 53 per cent. The Home Secretary voted in 43 per cent. of Divisions, the shadow Home Secretary in 51 per cent. The Foreign Secretary voted in 15 per cent. of Divisions, the shadow Foreign Secretary in 53 per cent. Shall I go on? Would right hon. and hon. Members like more information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "cent., the shadow Education Secretary in 58 per cent. The Agriculture Minister voted in 43 per cent., the shadow Agriculture Minister in 50 per cent. The Culture Secretary voted in 38 per cent., the shadow Culture Secretary in 51 per cent. The importance of these figures to the hon. Lady is that it is not Ministers who stay here and vote but the mugs on the Back Benches whom they rely on to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "this Chancellor. In his 1998 Budget speech, a new instalment system of payment for larger companies turned out to be £2,000 million tax increase on businesses. In his Budget speech last year, he aligned national insurance arrangements for the self-employed closer to those of employees—[ Official Report, 9 March 1999; Vol. 327, c. 187.] but it was later discovered to be a £240 million tax increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "What a devastating piece of information. Hon. Members of all parties do their best to attend Select Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1091.3", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1091.4", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I have given way several times, and I will give way again later. The report proposes timetabling all Government Bills and delaying all votes which would otherwise be taken after 10 o'clock until the following Wednesday afternoon. These proposals represent a serious assault on the power of Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1091.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "o stuffed with poorly drafted Bills that it requires hundreds of Government amendments that are never even considered. The Modernisation Committee's approach to the weight of the legislative programme should not be to make it even easier for Ministers to force their business through, which further weakens the vital link in this House between the governed and the Government. The House needs reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "uropean Convention on Human Rights, bringing government closer to the people; and welcomes the fundamental reform of the House of Lords and the establishment of the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons which has doubled the number of backbench debates and quadrupled the opportunities to debate Select Committee reports as part of the 48 recommendations implemented so far.'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "r for The Wrekin (Mr. Bradley) on the voting records of some Conservative Members and, particularly, their attendance on Select Committees. If he considers what is obviously my job—which is, as Prime Minister, to answer questions in the House of Commons—he will see that I do, in fact, miss fewer sittings. On any comparison, I have spent as many, if not more, hours in the House answering questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "ns. [Interruption.] I am afraid that that is true. Let me give the details on ministerial statements. During this Parliament, Ministers have made 238 statements—on average, one every two sitting days. I have made 31, including the one that I have just made. That compares with 157 ministerial statements during the first years of the previous Administration. I turn next to the sittings of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There we are. That is the legitimate voice of Back Benchers speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "debate, but he did not. I was saying that the Leader of the Opposition's statement did not address the big constitutional issues of our time. Surely the real issue is to bring power closer to people and to hold the Government to account. That is the fundamental question as between Parliament and the Executive. When we came to power, the United Kingdom was the most centralised country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sition's statement did not address the big constitutional issues of our time. Surely the real issue is to bring power closer to people and to hold the Government to account. That is the fundamental question as between Parliament and the Executive. When we came to power, the United Kingdom was the most centralised country in the world. [Interruption.] We still had the utter democratic absurdity of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House of Lords prevented the fox hunting Bill from proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It could not have got through the House of Lords. We know that, which is precisely why the Bill will be reintroduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He was indeed the choice of the people, though not my choice. However, the point that my hon. Friend makes is surely right. It was the Conservative party that abolished the Greater London council and took away the rights of Londoners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Mr. Deputy Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "elivered it. For a hundred years people have wanted a devolved Executive in Northern Ireland that is genuinely representative of all communities. We have delivered it. We gave people the choice in a referendum to make their decision and they decided for devolution, so that is what we did. Freedom of information has been introduced for the first time by this Government. Madam Speaker, when we look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Mr. Deputy Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mic policy has collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. His national health service policy collapsed 10 days before. His education policy would be a disaster for this country if it were ever introduced. The truth of the matter is that on not a single, serious policy question has he a serious thing to say. He is incapable once we get to the big policy questions. Madam Speaker, what is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Davis", "preceding_text": "t. They are serious symptoms of a serious malaise. Such problems are reinforced by the managerialism of modern politics and, in many ways, by the attempt to escape ideology and the clashes that occur across the Floor of the House. Those interested in modernisation, some of whose proposals are very sensible, have a tendency to view the clashes in the Chamber as undignified and perhaps not grown up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "at view. In fact, I take precisely the converse view—that Government Back Benchers have a dual role. They certainly have to support their Government in some measure, as that is what they have been elected broadly to do, but they have also to exercise their own independent judgment. That has not been done with the frequency that I should have wished. However, that is not an entirely new phenomenon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "h was the inspiration that characterised the right hon. Gentleman's speech. Conservative Members have been trying to make a fist of conducting a serious and principled debate, but they were all waving their Order Papers in the air when the Leader of the Opposition sat down. As other right hon. and hon. Members have point out, Opposition Members are not very good at opposition. They do not like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman will recall that I almost lost my voice trying to intervene on his party leader. I only preserved enough of it to make this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "r should be a cockpit of democracy. Sadly, that has not been the case today. We have not addressed the issues of real concern to people in the country. The official Opposition have missed the opportunity to do so. The Leader of the Opposition proved once again that he is still stuck in the sixth form. He wants to be the leading light of the school debating society rather than a serious politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "ty to do so. The Leader of the Opposition proved once again that he is still stuck in the sixth form. He wants to be the leading light of the school debating society rather than a serious politician. [Interruption.] What does the debate tell us about the priorities of the Conservative party? Is it concerned about the future of agriculture? Clearly not, because it wiped that subject off the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "stuck in the sixth form. He wants to be the leading light of the school debating society rather than a serious politician. [Interruption.] What does the debate tell us about the priorities of the Conservative party? Is it concerned about the future of agriculture? Clearly not, because it wiped that subject off the agenda. [Interruption.] Will we have a chance to debate its latest education policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1160.4", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "he party of which he or she is a member. Edmund Burke summed up the matter best when he said that a Member is in Parliament to support his opinion of the public good, and does not form his opinion in order to get into Parliament or to continue in it. Breached in practice more often than not, that definition was at least preserved in theory until Tony Blair became Prime Minister. Soon after he did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "In a moment. Most typical of the decline that I described is the Prime Minister's personal performance in this House. I am speaking in particular of Prime Minister's questions. My research reveals that on countless occasions the right hon. Gentleman has—I can only assume through ignorance because it would be unparliamentary to suggest that it was anything else—given inaccurate information", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "as failed to answer questions. Indeed, he has failed to answer more than half the questions put to him in Question Time since he began to lead the country. That is an abuse of Parliament. That rare occasion when hon. Members can question the Prime Minister in the House is itself pivotal to good and healthy democracy and should be respected by Prime Ministers, as it was by previous Prime Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "y democracy and should be respected by Prime Ministers, as it was by previous Prime Ministers. [Interruption.] I am not saying that they did not use Prime Minister's questions to advocate their case and put their arguments, but they also took seriously the need at least to attempt to give a straight answer to a straight question. That is not the case with the present Prime Minister. Parliament is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "rguments that we have been trying to make through this debate: that, when it is convenient for them, the Government disregard the conventions of the House and erode the rights of the Opposition and Back Benchers. Many of those who contributed spoke warmly about the Norton report. Anyone who is concerned about the issue will be grateful to the Norton committee for a nonpartisan, objective analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1170.4", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Lord Norton draws on the proposals of the Liaison Committee, as did my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher) and the right hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Brooke)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No respect?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "um were signed. In the UK, we legislated through Orders in Council to enable our courts to impose banning orders on those subject to convictions in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. However, although there were 965 arrests in total, there were only five convictions: four in the Netherlands—mainly for ticket-touting offences—and only one in Belgium. I intend no respect to the Kingdom of Belgium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " to convictions in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. However, although there were 965 arrests in total, there were only five convictions: four in the Netherlands—mainly for ticket-touting offences—and only one in Belgium. I intend no respect to the Kingdom of Belgium—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No respect?\"] I intend no disrespect to the Kingdom of Belgium. We have had good times discussing Belgian issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another guarantee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " will\" to tackle football hooliganism and pledged his party to support, in the words of his press notice, any moves in Parliament to restrict English football hooligans following the trouble witnessed at Euro 2000. He went on to say: I am today making this important offer to the Prime Minister. The Conservative Party will give full support and co-operation in Parliament to Government legislation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have said throughout that we would support appropriate legislation to combat football hooliganism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Sit down while I finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " on to describe how we are still prepared—to support a Bill. None the less, I made it very clear that we were not prepared to proceed without due scrutiny. The right hon. Gentleman was seriously suggesting that we got the Bill through in one day. We made it clear that we expected due scrutiny, and that we held out the right to amend the Bill, to oppose parts of the Bill and to try to get it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The operative word in that is \"hooligans\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I will finish the point, then I will give way. It would be quite wrong to obstruct due consideration of the Bill, given that there is a necessity for appropriate legislation. We want to promote due consideration, so we shall not vote against the Bill in Lobby tonight. If it is substantially improved, we may be able to support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ning example of detailed and satisfactory pre-legislative scrutiny. The Home Secretary surely must expect Members of the House and of the other place to give close consideration to a Bill produced to such a truncated timetable. If he cannot accept that without pouring scorn and ridicule on serious suggestions, he is himself destroying the spirit of consensus, of which he makes much. Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes my point for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman. That is the point I am making. I am afraid that I do not know the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Lady is receiving a note from the Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ward", "preceding_text": "including Euro 2000 matches, in local pubs or in London pubs, I have frequently been disappointed and disturbed by the chanting and the racist, xenophobic language used by those who purport to be fans. It is completely unnecessary. I hope that the legislation and the words of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Minister to the Football Association and football clubs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ward", "preceding_text": "s must be clear. It should be about behaviour, not appearance. I do not wish to cast aspersions on anyone in the House, but I am certain that some Members of Parliament would, in the right football strip, look very menacing, and could fall foul of a keen constable. I hope that the Secretary of State will consider that point carefully. I welcome the Bill, which is an important piece of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "Well, it is not unlawful yet, but it will be in October, and it is contrary to our obligations under the convention. I heard the Home Secretary say that he had received advice from a senior QC who is much respected. I know that such advice is not normally published, but if the right hon. Gentleman felt that that was appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "atch the few who act in ways of which we all disapprove. Finally, I do not accept that we should take responsibility in this country for misdemeanours committed in other jurisdictions. My right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden argued that so eloquently. It is beyond me why we should take it on ourselves to treat within our judicial system misdemeanours committed in other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-13", "file": "debates2000-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "26b0105cbbad3fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1265.6", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Motion in the name of Mr. Secretary Straw relating to the salary of the Data Protection Commissioner 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.— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-13a.1265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRP (Teachers)", "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": "May I first offer the apologies of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State? As you know, Madam Speaker, he has written to you, and he will also write to the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May). My right hon. Friend is outside London, and is currently travelling back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "We took account of representations made about the need for a gap between Second Reading and Committee and Report. That is exactly what we provided. The whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.36.7", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should rephrase my point. Those who try to have it both ways end up in pretty incredible positions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.36.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drugs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "ator of racism and hatred of other nations. We should be in touch with the public's best instincts. The Bill is the result of a misreading of the events of Euro 2000. We have heard a great deal about Charleroi and Brussels, but nothing about Eindhoven. The essence of what happened can be distilled in the difference between the approach of two police forces—between intelligent, subtle policing and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "quite happy to spend all night discussing this legislation to make sure that we get a better Bill than the one the Government have submitted. However, the timing is intentional, so that the Government get as little coverage as possible in the press for what they know to be a shoddy and dangerous Bill. That is why they are trying to get the debate over with quickly and during the hours of darkness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "ional, so that the Government get as little coverage as possible in the press for what they know to be a shoddy and dangerous Bill. That is why they are trying to get the debate over with quickly and during the hours of darkness. [Interruption.] Yes, there is something of the night about the Home Secretary's proposals, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr. Davis) says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " cast-iron guarantee that the Opposition would deliver the business tonight and to which every other Member of the House was bound, we would, of course, happily have proceeded by agreement. However, having been a Minister in the previous Government, the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald knows only too well the imperatives on Government and the need for Government to get their business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "use. Just because one cannot do everything—in this case ensure that the legislation extends to Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland—should not mean that one should not do anything. In other words, we should legislate for the serious site of the problem: England and Wales. I believe that there is adequate time for debating the details of the Bill in this House and the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Football (Disorder) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady says yes. Had such legislation been brought forward straight away, aside from the fact that it is extraordinarily difficult to envisage how it could have operated effectively in a matter of days, one thing is absolutely certain: it could not conceivably have received the care and attention that has been devoted to this Bill on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "al; 11 amendments tabled by right hon. and hon. Members on the Conservative Front Bench, all of which relate to important issues; two amendments tabled by my hon. Friends and me; and five Government amendments, tabled on Friday to a Bill that the Government published on Thursday. A Government change of mind is sometimes welcome, but one does not usually see such a speedy transition in legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " condition has been met—that is, someone has a history of violence. Furthermore, he will have to have reasonable grounds not for suspecting, but for believing that a banning order should be made. Imagine a group of lay magistrates deciding at short notice whether a succession of people appearing before them as speedily as prostitutes appear before the magistrate at King's Cross on Monday mornings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "magine a group of lay magistrates deciding at short notice whether a succession of people appearing before them as speedily as prostitutes appear before the magistrate at King's Cross on Monday mornings— [Interruption.] I think that someone on the Conservative Benches said, \"Oh happy days, \" but I may be wrong. Perhaps experience that I had not anticipated being discussed will be brought to light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "se matters in Scotland. Even the hon. Gentleman would concede that my hon. and learned Friend has been busy in the past year introducing lots of good, reforming legislation. He may have it in mind to change those powers, but all I know is that, as the Home Secretary rightly said, the proposal has not been adopted by the Scottish Executive or by my hon. and learned Friend, as acting First Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "want to engage the hon. Gentleman on his contention that summary detention is a matter of great constitutional significance in the United Kingdom. In fact, it has been the norm since 1980 and was legislated for in Scotland by this Parliament. In Scotland, it is possible for a police officer with reasonable cause to suspect that an offence may have been committed to detain a person. It is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Not only did I write that phrase down when thinking about today's debate, but it keeps coming back into my mind and has done so ever since we first saw the Bill on Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah! He has found it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "orisation of an extended period of detention, is superseded by Government amendment No. 43. I hope that that will be accepted. Amendment No. 37 is not strictly necessary. It is a long-established requirement of English law that reasons for detention must be given. However, I am content to accept this additional safeguard and agree to the amendment, so we will have belt and braces. Amendment No. 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.112.4", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not criticise the hon. Member for Watford (Ms Ward), because his story involved people in football strips wearing jeans, sneakers and sweat shirts around their waists. People do not usually go shopping dressed like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I shall go back to the debate and find out whether the Home Secretary did tell us how many had motoring offences. Perhaps he can remember and remind those of us who were inattentive so that we have that fact, which he thought important enough to give us then, to consider now. If he does not remember it, perhaps he could withdraw his accusation that I am somehow reprehensible for forgetting it too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "rt the Bill because I have seen the damage that football hooliganism has done to our reputation all over the world, I point out to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary that this will not be the last time that we deal with the subject. This Bill is not the complete answer but I am sure that, if the Liberal amendment were accepted, there would be nothing in the Bill to prevent hooliganism abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " order against someone when it is not immediately linked to his being convicted by a court. One only has to examine the procedures in schedule 1 to learn that the process will not take one, two or three hours; I suspect that, in some cases, it will involve a court case that will spread out over several days. That is even before we come to the process by which one goes to the Crown court on appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": " will be made, a summons will be issued, an individual will be targeted and he will be told that, notwithstanding the fact that he is not standing trial for an offence, he will be brought before a court because the police have accumulated sufficient evidence that they consider to be valid to obtain a banning order against him. There will then be a substantial hearing. That hearing will take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The legislation applies to United Kingdom citizens, who include residents of Scotland as well as of England and Wales and Northern Ireland, so the answer to the hon. Gentleman's question is yes. However, if the person happens to be a Scottish supporter, it is extremely unlikely that they will be caught up in the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "the offence, whereas a person who had appeared before the court, but whose case was not proven, could find himself in double jeopardy. May I deal with the point made by the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. Browne)? North and south of the border, the United Kingdom allows civil and criminal proceedings. Indeed, injunctions secured in civil proceedings have been available for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I tend to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's view. I did not do as much in the courts as he did, and I was not as eminent as he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " the debate only because he saw opposition coming from the Conservative Back Benches. Had Conservative Front Benchers been able to prevent that opposition, he would have allowed full debate. Ministers subscribe to the wonderful doctrine that there will be full debate on a Bill only if there is no opposition to it or if those on the two Front Benches have conspired to curtail or prevent opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": " on the two Front Benches have conspired to curtail or prevent opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] If the Labour Members who have taken no part in these brief proceedings and who want to curtail the rights of their constituents would care to tell me their constituencies, I shall read them into the record so that their constituents will know how lightly and trivially they take citizens' rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I am addressing my remarks to the issues of the priorities of the Government as encapsulated in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-17", "file": "debates2000-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d00af5e58c580e15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Football (Disorder) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-17a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman has recently joined us as his party's European spokesman. He may, therefore, have forgotten—or not noticed—that, at the Berlin summit, Britain did lead the campaign to reform the common agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I have the advantage over the hon. Gentleman, in that I spoke to Morgan Tsvangirai earlier today. He made it clear that the Opposition would be seeking ways of working together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "At Berlin we secured reform of the structural funds and the common agricultural policy, which has provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is clearly a friend of Cyprus and has raised these issues on a number of occasions. The Government do not want anything to interfere with the success of the proximity talks, which as he knows will begin on Monday. I shall certainly take on board the points that he has made and pass them to Sir David Hannay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Spending Review", "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": "t cautious view of trend growth at 2.25 per cent. In accordance with the code of fiscal stability, I will publish the second set of fiscal forecasts of the year in the autumn, but I can already report to the House that, since the Budget, the fiscal position has further strengthened. For the year ending March 2000, the current surplus is healthier than originally forecast at the time of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "cue_text": "Laughted", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gordon Brown)", "preceding_text": "at I can raise spending today. That same discipline allows me to inform the House that, this year, we have repaid £6.2 billion more debt than the £11.9 billion originally planned—in total, a debit repayment this year of £18.1 billion. That is the largest repayment of debt in any year since the war. We have not, and will not, relax that discipline. So I have three policy announcements to underspin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "As usual, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "As usual, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] At least I am honest about it. I believe that: The level of public spending is no longer the best measure of the effectiveness of government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "As usual, I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] At least I am honest about it. I believe that: The level of public spending is no longer the best measure of the effectiveness of government.— [Laughter.] I was quoting from the Labour party manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "al priorities in the national health service—distorted by a Government obsessed with spin. We are paying for their failed policies of interference in education. Here is the Chancellor today offering titbits directly to schools. Why does he not give the vast majority of the money directly to schools, as we propose to do? We are still paying for the dome. Is it any wonder that the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "the Labour Government— [Interruption.] Oh yes we are. Is it any wonder that the Labour Government tax more and deliver less? Does the Chancellor remember that the last time he spoke to us, he said: if we don't spend the money well, people will suffer. Well, people have suffered. Their taxes have gone up, but public services have got no better. Hospital waiting lists are up. Class sizes are bigger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "he really think that the solution is to make promises again? The Labour party fought four general elections on a policy of tax and spend. Those are the four general elections that it lost. The only time that Labour won an election was when it committed itself—or appeared to commit itself—to Tory prudence. Let me remind the House why the Chancellor has so much money in his election war chest today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "ely promises for tomorrow? Did the Chancellor really think that people would not notice that they were being taxed? Did he really think that he could put an extra £670 of tax on average working families in this country and they would not notice? For many families, that is the difference between living comfortably, and life on the edge. It is the difference between getting on and getting into debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "and life on the edge. It is the difference between getting on and getting into debt— [Interruption.] That is the real world. How out of touch can the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer be? Is it not true that those who can least afford it have been taxed and taxed until the pips squeak, with taxes on alcohol, taxes on cigarettes and taxes on petrol—the most regressive taxes of all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "it have been taxed and taxed until the pips squeak, with taxes on alcohol, taxes on cigarettes and taxes on petrol—the most regressive taxes of all? [Interruption.] Labour Back Benchers know what has happened, and they know that a Labour Chancellor who taxes the poor is no socialist hero. I believe that hard-working families and pensioners should pay less tax than they do now, because Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "hancellor, Norman Lamont—Lord Lamont as he is now—set in train a two-tranche reduction in the married couples allowance from the basic rate of 25 per cent. to 15 per cent. That is a matter of record. However, the then Conservative Government did not go on to abolish the allowance, as this Government have. Why was the reduction in the MCA so necessary? It was an important part of deficit reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ach other as partners, but who do not choose to marry. The debate is not about whether we are in favour of marriage or a commitment of individuals to each other: it is about a tax relief, and it needs to be set in that context. I applaud the honesty of the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) in saying that he opposed everything that the Conservative Government did when they were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-18", "file": "debates2000-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "440d92bd9af228da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "n raised and I shall try to address the main ones. First, my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) commented on inheritance and the defence of the status quo. It is not clear that the underlying value of annuities has in fact fallen once all other factors are taken into consideration. We could have a lengthy debate about that, but other factors should be taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-18a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mandelson", "preceding_text": "I strongly contend that the original Bill reflected entirely and faithfully the Patten commission recommendations. In addition, the improvements and changes that have since been made to the Bill have strengthened it. I did not make a speech in Coleraine yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that we on these Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Cawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Cawsey", "preceding_text": "pe works will bring the number of workers there below 4,000. In 1979, there were more than 20,000 steelworkers there. Will my right hon. Friend assure us that his Government will give every aid and assistance to the local taskforce that has been formed to ensure that there are new jobs and opportunities for the area? Is he aware that last night my local newspaper, the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not understand that he has talked about tens of billions of pounds for years, but things have got worse? As the same adviser told him: We have not proved strong enough…to get enough done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": ", but things have got worse? As the same adviser told him: We have not proved strong enough…to get enough done. [Interruption.] There is no point in people not wanting to listen to that advice, as the Prime Minister paid out thousands of pounds of the Labour party's money to get it. Some of us read it for 30p in The Sun. We shall set out our own plans on public spending, which will include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ment would, he had better work out which £16 billion of additional tax rises he will levy on the people of this country. The Prime Minister said that he would be tough on crime, and promised 5,000 additional police officers. Police numbers have now fallen, thousands of criminals have been released early, and violent crime is up 16 per cent. Was it not the Prime Minister's trusted adviser who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.366.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ey were under the right hon. Gentleman's Government. As for petrol, it is no use the right hon. Gentleman going round promising that he will cut people's petrol duty. Let me quote his shadow Chancellor again, from Frost on Sunday: Frost: Would you reduce the tax on petrol definitely, would you give a guarantee on that? Portillo: Well…I…I'm not getting into the business of guarantees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "utting in the investment, and he has pledged to cut it. The right hon. Gentleman talks about how he will run a more prudent economic policy, but I point out to him—this is another item of policy, so he will not be aware of it—that his shadow Chancellor has not merely given a commitment to £16 billion of cuts; he has made spending commitments. Here they are: £1 billion on private medical insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Gentleman talks about how he will run a more prudent economic policy, but I point out to him—this is another item of policy, so he will not be aware of it—that his shadow Chancellor has not merely given a commitment to £16 billion of cuts; he has made spending commitments. Here they are: £1 billion on private medical insurance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—the reintroduction of the assisted places scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mic policy, but I point out to him—this is another item of policy, so he will not be aware of it—that his shadow Chancellor has not merely given a commitment to £16 billion of cuts; he has made spending commitments. Here they are: £1 billion on private medical insurance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—the reintroduction of the assisted places scheme—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—more money for the Territorial Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all saying yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ding commitments. Here they are: £1 billion on private medical insurance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—the reintroduction of the assisted places scheme—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—more money for the Territorial Army—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!]—detaining all asylum seekers; giving them back their benefits; more money for farmers; more money for tobacco tax; more money on prisons; and Finance Bill amendments that total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Cuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "£16 billion. The right hon. Gentleman is right. Of course I am personally associated with all the spending in the review: the extra money on schools, the extra money on hospitals, the extra money on transport, the extra money on defence, the extra money on all those services we need to provide a stable, prosperous future for our country. What is the right hon. Gentleman personally associated with?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am entirely satisfied with the job that my chief press spokesman is doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he job that my chief press spokesman is doing— [Interruption.] Once again, the Conservatives are delighted to ask about anything other than the comprehensive spending review. Let me remind the right hon. Gentleman of what he said before the election, in April 1997. He said that by embracing the minimum wage and the social chapter, the Labour party would increase unemployment and cut child benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.372.5", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister give a straightforward, concise and reasonably cogent answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.372.5", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ister give a straightforward, concise and reasonably cogent answer— [Laughter.] Yes, I know that that last requirement will not be easy—to the question posed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Sir A. Hamilton)? Let me repeat that question, because clearly he did not hear it the first time: as Mr. Alastair Campbell will clearly play a central part in Labour's election strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Government Members should listen to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Police and Criminal Justice Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ime Minister disagreeing with the Foreign Secretary, but let me ask the Home Secretary whether he agrees with himself when he said: The amount of money you put into the police doesn't necessarily change outputs. How right he was. Has the Home Secretary not brought about the present position through a series of measures that have been designed to encourage the criminal rather than the crimefighter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Police and Criminal Justice Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the memo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "to consider the different Administrations under Mrs. Thatcher and the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), the contrast is even more acute. In the first three years of the Thatcher Administration, crime rose by 21 per cent; in the first three years of the Major Administration, it increased by 42 per cent; in the first three years of this Labour Administration, it has fallen by 6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Police and Criminal Justice Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " is twittering that she asked the same questions, but she did not. The one thing she did do was avoid saying whether the Conservatives would match our spending. There is no point in the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) shaking his head. The key question between now and 10 pm on election day is \"Will the Tories match our spending on the police—and, if so, what other spending will be cut?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.401.14", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend was the driving force until 1997. The Institute for Public Policy and Research produced a report entitled \"The Entrepreneurial Society\", the launch of which the Prime Minister attended. He supported the teaching of entrepreneurship in schools, which was one of the report's main themes, and I shall return to that point. The Government may talk the talk, but do they walk the walk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.401.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "vernment have chosen to act means that many small companies in the information technology sector will be seriously hit. What has concerned us most is that the Government have at no stage admitted that market forces require many small firms—in the IT industry, the oil industry and the engineering consultancy sector—to form limited personal service companies. At no time were the Government prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "at claim will go out of the window, as it has with the landfill tax. The Government's increase in that tax did not result in a corresponding decrease in national insurance payments. The Bill has worsened Britain's international competitiveness, as clauses 103 and 104 bear testament. The Government have taken little note of the impact of that aspect of the measure on their tax policies. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-19", "file": "debates2000-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "eeb16a7597cfbf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alasdair Morgan", "preceding_text": "I want to make only two points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-19a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "he polling organisation ICM conducted research in his constituency on Tuesday night, after his statement? The responses make interesting reading. Three per cent. of the Chancellor's constituents believe they are being taxed less; 48 per cent. of the Chancellor's constituents believe they are being taxed more; 79 per cent. of the Chancellor's constituents say that public services are not improving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is getting more and more expensive for the shadow Chancellor to ask me a question. He now has to hire an opinion polling agency before he comes to the House. Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the question that I put to him on the Conservatives' £16 billion of public spending cuts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Interruption.] The Opposition are getting very agitated. Last night during the debates on the Finance Bill, they voted £ 1 billion extra in tax cuts simply for double taxation relief and national insurance on share options. The total bill from the Finance Bill alone is extra tax—extra revenues that have to be raised—of £5 billion. Will the shadow Chancellor answer the question? The Opposition had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is precisely the ill-thought-out views of hon. Gentleman that led the previous Government to join the exchange rate mechanism in the wrong conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the text of Hansard to which the right hon. Gentleman refers, but it is occasionally true, as I know to my cost, that Hansard very, very rarely does make errors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.543.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Transport (Ten-Year Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) thanked me for giving him the report, but it is a pity that he did not read it. If he had, he would not have asked half the stupid questions that he did. There has been some speculation on the number of leaks to which he referred. I treat leaks seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Transport (Ten-Year Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I can well recall individual Members spending a lot of time asking about particular roads during my 30 years as a Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Transport (Ten-Year Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " including 100 bypasses in the programme—50 in urban areas and 50 in rural areas. Some of them are to deal with congestion in the town and some are strategic. My hon. Friend should press his local authority to ensure that a bypass is included in its transport plan. Local authorities have responsibility for improvements in towns and roads through their local transport plans, which include bypasses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Transport (Ten-Year Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "de bypasses. [Interruption.] I do not know whether the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) knew that, but he does now. We are well aware of Portsmouth's application for a light rail system. We are building 25 LRT schemes. The hon. Member for North Essex made a fair point when he said that I had been critical of light railways compared with buses. That is true, but I have since been converted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Transport (Ten-Year Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "s I have said in the House, and even at party conferences, to take the alternative of nationalising the railway and finding some £12 billion is not our highest priority in present circumstances. In addition, I am bound to say that the current procedure allows public-private partnerships to discuss a 10-year plan, which could not be guaranteed by the Treasury. At least it is written into contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.569.9", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "If it is the original point, it can hardly be a separate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.569.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "diture commitment of that scale, way above their own projected growth rate for the economy. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Bank of England has taken fright. It was told of these figures in advance, and the minutes of the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee record the fact that many of its members believed that if this was attempted, interest rates would have to rise in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.578.4", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "her. If the right hon. Gentleman wants me to debate mythical expenditure cuts in four years' time, I will go down to Glastonbury with him to tell Mrs. Pratt about our expenditure plans—if he guarantees to explain to her why he has taken £600 out of her income. That is the deal that I offer. I also have a letter—I cannot be alone in having been written to by many constituents suffering in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.578.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "age from the top down. That method of management in major public sector institutions was tried in a host of economies in the post-war era, and was still being tried until recently in eastern Europe. It has been a disaster wherever it has been tried. It requires planning on a grand scale, and planning has always failed, wherever it has been tried. I worry about whether the money will be well spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "shall end with two brief points. First, in western economies everywhere, the scope for higher sustained public spending is less than it has ever been. The penalty for excessive borrowing is now more heavily policed by the markets, and taxes will become increasingly difficult to collect as tax bases become more footloose. My second point is about the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. The spending round is not about spin; it is about £43 billion. It is about the child in Denaby Main whose young mother has never had the opportunities enjoyed by Conservative Members. Some people have never had au pairs, private schooling or regular holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-20", "file": "debates2000-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "b65bd187a2cdcdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "entre. The health service waiting list has been cut by a third since the general election. Many of my constituents depend on their local authority to modernise the ageing homes that were left unattended due to stupid Treasury rules imposed under the Conservatives. The homes of hundreds of my constituents are getting new double glazing and new central heating and are being rewired thanks to Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-20a.625.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " officers with the number of press officers, he knows very well that, for the first three years of this Administration, the police authorities had to follow budgets either set or proposed by the Conservative Government. The difference between us and the Opposition on police numbers is that the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) promised an additional 500, 000 officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "That depends on the criminals. Is the right hon. Lady saying, and will she go into the general election promising, that if people vote Conservative, crime will rise, year on year on year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ome Office Minister, there was an increase in police spending in real terms in 1995–96 of 0.49 per cent., in 1997–98 of 0.12 per cent. and in 1996–97 a decrease of 0.91 per cent. That compares with an increase this year of 1.47 per cent., an increase next year of 7.4 per cent. and an increase the following year of 3.5 per cent. Will the right hon. Lady ever come to this Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am interested in what the Minister has said because it seems to fly in the face of what the Government are pleased to call joined-up government. My constituents are worried about congestion on our roads, the number of houses that will have to built on the green belt, the great pressure on hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "nd the failure to agree concrete progress on debt relief, will the Prime Minister comment on reports that the cost of the summit was half a billion pounds, a figure that for everyone is hard to believe? Did the items of expenditure include the construction of a replica of President Clinton's Arkansas home? While recognising that such decisions are for the Japanese Government to make and to defend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "use I am often asked that question, or a similar one, by Conservative Members: I am not saying that political and constitutional issues are not involved—of course they are. However, in relation to the Government's position, we have resolved those issues. We believe that the essential issue, therefore, is whether the euro is in the national economic interest. Let me point out to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No—that is unfair and wrong. If, in fact, we get the additional 11 countries through by the end of this year, we will have very nearly met the target that we set in Cologne last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Spending Review (Defence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "enting it with smoke and mirrors, as is so typical of this Government. He knows very well that this is not the first real-terms increase in the defence budget in the past 15 years. I checked with the Library, just out of interest, and it pointed out that in 1996–97 there was a 0.6 per cent. increase in the defence budget. So, straight off, the right hon. Gentleman's statement was incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Spending Review (Defence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": " tell the other members of the shadow Cabinet whose budget will pay for it. If the Conservative party gets its way, the budget will be slashed right across public spending. That is clear from all that the Opposition have said in recent days in response to the Government's announcement of extra money. If we cut the budget by the amount proposed by the Conservative party, there would be a reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.782.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Spending Review (Defence)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not learn more about the processes of government when he was advising a previous Conservative Government. Perhaps the nature of his advice was such as to lead that Government to continue to cut the defence budget, as they did year on year for 15 years. It is astonishing to hear the hon. Gentleman, when he is supposed to know something about this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "e Government of the day to put anything in regulations and for the House to debate and to consider them. However, I have emphasised that we think that it is important that the cap be set at a very high level; thus, we have set it at such a level. I assume that, in the more general use of that power, the level would be moved up to take account of prices and general movements in prices and earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak again, but the hon. Members for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) and for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) have asked the same question, to which I have an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "t test. At least the amendments introduce the test. I welcome amendment No. 28, which refers to \"reasonable excuse\". Some modest safeguards are being built into the Bill, but people may still potentially be deprived effectively of food, clothing and even shelter. The Government want to push through the clause as amended, without a clear idea of what its effects will be. The Government do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.821.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman forgets, and I was disappointed that in their contributions other hon. Members did not mention, that we have given much wider access than existed before, through the changes that we have made, not only by dealing with issues such as Camelot, which was not dealt with by the previous Government, but in clause 8(2)(b), which was added to the Bill on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "ing association. Indeed, it specifically stated that it would not seek such access. The NAO only requested access to Focus in September 1997, and access was agreed by February 1998. In a sense, not too much should hang on a particular example, and that is but one example, and the point is that it is about the identification of fraud, not about the prime role of the Comptroller and Auditor General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-24", "file": "debates2000-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "24059102d3afd6c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.854.4", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Government Resources and Accounts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "ified as a result of that activity. In no way do I criticise the NAO or the CAG for that failure because the prime role of external auditors is not to identify fraud. As have I said, such matters are dealt with in many ways. In that case, one of the prime roles, which has clearly failed, is that of the regulator. That involves a different set of issues from those before this evening. To summarise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-24a.854.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under your Chair?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Smith", "preceding_text": "May I associate those of us on the Liberal Democrat Benches with the Secretary of State's good wishes on the occasion of the last Scottish questions under your Chair, Madam Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.886.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "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": "The hon. Gentleman asked similar questions on 9 November 1999, and this year, on 25 January, 18 April and 27 June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Let me return the compliment. The hon. Lady's intelligent and persistent use of oral and written questions on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " of parliamentary private secretary to RHS Crossman. The situation that confronts the House on 23 October 2000 is totally different from anything that has gone before. It is entirely novel because there are a multiplicity of credible candidates—at least a dozen at the last count. I know that the Canadian House of Commons has a system whereby everyone is a candidate unless they rule themselves out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.914.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.937.5", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Made in Britain Mark", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "ty Speaker. I wonder whether you or the Speaker have had notice from the Secretary of State for Education and Employment that he wishes to make a statement on the spending review. I am sure that all hon. Members know that that was the highlight of the spending review. We therefore confidently expected that he would want to make a statement, on which we could question him. However, it would appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.937.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The one point of principle that the Lord Chief Justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "years. It is obvious from that that I was talking about the proposal that the mode of trial should be determined not by individual defendants, but by magistrates. I continued: In 1993. it— the proposal— received the unanimous backing of the royal commission on criminal justice. Today, it— the proposal— enjoys the active endorsement of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, and of the vast majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ustice, Lord Bingham, and of the vast majority— [Interruption] —[ Official Report , 7 March 2000; Vol. 345, c. 886.] The proposal did and it does. If the only issue between the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Bedfordshire and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway, and myself is whether we put the reputation clause back into the Bill, we can do business. However, the simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.945.9", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. Those who oppose the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.945.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "ld happen without a timetable motion? Despite the contents of the report, the Government have presented a half-baked and late timetable motion. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Sir N. Lyell) and I wrote to The Times at the weekend. Little did we know that the anxieties that we expressed in that letter, which was published today, would be so quickly realised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "of a jury of their fellow citizens is something that cannot be passed away lightly. I am grateful to the Home Secretary. I believe that he does attend on the House probably more than any other Minister—I make the observation that that reflects the fact that this is the 12th Home Office Bill that has come before the House this Session. When the right hon. Gentleman stood to justify this guillotine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend confirms that that is his view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "Let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "-mindedness, walked out of the Army and Navy Stores carrying a couple of books. The case went to a summary trial and he was found guilty, but he insisted on trial by jury and appealed to the Crown court. Eventually, he was found not guilty. Would any Member of Parliament accused of such an offence, which would finish his career, prefer not to go to the Crown court? Let us be honest with ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1023.8", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "us fourth option. However, that option still requires an executive system and the Secretary of State's permission, and it applies to categories of council rather than to individual councils. The official Opposition's attitude to the options has been the same throughout our consideration of the Bill. If the proposals for new local governance are so good and so popular, why not ask people to choose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1023.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1023.10", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "Why have the proposals been criticised so roundly by so many Labour Back Benchers? Why have they been criticised so effectively and clearly by the Labour Campaign for Open Local Government, which consists of 1, 000 members and several hundred Labour councillors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1023.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "roposals. A range of organisations in and out of local government, Labour councillors, Labour Back Benchers, academics and others have all raised those concerns over and over again. Until recently, the Government were not prepared to take notice of any of the provisions, but a problem arose because of their lordships' attitude to the Bill. This is where the Liberal Democrats come into the picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "use of Lords Baroness Hamwee admitted to horse-trading. Therefore, there is no pretence from anyone involved in this rather shabby little deal of any principle, of any logic; it is simply a matter of political horse-trading. The Government needed the support of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords on clause 28 and on their structures for local government, and the Liberal Democrats extracted a price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Don Foster", "preceding_text": "I happen to agree. He and I spent a long time in Committee and we share the clear view that it is totally wrong of central Government to impose on local government how it should organise its decision-making processes. We have consistently made it clear that we are opposed to central Government seeking to do that. I now come to the decision that we should take, given the position of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That was a very good principle when local authorities wanted to spend other people's money with a precept on taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That was a very good principle when local authorities wanted to spend other people's money with a precept on taxation— [Interruption.] Liberal Members fall about with laughter, but, at that time, they did their usual trick: they said that they would give freedom to local authorities, but would not increase taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1034.16", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "me reluctance, not to seek to reintroduce the repeal in this Bill. Therefore, at this stage, for all the reasons that I have outlined, we will not ask the House to oppose the Lords proposals and insist on the Commons amendments. The arguments in favour of retaining section 28 were never very strong. Much of the concern about the repeal was whipped up by sections of the media, fed by the opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1034.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know, as he served on the Standing Committee—with some distinction, but in considerable silence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "With respect, I think that it is that sort of argument which has clouded the issues. I feel sorry for the Minister, because she has been left to carry the can this evening. Not a single member of the Cabinet is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "Government I lead should be seen as anti-family. If it is so important to the soul of the Labour party that the section be abolished or repealed, why was it not a pledge in the manifesto? At least the Liberal Democrats can claim that it was in their manifesto. They take some pride in that, even though, as I have said, it is unlikely to appear in their Focus leaflets in Eastbourne or anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "hey are saying that the problem is real. To suggest that those involved in a charity such as Childline do not worry about the issue is a gross distortion of reality. The hon. Gentleman, his party and others who support the failure to repeal section 28 must bear that responsibility, and recognise that tonight, there are children who are not protected and who are suicidal and that, in the next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wholly wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1044.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1046.3", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "preceding_text": "omises went too far—and sent us the message that section 28 should remain in force. If there is to be a constitutional battle between the elected House and the unelected House, let us have it on the issue of human rights. As a matter of tactics, we should send the Bill back to the Lords. If we have to stay another couple of weeks to debate the issue and confront the unelected House on a key issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I hope that when the right hon. Lady reads Hansard , she will realise that it is at least reasonable to infer that from what she said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1048.2", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "on) and, I am sorry to say, the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), about the position of the Churches. As far as I am aware, the only Church leader in the United Kingdom who has spoken clearly against the repeal of section 28 has been the Catholic Cardinal Winning in Scotland. The majority of the Church of England bishops in the House of Lords yesterday voted with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "well why I will not do so. Every time I have asked him to give way, he has petulantly refused to do so. I shall return the compliment. He cannot face criticism. His comments are based on ignorance, intolerance, prejudice and a failure to consult children's charities. 1.15 am If Conservative Members had once done children's charities the courtesy of spending time with them, they would have learned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "e the evidence of every single children's charity and every single teacher who said that the section was a mistake. They do not care about the damage that they do. They do not care about the children who, in the next 12 months, will be suicidal and who will take their own lives. Conservative Members will not listen, but if they care one jot about children, if they care one jot about a Sarah Payne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodward", "preceding_text": "ldren's charity and every single teacher who said that the section was a mistake. They do not care about the damage that they do. They do not care about the children who, in the next 12 months, will be suicidal and who will take their own lives. Conservative Members will not listen, but if they care one jot about children, if they care one jot about a Sarah Payne— [Interruption.] Listen carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ords. If the Government had not conceded on hereditary peers, or if they had proceeded more quickly to fuller reform, we would not be in our current position. If the Government had secured a proper turnout of Labour peers the first time, and fewer than the 18 rebellions, through pressure that the Whips are more than capable of exerting, the provision would not have been lost in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ford, West and Abingdon gave us a litany of what the Government might now do, and all his suggestions are real possibilities. However, accepting those suggestions tonight without securing consensus across this House and with the House of Lords might not be the most effective way of ensuring that we get rid of section 28. Those who know me well are aware that I am not in favour of gesture politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "te so far on this clause and amendments has focused not only on the practical implementation of guidelines on sex education, but in particular on the extent to which the importance of marriage should be reflected in the guidance given, and should be set out on the face of the Bill. This is an issue on which we see clearly how much the Government rely on spin rather than substance. When the review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " not been prepared to bring them before the House in the form of amendments to the Bill to ensure that it reflects the views of people in this country. The Minister said that that phrase was rejected because it stigmatised children. I suggest to him that he speak to the Home Secretary, because they were the words of this Government. They were set out in the document entitled \"Supporting Families\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "t children learn them is an entirely separate matter. There are flaws in the guidance provision that has been inserted into the Bill. The main flaws from the Government's point of view are that it does not replace section 28 and it does not do the job for which it was intended. It introduces some guidance to schools on sex education and the context in which it should be taught. It is a great pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "o many months tried to pretend that they are in favour of marriage, family life and family values, the Government, when challenged, were not prepared to have the courage of their convictions and insert a clause to that effect in the Bill. They rejected the words of their own Ministers about the importance of marriage. Perhaps we should read some more leaked Government memos to find an explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1074.7", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "I should like to make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1074.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": " the prevailing tide, if you like, of the possible abolition of section 28? In that sense, I ask the Minister to think again even at this late stage about whether he can put together something more convincing, not just for the House of Commons but for people beyond the House? My final and concluding point is that guidance is not sufficient. It seems to be important, because of what I said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-25", "file": "debates2000-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6a22f4ad053d0004", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Learning and Skills Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "end earlier, but, given his characteristic generosity, I expect nothing less from him. He is right to say that the Government would need to be accountable to the House for the guidance. We would need to monitor it carefully to ensure that it was efficacious. There is no question about that, and my hon. Friend yet again makes a valuable contribution to the debate. I have made my concluding remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-25a.1081.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ive party. It is difficult to know exactly what choice to make when one reads interviews such as that with the shadow Chancellor in The Spectator a day or two ago. He was asked by the interviewer whether his plans meant that he would announce lower spending. He replied: We reject the language of cuts. The interviewer asked: You mean you won't be cutting? Answer: We may or may not be spending less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "ay the right of every individual citizen to choose trial by jury. Is he aware that every one of those reasons has been demonstrated to be incorrect? First, he said that the Bill was supported by the Lord Chief Justice, but we now know that the Lord Chief Justice had written to the Home Secretary expressing strong misgivings. Secondly, he said that it was supported by the Runciman royal commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "ament, and the accompanying alienation of many of the young from the democratic process, is troubling. It is an issue on which every Member of the House should wish to reflect. It is our responsibility, each and every one of us, to do what we can to develop and build public trust and confidence. Let us make a start by remembering that the function of Parliament is to hold the Executive to account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "talwart Members, on whom it depends so much. I have not had a boring day in my working life, and for all that, I am grateful to all of you. When I came to the conclusion that it was right for me to go, my thoughts went to that famous passage in the book of Ecclesiastes, about there being A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. Well, my dancing days are long past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Speaker", "preceding_text": "n your inheritance, defend your rights and remember always that the privileges the House enjoys were dearly won and must never be squandered. You elected me in the springtime, and I shall retire in the autumn, which marks a fitting seasonal conclusion to my period in office. Therefore I say to you all, in a phrase that you all know so well, but which has never been more true than now: \"Time's up.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Retirement of Madam Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "o influence opinion. However, last night I signed a letter, which covers all the basics of the election of the Speaker and is being circulated to all Members of the House. They can form their own judgments on it and decide how they will react to it. I shall only add that, to any who wish to make inquiries about it, I shall be available over the next three months—in some part of the world or other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Retirement of Madam Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " of the Gala baths, past the empty dustbins and the stray cats in the town hall yard, through the back door of the town hall and down the empty corridors at 1.40 in the morning, and then proceeded to read out the results to an empty and snow-swept high street. I remember that, when we at last found some licensed premises, within the hour, you said, \"Snapey, there will be some changes around here.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Retirement of Madam Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "roudest day of my life.\" That kind of commitment and the understanding that we all have a piece of you is tremendously important. Madam Speaker, if I were to be honest, the great state occasions when your natural dignity has incredibly enhanced the role of Speaker, have been significant. Certainly, seeing you walk down the stairs with Nelson Mandela is a memory that will stick in my mind for ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Retirement of Madam Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "tinguished, although different. People always asked who would follow the acts of Speakers Thomas and Weatherill, but you, Madam Speaker, have more than followed them, and you have today seen the unanimity that is in the House. It is not often that I can say a loud \"Amen\" to what the Prime Minister says, or even to what the Leader of the Opposition or the leader of the official Unionist party says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1143.6", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Census (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyrie", "preceding_text": "I shall have to begin my speech by addressing some of the points made by the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1148.8", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Census (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sayeed", "preceding_text": " be a legal duty to furnish the particulars, but it would not be a criminal offence to neglect or refuse to do so. I trust that that is an accurate reflection of his argument. I too have discussed the matter with those who understand the legal arguments. I understand that the position of the Treasury solicitors is that the use of the word \"required\" in this context does not imply a statutory duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1148.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Census (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "curate, as possible. Making the answering of a question voluntary does not change that. 6.15 pm It may be worth dealing with the statistical validity of information. It is nonsense to say that the data will be tainted, as the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) suggested. The most recent experience in Northern Ireland, where a question is traditionally included in the census—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Census (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "jor step forward. On Second Reading, however, I asked the Minister whether it would be made clear on the form that the question was voluntary. We did not have a reply then, but I was delighted to read in the Committee Hansard that she made that pledge, and she has reiterated it tonight. It has been made clear tonight that she has statutory cover to ensure that on the census form, by that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Census (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " Conservative Members shake their heads, meaning that she has not, but I remind them that we had an exchange about that provision earlier. My hon. Friend confirmed that under section 3(1)(f) of the Census Act, Ministers are allowed to put forward regulations that stipulate how the form will be designed, and other aspects of the form. Therefore the Minister has confirmed that she does have a power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "ondon Internet Exchange, the Confederation of British Industry, the Federation of the Electronics Industries and the Alliance of Electronic Business, and others. That shows that there are sometimes misunderstandings about such issues. However, I welcome the fact that there will be a technical board, but it is a pity that it was necessary to defeat the Government in the other place to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "roviders who have to provide such facilities. That was strongly resisted until a defeat in the other place. Again, it is good that the Minister now accepts the decision taken in the House of Lords that he shall make a fair contribution. That will build confidence in the industry, which the Government need if they are to implement the legislation effectively. It is good to talk, as the saying goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " me of the words of a Jacobite song following the battle of Prestonpans. It seems on this occasion that the English general, Johnny Cope, was wide awake in the morning, got his drums a-beating and got down his amendments on the technical advisory board. Lord Cope seems to have been more successful than his predecessor of more than 200 years ago. One naturally supports the technical advisory board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "vernment must reserve the right to say, \"No, we are not going to pay every penny in case you try to rip us off. It will be a fair contribution and in most circumstances we anticipate that it may be 100 per cent.\" I would like to hear a statement from the Minister tonight. No Minister wants to comment on a hypothetical scenario, such as, if I give him a bill for £5, 000, how much of it will he pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-26", "file": "debates2000-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "01db64039e25ae7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "nternet service providers. We think that recasting and rewriting part III has moved the Bill very much in the right direction, and that it is much improved. Nevertheless, I think that it is also possible to lay the charge of, \"new Labour, new clause\". The first 22 pages of amendments have certainly transformed the Bill from a rather ugly beast into something that may eventually even attain beauty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-26a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1224.6", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "My mother has asked me to tell you, Madam Speaker, that she will miss you very much on the Parliamentary Channel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I say with the greatest possible respect to the right hon. Gentleman that he has identified that the Home Secretary has already dealt with the matter in the House on two occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1250.6", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend to do something unconventional? In all the centuries that we have had a Parliament here, only two candidates for Speaker have ever been proposed at one time, but this time there could be a multiplicity of candidates—perhaps as many as 12. Could my right hon. Friend act as an honest broker and go-between to organise hustings in Westminster Hall on the morning of Monday 23 October?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1251.2", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman that my right hon. Friend will be able to come to the House today. As I said before, Mr. McArdle had co-defendants in the crime of which he was found guilty; they were convicted at the same time, and two who were given longer sentences than him have already been released. I believe that to have been the understanding behind my right hon. Friend's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "uld have far more freedom in respect of how they use the money that they have. We aim over time, without compulsion but with clear incentives, to move GPs to a new system of contractual arrangements. The personal medical service contract will reward doctors on the basis of quality of care as well as on the basis of patient numbers, and will give doctors far more flexibility to innovate and change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, but warn Labour Members that in announcements from this Government, there is always a huge difference between the announcement and the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "ext Conservative Government would spend the same as this Government on health. The real debate is about how that money is spent. That is the debate about this plan. We will judge the national plan on whether it really extends patient choice, on whether it really puts clinical priorities ahead of political priorities, on whether it really breaks down barriers with the private sector and on whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ality. People will naturally be sceptical. Will the Prime Minister say whether the Government have at last abandoned their disastrous waiting list initiative, of which he made no mention in his statement? Will he assure the House that the plan means that the sickest patients, such as those with cancer or cardiac problems, will be treated first, as we have long proposed? Secondly, for all his talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " extraordinary remark the other day that there are 14,000 fewer nurses in the health service under this Government. He did not mention that today, perhaps because he knows that there are 10,000 more today. Another thing that the right hon. Gentleman did not mention—as I have the answer, I will give it to him anyway—was the nonsense about spending £200 million on the euro. Madam—Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ospital and primary care centre, operational since 23 March 1999. Northallerton health services accident and emergency department has received £600,000. Some £500,000 has been spent on intensive care beds and £180,000 on out-patient modernisation. Shall I tell the right hon. Gentleman what those improvements have in common? They were delivered by us and they would never have been delivered by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must have some calm in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lion hole in his funds straight away. What is clear from everything that the right hon. Gentleman has said today, and from what his health spokesman has said, is that on the NHS, the Conservatives are more extreme than ever. They do not believe in the health service—they never did. They would not invest in the health service—they never did. They do not understand the health service—they never did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Gentlemen should not be shouting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will repeat what I said. Conservatives do not believe in the health service—they never did. They would not invest in the health service—they never did. They do not understand the health service—they never did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ves do not believe in the health service—they never did. They would not invest in the health service—they never did. They do not understand the health service—they never did. [Interruption.] The problem with the service is that, for 35 of its 52 years, it was run by a party that did not care enough about the national health service. Well, this party does, and it will be our pleasure to rebuild it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " the House of Commons, as a whole, should welcome that fact. Is it fair, therefore, to acknowledge that, in the carefully crafted words of the Prime Minister today early in his statement—when he said that the plan shows how the money will make up for years of underinvestment—those years of underinvestment included the first three years of his Administration? Secondly, when the Prime Minister says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "this happens now to an extent—it is important to have that flexibility for the patient. On consultants' contracts, the important thing is that, obviously, consultants will carry on with their private practice, but it is right that we contract new consultants to the national health service for the early stages of their careers, provided that we ensure that they are properly and adequately rewarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mportant thing is that, obviously, consultants will carry on with their private practice, but it is right that we contract new consultants to the national health service for the early stages of their careers, provided that we ensure that they are properly and adequately rewarded—[HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW long?\"] As to the number of years, that is precisely what we can now sit down and discuss with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o will improve the situation. I have not come to the House today to say that everything in the health service is perfect; of course it is not—otherwise we would not need this plan. I hope that we can work to achieve the changes. I point out to the hon. Gentleman—although I am not sure whether he is too much in agreement with much that is said by Opposition Front-Bench Members—that if he considers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a Front-Bench Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ope that we can work to achieve the changes. I point out to the hon. Gentleman—although I am not sure whether he is too much in agreement with much that is said by Opposition Front-Bench Members—that if he considers— [Interruption.] I am sorry, I may have dealt the hon. Gentleman a career blow. I did not mean to do that; I am sure that he is wholly in agreement with Opposition Front-Bench Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Football Disorder Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down, then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman because it depends on what he means by proper discussion. Once we have moved off this guillotine motion, which naturally eats into the time available for discussion of the substantive issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1291.7", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Football Disorder Bill (Supplemental Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "good enough to suggest that the Government accept the amendments. That is a matter for the Government. I am not a member of the Government; I am an Opposition Back Bencher. To suggest that we do not need much time because the Government have accepted their lordships' amendments does not wash with me. Potentially, 500 Members of the House of Commons may wish to discuss the matter—up to 500 of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1291.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1314.6", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Deputy Speaker. I am aware that the timetable for the Bill was decided by the House in a series of guillotine motions. However, bearing in mind Madam Speaker's comments yesterday about the need for the House to hold the Executive to account, may I ask, in the best possible spirit, that Madam Speaker should examine what has happened during the Bill's passage? There has been a long series of events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Utilities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "There we have it—soft on price fixers and soft on the causes of price fixing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-27", "file": "debates2000-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e3d5afecc863d097", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Postal Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "omy of its operations. Our contention is that the amendment seeks the same ends, but the commission will be responsible. Because the Post Office is, for the time being, the only realistic carrier of magazines, PPA members want it to operate in a manner calculated to promote efficiency and economy. I shall detain the House only briefly to say something about the amendment to Lords amendment No. 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-27a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-28", "file": "debates2000-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f4b49a2d63e92e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-28a.1391.6", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Cox", "preceding_text": " privileged to be Members of the House during your speakership. For those like me, who have had a long friendship with you, Madam Speaker, you will be sadly missed. However, as colleagues said on Wednesday, we look forward to seeing you in the Palace of Westminster on many occasions in the future. I thank you for all the kindness that you have shown not only to me, but to all Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-28a.1391.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-07-28", "file": "debates2000-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f4b49a2d63e92e22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-28a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Body", "preceding_text": "ed in every case, but the number of its successes is remarkable. I hope that the Health Ministers and those advise the Department will take a more sympathetic view of those treatments, which have proved successful for so many people. The other matter that I should like to raise—which is very different, but is of increasing concern in my constituency—is the way in which the minimum wage is failing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-07-28a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter L. Pike", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Edward. We know that you are in an extremely difficult position, but, on the important issue facing us today, it would be entirely wrong to go ahead on the stated basis when it is quite clear that the majority of the House is not in favour of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.8.2", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "e last Parliament, my hon. Friend knows that the duties and responsibilities of the Chairman lie outside as well as inside the Chamber. My hon. Friend insisted that proper child care facilities were provided in the building for the many members of our staff who have child care responsibilities. Some hon. Members may believe that that is not the main or even a primary responsibility of the Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.8.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.8.2", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "ng for the many members of our staff who have child care responsibilities. Some hon. Members may believe that that is not the main or even a primary responsibility of the Speaker. [Interruption.] \"Hear, hear\" say some of the chauvinists opposite. Many Labour Members believe that the provision of proper child care for the staff of the House is no less a responsibility of the Speaker than any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.8.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "want to put to the House my fears for this place. I do not attribute them to any one Government or any one Prime Minister, and I do not want that to be misunderstood. The people who elect us to Parliament ask us certain questions. They ask, \"When we go to war, do you have a say in it?\" and the answer is that we do not. We were not consulted, in terms of a vote, about the bombing in Iraq or Kosovo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": " Parliament. I would like to play a part in that. I have been both Whip and rebel. I have been an inner-city Member and, now, a rural Member. I have had a three-figure majority and a five-figure majority. My four children have grown up while I have been a Member. For my 26 years in this place, I have been in the Conservative party, but—to repeat a familiar phrase—not run by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": "ur. He never ceases to represent his constituents to his best. Every single time that he has been put to the test in relation to the rights of the Back Bencher against those of the Executive, the Back Bencher has won out. From my worm's eye perspective, I have great pleasure in seconding the nomination of the hon. Member for Macclesfield, and have probably cost myself a lot of friends in doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "preceding_text": "folk and Ipswich, North for not recognising me very early in my time in the House. Fortunately, it was not in this Chamber that our paths first crossed. I play rugby, which is the explanation for the black eye that I am sporting today. I played on Saturday and came a bit of a cropper with my opposite fly-half, who had absolutely not a scratch to show for the elbow that he managed to put in my eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Whereupon SIR EDWARD HEATH left the Chair, and MR. MICHAEL J. MARTIN was taken out of his place and conducted to the Chair by MR. PETER SNAPE and ANN KEEN.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.4", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker-Elect", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker-Elect", "preceding_text": "(standing on the upper step) : Order. I understand that the Speaker-Elect normally makes some formal remarks before taking the throne. It has been a long day and I do not want to keep hon. Members, but the House owes a debt of gratitude to the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath), the Father of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-23", "file": "debates2000-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d478611b94929563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.4", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker-Elect", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker-Elect", "preceding_text": "ouse owes a debt of gratitude to the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath), the Father of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I hope that the House will allow me to say that my thoughts are with my wife Mary, my son Paul, my daughter Mary and my grandson Ryan. Family is important to me and I will endeavour to see that families are included in the proceedings of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-23a.99.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that increased demand can put pressure on waiting lists during the winter, particularly as a result of people suffering from flu. I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the success of his advertising campaign in increasing the number of people taking advantage of the flu vaccine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend is aware, there is a TV advertising campaign and other types of advertisement precisely to inform the public about what they can do. It is most important to ensure that those at the highest risk of serious illness if they contract the flu take advantage of the facilities that the Government have made available to them, which is to get a free flu jab.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "nt's record—for example, the cut in nurse training places from 15,000 to 11,000 in two years and the failure to restore the figure to the previous levels under the previous Government—perhaps we should look to the future. The Government are already increasing the number of nurses in the NHS. We have a commitment to expand the NHS and to invest additional money, year on year, in increasing the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot have the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) shouting across at the Minister. He asked a question; the hon. Lady is answering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Hunter-killer Submarines", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "fence questions on Monday, and on both occasions he could easily raise such matters without any difficulty. I shall, however, deal with the hon. Gentleman's questions now, starting with those relating to the Upholder class of submarines, which the Conservative Government scrapped in 1993. When the Labour party came to power, that decision had already been taken and the programme was well advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Hatfield Derailment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"From privatisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "refers to the rail summits as \"show trials\", which I find totally offensive. All the industry came together and said that something must be done about safety, especially after the recent railway tragedies. We now have the fewest train collisions on record, train derailments are at an all-time low and the number of significant train accidents has substantially decreased. All these things have come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Hatfield Derailment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": " what happened at the time of privatisation? Does he accept that the Hatfield derailment would never have happened when the railways were publicly owned because local knowledge plays an enormous part in finding weak spots, especially on high-speed tracks? As long as there is a system in which Railtrack lacks the basic skills to maintain the track and has to buy them in, the problems will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Hatfield Derailment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know—I agreed with him at the time; it is a matter of record—that I thought that privatisation of the railways was wrong. In votes, in Committees and in all sorts of circumstances, we opposed the model that the then Government proposed to the House, and we were right to oppose it. I now find myself as the Secretary of State with responsibility for these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Hatfield Derailment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Matters of time and debate are, of course, for my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, but I am constantly available to discuss such matters either in statements or in debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Employment (Religious Beliefs)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "nd, where somebody who applied to a theological college for a position was turned down on the basis that he was an atheist and immediately appealed to the courts on the grounds that he had been discriminated against. I think we have dealt with that. Nobody now doubts that Jewish organisations should be able to insist that a Jew should be appointed as a rabbi, or that bishops should believe in God—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Employment (Religious Beliefs)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Church of England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "rned down on the basis that he was an atheist and immediately appealed to the courts on the grounds that he had been discriminated against. I think we have dealt with that. Nobody now doubts that Jewish organisations should be able to insist that a Jew should be appointed as a rabbi, or that bishops should believe in God— [Interruption] —in any event, if that is the wish of the Church in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-24", "file": "debates2000-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "fb8121d4335d3668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "do not know whether you have ever gone to a horse sale and seen the yearlings going round the sale ring. Occasionally, one can look at a yearling and immediately identify the sire. There are some stallions that have the ability to imprint their characteristics on their foals. The Bill has all the imprint of a Department of Trade and Industry Bill—the best of intentions out of muddle and confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-24a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "herefore unlikely to qualify for debt relief. We need co-operation from all the countries that give debt relief and the qualifying countries must adopt the necessary reforms to receive it. For the hon. Lady to talk as though the UK Government can control all that is completely foolish and shows that she does not understand what is going on. Ask anyone in the international system: Britain has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ms to receive it. For the hon. Lady to talk as though the UK Government can control all that is completely foolish and shows that she does not understand what is going on. Ask anyone in the international system: Britain has been— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) stopped heckling, he might learn something. Clearly, he has many problems and needs to learn a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "rol all that is completely foolish and shows that she does not understand what is going on. Ask anyone in the international system: Britain has been— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) stopped heckling, he might learn something. Clearly, he has many problems and needs to learn a lot. [Interruption.] He is still heckling. I wonder whether you, Mr. Speaker, could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ernational system: Britain has been— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) stopped heckling, he might learn something. Clearly, he has many problems and needs to learn a lot. [Interruption.] He is still heckling. I wonder whether you, Mr. Speaker, could— [Interruption.] The hon. Lady just asked an ill-informed and foolish question and will not listen to the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "terruption.] He is still heckling. I wonder whether you, Mr. Speaker, could— [Interruption.] The hon. Lady just asked an ill-informed and foolish question and will not listen to the answer. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is still heckling continuously. Therefore, it is difficult to speak and impossible for him to hear. I do not think that that is appropriate behaviour for the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must learn that one cannot reform Governments who are performing badly by giving aid to NGOs and charities. That happens when one is simply bringing humanitarian relief and cannot lever any reform. That is an important point that the hon. Gentleman needs to learn. Our recent increase in aid to Kenya was £10 million for drought relief because people are going hungry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.210.7", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "preceding_text": " pre-ordained limit, but spends according to need. In the previous financial year, 11 per cent. of my Department's budget was spent on disaster relief. That compares with 5 per cent, in 1997–98, and 8 per cent, in 1998–99. This year, we have provided relief for floods in west Bengal, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, a hurricane in Belize, and a typhoon and tidal wave in North Korea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.210.7", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short)", "preceding_text": "n disaster relief. That compares with 5 per cent, in 1997–98, and 8 per cent, in 1998–99. This year, we have provided relief for floods in west Bengal, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, a hurricane in Belize, and a typhoon and tidal wave in North Korea. [Interruption.] We are also continuing to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflict in many parts of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Is there no end to how out of touch the Prime Minister has become? Is he never prepared to admit that he has made a mistake? If he cannot admit a mistake on committing the country to join the euro, will he now admit that it was a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I believe that the position set out in the Budget was right. What is more, that is the position that the right hon. Gentleman supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ervative Members do not keep their policies for long, so let me quote what the right hon. Gentleman said on the occasion of the shadow Home Secretary's little volte face on policy. When asked to criticise the right hon. Lady, he said: I will take no further action against the Shadow Cabinet as I told them to give truthful answers. It is about time that the right hon. Gentleman took his own advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that no insult at all is intended to people in Wales. However, I understand that the National Statistician has announced today that there will be a new study into Welsh identity, using information gathered from the census—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "What should I say to my constituents about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "peak to me, and that was all that they wanted to do. Many of you will understand, as many of you have families, that, for the sake of my family, I had that concern. The press corps here, many of whom are highly respected, had asked to speak to me about me—that is all: about me. I chose, instead of giving individual interviews, to speak to them as a body. I think that that was a proper thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "r Boothroyd, Betty is no longer with us. You may want to have a quiet conversation with her outside the House, but it has nothing to do with us. The hon. Gentleman can be assured that if anyone—whether a Minister or a Back Bencher, a member of the Opposition or a member of a minority party—is in breach of the rules of this House, I will bring them to order. That is the best answer that I can give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "It would be wrong to be critical of junior Ministers alone. The real question is why it was left to them. Where was the Prime Minister? Was he touring high-tech sites trying to dodge the protest? Where was the Deputy Prime Minister? Hiding in some Chinese restaurant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "g to be critical of junior Ministers alone. The real question is why it was left to them. Where was the Prime Minister? Was he touring high-tech sites trying to dodge the protest? Where was the Deputy Prime Minister? Hiding in some Chinese restaurant? [Interruption.] Where was the Chancellor? Nowhere to be seen. He was enjoying the sight of his colleagues stewing in the juice of his stealth taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": " colleagues stewing in the juice of his stealth taxes. [Interruption.] Not until Tuesday did senior Ministers put their heads above the parapet. When they did, was it to say, \"We have understood. We are listening, and we are on the job\"? Not a bit of it. They tried to blame everyone but themselves—it was all the action of a small minority; it was the oil companies; it was all down to intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "n. [Interruption.] In the Prime Minister's immortal words: It will all be getting back to normal within 24 hours. Normal? Business losing up to £250 million a day, schools closing, shops running out of food, street cleaning suspended, funerals postponed, Portsmouth hospital running out of insulin, operations cancelled: the only things that were normal were the spin, the hype and the dissimulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "rtsmouth hospital running out of insulin, operations cancelled: the only things that were normal were the spin, the hype and the dissimulation. [Interruption.] The only thing that was normal was the fact that the Government knew nothing about how business worked or how tanker drivers were employed. They thought that oil companies, like Victorian mill owners, could order their drivers back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": " the hype and the dissimulation. [Interruption.] The only thing that was normal was the fact that the Government knew nothing about how business worked or how tanker drivers were employed. They thought that oil companies, like Victorian mill owners, could order their drivers back to work. [Interruption.] The only thing that was normal was that the Government looked round for someone else to blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.231.7", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "Let me read this from The Observer, dated 17 September 2000. Though there were instances of intimidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.231.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.235.7", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Over the past 18 months", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.235.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.236.7", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I will give way to my hon. Friend later. Last November, the Chancellor abolished the fuel duty escalator and, as a result, duty is now 6 per cent. lower, in fact it is 3p less per litre—where did I hear that before?—than it would otherwise have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.236.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.236.7", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I will give way to my hon. Friend later. Last November, the Chancellor abolished the fuel duty escalator and, as a result, duty is now 6 per cent. lower, in fact it is 3p less per litre—where did I hear that before?—than it would otherwise have been. [Interruption.] I am delighted that that has pleased Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.236.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has a great deal of experience and knowledge, but I think that he is making a very partisan and unreasonable point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "No. I am not saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am extremely concerned about the situation in rural areas, for which I carry a responsibility within Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I am extremely concerned about the situation in rural areas, for which I carry a responsibility within Government. [Interruption.] I entirely accept that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "t my constituents at risk. When reading the report of my speech, I hope that he will consider that next time he might have the good grace to tell me, so that I can inform the police and the relevant authorities because of the major safety issues involved. Intimidation has been mentioned, and there was intimidation. A total of 185 incidents have been collated across the country. They were gathered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": " some possible longer-term solutions. As technology advances and the nature of power transmission changes, we will be better able to decide where to find the funds necessary to support our road and other transport infrastructure. People in rural areas who tele-work from home also can benefit from a new strategy. Today, we are trying to address an immensely complicated issue in a very short debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "s in teacher supply and recruitment, today we face a worsening problem and a Government unable to recognise the damage that their policies are doing to the quality of education for children in our schools. We should be absolutely clear. This is not just a debate about teachers; it is about children and the standard of education that they receive. That standard is falling and will continue to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ies. There is already evidence of the impact on standards. Professor Howson of Oxford Brookes university—when commenting a month or two ago on this year's key stage 2 maths results in London, in which a third of inner-London boroughs made little or no gains at all—said that the results might be an indication that teacher shortages in the capital were having an impact. Teacher shortages are severe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a cheek!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " their targets for recruitment. In the case of the golden hellos, the target was also missed. Similarly, in the case of trainee salaries, \"Teacher training misses its target\" yet again, according to a headline in The Times Educational Supplement. I received a letter earlier today from the Secretary of State about the debate this evening. He referred to my new-found concern for teacher recruitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for School Standards (Ms Estelle Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no crisis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for School Standards (Ms Estelle Morris)", "preceding_text": "ees next year, we must recruit 70 per cent. of those who leave university with a maths degree. That shows the difficulty that we face. No hon. Member should come to the House and pretend that glib statements about cutting paperwork will solve the problem. There is a long way to go, and we have made a start. Conservative Members speak as though they discovered only recently that there was a crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "I remember them, but they were not material in solving the problems. Where are they now? I tried to find out about the bursaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "o the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr. Öpik), so I shall not give way to him, either. I come now to the spin on this matter. Why have the regulations been introduced with such enormous speed at this particular time? The answer is because the Unionist council is meeting next week, and this is another bone to be thrown to the Unionists to try to support the position of the First Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "We get more good news than bad from the Province these days, and the IRA's statement today is circumstantially encouraging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "as symbol of a division, and that is slightly to miss the point of this regulation. The Secretary of State was right to say that it tries to show genuine sensitivity towards both sides. It will come as no surprise to the House to hear that the Liberal Democrats welcome the provision for the European flag to be flown alongside the Union flag on Europe day, because it is a symbol that unites us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A third way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "nd and reserve the right to go on bending his ear in the Tea Room and elsewhere, but I hope that he will consider taking a slightly softer line at the weekend—although that is obviously a matter for him. I think that the regulations may tackle some issues that I have heard him raise in the past. Let me suggest, if I may be so bold, that they represent something of a middle way in the flags debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-25", "file": "debates2000-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b454aba6d49fac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": "t Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom. It must not be used to make a different statement, as sometimes happens in other parts of the United Kingdom. We know of political parties that try to assert that they have a particular relationship with the Union flag. There is one particular party that, I feel, has little right to make that statement, for it is exclusive and extremist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-25a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack", "preceding_text": "ibe as a culinary battleground, as there are seats for only one sixth of the 1,800 or so children to have a school dinner. The remainder who want to find a place to eat their sandwiches are scattered to the four winds in the rest of the site. That is unacceptable. The head and other senior staff members have to give up their dinner hour to supervise the maelstrom. Will the Minister be kind enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "was £33 million, which we have more than doubled to over £75 million in this financial year. That is not rationing, but giving schools the resources to expand so they deliver for all our pupils. The measure to which the hon. Gentleman refers is a temporary one for this phase of funding only and was introduced precisely because we want to ensure that every part of the country has equitable funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "r Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) to her new responsibilities and join her in paying tribute to her predecessor, who was indeed an excellent shadow Leader of the House and discharged his duties with elegance and wit. The hon. Lady asked when the Queen's Speech was last held in December. From memory I am not sure, but it has not happened for many years, probably not since the second world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "convenience of the House if I made the announcements in the course of a debate on defence procurement that was already scheduled. Clearly, it would have been possible to have made a statement—taking an hour of parliamentary time—and then to have embarked on the debate, but that seemed a somewhat artificial division, given that the subject matter of both statement and debate is defence procurement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cares to check, he will find that approximately 2,500 ships are placed for construction around the world each year. That means a lot every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cares to check, he will find that approximately 2,500 ships are placed for construction around the world each year. That means a lot every day. [Interruption.] Perhaps the hon. Gentleman's grasp of mathematics is better than mine, but I doubt it given his response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) had raised the matter with me, I could have told him that I was still writing the statement minutes before I stood up. I do not know what has appeared on the BBC website or when it appeared. May I make it clear, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that it was not my statement or words for which I am responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "st as this most smart of procurements could be proved, it could be chopped away at the knees. Let us not see a repeat of what happened before—that is my main concern. I turn now to the pressures on the defence budget in general and, more particularly, to certain reports about the Royal Air Force. I hope that the Minister will deal with the recent press reports about how the RAF will lose at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " have suggested—I am ready to be corrected—that the Air Force board saw the paper after it knew of the extra money. Will the Minister also confirm that comments were made at that meeting about reducing a front-line type of aircraft, which would thus reduce cost? That is one way of doing it. Rumours are circulating that it could be the Tornado F3, the Jaguar, or the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "r, as they should be? The Secretary of State mentioned another procurement project, the SA80. The Kosovo report and others have highlighted the problems and failures of the SA80 over the years. The previous Government, in previous iterations, went through get-well programmes that clearly did not work. The Government have taken a decision, in the light of all the concern about the SA80, to upgrade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ry of State mentioned—Trident and the joint strike fighter are all programmes in which Britain and the United States are collaborating, or have collaborated, with great mutual success. The JSF is a prime example of how the DERA programme begins to hurt. I remind the Secretary of State of its huge potential not only for BAE, but for industry across the board. Already questions have begun to emerge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Chidgey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stockton, South (Ms Taylor) made an interesting and impassioned contribution as she expressed her joy and delight at the good fortune of her constituency. Many hon. Members who are here today have constituency interests. I wish I could speak with the same joy and passion because the defence industry is vital to the economy of Hampshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-26", "file": "debates2000-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "67843a3ac55860ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "War Graves Commission", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the gardeners do not work for me, so I cannot give a guarantee. However, the commission has told us that it has no plans to reduce the number of British gardeners working abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-26a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-30", "file": "debates2000-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "41abf59cf47daf42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.498.7", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KFOR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.498.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-30", "file": "debates2000-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "41abf59cf47daf42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.512.4", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KFOR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "d Faslane, the many other workers who depend on those establishments for their employment and the suppliers to the defence industry. I need no incitement from my hon. Friend to undertake to give the widest possible publicity to the difficulties that Scottish National party policy would cause not only for the people at Faslane and Coulport, but for the people of Scotland and the industry generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-30", "file": "debates2000-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "41abf59cf47daf42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Race Relations (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "nal Statistics did make a mistake—there are no ifs or buts about that. However, the hon. Gentleman and I differ over the way in which the situation was then tackled. I sat with my right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) on the Committee that dealt with the census, but this issue never came up, as one can see from Hansard and the general forms that were put on the Table in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-30a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-31", "file": "debates2000-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "92e0b3f9fa9eb88b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "are the tripling of international crude oil prices and the shortage of petrol on wholesale markets. We intend to deal with that issue, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will make a statement. Let me clarify what the hon. Gentleman wrongly quoted me as saying in the debate last week. I did not say that the fuel duty escalator would be brought back; I specifically denied that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-31", "file": "debates2000-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "92e0b3f9fa9eb88b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Severe Weather Disruption", "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": " to issue the final version of the new guidance in December. We are therefore—together with the Environment Agency—improving flood warnings; encouraging, and providing more funding for, flood and coastal defence; and encouraging development away from flood risk areas. The storm that we experienced was certainly extreme. There is much discussion about the influence of global warning on our weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-10-31", "file": "debates2000-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "92e0b3f9fa9eb88b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Severe Weather Disruption", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) for his support for the emergency services. I—no one else—make statements to the House. I am responsible to the House—no parliamentary or news spokesman is. If I decide that it is right to make a statement to the House, that is what I do. That is what I have done. I did not consult anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-10-31a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for the information about 1921. I was not aware of it. However, I was aware that in this Session the Government have introduced 41 Bills, in the 1981–82 Session the previous Conservative Government introduced 46 Bills in the 1985–86 Session they introduced 49 Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of the Strategic Rail Authority gives us the opportunity to deal with the problems of fragmentation in respect of privatisation. The other thing that is absolutely vital is extra investment in the railways. Through the transport plan, we have the opportunity over the next 10 years for—literally—the largest ever infrastructure investment in our railways that the country has ever seen. It is vital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, on mortgages, as a result of getting rid of Tory boom-and-bust economics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.704.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r public services or cuts under him. The choice is between help for the poorest families or cuts to the new deal, to the working families tax credit and even—the Conservatives admitted this today—to free television licences for the over-75s. When those choices are put before the country, the right hon. Gentleman's jokes will not be enough. When it comes down to policy, he gets it wrong every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Change it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the country will be looking for that support, but I do not think that anyone has ever pretended that the supplement at the age of 80 is additional or proper recompense for pensioners of that age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.712.11", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have known the hon. Gentleman for many years and, if I were seeking to raise any matter in the House, I would probably go to him for advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.712.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "The two Select Committee members should get their story straight, because we are now hearing two different versions of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.718.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " to be Prime Minister, he is welcome to do it. If he wants to claim responsibility for Lady Thatcher's, that is fine. I agree with much of what Lady Thatcher says, but I do not claim that she owes me any apologies or foreknowledge of her remarks. What she says is rightly her business, and we agree with that with which we agree. I am speaking for the Opposition, who will be in government next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "was formally recognised as such at that time by the European Union. That policy was clearly inherited by the Labour Government when they took power. In Amsterdam in June 1997, the Prime Minister's spin doctors proudly trumpeted the fact that he had won the \"battle\" against moves to merge the WEU and the EU. In fact—this is most interesting—when the Prime Minister came back from Amsterdam, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way in the middle of the compelling case that he is making. Perhaps a significant item to add to his list is an extraordinary piece of geography: Mr. Solana is located in the EU building, not the NATO building, in the city of Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may not wish to follow me down this route, but he will of course recall that Javier Solana campaigned against NATO for seven years—although he now has the top slot in the European dimension in dealing with the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cash", "preceding_text": "As a Minister in Spain, Mr. Solana campaigned against NATO for seven years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, whose attempted exchange with the Secretary of State was most interesting. The Secretary of State seems not to know anything at all about history or about the past of people who are meant to be his political colleagues in Europe. It is a matter of fact that Monsieur Solana—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, whose attempted exchange with the Secretary of State was most interesting. The Secretary of State seems not to know anything at all about history or about the past of people who are meant to be his political colleagues in Europe. It is a matter of fact that Monsieur Solana— [Interruption.] Mr. Solana—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, whose attempted exchange with the Secretary of State was most interesting. The Secretary of State seems not to know anything at all about history or about the past of people who are meant to be his political colleagues in Europe. It is a matter of fact that Monsieur Solana— [Interruption.] Mr. Solana— [Interruption.] Senor Solana—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.746.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": "esperate we are for front-line pilots. Those issues are serious and must be addressed. We are taking on long-term commitments in the Balkans. No one with any knowledge of the Balkans, and no one who has visited the area in the past five years, would suggest that the Bosnian situation will get any better soon. I have been there recently, and I suggest that improvement is a generation away at least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-01", "file": "debates2000-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d508eebcb2872e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary will find out what I mean later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-01a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"This is a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "rogramme will be finished by February next year and we will build on that to introduce network banking, e-commerce and ideas such as Government general practitioners so as to give post offices a stable and secure future. That future is supported by the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, the Women's Institute and all the societies representing the countryside, including the Countryside Agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am certainly not going to allow a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am certainly not going to allow a speech— [Interruption.] Will the Minister answer the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ccessful single currency for three principal reasons: the benefits that would come from improved trade; the transparency of costs; and the currency stability that would clearly result from being part of a single currency. Those are the reasons why we are keeping the option open; why we have a policy of prepare and decide; and why we are prepared to give the people of this country a genuine choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "arly that we will test those five economic conditions early in the next Parliament. The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the important issue of those important conditions. Unfortunately, he failed to raise the constitutional issues, which I know concern him greatly, which is why he actually said during \"Any Questions\" on 20 October, \"I have no intention whatsoever of voting in favour of the euro\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "ountry that since the Government have been in power, more people in the textile industry have lost their jobs than the numbers of those employed in the shipping industry? We discover from the Library and the Textile Institute that 30,000 jobs were lost last year, which is equivalent to 10 per cent. of those employed in the industry. This year, job losses run at more than 17,000 to the end of July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.827.4", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Some of them will reduce burdens on business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.827.4", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Some of them will reduce burdens on business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"] The right hon. Gentleman needs to be aware that there is a clear distinction between the Conservative party and the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sawford", "preceding_text": "lations to restrict sales to organised events only, and thus end the annual ritual whereby hundreds of people suddenly go into their backyards and play with explosives. Every year hundreds of people are maimed and disfigured; sometimes there are fatalities. It is time to take tougher action to reduce those numbers. Will my hon. Friend consider further restrictions on the availability of fireworks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "The House will note that there is posturing rather than penitence from the Opposition. The campaign to get compensation for miners started in 1991—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "The House will note that there is posturing rather than penitence from the Opposition. The campaign to get compensation for miners started in 1991— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) laughs, but the Government whom he supported turned their back on the miners. We are acknowledging our responsibility to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "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": "ich the health and other essential services would grind to a halt—from nurses, doctors, hospital receptionists and cleaners, to volunteers delivering meals on wheels, cooks, telephone operators and, of course, the patients themselves. They all needed fuel, yet their needs were barely recognised by those who were at the terminal gates. It is therefore not from any desire whatever for confrontation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I thank the Home Secretary for that statement. I feel obliged to observe that for the second time he has failed to deliver to the Opposition a copy of the statement in reasonable time. The conventions of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The conventions of the House, which are there for the purpose of calling the Government to account, suggest that the Government should give statements to the Opposition at least 30 minutes in advance of delivery. We received this statement little more than a quarter of an hour before it was due to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "r. The conventions of the House, which are there for the purpose of calling the Government to account, suggest that the Government should give statements to the Opposition at least 30 minutes in advance of delivery. We received this statement little more than a quarter of an hour before it was due to be made. [Interruption.] The mood of the House indicates the defensiveness on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.4", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "drivers are being trained by the military for the emergency? Will he largely be using members of the Territorial Army? If so, does he not see the supreme irony that many of those troops who are trained Army drivers will in civilian life be tanker and lorry drivers, and that they will therefore be paid by the taxpayer for doing a job that they would have been doing anyway? I want the exact figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.840.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ld have made more arrests, not fewer, in the face of that evidence. Yet in the face of 180 separately recorded instances of disruption, the right hon. Lady seems to be saying that it is a good thing, not a bad thing, that few arrests were made. The right hon. Lady asked about operators' licences. Of course, if hauliers conduct themselves peacefully, there is no threat to their operators' licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have just said they are regulars. There is a difference between regular soldiers and territorials. The right hon. Lady asked about designated petrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "There is scarcely a need for the hon. Gentleman to say that his party has not equivocated on this issue, because that is on the record. I thank him and his colleagues for being able to distinguish between might and right. People have different opinions about fuel prices. It was not until the protests started that the Conservative party changed its view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Fuel Contingency Planning", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "How dare the Home Secretary accuse my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) and Conservative Members of jumping on a bandwagon? His memory is at fault. I had an Adjournment debate on 11 November 1998 on the issue, and Conservative Members have consistently voted against every vindictive increase in fuel duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady first asked about the arrangements for the debate on Tuesday. Let me correct her, if I may. We have not tabled a guillotine motion, but a business motion, which is commonly tabled. Its timing will allow more than half a day for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "e House on Monday? Will she consider carefully what steps are in her power to take, in consultation with you, Mr. Speaker, should the same happen next Monday? To illustrate that, let me draw her attention to the fact that at one stage on Monday my only route to the House appeared to be to fly to London City airport via Jersey, with no guarantee that the second half of the journey would take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stew!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "to reduce overheads. In addition, the rationalisation of the naval bases and supply agency and the ship support agency into a single organisation, to be called the warship support agency, from April next year will deliver cost and operational benefits in the management of support to front-line ships. We have also set up the defence catering group, which now provides a single focus for food supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "f their time in office. After that, they can enjoy the benefits of opposition and we can give them advice on how to play it in opposition when we change places with them. Before the next election—even if the election comes as early as May—the Government will have to take a crucial decision on the joint strike fighter programme. Will we enter the engineering management design—EMD—stage for the JSF?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "e and Hythe (Mr. Howard), whose remarks would act as a foil to some of the hon. Gentleman's more extraordinary views. As usual, the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) made an informed, helpful and constructive speech. I wholly concur with many of his ideas. I can only thank the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mr. Gapes) for his good humour under fire from the Opposition, which is typical of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": " it. Hon. Members will await publication with great interest. I suppose that I should say something about European defence since so many Conservative Members mentioned it. No doubt it would disappoint and frustrate all the old Atlanticists among them and sundry others if I did not. I am sure that they would be happy to know that we continue to make good progress on the European defence initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-02", "file": "debates2000-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ff824dd9aa24a9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Defence and the Armed Forces", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "ince so many Conservative Members mentioned it. No doubt it would disappoint and frustrate all the old Atlanticists among them and sundry others if I did not. I am sure that they would be happy to know that we continue to make good progress on the European defence initiative— [Interruption.] Have I rung the wrong note there, perhaps? The United Kingdom has played a leading role over the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-02a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "is a non-party-controversial issue; it is an all-party endeavour.—[ Official Report , 28 January 1998; Vol. 305, c. 271.] I only wish that Opposition Members would take the same view. My hon. Friend is right. I understand that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's official spokesman confirmed today that, in his view, the dome is an important part of the regeneration of the Greenwich peninsula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speaker!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "e correct information.—[ Official Report , 26 October 2000; Vol. 355, c. 166W.] I have discussed the matter with some of the folk who have been through the personal pension mis-selling follow-up. Each case is painstakingly examined and the process is taking a long time to complete. However, the work is being done thoroughly. How can anyone prove that seven or eight years ago he saw a duff leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I would not begrudge him £150—I am sure he needs it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The House can debate that when it debates the regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "got last Tuesday. He gave me the opportunity to give it then, and I am happy to give it again now, but I know that a number of Back Benchers wish to contribute to this debate on pensioners' income. Many of us have seen the statistics arising from the Government's annual poverty report, which show that, since 1997, the number of pensioners in poverty has increased from 28 per cent. to 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butterfill", "preceding_text": " on their record on pensions with any great credit. The Liberal Democrats made an attack on the Conservatives' record when we were in office. Under Baroness Thatcher, it is certainly true that we broke formally the link with earnings, although during our period in office the increase was slightly higher than inflation—about 10 per cent. higher. Furthermore, we introduced the winter fuel allowance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.90.8", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "entical condition to that found at Hatfield is not a fair way to assess the overall quality of the track. It is generally accepted that, overall, the track is in worse condition than at privatisation. If the hon. Gentleman wants to get technical, it is more difficult to understand why gauge-corner cracking appears in the new high-stress, steel rails that did not exist at the time of privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.90.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "em well, and if they continue in their current vein, this century will not treat them well either. The social democrats in Germany dropped their Marxist tag in 1959, the socialists in Spain did so in the 1970s and became the Government throughout the 1980s, and even the Labour party, one of the most conservative institutions in this country, dropped clause IV, because it did not see the relevance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "e pain yet before things get better—if they ever get better under this Government. Whatever happens, I call on the Government to get on with their public-private partnership. We would prefer a full privatisation, but whatever the outcome, there needs to be a significant increase in investment in the London underground system for all the passengers who travel on it. I have travelled on it recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "not, they may have to sell off a majority stake. In that case, as my hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Mr. Syms) said, how can they prevent a French company from purchasing NATS? I should also like the Minister to tell us whether the Government are in favour of the European skies policy, and how it will affect the public-private partnership of NATS. That policy has not been mentioned this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "nger throughput during the past few years would not have occurred. Significant investment in a new air terminal and rail interchange has brought life to the notion of an integrated transport policy. The Government advocated and implemented that approach—a combination of commitment and investment and a determination to lever in private sector investment that would not otherwise have been available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "preceding_text": "d as a matter of principle that the public sector was bad and the private sector was good—and some of them said so in such stark terms. Tory Ministers believed at the time that privatisation was a panacea, and that has led us to all sorts of problems—not least the mess following privatisation of the railways that they have left us to clear up. The Government's approach has been entirely different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ffic control is in private hands, and has been so for many years. We have all been landing and taking off at those airports without even noticing the fact—whether it be at East Midlands, Bristol, Luton or Newcastle airport, where I took off this morning. If it were true that only the state can manage industries where safety is essential, we would all travel on Aeroflot rather than British Airways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-06", "file": "debates2000-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b482851d7e02b8d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.130.2", "colnum": "130", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many of my constituents have asked me to present a petition on the same theme as the debate that my party called earlier this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-06a.130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that the solution to sanctions is in the hands of Saddam Hussein himself by his taking the comparatively simply step of complying with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "I thought hard before adding the fourth E, for the reasons that were outlined by my hon. Friend. I assure my hon. Friend that we will continue to work with the Swedish Government on a range of issues. On the single currency, he knows that our position is absolutely clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Far East Prisoners of War (Ex Gratia Payment)", "cue_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "preceding_text": "whether it will apply only to their parents? Does he join me in hoping that there will be no move in the House to condemn the Japanese Government at this time? Demands have been made for an apology from the Japanese and I understand the feelings behind those demands, but at this time we should welcome the move by the British Government, and that of the Canadian Government previously, to give some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend; with much greater elegance than I am ever able to muster, he has summarised the nature of the decisions before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.173.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman understand my point? I did not say that Back Benchers should have less opportunity to speak, but that they should have at least as much opportunity as they have now. My point was that they should speak more succinctly within a programmed motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "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": " a guillotine and something which he regards as an abuse of our procedures. We all know that we would never complete any business if that were the approach adopted by the House as a whole. I shall repeat what I said to the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) last Thursday. We are not dealing with a guillotine. Before us is a business of the House motion that is designed to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "d to the Government, might wish to concentrate. I have looked at some of the evidence given to the Jopling Committee. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman has done the same, for he is assiduous in his research. If so, he will know that many members of his party—including the then Minister for women, Mrs. Angela Rumbold—argued for programming of this kind. That was not least, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.215.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " aware that the process of voting itself has been used to detain hon. Members late at night, even when no debate was possible, or when only a handful of hon. Members were engaged. I know that many colleagues, on both sides of the House, feel that the sheer unpredictability of being so detained, without even being sure that there will be a vote at all, is one of the worst aspects of our procedures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman would not wish the public to get the impression that the House is ill attended. He will know as well as I do that hon. Members are here in large numbers every day and for very long hours; one has only to go into the car park to see that that is the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "ide constituency duties? When the House is sitting, I hope that I will always be in the House or in the Chamber. Does she also accept that during my years in the House I have always noted strident opposition to change? In 1966, by just one vote, the House was not televised, and it took years before it was. Thursday morning sittings were opposed by many Members but are now regarded as quite normal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "to question and to cross-examine. The proposals will result in less legislation. Governments will have to face up to the fact that it will be more difficult, not easier, to get Bills through. They will make it more difficult for them to ram through lots of amendments at the last minute. It is more likely that amendments will come out of the evidence-taking sessions from hon. Members on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "we should not take powers to ourselves that we would not wish others to have. Labour Members should ponder on that. They are taking powers to themselves through these measures that they will find extremely uncomfortable when they sit on the Opposition Benches—if a Conservative Government were misguided enough to renew this sort of Sessional Orders. Programming is one thing and I am not against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.265.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-07", "file": "debates2000-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "16c682f5c72c289d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doran", "preceding_text": "ion for the first time. We decided to prepare our timetable and work to it. We ran the Government ragged. We made sure that they could not keep up with the amendments that we had tabled. We made sure that every important issue that we wanted to have debated was debated. We have seen nothing from this Conservative Opposition. Everything is done with the sledgehammer of talking us through the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-07a.268.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for that reply. He will know that the independent review team set up after the 1998 floods described weaknesses in the planning and delivery of flood defence and warning policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.306.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The level of the tax, of course, is a matter for the local council. Let me just say— [Interruption] Well, it is. Let me just point out that, actually, the rises in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.309.7", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The figures have been set out many times before and there has been £660 million of lottery grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.309.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me run through what was in that Committee's remit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.310.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.310.5", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed by it, as was the lottery money and financing that the right hon. Gentleman now complains about. It took the decision to split jobs between two Ministers and, we have discovered, it gave the visitor number projections. The only difference between the robbers who were caught at the dome yesterday and the right hon. Gentleman is the fact that the Tories are never caught at the scene of the crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let us see what the report actually says. I should point out to the right hon. Gentleman that the visitor number estimates were first done by his Government and his Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "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": "en in work, Britain now has the lowest unemployment since 1979, the lowest long-term unemployment since 1978, the lowest youth unemployment since 1975, and the highest employment ever among women. Unemployment is now lower in every region: today, there are 1 million vacancies spread across the country. This month, we plan to reach our promised target: 250 young people moved from welfare into work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "welcome, particularly the changes in VAT on churches and the initiative that he announced today on aid to the third world. However, it was certainly not the statement that the Chancellor intended to make. In all the Chancellor's public pronouncements, he boasts about how he always plans for the long term and how he abhors quick fixes. The statement was all about short-term tactics and quick fixes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "he initiative that he announced today on aid to the third world. However, it was certainly not the statement that the Chancellor intended to make. In all the Chancellor's public pronouncements, he boasts about how he always plans for the long term and how he abhors quick fixes. The statement was all about short-term tactics and quick fixes. [Interruption.] The Chancellor today was in full retreat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "not the statement that the Chancellor intended to make. In all the Chancellor's public pronouncements, he boasts about how he always plans for the long term and how he abhors quick fixes. The statement was all about short-term tactics and quick fixes. [Interruption.] The Chancellor today was in full retreat. [Interruption.] Indeed, this was the statement that the Chancellor told us he would never—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "This was the statement that the Chancellor told us he would never be able to make. Did not Ministers tell us time and again that they could give no concessions to pensioners and no concessions to motorists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "blems that the Chancellor had to come to the House to address today. The fuel protest was in fact a revolt by the taxpayers of this country, who have been overtaxed by the Chancellor—people who are not well off and who have been overtaxed—but he proposes to tax them even more. The Chancellor's figures revealed today confirm that there would be no room for tax cuts under a future Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "uts under a future Labour Government. [Interruption.] Today the right hon. Gentleman is in pre-election mode, but will he admit that his plans to raise public spending by more than the country can afford year after year mean that there will be tax increases year after year in the coming Parliament? Does he have any understanding of what the extra burden of tax and regulation means for our economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "r year mean that there will be tax increases year after year in the coming Parliament? Does he have any understanding of what the extra burden of tax and regulation means for our economy? [Interruption.] Today's statement, like all the Chancellor's others, was characterised by a great deal of micro-economic meddling by a highly interventionist Chancellor who is fiddling while Britain slips behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "lation means for our economy? [Interruption.] Today's statement, like all the Chancellor's others, was characterised by a great deal of micro-economic meddling by a highly interventionist Chancellor who is fiddling while Britain slips behind. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor] Oh, yes. The Chancellor was very selective in the figures that he gave us today. Why is it that since the Chancellor has been in charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "l? It was this Chancellor, was it not, who insulted Britain's pensioners by raising their pensions by 75p? Was it not this Chancellor who, being far too clever by half, decided to raise the pension by 1.1 per cent. and fuel by 3.4 per cent., and claim that both were in line with inflation? I tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer today that Britain's pensioners will never forget what he did to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "as it not, who insulted Britain's pensioners by raising their pensions by 75p? Was it not this Chancellor who, being far too clever by half, decided to raise the pension by 1.1 per cent. and fuel by 3.4 per cent., and claim that both were in line with inflation? I tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer today that Britain's pensioners will never forget what he did to them. [Interruption.] We welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "We welcome the extra money for pensioners, but here again there were short-term fixes. When will the Chancellor of the Exchequer come up with a long-term solution for properly funded pensions in Britain? Will not today's announcement dent the Chancellor's credibility even more? Is not this the man—and listen to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "of pounds saved in administration costs, to pay a higher weekly pension. Moreover—I want the Prime Minister to take this in—we would make that money tax free and we would adjust the income-related benefits as well. The taxpayer revolt this summer marked a watershed, and the moment when people in this country realised that the Labour Government had betrayed them. Conservatives warned the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " fact that the Government are planning an early election? When the Chancellor first became a Minister, how did he lose touch so quickly with real life? When he increased the pension by 75p, how did he have so little understanding of what it is like to be a pensioner struggling to get by? How did he have so little understanding of what it is like to be a mother trying to take her children to school", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "aking their children to school. How did the right hon. Gentleman have so little understanding of what it is like to be a mother having to find £50 out of her purse to fill the tank? The right hon. Gentleman is truly the Chancellor who did not understand. He has come to the House today to shore up his political position. However, he has shown no sign of understanding, and he never says he is sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": " a mother having to find £50 out of her purse to fill the tank? The right hon. Gentleman is truly the Chancellor who did not understand. He has come to the House today to shore up his political position. However, he has shown no sign of understanding, and he never says he is sorry. [Interruption.] That refusal to apologise diminishes the Chancellor. He is not half the Chancellor he was a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "festo said that the basic state pension would remain indexed to prices. The hon. Gentleman should congratulate us on what we have done, rather than condemn us. As for our adopting Liberal Democrat policies, one which we have not adopted, and about which I do not hear him talking much when he speaks every week on economic matters, is the road fuel duty escalator of 8 per cent. a year in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-08", "file": "debates2000-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d0aef0b19f06f7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Pre-Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "First, the £200 winter allowance, which I assume that the Conservative party would not pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-08a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The figures are published in the normal way in the pre-Budget report and the Budget. Perhaps the shadow Chancellor will answer for what happened under the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "l way in the pre-Budget report and the Budget. Perhaps the shadow Chancellor will answer for what happened under the Conservative Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] That is interesting: none of them want to defend the last Conservative Government, especially the shadow Chancellor, who introduced VAT on fuel and the fuel escalator. Tax and national insurance, as a share of gross domestic product—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "After yesterday's acrobatics, will the Minister focus on the simple fact that, hidden away in yesterday's upward revisions of the tax take, is the fact that living standards are falling? Tax receipts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ive party is that I see the benefits in principle of joining the single currency, whereas Conservative Members are divided about whether they are against it in principle or simply against it in principle for one Parliament. On 1 May 1999, the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Mr. Portillo) said that a single currency would mean giving up the government of the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.428.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are yours.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "t and, for good measure, a new pension credit? That is ambitious for a Government who recently lost 1 million tax files and cannot pay the correct pension to people who are retiring today because of the continuing problems with the national insurance computer system. On Monday, the Minister of State, whose frankness on the subject is often refreshing, said that the benefit computers \"are rubbish\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "We will accept our share of responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": " income guarantee or the basic pension, but into complicated and indiscriminate special payments such as the winter fuel payment? Does he not realise that pensioners find these allowances patronising and intrusive? They would far rather have that money as part of their guaranteed weekly income, and that is what we offer them. We would implement the Government's uprating and add our reforms on top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "ve all pensioners under 75 an extra £9.50 a week if they are single and £13 a week if they are married. Older pensioners would receive £11.60 a week if they are single and £16.10 a week if they are married, with no extra tax and no loss of means-tested benefit. That would be financed by consolidating all the special payments and providing extra money on top, so that pensioners would be better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " be grateful. Pensioners know to beware of Tories bearing gifts because all the evidence shows that the Tories will con them again, as they did for 18 years. It is evident that unless the hon. Gentleman makes substantial additional public expenditure available, about 1.5 million people will lose out as result of ending these direct payments because they are tax free and benefit free at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "It will take that time because we need primary legislation and because we have to finish the consultation period so that we get the detail right. Also, we need to change the IT system so that we can deliver the credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has said various times today that fair treatment of pensioners' savings is long overdue, and I am sure that we would all recognise that. Next week, my mother will be celebrating her 99th birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The problem that Conservative Front Benchers have overlooked is the fact that there are about 1.5 million people who either get no pension or do not get a full pension. Simply to pay them the winter fuel payment pro rata—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "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": "utive. It is arguable that they would even impinge on our constitutional conventions because it seems to me that the Committee envisages a perceptible shift away from the long-established role of Select Committees—perhaps going back hundreds of years—to scrutinise decisions of Government. and towards Select Committees beginning, unprecedentedly, to substitute their judgment for that of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "No, I shall get on. I may give way on it later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems not to have followed the point that I have just made—most uncharacteristically, I know. What I said today is precisely what I said on Tuesday. The issues that we decided on Tuesday—it was Tuesday, was it not? Sometimes the days run together—were issues that had been aired and discussed in various forms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Cannock Chase (Tony Wright) will note that I emphasise that point because many Conservative Members had grave reservations about the report, but they seem to have diminished or evaporated since Conservative Front Benchers expressed pronounced views in favour of it. The Prime Minister gave an assurance that free votes are held on House matters. He went so far and no further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "se of many debates in the House, we experience the way in which language can be manipulated, but in anybody's language, the Prime Minister made a commitment, in terms, about the way in which votes would be conducted on the Liaison Committee report. I readily accept that Labour Front-Bench Members will have views on the Liaison Committee report and will not wish to accept it lock, stock and barrel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.499.5", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady accept that those considerations are relevant to appointments to Select Committees now? Technically, nominations are made by the Whips, and the Selection Committee makes the appointments. Does she think that Whips on both sides of the House decide who should be appointed to Select Committees solely on the basis of who will do what they say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Efford", "preceding_text": "I shall not debate that issue further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stunell", "preceding_text": "ved some acknowledgement from the Government that they would at least not obstruct that being developed. Another issue that has been mentioned is the career structure that might be developed as an alternative to getting into Downing street. Most people imagine that when we enter the House, we are provided with our knapsack and the key to No. 10, and that some of us might be lucky enough to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "as much as they are doing should be looked at by the Liaison Committee, which controls this matter. One difficulty, as the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne will know, is that as the Liaison Committee is made up of all the Chairmen of the Select Committees, the Chairmen of a number of Select Committees get together and say to each other, \"You support my bid to travel and I'll support yours.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ay to each other, \"You support my bid to travel and I'll support yours.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"] Well, some truths need to come out. Again, the Procedure Committee recommended having a sub-committee of the Liaison Committee made up of the Chairmen of Committees whose members do not travel, and that they should decide whether money should be allocated to Committees whose members want to travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-09", "file": "debates2000-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2915d16fa85ded72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Select Committees and the Executive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Independence or Control\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "hip, said to me, \"Of course that is right, but such people must not be imposed on Committees. There must first be a voluntary decision by the House to appoint them as members; then the Committee must elect a Chairman.\" I ask the Minister to understand what is being said in the report, and also in another report. I do not have a copy with me, but I think it was called—perhaps someone can remind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-09a.527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-10", "file": "debates2000-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "59718bdbebb8be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-10a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State recognise that the main reason why competitive sport declined was that so many Labour party activists said that competition in education was bad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-10a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-10", "file": "debates2000-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "59718bdbebb8be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-10a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Sport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "ts. The hon. Gentleman may know that Sport England research has found that eight out of 10 parents believe that PE is as important as academic work. Sport is the most popular choice for after-school clubs; 96 per cent. of young people say that they like participating in sport; and fitter children achieve better exam results, and are less prone to truancy. There is the answer to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-10a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.627.10", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "hes at the end of February. A perverse arrangement could come about whereby the UK Government could gain from the change. I do not see that that would be morally justified, so we want to do what we can to protect such people. However, there are a few myths that we must knock on the head. I must tell the right hon. Gentleman that there is no basic state pension in Australia: it is all means-tested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.627.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "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": "Madam Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "uded by political considerations. We know that he has fallen out with the hon. Member for Brent, East. Personal animosities appear to be taking precedence over the interests of Londoners. Then there is the question of how the Government will go forward. A future Conservative Government would certainly seek to work constructively with Mr. Kiley. We have our own proposals for the London underground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He should not speak too soon, because he knows not upon what subject the intervention comes. In the light of his remarks about the need to minimise fragmentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "What a fine point! That was worth waiting for. The Pricewaterhouse analysis indeed shows a certain amount of fragmentation of the various components, the purpose of which was to generate competition and value for money. If the hon. Gentleman were not relying on a one-liner from the Library, he would know that the matter was more complex than that rather silly intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pound", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is good at saying what he \"ordered\"; he is less good at saying what was actually delivered during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colman", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend believes that with all other PPPs, which run into many billions of pounds, there is no problem, but that there is a problem with this one. All of us—well, perhaps all of us; all sane Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ilure. On the timing of the safety case, London Underground expects to submit the case in December. It will be up to the Health and Safety Executive to improve it, and we expect that to be done by March 2001. Regarding the timing of the National Audit Office's audit of the public sector comparator, the NAO work will be completed before the selection of a preferred bidder, and it will be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—so gracious and courteous—was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former dome Minister, Virginia Bottomley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.709.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is a good question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCabe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman tells us that he is convinced that the dome has been an unmitigated disaster. Did he support his former boss, the right hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mrs. Bottomley), when she extended the life of the Millennium Commission in order to cover the funding because the Conservatives knew that their financial projections would not hold up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "sible to ascertain the precise budgetary position of the New Millennium Experience Company. We have pointed out previously that the whole scheme was characterised by a lack of candour that ill befits a major public project. The problem began with the appointment of the man who is now Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), as sole shareholder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a sensitive point. Clearly, if the number of people attending the dome had gone half way towards expectations, the Government would not have this problem now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "That was another rather silly point. There is no secret about the fact that the dome project was conceived under the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-13", "file": "debates2000-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "934368e2808772b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "the general election. At the beginning of 1997, it set up the New Millennium Experience Company and appointed Jennie Page as the chief executive. It decided, a policy which the Labour Government continued, to appoint a Minister as sole shareholder, rightly believing, as did the previous Government, that in the end the matter came back to the House, or in the case of Lord Falconer, the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-13a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to hear the Minister avoiding the question again and again. I am not sure whether he has got his facts right about the filling station in Inverurie. I happen to know it well because my late grandmother-in-law used to own and operate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am indeed aware of that speech, and have discussed the issue with Mr. Humphries. However, I am sorry and surprised that the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "NHS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "ime in the history of the NHS, I am making outline revenue allocations for the next three years rather than just for a single year ahead. This will allow every local health service to plan with confidence for the medium term rather than just for the short term. As right hon. and hon. Members are aware, there has been too much boom and bust in NHS funding in the past. Today we bring that to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Parliamentary Oath (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on, read it out\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "to swear an oath of allegiance before taking their seats. Judges, magistrates and members of the armed forces do so as well—and members of the Privy Council swear a much more sophisticated oath than Members of Parliament, as the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) will know. I shall not embarrass the right hon. Gentleman by reading it out, as it might embarrass some other Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "As I recall, the long debates that we had on this topic hinged on the difference between aims and functions. At one point, we had a rather Alice in Wonderland argument about which was primary—a function or an aim. I was never convinced that the Minister believed what he was saying about the difference between aims and functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ingly has a role of enforcement, which in some cases can literally involve the person being confined to a particular area: for example, under home detention curfew or under enforcement provisions of various orders. Therefore, as I say, at the extremes there are differences. In the middle, there is increasing overlap. Nothing has been done by stealth. I find that part of the argument extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.854.10", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "en and family court advisory and support service\" is a great mouthful. It is no more descriptive of what is involved than the much simpler \"family court child welfare service\"— the alternative which we proposed in another place— which is well understood and respected. At least the letters FCCWS cannot be shortened into anything other. There is much in a name—pride, identification, professionalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.854.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "The activities of the previous Government do not suggest that diffusion of power was an important principle for them. They might have undergone a damascene conversion that I had not noticed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.875.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "als specifically with the protection of children. Our intention has always been to be as inclusive as possible. That means including all parties in both Houses. I believe that that is vital. Protecting children is not a matter on which one should seek to score party political advantage. I regretted the tone and, at times, the content of the speech of the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ls should fear to tread, so he will understand the reason why I, who most certainly am not one, do not intend to deal with devolution as he would urge me to do. Codification is a virtue to which successive generations of lawyers—the hon. Gentleman is, of course, a lawyer—and others who practise in criminal law aspire. Indeed, it is a virtue to which we all aspire, but it has not yet been achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "I hear and respect that view, but I hear, respect and agree with the all-party Home Affairs Committee, which has a different view. That is the nature of dialectic; there is an exchange of views, a thesis, an antithesis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No, the right hon. Lady has had her say. She can now listen and accept that there is another view. That is all we ask. We do not ask her to accept our view, but to recognise that another view can be rooted in concern to protect the public. That is the view shared by her hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) and her colleague on the Front Bench, the hon. Member for Surrey Heath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.6", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. We have informed the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-14", "file": "debates2000-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b5c11316efb52656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.9", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-14a.899.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "I will certainly join my hon. Friend in congratulating those companies on creating jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall the dire warnings from Conservative Members that the national minimum wage would cut the number of jobs in this country by more than 1 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.930.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "use Cabinet minutes with what appears in The Mail on Sunday, Secondly, if he is in the business of quotes, this one is from December 1999: But the decision was made by the previous government and this one to do it. Having spent that money, I think it's now the job of all politicians to make a success of it. So we shall go there and join the party. Who was that? It was the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ound the country telling people that the dome is a disaster, asking how we could ever have done it and saying what a waste of money it is. What does he turn out to be? He was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the National Heritage Secretary in the last Conservative Government, and this is what he has said: From the outset, I was a supporter of the dome…I know that there are domophobes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.931.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So now the Conservatives are the champions of freedom of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.935.4", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "there has never been a Prime Minister who used words so carelessly to please the audience of the moment. Now that the right hon. Gentleman has argued for a super-power, all he could say when the German Foreign Minister called yesterday for an elected head of Europe was that the \"time was not right\" for that idea. Can he think of a super-power, as he would have it, that has not had an elected head?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he makes his point. However, he has mentioned the negotiations that are coming up at Nice. His position is to be against any extension of qualified majority voting. We have done a little research. In the course of the Maastricht treaty, there were 30 items of qualified majority voting agreed, including on free movement of capital, visas, economic guidelines, public health, education—shall I go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.936.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.937.6", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes she did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House of Commons tells me that she did no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.937.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ess concern at the fact that we do not have at the Dispatch Box a Minister who has ever visited the London air traffic control centre or Swanwick or met air traffic controllers. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Minister, is playing the role of paid counsel rather than that of a policy-making Minister. That is unsatisfactory. I speak with absolute authority over Conservative transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ecessary arrangements to ensure that any perceived or actual conflict of interest will be addressed and will be resolved during the bidding process. We have built a two-stage check—each bidding group has been required to identify and suggest remedies that will resolve to our complete satisfaction any conflicts of interest that may have existed as the groups submitted their initial, indicative bid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-15", "file": "debates2000-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e62a68973bc51f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend the Chancellor with the representatives from another place who were instrumental in tabling the amendments that we are considering tonight. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister made it clear to them and to me—I did not take part in the discussions—that he was perfectly willing to respond positively and constructively if clear evidence of a problem could be produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-15a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was the Opposition spokesman when the Food Standards Agency was established. Underpinning the establishment of that agency was the fundamental decision to take Agriculture Ministers out of the decision-making process so that the decision would be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to access www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "s. She makes a valid point, offers us a range of items from which to choose, and identifies the fact that it took the return of a Labour Government for the trawlermen to get the compensation for which they have been fighting for so many years. I add to that my own list, which includes the far east prisoners of war who suffered, sadly, at the hands of the Japanese; the families with vaccine damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "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": "ng to office, we took immediate action to alleviate the worst problems and began laying the foundations for the long-term strategy that we are now bringing together in the White Paper. We merged the Department of Environment and the Department of Transport to encourage a more joined-up approach to solving problems. We have got hundreds of thousands of young people back into work with the new deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "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": "We have committed £350 million over three years to regenerate the coalfield communities that were decimated by the previous Government's policies. Modernising local government has been a priority. We have legislated to make councils more efficient and more accountable to local people. We established the regional development agencies to drive forward economic growth and regeneration in the regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman", "preceding_text": "of their White Paper. Is that surprising when, according to our first-cut tally of the White Paper, of the 105 recommendations made by the Rogers report only 14 have been met in full? Some 34 have been fudged or delayed and 57 are either not addressed in the White Paper or have been rejected outright. Many people living in our cities will think that a very disappointing tally—too little, too late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "No, he has not seen the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "One of the advantages of the list of questions that is distributed to Conservative Members is that it gives them the opportunity to repeat many questions—but I am sure that I will be in trouble with you, Mr. Speaker, if I give crib answers to crib questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Urban White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "is connected. In many instances, cities were denied the possibility of jobs. The regeneration process was good, but they did not benefit from it. We are taking the arguments forward from the Labour party's inner-city policies, and beyond what the right hon. Gentleman developed under the previous Administration. The Conservative Government did not produce a document or an analysis to which to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "e to apply for leave to be a director of another company. However, he is given an additional right by the proposed new section, under which he can apply to the court for the disqualification undertaking to cease to be in force or for the period of disqualification to be reduced. Does this give the director the right to backtrack or to welsh on the bargain previously made by the Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "rs. I am disappointed by the lack of support among Labour Members, especially from the Minister, and I am now in an embarrassing position. Neither of my two co-authors of the new clause could be present for the debate. In light of that, I give up. I did not push the matter in Committee because of a lack of killer instinct. With a feeling of sad impotence, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howells", "preceding_text": "It is a statement of faith—obviously I have more faith in the courts than the hon. Gentleman in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-16", "file": "debates2000-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "efe092e1e173fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "e of my amendment are right, the drafting is neither specific nor accurate enough to deal with the matter. The Minister has shown himself in his true colours by his answer. I will seek leave to withdraw the amendment, but I hope that it can be produced in another place and that the Government can find it in their heart to look at the matter once again. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-16a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-17", "file": "debates2000-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "ade48d9d260efe79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-17a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Brand", "preceding_text": "s lie in adult stem cell research or alternative stem cell research coming up with the solutions. That is possible, but it seems silly to deny one the opportunity to get at an answer from a different direction, or much more quickly, if one can use foetal cells that are less differentiated and thus have much more potential to teach us what processes might work best in the more differentiated cells.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-17a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Crime Fighting Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House wishes the hon. Gentleman all the best in his reselection battle against the mavericks of the Tory ultra-right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Liquor Licensing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "not fear. The White Paper is long overdue. His party failed to deal seriously with licensing. The Government have introduced serious proposals which have received widespread support from the industry and from the police. We are giving serious consideration to the 1,200 responses to the White Paper. I shall ensure that those are available in the House of Commons Library when we have had the chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " to allow Members to make better provision for their constituency duties, but it could have continued under a new Government, with much new business, only if all parties had been willing to accept a reduction in opportunities for scrutiny, or if devolution had brought about a reduction in business, which is not yet evident. A sustained reduction in scrutiny would be unacceptable to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "much new business, only if all parties had been willing to accept a reduction in opportunities for scrutiny, or if devolution had brought about a reduction in business, which is not yet evident. A sustained reduction in scrutiny would be unacceptable to the Government— [Interruption] —and, no doubt, to the House, even if it had been available as a result of negotiations through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend recalls the tremendous fuss and furore, especially on the Opposition Benches, about the House sitting from 11.30 am on Thursdays. We have, to a large extent, come to accept that as normal, although some Opposition Members may still disagree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.37.8", "colnum": "37", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abolish them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": " may not be possible to complete it all during this Parliament. The ways in which we deal with private Members' legislation, and the way in which we have disposed of private Members' motions—referred to by the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody)—need further attention. Those matters arose under the Jopling reforms—not in this Parliament. We must do something about early-day motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.37.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "have preferred the quorum to be set at a somewhat higher figure than is proposed. A quorum of three suggests that issues in Westminster Hall can be adequately debated with only three Members present. I know, before anyone says it, that in this Chamber there are routinely only three Members present in an Adjournment debate—the Minister, the Government Whip and the Member who has secured the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.55.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.92.6", "colnum": "92", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I want to help my hon. Friend. Does she accept the possibility that, halfway through the debate, the Chamber mysteriously filled up with the hon. Members whom she mentioned because the Government decided that they wished to prolong debate to minimise the time available for the following debate? That is precisely what the hon. Member for shepherd's pie said should not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.92.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "House of Commons Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is another example of those who want to turn the clock back. He will recall that when Westminster Hall was established, there was no live feed; it was installed because of demand from hon. Members and from the regional press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.101.11", "colnum": "101", "heading": "THURSDAY SITTINGS AND STANDING COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am trying to find out whether I am anticipating what you are going to say, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.101.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Immigration Appeals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "One was tabled by the hon. Member for Ealing, Southall (Mr. Khabra) and the other by the hon. Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham). Both hon. Members are present. Those early-day motions are supported by 65 Labour Members, who protest at the charges that are in force as a result of the order. I am also aware that there is a significant amount of dissatisfaction among Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.127.5", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Immigration Appeals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman sounds a trifle nervous at what Conservative prospective parliamentary candidates might be saying and, indeed, the support that they might be gathering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-20", "file": "debates2000-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5b1b3c7d69de82ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Immigration Appeals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson) is so eager to cover up the Government's embarrassment over the increased waiting times for all immigration and asylum appeals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-20a.128.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "re that I asked the Prime Minister a question about community health councils last Wednesday. In his reply, he seemed to want to ensure that we all understood that the matter was out for consultation. He agreed that the proposal in the NHS plan to scrap community health councils was bitterly opposed. Yesterday, I received a letter from the Prime Minister, who was clearly embarrassed by his answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady seems to be on a kamikaze mission. She seems to think that we have problems in the NHS because a shortage of nurses suddenly arose on 1 May 1997. If she stopped to think about it and, more importantly, to examine the facts, she would realise that she is 100 per cent. wrong. Let me remind her of her record when the Conservative party was in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Amess", "preceding_text": " film \"101 Dalmatians\", everyone went out and bought dalmatians. Anybody who knows anything about dalmatians realises that although they look cute with their black and brown spots, they are very lively. Again, people can be unaware of the responsibilities involved in owning them. I dare say that all the dinosaur films currently being shown mean that iguanas will be the next animal to be purchased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "he interests of the future, time will be made available in the debate so that some of the outstanding points that people must understand are clarified. May I suggest some such points to the Secretary of State? I would like him to say on the Floor of the House tonight that, in accordance with Patten, the Union flag will not be flown on police buildings from the date on which this becomes operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is putting a case that could be put when the amendments are before the House, rather than during the timetable motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "adopt constitutes a funny way of going about things, which certainly does not commend itself to us. It gives us no opportunity to vote—if a vote is indeed what is desired—because on the face of it the amendment is innocuous and straightforward, and adds to the Secretary of State's scope for consultation. I hope very much that the Secretary of State will assure us that he did not intend to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "It was, but I understand that the Secretary of State has accepted it, or intends to accept it, and, according to my understanding, he thus commends it to the House of Commons. If that is the case, I can only tell the right hon. Gentleman that we consider it very sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": " and that dealing with recruitment quotas is not the optimal way of tackling the issue. I have often claimed that once Catholics have applied for a police job, I have not seen evidence of discrimination in the recruitment process itself. Although that is still my belief, nevertheless I shall share with the House an honest assessment of why my party and I feel it appropriate to evolve our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "e recruitment process on merit. The implication of what the hon. Member for Beaconsfield said is clear. I agree that it is hard to see how, even with the 75-25 modification, that will be avoided. Nevertheless, it is clearly incumbent on Ministers to honour the commitment that they have made on a number of occasions as a result of the pressure from the official Opposition and the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "Ministers to honour the commitment that they have made on a number of occasions as a result of the pressure from the official Opposition and the Liberal Democrats. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Beaconsfield keeps asking from a sedentary position why the Liberal Democrats have changed our vote. We have done so because, through dialogue with Ministers, we have achieved some form of compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I was making the point that those hon. Gentlemen who previously rested so much of their argument on that suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "No, it does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.266.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-21", "file": "debates2000-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "5c487038589ae1b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, at the sittings on Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd and Monday 27th November, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Message from the Lords shall be received.— [Mr. Clelland.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-21a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is consistently right on many matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "It is very sad that, with some strength in its historical record, the Conservative party is becoming so neuralgic about Europe that it is making itself completely stupid. In the post-cold war world, we must clearly be better at peacekeeping and prevention of conflict in our near abroad. European countries co-operating in that effort must be good for all parts of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am shocked that although the Conservative party claims to be in favour of free trade, when it comes to a specific provision for the poorest countries in the world, it is suddenly against it. As I have said, I do not agree with Conservative Members. The historical record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.300.10", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No doubt we will discuss the European defence initiative later. NATO is fully in support of the European defence initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.300.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "n, you could call it Margare—a good name for an Army and an even better one for a Prime Minister a Prime Minister who believed in a strong defence of this country. Is it not clear that we are faced with a political project? The French Prime Minister said: If we manage to achieve this in the year 2000, we will have crossed a milestone to the creation of a united political Europe. Is it not obvious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ty's policy. Let me quote remarks made by the shadow Treasury spokesman last Wednesday; he said that it was true that the Tories were not committed to Labour's spending plans. So we know that, if the Conservatives were elected, they would cut back on those plans. I am surprised also that the right hon. Gentleman did not mention the Eurofighter project, on which thousands of jobs in Preston depend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruptionl", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it would not accept that. That would alienate not merely all the people inside the European Union, but all the people waiting to come into the European Union. Here are some quotes that we will not read in some of our best-known newspapers. This is one from the United States Deputy Secretary of State: We want to see a Europe that can act effectively through the Alliance or, if NATO is not engaged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "European Defence Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "rvative party—which consistently opposes anything European. It also consistently turns any argument to that direction. I am accused of not doing my homework by someone who talks about having 100,000 ground troops on standby—there is no reference to that. The reality is that we have committed to achieving a capability that could, if necessary, deploy rapidly. That is the whole point of the process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "European Defence Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman uses the word \"overstretch\". I am disappointed to hear the word in this context, because I assume that he would not use it in the context of a commitment of forces to NATO or indeed to the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "European Defence Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Offensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "If the language was defensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Honours and Decorations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " his narrow, obsessive ideology, determined to sweep away things that are loved, respected and honoured throughout the country, including our well-established honours system. He then blunders in with something called the Order of the United Kingdom. For goodness' sake, what is the point of doing that apart from sheer mindless destruction, for which the Government have become rather too well known?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "native use. However, it is probable that the value of that land and those assets will be much diminished by the prohibition. Regardless, if that land is to be put to an alternative use, there will have to be a very substantial capital investment to transform the physical facilities on the land. Therefore, on any view—we can argue about the extent of the diminution—there will be a very substantial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "He appears not to be, but the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is here. Perhaps he will intervene and give us an assurance that the House will at the very least have the opportunity explicitly to debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Not by me. I am as puzzled as my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "the fact that there may be a dramatic reduction in the value of the property, and possibly also the livestock, caused by mindless thugs between the time of the apparent settlement of the compensation and the payment being made? Will there be an expiry time? That takes us back to a question that we have already raised. One can begin to see that all these questions interrelate and interact in a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "lso the livestock, caused by mindless thugs between the time of the apparent settlement of the compensation and the payment being made? Will there be an expiry time? That takes us back to a question that we have already raised. One can begin to see that all these questions interrelate and interact in a way— [Interruption.] If the late-coming hon. Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) wants to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "A point that has only recently been touched on worries me. I need to raise it, given my experience. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "A point that has only recently been touched on worries me. I need to raise it, given my experience. It is— [Interruption.] When the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) hears the point, she will understand why I am raising it. When I was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, I was concerned with compensation for those who were in Land Settlement Association areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "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": "ouse until any Message from the Lords shall be received. I am pleased to move this motion, which is extremely narrow in scope, stating that the House should not adjourn today, tomorrow or on Monday until any messages are received from the other place. The motion is perfectly standard. Many of those who have been Members for some years will have seen similar motions. The motion is in the interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ies of this place and do what their Whips tell them. That is one of the reasons why the House is held in such low esteem in the country. However, if we were able to fill the idle hours contemplated by Ministers with useful discussion, we might be more willing to pass the business motion. I have taken a little advice on the matter because I do not like to talk absolute tommy-rot on these occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.379.7", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Because I am a generous chap, I shall voluntarily leave my right hon. Friend to elaborate on that point. Although I have oodles more material, I sense that I might be testing the patience of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.379.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-22", "file": "debates2000-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "c0df23ff7a52b88c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Operating Aid Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clapham", "preceding_text": "which will mean some £50 million for trying to regenerate some of the coalfield communities that the previous Government neglected so badly. It should also be put on record that the Government have introduced compensation schemes for vibration white finger, and for chronic bronchitis and emphysema. They are likely to pay out some £2 billion to miners who were subject to negligence by British Coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-22a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Rejoice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that the key roles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.427.4", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Anti-smoking Programmes", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend that it is important to evaluate provision. Although I do not take a defeatist attitude to what our schools are able to achieve in educating young people, which he sometimes does in this respect, I agree that research is important. That is why the Department has agreed to commission a long—term study—a longitudinal study—to consider the impact of drug education policies in our schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "she would be delighted by such a debate because of all the beds that are not available in her area. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health might well argue that he, too, would be delighted by a debate, which would give him an opportunity to remind her of the 40,000 acute beds that were closed by the Conservative Government. We are still dealing with the consequences of that action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "Well, my hon. Friend makes a point about issues that emerged from an examination by one of the Select Committees. I find myself in some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.452.10", "colnum": "452", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ve focused on improving the military capability for crisis management in Europe. It was Britain that pressed for the headline goal of the capability to put into the field up to 60,000 personnel within 60 days. Britain has a strategic interest in the stability of the continent and, therefore, has a strong national interest in the greater ability of Europe to manage instability in and around Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.452.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ropean army under the control of the European Commission: decisions would be taken by Governments; the forces involved would remain national. Those are not my words or those of any of my Labour colleagues. They are not the words of any foreigner whom Conservative Members might view with suspicion. They are the words of Lord Hurd, who was one of the longest-serving Conservative Foreign Secretaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.456.8", "colnum": "456", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ot understand if the European Union itself fails to face up to the reforms that it needs to make so that our decision making will be effective in a Europe of 25 or more member states, rather than only 15. Yet the Conservative party, even before the Nice summit—indeed, even before I reached this passage in my speech—has confirmed that it will oppose those reforms that are necessary for enlargement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.456.8", "colnum": "456", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " reached this passage in my speech—has confirmed that it will oppose those reforms that are necessary for enlargement. [ Interruption. ] I hear Conservative Members objecting that the treaty of Nice is not about enlargement. What will be under negotiation at Nice is essential to enlargement. It is essential that we agree on means of limiting the growth of the Commission as a result of enlargement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.456.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says no. Well, let me explain. Under the present rules, Britain, France and Germany, after enlargement, would not hold between them even a blocking minority, although they would represent almost half the population of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says no. Well, let me explain. Under the present rules, Britain, France and Germany, after enlargement, would not hold between them even a blocking minority, although they would represent almost half the population of the European Union. [ Interruption. ] Conservative Members may be prepared to accept that, but it would be an intolerable outcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Or, in the case of Lord Tebbit and the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst, the lamentations over her resignation. Lord Tebbit said of current Conservative policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "e no shame about standing on their head if that serves their purpose. It is worth reflecting on the recent furore over passports. That is not in itself the biggest issue, but it is indicative of how the Government operate and what they do. The fact that the European Commission was considering harmonising the design of national passports across the European Union was revealed in The Mail on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "The treaty of Nice will be entirely consistent with the basis on which we fought the last election—the reform and enlargement of Europe. There is no case for a separate referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.465.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is on the agenda.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "In the light of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said, will he explain whether he believes that qualified majority voting should be extended to culture policy and sexual equality and, if so, on what basis has he reached that view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "y have to go. Not all the vetoes will go at the treaty of Nice. The treaty lists 47 matters covered by the veto, and no doubt 15 or 20 will go, but most of them will disappear next time or the time after that. A few weeks ago, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary railed against the Euro-sceptics. I do not criticise him for not being present now—no doubt he will read the report of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "s, and the Government admit it. It is corrupt and not effective. They want more money so that they can do it better. What nonsense. The Foreign Secretary said how useful it was to get an agreement on filament size for fishing nets. That is valuable, but it is not much use to most of our fishermen because they have gone out of business. They have left fishing because of the common fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-23", "file": "debates2000-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "610f546b61f65e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Keith Vaz)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Keith Vaz)", "preceding_text": "d to step down and will not be contesting the next election. I am sorry that I was not in the Chamber to hear that. Whatever our views on Europe may be, I have enormous respect for the hon. Gentleman, who kept his views consistent over many years—unlike other Conservative Members. He has decided to withdraw from Parliament because he disagrees strongly with the Conservative party's line on Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-23a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-24", "file": "debates2000-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d46f606365a226ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-24a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughton", "preceding_text": " the Government must support it if the agency is to be taken seriously. I look forward to hearing a constructive response from the Minister and an assurance that the many criticisms that have been levelled will be addressed urgently. I hope that if legislation is required to improve matters, he will press forcefully for it. The ball is in the Government's court. I now ask the Minister to respond——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-24a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.615.12", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "I can only find myself in agreement with the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.615.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "It was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "ss French motivation. I find it difficult enough to understand the psychological obsessions of Conservative Members when it comes to questions affecting Europe. Turkey attended the meeting that I mentioned, and offered its own contribution to satisfying the headline goal. Indeed, it did so in terms that indicated its enthusiasm about participating in an improvement in European military capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it might help if I said it a little more slowly. I shall try to explain it in such a way that the Defence Secretary can understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it might help if I said it a little more slowly. I shall try to explain it in such a way that the Defence Secretary can understand—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"]—so that the shadow Defence Secretary can understand it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "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": "As the House will know, the outcome of the climate change talks in The Hague last week was a real disappointment for all concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "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": "tiated with Dominique Voynet for three years now. Her commitment to securing an agreement is as passionate as mine. We will both work together to ensure that the agreement is reached. Let me also make it clear that my experience in negotiations in these areas leads me to believe that working together with other European countries can provide a stronger negotiating position in achieving those ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "art of Europe? Where is his influence now? Was there any contact at all between Downing street and the French Prime Minister during the course of the week? Was there a single telephone discussion between the Prime Minister and the White House, or does his renowned disdain for all matters environmental mean that he did not want to be involved, and that the Deputy Prime Minister was hung out to dry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " stages of the negotiations when my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment was involved with me, with European Ministers and Ministers from the umbrella group, we reached the agreement that I mentioned to the House. My right hon. Friend then went to the programme, hoping that the agreement that we had all reached would be taken to the president. However, the European Ministers decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend then went to the programme, hoping that the agreement that we had all reached would be taken to the president. However, the European Ministers decided— [Interruption.] They did not hold a vote on the issue—they did not reject the proposal; they said that there was not enough information. They assumed that the agreement would be taken to the president to put into his final document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "To be fair to the French Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Climate Change Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": ". The same may have happened in his case, so I shall not enter into that game of exchanges. He was in the negotiations with me, sat in the committee, heard what the final agreement was, chaired a committee that dealt with the clean development mechanisms with the Group of 77 and the Americans, and entirely failed to get what I achieved—getting the Americans to drop the clean development mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "hich spoke of bed blocking due to cuts in social services funding in areas as diverse as East Sussex, Hertfordshire, west Surrey, west Kent, Cheshire and parts of the south-west? I wonder whether she agrees with its conclusion: The NHS Confederation is concerned that the NHS is not seen as an alternative to properly funded local government. Why did she not heed my warning on that issue a year ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": " that I am confident that council tax rises for next year will be lower than in the current year; the rises in the current year are lower than they were last year. In other words, we are, in the words of the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman), in a period of unprecedented prosperity. The Government are delivering a stable economy and, year on year, councils are bringing down council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.652.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "hould be able to tackle the challenges that they inevitably face year on year. I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he said about consultation. The Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Ms Hughes), and I will be seeing authorities that are affected by the ceiling. The hon. Gentleman spoke about bed blocking. I hate to tell him this, but bed blocking is being reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.658.4", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "for London boroughs? Is she not aware that my borough of Hillingdon, which covers Heathrow airport—through which a quarter of asylum seekers to the United Kingdom come—has submitted to the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton), a memorandum pointing out that unaccompanied refugee children will cost the borough £3.15 billion a year above grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.658.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course that is the Opposition's traditional role, and I do not particularly criticise them for that. However, to save time, I remind Opposition Members that introducing a single guillotine motion to cover two Bills is not unusual. There are plenty of examples—if pressed, I will bring them to the attention of the House—of the previous Administration passing similar motions between 1979 and 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " 1997. [Interruption.] If the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) carries on twittering, I shall mention the many occasions on which she and many of her right hon. Friends, including the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), voted for such timetable motions. None of us particularly likes having to use timetable motions. Sometimes they are necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he then Opposition typically voted against guillotine motions. If the right hon. Gentleman is asking me whether I, as an Opposition Back Bencher or Front-Bench spokesman, protested against the Conservative Government's guillotine motions, the answer is yes. However, I draw his attention to the fact that towards the end of our time in opposition, we were serious about being an effective Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.667.7", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "atutory Sick Pay Bill and the Social Security (Contributions) Bill just a few weeks into the Session. I must tell the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham and the rest of the House that although there are many amendments, a great many of them were passed in the other place in response to undertakings that I gave during two days of extensive debate on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.667.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Home Secretary for giving way. To clear up a factual error that has crept into the debate, the controversial Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill, which was a private Member's Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon earlier this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Southend, West\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "There was some perplexity on our side about who the hon. Member for Basildon was. That constituency was the subject of a famous victory by my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela Smith). The hon. Gentleman to whom the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) referred went on the notorious chicken run and now has a safer seat in Southend-on-Sea, West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I have spent more days in Southend than many other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.673.7", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ing that says a great deal about the Government's contempt for the House—indeed, for both Houses. They are unprepared, in failing to allow adequate time, to allow the House to discuss the amendments tabled in the other place. They are therefore utterly contemptuous of the democratic system. The guillotine means that there will be 27 minutes in which to debate each of the nine groups of amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.673.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.673.7", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "led in the other place. They are therefore utterly contemptuous of the democratic system. The guillotine means that there will be 27 minutes in which to debate each of the nine groups of amendments— [Interruption.] Labour Members may find that amusing, but that time does not even allow for Divisions. If there are Divisions, there will be even less time to debate serious amendments to a major Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.673.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady makes my point for me. There were so few guillotines because we co-operated with the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "omplete my argument. I shall give way at the end. The previous Conservative Government guillotined 44 proceedings in Standing Committee and 34 sittings of the House dealing with Lords amendments. They guillotined 58 debates on Report, all on separate Bills, and 58 Third Readings of different Bills, but the Conservatives have the hypocrisy to condemn a Labour Government for introducing guillotines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. He is right to object to the way in which the Government propose to truncate the debate. He is also right to upbraid the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.691.5", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. Perhaps I should make it clear, so that there is no misunderstanding, that one was referring to the number of Bills guillotined by the previous Government, not all the individual motions which the hon. Member for Workington double counted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.691.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I said that our system secures authority by allowing those opposed to have their say. The hon. Gentleman—who double and treble-counted to give us an extraordinary relationship on the number of guillotine motions used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "I can speak only for the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, for which I am responsible. I am not aware of any such offer being made to us. I cannot speak about the Freedom of Information Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Interpretation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will not recognise any of them, since, as far as I am aware, he has not been involved in any of the previous debates, but those hon. Members who have participated will recognise quite a few of the amendments. I shall not give way, because I have been left only 10 minutes in which to wind up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I shall first deal with those amendments that I have not yet discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. Aubyn", "preceding_text": "be answered by the Under-Secretary. On the basis of a report in The Guardian on 10 November, I alleged that civil servants had been guilty of a cover-up on health issues connected with incinerators. In his reply, the Prime Minister stated: The allegation that officials have hidden information on health and incinerator emissions is false. Those allegations came originally from Labour Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.749.9", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "or—in this case—the Secretary of State. Let us suppose that the Secretary of State goes through that process of consultation—as yet undefined. What do we suppose will happen if the Secretary of State consults the National Assembly and there is disagreement during that process? Whose word will be final? We can take a pretty good guess. I would hazard a guess that it would be the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.749.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "bly sorry, but I still have great difficulty with the grammar of that. I know that I am one of the last remaining people who were educated in the classics, but I do not know how to parse that sentence. It is extremely difficult. I wonder whether the Minister will be kind enough to explain what Hillard and Botting would have explained about \"as regards\". It seems an issue that should not be missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.763.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.771.8", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of giving way unless an hon. Member wishes to intervene. I am making a speech; the Minister has finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.771.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-27", "file": "debates2000-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "6e28181da36f7513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is right, and the Minister has just mislead the House again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-27a.773.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the progress of the PPP is slower than one of the express trains that the Deputy Prime Minister and I have shared from London to Doncaster? Two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "That was great knockabout stuff from the Minister. I am most grateful to him for repeating a press release written by one of his Labour stooges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ers, and, indeed, for the tens of thousands of staff who bear the brunt of passengers' daily complaints? Let me point out to the Deputy Prime Minister that the railway was not handed over to him in a state of crisis. But does it not behove all politicians to apologise for the decades of under-investment, and to apologise for the way in which the railway has been handled in recent years? Is it not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that east Brighton has a new deal for communities partnership—indeed, she visited it early in its development. I am happy to say that the partnership is up and running and that there is already a feeling of development and change. That feeling is very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "preceding_text": "I defer to you, Mr. Speaker. I could not resist responding to the idiots on the other side of the Chamber. It is too soon to be able to put numbers to the success of the new deal for communities, but it is clear from the spirit of the community that it is going to succeed. What I want to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "e state of rural life under this Government, to which the Deputy Prime Minister referred? We face an unprecedented crisis in farming. It is probable that, during the life of this Government, some 50,000 farmers will lose their livelihoods for good. The suicide rate among farmers is the highest on record, and there is a rapid and increasing loss of green fields to development under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e request of the industry and rural communities for more favourable circumstances for diversification, we have produced our proposals and made extra resources available. It is true that we have given greater priority to affordable housing. That is largely because many authorities were engaged in selling their housing stock as second houses—or executive homes, as the hon. Gentleman would call them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "preceding_text": " proposed pilot scheme for post offices in Leicestershire? Will he look at speed limits in smaller villages so that they can be reduced as much as possible? Finally, will he look in more detail at ways in which we can assist market towns such as Loughborough and others in my constituency and the rest of Leicestershire, including Shepshed and Sileby, that have suffered from the decline in textiles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Reed", "preceding_text": "hat they can be reduced as much as possible? Finally, will he look in more detail at ways in which we can assist market towns such as Loughborough and others in my constituency and the rest of Leicestershire, including Shepshed and Sileby, that have suffered from the decline in textiles? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"] Will my right hon. Friend look at extending help to those relatively large villages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his remarks. The White Paper meets the needs of ordinary people in rural areas, men—and women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "preceding_text": "he Opposition spokesperson, had nothing to do with what really matters in rural Britain? Will my right hon. Friend also put to rest the canard that we were going to get rid of parish and town councils? Instead, we have shown that we will enhance their powers and give local people a true voice. There will be a proper decision-making process for planning and housing, which is what local people want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coastal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I do not want to leave the impression, nor, I think, would the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Central—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that the countryside would be more reassured by his statement if the Government were not actively working against the interests of British agriculture?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "That I would happily accept if I genuinely believed it, but I do not. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I would argue for the exemption and for the distance to be increased during the day as well as at night. I would argue, too, that pushing right past a home even if it is on the access route should be forbidden during the day as well as the evening. However, it is much more frightening for rural people during the evening or during hours of darkness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "me and again the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) and I raised those points. As both hon. Gentlemen have said, much time could have been saved had concessions been given in Committee. It was a rather pleasurable Committee all in all, but unfortunately, whenever a reasonable point was put, we were met with either a blank stare or the reply, \"We will go away and think about it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "Reddish (Mr. Bennett)—it is for the access forums to try to take some of the issues into account. As the hon. Gentleman conceded, there are no simple solutions. In any case, these problems would arise regardless of whether this Bill existed. Countryside access has usually not caused much problem in areas where it has long existed, and we do not believe that it will cause much problem in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "tock breeding\". The inclusion of lambing and the exclusion of dogs for the period of six weeks is welcome. But in Committee, we discussed other forms of livestock farming which are becoming more common in the hills of this country. Mention was made of llamas, alpacas, angora goats and deer, and yesterday I attended the launch of the bison industry in this country. On top of that, there are cattle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "erruption.] The Minister of State laughs, but the point is that the Deputy Prime Minister earlier was exhorting people to diversify. Many farmers are diversifying into different forms of livestock. The sensible decision to exclude dogs from fields of up to 15 hectares during the lambing period should apply to the period when cows are calving, deer are calving and llamas are doing whatever they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "t is one I do know. I have no idea what llamas and alpacas do, but it no doubt consists of the same motions. This is a time of immense sensitivity for livestock, when baby animals are at considerable risk—as a walker would be. Some animals are exceptionally good mothers and would resist and resent any intrusion into what they see as their territory by someone walking, let alone someone with a dog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "nt times. Mountain sheep, lowland sheep and other breeds all go on to the ffridd and inby land at some point. It is important to look at that again. I know that the Minister will say that it will be possible to apply for an exemption at that stage. I certainly hope so. If that is the case, and if the hon. Gentleman is confident that an extension of, say, another couple of months would be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "ll agree that it is unlikely that people will volunteer to the extent that they do for national parks. The hon. Gentleman almost encourages me to argue that if one wanted to pay small sums to encourage people to volunteer—they would be semi-volunteers, semi-paid—the minimum wage legislation would prevent that. However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I expect that you would not want me to go down that route.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "It may be that help will not arrive in time. In the event that it does not, I shall undertake to provide the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) with a written explanation of his query. If that is not acceptable, I will be happy to read out the three pages I have in front of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "ch provision could have extensive organisational, staffing and cost implications, to say nothing of the steps that other bodies would be obliged to take in response to action taken by the listing authority. Another element of cost has appeared, to which an estimate should be attached at this stage. The new clause goes on to deal with consultation, having already provided for listing and promotion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.903.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I do not know where my opposite number, the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman) is for this debate—perhaps one statement was enough for him today. One might have expected him to attend the debates on either the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill or the Transport Bill—presumably he has responsibility for both—but we shall have to make do with his second in command—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.912.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about the poll tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "we and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody). I shall speak briefly on two points. Is the Deputy Prime Minister telling the House that whether a political party has a mandate from the people is irrelevant? If that is the case, what purpose is served by an election manifesto? How can the electorate conceive of the Government introducing such a measure, unless that policy was exposed in their election manifesto?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.922.4", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "It is true that their trade union says that they do not want it. However, when there has been a change in the ownership and control of any public service, including the national health service and the schools system, the employees—managers and workers—have often been opposed to it. If we want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.922.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "ak. The hon. Gentleman can make his points in due course. If we want balanced ownership in our society, we must give employees in more and more organisations a chance to take a stake in that ownership. The second problem is more fundamental, and that is the service that NATS is able to deliver in the context of a European air traffic control system that is becoming the most congested in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Countryside and Rights of Ways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore) said that there had been no discussion of the issue, but it was discussed in my constituency two years ago and has been on the agenda since then. Either Liberal Democrats allow themselves to be the poodles of the House of Lords, or they accept that the democratically elected Chamber, including Opposition Members, has the last word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.924.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-28", "file": "debates2000-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3346c48e3518be12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.936.7", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "de, That, at the sittings on Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December— (i)the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Messages from the Lords shall have been received, and (ii) if the House has completed its consideration of any Messages received from the Lords and the Lords have adjourned their sitting, the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put.— [Mr. Robert Ainsworth.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-28a.936.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": " is lower than here? The Netherlands has separated the two markets, so it has only a tenth of the number of heroin deaths per million people that we have. Is it sensible that in the same country and in the same week, a chief constable said that he would arrest anyone for recreational use of cannabis, while a desperately ill young woman was dragged through the courts for using cannabis medicinally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We are clearly not getting the extra investment. If the Prime Minister wants to talk about what happened in Wales, when I was Secretary of State for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.954.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Harriet Harman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "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 about the particular position in the hon. Gentleman's constituency, although I will look into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman some of the facts about the national health service and the money that is going into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The allocations between various districts are, of course, a long-standing grievance. We have been looking at this, as did the previous Government. However, I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the honesty to tell the children and those who gathered the petition that his party's proposals are to cut the extra education investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.961.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "of my wife, Caroline? Those of us who work here will know of the strong bond of friendship and warmth between Members and the staff who work with us in the building. I am proud to have been a member of that wider parliamentary family—first as the representative of Bristol, South-East and now of Chesterfield—from whom I have learned and gained a very great deal during my half century in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Inherited SERPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Yes, we very much regret the maladministration that occurred. However, we must now question the Secretary of State on the extraordinary about-turn that he has announced. Nine months ago, he announced to the House a scheme that we warned at the time was unworkable. His about-turn is confirmation that his complicated scheme was indeed unworkable. Today's statement is not a triumph for the Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Inherited SERPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "e in a little more detail, including the sliding scale. It does not have an actuarial basis. It is a genuine attempt to ensure that as people approach retirement, they have enough time to make provision, so that we avoid one of the problems of the Conservative scheme, if I can call it that—the cliff edge effect: someone who died on 31 March was all right, but someone who died the next day was not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Inherited SERPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "he drift. It depends, I suppose, on what view one takes of the afterlife. Perhaps I should more correctly say that I was referring to the position of the widow. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) for his remarks, and also for the fact that he has abandoned a position that I understood the Liberals to support—a straight 10-year deferral, which of course does not fit the bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Rewarding Democracy Commission", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Gummer", "preceding_text": "mbers are not as bad as Labour Members. The hon. Gentleman has introduced the Bill, secondly, because he knows very well that Labour activists will not get out their vote. He knows that, whatever happens in the next general election, as we have seen across the country, Labour activists do not want to bother. Whereas the number of Conservative activists is increasing, Labour activism is decreasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill and Disqualifications Bill(Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My recollection is that there are 666 amendments, one of which was passed contrary to the advice of the Government. However, the fact that there are a great number of amendments makes my point rather than the right hon. and learned Gentleman's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.990.5", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill and Disqualifications Bill(Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he utter chaos that the previous Administration got themselves into. For example, with the help of my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman), the Local Government, Planning and Land Bill was so huge and chaotic that the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) had to withdraw it altogether and start again. Then, when the Bill came back at the end of the 1980 session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.990.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill and Disqualifications Bill(Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "eport stages were held on 25 and 26 January and lasted more than 26 hours. That was a memorable occasion. The Government were not having their best week; Prime Minister's Question Time was coming up, offering the Leader of the Opposition a great opportunity to shine. What did Conservative Back Benchers do? They took away the opportunity provided each week for the Leader of the Opposition to shine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.996.5", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill and Disqualifications Bill(Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "I disagree, as the matter is entirely in the hands of the Government, who are arrogantly timetabling a Bill and not allowing us to debate it. There is no practical way of debating all the groups of amendments. In my capacity as shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, I can say that the Northern Ireland amendments are very serious and will require careful consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.996.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill and Disqualifications Bill(Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "It is not quite as the right hon. Gentleman says. I am referring to the period when Labour had taken a tactical decision to co-operate with the Conservative Government to ensure that legislation went through its stages in the House of Commons without filibuster. Even in those circumstances, the right hon. Gentleman was responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "At the moment, I cannot confirm the exact details in the Bill, but my interpretation of the Minister's response is that that would be the desired outcome. In four years, the Government, whether red, yellow or—conceivably—blue, will have to work extremely hard to justify to the House the idea that international funding for Northern Irish political parties should continue as it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1088.10", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tipping", "preceding_text": "ndments deals with various points relating to the registration of political parties. Amendment No. 34 is concerned with the responsibilities of the registered treasurer. Clause 22, as considered by this House, requires the registered treasurer to have overall responsibility for the financial affairs of the party and for ensuring compliance on the part of that party with the provisions of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1088.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "he element of discretion by considering units, as they are called, as well as the national hierarchy. It is more normal to ask for national responsibility in such matters, but there will not be time to examine the issue because my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) has draw attention to an issue that he thinks is even more important and on which he would like a ministerial reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "would like a ministerial reply. [Interruption.] I am glad that Labour Members think that this is a suitable occasion for snoring, but they must understand that their elections and constituency organisations could be tied up in the very disputes to which I am drawing attention and about which they appear to have no knowledge whatever. They now seem to think that our parliamentary democratic system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1096.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-29", "file": "debates2000-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "2fc1dc9af67b9e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1110.12", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "After Clause 64", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "(i) the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Messages from the Lords shall have been received, and (ii) if the House has completed its consideration of any Messages received from the Lords and the Lords have adjourned their sitting, the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put.-[Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-29a.1110.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1119.10", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I congratulate those who will be receiving awards at the London innovation awards ceremony tomorrow. There are several good examples of innovation that has been developed here in the United Kingdom, which have been beneficial to employment and have had wider benefits. One immediately thinks of Viagra, which has been useful to a number of people in the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1119.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The £32 billion of red tape to which the CBI referred includes the cost of providing people with four weeks' paid holiday a year, which the right hon. Gentleman would scrap. It also includes the cost of implementing the national minimum wage, which he would scrap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong about our policies on the minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"West midlands\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the CBI's view that the climate change levy favours only organisations that are going to make a change, rather than those that have already invested in change, which include Sony in south Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1133.6", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "As far as it goes, I welcome that money, especially if it leads to an increase in the generation of renewable energy from offshore wind. However, will the Secretary of State explain how he squares the provision of that capital grant with the recent lifting of the moratorium on gas-fired power stations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1133.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have not made good progress today. I hope that in the new Session I shall hear shorter questions and briefer answers. It would also help if Ministers resisted the temptation to discuss Opposition policies, which are not their responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1138.7", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Should we not make it absolutely clear that, as a matter of order, you were left with no alternative but to sign the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill and that you were able to take into consideration no aspect of your personal view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Has it crossed your mind that there has been no business statement or questions today and that—as is obvious to Labour Members—what the Tories are up to is asking you questions that have nothing to do with points of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Has it crossed your mind that there has been no business statement or questions today and that—as is obvious to Labour Members—what the Tories are up to is asking you questions that have nothing to do with points of order? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They are trying to substitute business questions with points of order; that is an abuse of the procedures of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aha!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think the hon. Gentleman is asking me a question that has nothing to do with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "reasons for introducing the Bill. I think that I am paraphrasing correctly—I know that he will jump up at the Dispatch Box if I mislead the House in any way and traduce him—in saying that he stated that we want Members of the Irish Senate to sit in both legislatures because we get on well with the Irish. He said that we have a good relationship with the country of Ireland and the Irish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not any more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lembit Öpik", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that at least one member of the Conservative party sits in this House and in the European Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1154.5", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "ic in Northern Ireland—particularly the nationalist and republican communities—that they are being thought about in this House and that actions are being taken to ensure not that Dublin overruns Northern Ireland or grabs control of the Mace in this Chamber, but that those communities have a legitimate aspiration that is recognised and that they can get representation. Let me get back to the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1154.7", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members choose to disagree, they are perfectly entitled to do so, but that flies in the face of the facts. The Government have handled the matter in an unusual and slightly clumsy way this year. I hope that the official Opposition, Unionists and Liberal Democrats could agree on that. We hope that there will be a degree of contrite acceptance of that when the Minister replies to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "neutering of the House does grave damage to the legislative process and to democracy in the United Kingdom. That should be explained, because this Chamber is where each Minister has to justify every proposal put forward, and the decisions on modernisation will prevent them from doing so in future. I hope that that is another measure that the Conservatives will reverse whenever they get the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "o Sinn Fein. That was my first point. My second is that there will be an inherent clash of loyalties. There is bound to be a division of loyalties between those who sit in the Dail and those who sit in this House. We need only look at the terms of the oath—they are in \"Erskine May\"; Members may wish to remind themselves of them—to see that they are incompatible with sitting in another legislature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "etween those who sit in the Dail and those who sit in this House. We need only look at the terms of the oath—they are in \"Erskine May\"; Members may wish to remind themselves of them—to see that they are incompatible with sitting in another legislature. [Interruption.] I wish my right hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Mr. MacKay) would stop interrupting. He spoke at considerable length himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Howarth", "preceding_text": "—have expressed their support for the Bill. Although I do not pretend that their support for the Bill has always been ringing, they understand some of the precedents and compelling reasons behind it. Last but not least, the Bill has been welcomed by the Irish Government. Because we are on such warm terms with the Irish Government, I believe that it is important that we continue that understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-11-30", "file": "debates2000-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "16125ef000545409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Uncharacteristically?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clappison", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for those remarks. I hate to point out that I have a certain amount of sympathy for some of the comments made by the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), although I think that he was uncharacteristically—for a Liberal Democrat—generous to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-11-30a.1194.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Morris", "preceding_text": " known to most hon. Members. It is a happy tradition on this occasion to refer to one's constituency and to the people who sent one here. I do so with gratitude—the gratitude of my wife and I. Together, my immediate predecessor and I have served Aberavon for 71 years. If we are not Labour's heartlands, who are? Whatever may occur in future, I would deplore the loss of the Member-constituency link—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Happy birthday !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "ing Member of Parliament, one to watch. From my side of the House, such luminaries as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip and Neil Kinnock have carried out the duty that I am performing today. If we look at the constituencies of those who have seconded the Loyal Address since I was born, which was 45 years ago today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We have set out very clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "If, even now, the Prime Minister wishes to reconsider or to announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "e would be fewer criminals in jail and more criminals on the streets. We have done a little more research. A famous London barrister who was always opposed to this plan said: On the right to jury trial, it is totally unsatisfactory to leave this to the magistrates to decide. Fundamental rights to justice cannot be driven by administrative convenience. That barrister was the Prime Minister in 1993—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We have already given the figures. Under our proposals, single people under 75 on a weekly pension would get £9.60 extra, and married couples over 75 would get an extra £16.10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ars later, our schools are facing a four-day week and the teaching profession is in crisis. A legislative programme that was serious would set schools free from bureaucratic control, put the money directly into the classroom, give choice to parents, end the vindictive campaign against grammar schools and allow new partner schools to be created. It is all spin and no delivery on transport, as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. In 1982, the Prime Minister said that we would negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC. In 1994, he said: Under my leadership, I will never allow this country to be isolated.—[ Official Report , 24 November 1994; Vol. 250, c. 725.] In 1996, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. In 1982, the Prime Minister said that we would negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC. In 1994, he said: Under my leadership, I will never allow this country to be isolated.—[ Official Report , 24 November 1994; Vol. 250, c. 725.] In 1996, he said— [Interruption.] They do not like it, do they?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "said that we would negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC. In 1994, he said: Under my leadership, I will never allow this country to be isolated.—[ Official Report , 24 November 1994; Vol. 250, c. 725.] In 1996, he said— [Interruption.] They do not like it, do they?— [Interruption.] In 1996, he said that he had made it clear that if it is in Britain's interest to be isolated then we will be isolated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.22.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Private conversations are going on in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is a choice, and that is the choice that there will be between the two main political parties. More than 90 per cent. of the extra spending will be in the priority areas plus pensions. What is the alternative What does the right hon. Gentleman offer? Why was it that he made a policy-free speech, apart from a load of nonsense from the shadow Home Secretary, most of which we are doing in any event?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce that there will be between the two main political parties. More than 90 per cent. of the extra spending will be in the priority areas plus pensions. What is the alternative What does the right hon. Gentleman offer? Why was it that he made a policy-free speech, apart from a load of nonsense from the shadow Home Secretary, most of which we are doing in any event? [Interruption.] Not the nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it became airborne—he is in favour of privatising the whole of air traffic control—and for a brief spell he even handed the controls to the shadow Home Secretary. The trouble was that she tried to impose fines on all the passengers and half of them pleaded guilty, so there he was with another wheel off. The right hon. Gentleman is still rolling along, but he has to find £16 billion worth of cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nal income. In any event, the current number of civil servants is 8,000 down on the figure in April 1997. The right hon. Gentleman may say that we are about to increase the number of civil servants. Yes, we are. I shall tell him where we are about to increase them, so let us see whether he agrees or disagrees—immigration, benefit fraud, prison officers, and getting the money through to pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on, tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " per cent. Who will believe that he will cut unemployment? Let us give the right hon. Gentleman all that. Next, he says that he will scrap best value in local government. That means that local authorities must get the best value for services. He says that he will get £125 million from that. Will he not replace it with anything? Will he not go back to the policy of compulsory competitive tendering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "le employed by all the regional development agencies in the country. How will he get £100 million out of that? Who will then administer the programmes that they currently administer? The right hon. Gentleman says—this is my favourite one—that he will save £205 million from not creating regional assemblies, but there is no £205 million budgeted for regional assemblies, so where does he get it from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at he will put the standards fund through direct to schools, but in fact the vast bulk of that already goes direct to schools. Of the rest, £400 million goes—targeted, it is true—to primary schools for class sizes and literacy and numeracy, with 6,000 extra teachers. Is he going to scrap that? So that money cannot be used, either. The last bit of it is that there is £900 million of the £4 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "al health service, said that the glass was \"very much half full\". The hon. Lady is clearly having a rhetorical influence on the man at No. 10. I enjoyed the extracts quoted by the leader of the Conservative party. I did not know that my predecessor had employed him to advertise his memoirs to quite that extent. Always available, always available—and he has got further through the book than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": " Queen's Speech, I must declare an interest in leasehold and commonhold reform. Although I welcome the Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office, I am rather sad that the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department has done his stint on the Front Bench on this occasion and has handed over responsibility. I wanted to talk about the leasehold and commonhold reform Bill in great detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-06", "file": "debates2000-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f0278202e6810e92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Mobile Phone Masts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "mment, with which I absolutely agree. I listened with great interest to her seconding of the Gracious Speech this afternoon. She spoke about how she cares for her constituency and the way in which she wrestled that seat from the then Conservative Member of Parliament. I congratulated her on that, but I did not know three years ago that her predecessor would decamp from Aberdeen, South to Eastwood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-06a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "erly patients can be discharged into the community if there is a dramatic reduction in capacity out there in the community. That leads to more blocked beds, and the trend is accelerating. The present figures show that there may be a reduction of as much as 10 or 11 per cent. over the current year in the care home sector. That would mean a loss of some 50,000 to 55,000 beds in the care home sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "It is entirely typical that the Secretary of State throws in statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "the acute sector. More beds blocked in the acute sector, combined with seasonal pressure, leads to a rise in the cancellation of elective surgery. We know that over the past six months there has been a rise in the number of cancelled operations across the NHS. The Government's failure to understand the implications of their own policy will result in more blocked beds and more cancelled operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "Ministers can speak for themselves on the hon. Gentleman's last point, but there is evidence that there has been public consultation on the future of CHCs, although it has not been widespread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "on long-term care. It will be interesting to see how the details of the Bill that they promised in the Queen's Speech are fleshed out. Following the royal commission's recommendations, the Government will provide the full costs of nursing care from October 2001. In all honesty, I welcome that decision, which I expected the previous Government to make, had the Conservatives been re-elected in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "about the catastrophic circumstances at Queen Alexandra hospital, where not enough surgical instruments are sterilised for operations. I am not sure whether the Minister was present to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Mrs. Roe) say starkly that waiting times had lengthened from 12 to 18 months. Those were very powerful contributions. I want to try to help the Minister this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "y practitioners are effective in dealing with what, behind closed doors, doctors call heart-sink patients—those whom they cannot treat. The Minister of State could make life much easier if he got the big five more involved. If someone goes to a doctor's surgery with a terrible cold, the doctor will almost certainly say, \"I can do nothing for you.\" Unfortunately, no doctor is present at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-07", "file": "debates2000-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5af91813256c76c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "er place states that the case for it is not proven. Traditional Chinese medicine has been around—and has been proved—for thousands of years. Complementary medicine can help to treat patients with cancer. That subject is important in the House, which has three or four cancer groups. Yoga can help with cancer, as can diet, and healers can also help. There are masses of ways to deal with the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-07a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "y, from Bradford. Last night, the gospel choir at Garforth, who are also taking part in that programme, sang their hearts out about community—about people working and caring together. I hope that, when the Leader of the Opposition hears them sing on Sunday, he will feel a twinge of conscience about the type of policies that his party currently advocate and would inflict on the rest of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": "me, sang their hearts out about community—about people working and caring together. I hope that, when the Leader of the Opposition hears them sing on Sunday, he will feel a twinge of conscience about the type of policies that his party currently advocate and would inflict on the rest of the country— [Interruption.] I seem to recognise the voice of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you cannot\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Employment (Mr. David Blunkett)", "preceding_text": " on the rest of the country— [Interruption.] I seem to recognise the voice of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood)— [Interruption.] My hon. Friends tell me it is the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley)—same policies, but slightly more sophisticated. Does the right hon. Gentleman want to intervene? At least I can engage in some sort of intellectual debate with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.249.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " and private sector. That is £300 million that the Conservatives have counted in their savings in the distribution to the state system. Never mind the maths hour—or 55 minutes, or whatever it might be—I would like the hon. Lady to do her sums again. When she has done them, she should hold a press conference and spell out to the world the reason why Her Majesty's Opposition simply could not add up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": " There is an indication there that there might be something new in the Government's thinking and that they might bring forward further proposals on secondary education. What do we see when we look at the background notes? It is all about city academies—already enshrined in the Learning and Skills Act 2000, although the Government have been finding it difficult to get people to take on that option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "One only has to look at the figures on business representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lilley", "preceding_text": "I will not because I suspect that the hon. Gentleman's question will be of the same quality as his first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pond", "preceding_text": "embers will have had parents in their surgeries who are distraught because they have a child with special educational needs, but that has not been fully recognised and they cannot find suitable education. It is very important that we give those rights to parents as well as children. That can happen across the board. For instance, there is a new children's resource centre at Darent Valley hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.304.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 2nd and 9th February, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th March, 6th and 27th April, 11th and 18th May, 8th and 15th June and 20th July 2001. [Mr. Betts.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.321.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-12-08", "file": "debates2000-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5e1b344bdaf8f8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.321.6", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, for the current Session of Parliament, Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended as follows: Line 37, before the word 'European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. [Mr. Betts.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-08a.321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.331.6", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Anderson", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman is suffering from amnesia. He may recall that it was the previous Government who established the current system for running our railways. Of course, the infrastructure is not a matter for my Department, but I remind him that one of the things that we have done for the tourism industry—in stark contrast with the Conservative party—is to establish an annual tourism ministerial summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.331.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.336.8", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "for money, is £25 million less now than it was in June, when Legacy first made its offer. Moreover, as the Minister just told us, the offer is subject to \"all going well\". That does not exactly fill us with enthusiasm. Will the Minister confirm that the farce continues—that from January until June there will be decommissioning costs of up to £2 million a year to be paid by the poor lottery player?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.336.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.336.8", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ne, when Legacy first made its offer. Moreover, as the Minister just told us, the offer is subject to \"all going well\". That does not exactly fill us with enthusiasm. Will the Minister confirm that the farce continues—that from January until June there will be decommissioning costs of up to £2 million a year to be paid by the poor lottery player? [HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"] I mean £2 million a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.336.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is true that we have secured our interests in a way that has not left Britain isolated or marginalised, which would not be in our interest. We have to return to negotiations with other countries to get things that advance our own interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "own national interests. For anyone sitting through the negotiations, the idea that national interest is not alive and well in Europe would have been a strange thought. It is important to realise what has been achieved. All those obstacles to enlargement have been cleared, and, as for the time at which the countries enter the European Union, the reason why no specific date is given to each country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ught. It is important to realise what has been achieved. All those obstacles to enlargement have been cleared, and, as for the time at which the countries enter the European Union, the reason why no specific date is given to each country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I am about to explain why. There is an accession process, whereby the countries must meet particular economic objectives in order to enter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hing industry is in trouble because, as he well knows, there are problems with the amount of stocks in the sea. Everyone knows that that is true. That is why not merely our fishing industry but every fishing industry throughout Europe is in trouble. Our farming industry faces two problems, which are not to do with the operation of CAP. They are, first, the strength of the pound vis-a-vis the euro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "icant countries to participate in the next European elections? The Prime Minster has mentioned the important opportunities for British trade and the banking and financial sector, which has been extremely tardy in becoming involved in central Europe. Why have not any of the three Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry since 1997 visited Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia or Estonia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bill Cohen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " will be an independent standing force set aside from NATO is nonsense. The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked whether it was better to develop our defence capability inside NATO. The whole purpose of the proposal is that it will allow us to do that inside NATO as well. That point has been made by our American allies, apart from people such as Richard Perle, who take a different point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Nice European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The extraordinary thing is that the hon. Gentleman receives so much support from his own side. Presumably he is saying that we should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "At 10.30 this morning the Government launched a White Paper on globalisation at a press conference. Copies were made available to non-governmental organisations and the press this morning, but not to Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.372.7", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "nion, that ratio will be identical to what it is now, despite the addition of 12 countries. For every year between now and then our share of that ratio will be higher than it is now. This is the first time since Britain joined the European Community that our vote has gone up. Of course, that will mean that when we take majority votes, our votes will count for a lot. Even so, we set out in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": ". It is a challenging task, but I shall try. He will be delighted to hear that in the declaration that we adopted yesterday in Nice, looking forward to the future debate on the evolution of the European Union, there is a specific commitment—indeed, it is the first commitment—that that debate will consider limiting the competencies of the European Union and respecting the principle of subsidiarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "t in the declaration that we adopted yesterday in Nice, looking forward to the future debate on the evolution of the European Union, there is a specific commitment—indeed, it is the first commitment—that that debate will consider limiting the competencies of the European Union and respecting the principle of subsidiarity. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman is unhappy about how far we have gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "pect around the world for our values of freedom and of expression. It gets us gratitude from victims of oppression, who often go on to be leaders of their country—for example, Nelson Mandela, for whom the BBC World Service was the only link with the outside world during years of imprisonment. The Conservatives were prepared to run down that tremendous national asset, in which we are now investing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " multi-ethnic Britain. I am therefore pleased to tell the House that we now have in the Foreign Office 50 per cent. more staff from ethnic communities than at the time of the previous election. The more staff we have from our ethnic communities, the better able we will be to serve those communities. This year, Britain was the first western country to send a consular delegation to the Haj in Mecca.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Show us the document.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am fascinated by that question. I thought that the hon. Gentleman had been to his own party's conference, and approved the document put before it. As I was saying, the Conservatives' vision is one of a Britain surreptitiously sliding towards the exit door of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.386.5", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not exist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has come up with an excellent solution. We should do a service to the Conservative party, and send all Opposition Front Benchers copies of the policy document that they presented to their party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "y his time at Chevening while he can. I am not the first to note that the brevity of the Queen's Speech points to an early election, which the right hon. Gentleman must view with all the enthusiasm of a Turkey cock looking forward to Christmas. One thing on which everyone is agreed, with the possible—only the possible—exception of the Foreign Secretary, is that whatever the result of the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " there will be one certain consequence: the next incumbent at the Foreign Office will not be the current Foreign Secretary. His removal will be greeted with huge delight by anyone wanting to take pride in how his country is represented abroad, by the Foreign Office itself and by all our partners and allies, who find themselves constantly astonished by his ineptitude, arrogance and lack of finesse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "nd by all our partners and allies, who find themselves constantly astonished by his ineptitude, arrogance and lack of finesse. [Interruption.] I will come to Nice and the European Union later, but too many times we have seen posturing in Britain, but pushover abroad. In relation to Zimbabwe, an important matter where we have serious responsibilities, one seasoned observer put it accurately enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "I shall make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I can do more than deny that. Britain was not a party to the Lomé agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.389.6", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "It is a well-known matter of record that an observer was present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "evidence against them. There has, after all, been no problem in finding a tribunal in which to bring such people to justice. The problems lie in arresting them and getting evidence, and those problems will continue. Proponents of the International Criminal Court say that it will save money, but there is no guarantee that that will happen. Steven Kay, a Queen's Counsel with experience in the field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ime Minister signed, which is very explicit on the key matter of whether the European Union has separate autonomous planning capability. It says that to enable the European Union fully to assume its responsibilities, the European Council—the very Council that the Foreign Secretary attended, although he may have been dozing off at the time—has decided to establish the following permanent political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ave been at risk during the past 18 months because of the ludicrous notion that a dispute about bananas is best dealt with by targeting the cashmere-producing factories of the borders of Scotland. When it comes to the United States, robust and mature disagreement is much more likely to be part of a profitable relationship than the notion that we cannot open our mouths for the fear of upsetting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "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": "d all the ambassadors—not only the British ones—say the same—that enhancing European military capability and co-operation should and could have been done within NATO. The only reason why it has not been done is that the Government joined the French, who would not rejoin the military wing of NATO, thereby opening the door to current developments. I tell the Foreign Secretary—who is hiding his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "Probably the hon. Gentleman did not either. He is once again trying to deny his party's history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "The European Union will be working with NATO's military planning capabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-11", "file": "debates2000-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "354f2d59556002d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.450.5", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have so much shouting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-11a.450.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Illsley", "preceding_text": "on. Friend on his success at Nice. Despite the Opposition's scaremongering about, for instance, increasing qualified majority voting, the reweighting of votes, the possible loss of vetoes and possible further integration, is it not a fact that the British Government negotiated successfully? Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the outcome of the Nice summit paves the way for further enlargement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure to what extent the Opposition have been observing what happened at Nice. For four hours over Sunday night and Monday, we argued with one particular country. That is not evidence of a superstate; that is evidence of substantial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "managed; and because we wanted to ensure that we can change the rules and procedure of the European Court of Justice, so that Britain can get its cases heard faster and more fairly. Those are gains for Britain. The treaty is also a gain for Europe. Every hon. Member, including the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude), has received a letter from the Federation of Poles in Great Britain urging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.472.4", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "d about Nice, because they know what a success it was. That was demonstrated by the way in which, once and for all, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister dealt with the Leader of the Opposition on this subject yesterday. Nice was a negotiating triumph because of the negotiating skills of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, who were up until 4.30 yesterday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "getting too excited—she should have one of these biscuits. I refer her to article 247 of the treaty, and if she has problems understanding what we have done at Nice, she should go to the Foreign Office website. We have just set up an interactive line. She can communicate with me and ask any question that she wants. She cannot appreciate, and will not accept, the fact that a British Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.475.5", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "We are well aware of the problem of low-paid staff in the Foreign Office—a problem that we inherited from the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.475.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Communications White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Each over?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "mple of the Government getting in the way by doing too little. Progress toward today's announcement has been helped neither by an undignified turf war between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Trade and Industry nor by the confusion and incompetence that is the hallmark of Labour in office. The House will recall how those two Departments have been falling each over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Communications White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Each over?\"]—falling over each other like characters in a comic sketch for the past two years. In March 1998, the DTI published its utilities regulation Green Paper; in July 1999, both Departments published a convergence Green Paper. In November 1999, the DTI announced a Utilities Bill, which included proposals for the communications industry and, in January this year, received its Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.497.6", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ppointment. That is another ludicrous example of the Government's summer of spin. What has the Home Secretary come up with after three and a half years in government? What eye-catching policies are to be introduced by the right hon. Gentleman over the next few months? He seems to have decided to use his final Queen's Speech in office to attempt to put right the failure of his first Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.497.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The speed with which it will be delivered will be with all possible speed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.508.7", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "amid allegations of Dickensian conditions. Yet since 1997, we have heard little from the right hon. Gentleman about the conditions in Britain's prisons. He was only too happy to highlight problems in the prison system before the election, but he has maintained a rather strange silence since. Prisoners now spend less time each week on purposeful activity than they did under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.508.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"A 100 years ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "not worth much when one looks at them closely. The great feeling that there is particular evil and malaise in our society is in some ways misguided. Of course there is a huge amount of crime, but there is nothing new about crimes with knives and weapons. The streets were just as unsafe 100 years ago in that respect. When I first started work with youngsters in Southwark, kids often carried knives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-12", "file": "debates2000-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "6b0dcca146ad1307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Home Affairs and Inner Cities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " in the air that this Parliament might last for only four years. The Queen's Speech is so thin that, even with the five Home Office Bills, it does not look as though the Session could last much beyond May even if we tried hard to prolong it. According to the figures, crime fell in the first period of the Government's term, although it now seems to be rising. Violent crime has unarguably increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-12a.525.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman confirming that the Conservatives would not get rid of the free licence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "hose distortions. He is not enhancing his credibility and does no credit to politics. He knows perfectly well that the Conservative party proposes to allow retired people to have a much higher weekly income. Single pensioners under the age of 75 would receive an extra £9.50 a week, and the payment for a couple over the age of 75 would increase to £16.10 a week. That would all be exempted from tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "g. We did not support the windfall tax, but we set out our spending proposals with our tax proposals, making it clear that, in the early years of this Parliament, we would have been able to spend more than the Government did. Additionally, subsequently, our proposals would have enabled a higher expenditure baseline. Consequently, our tax take would have been a little higher during this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "The important point is what has happened since 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "admit that, under the Labour Government, the tax burden has increased, is increasing and will go on increasing. That seemed to come as a late surprise to Members on the Treasury Bench. Long after everyone else in Britain—people who occasionally drive on to a garage forecourt, pay a council tax bill, know what their pension fund has to pay, or have seen what has happened to the climate change levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " and agencies.— [Official Report , 6 December 2000; Vol. 359, c. 57.] If this had been a Conservative Queen's Speech, there would have been a jolly big bonfire of quangos and agencies. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Michie) said: I am merely reminding the Government that we have to keep in touch with our electorate and with reality.— [Official Report , 6 December 2000; Vol. 359, c. 69]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "ries. He spoke about the way that the Government have changed the flexibility of our labour markets, mentioning in particular the fact that not only has the social chapter been introduced under this Government, but that trade unions have received statutory recognition. I can assure him and the House that, when we come to office next year, we shall abolish the statutory recognition of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " the Queen's Speech, Labour Members have flattered us by being more interested in discussing Conservative policies than the Government's legislative programme. It is no surprise that first out of the traps is the Hunting Bill. That shows how the Government prioritise the matters that they think are important to the country: not the big law and order issues or the Children's Commissioner for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Southend, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mrs. Margaret Beckett)", "preceding_text": " a point echoed by the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major). A number of Opposition Members wanted to add more. Over the past few days they have cited measures which they claim the Government promised to introduce but which are not included, and—somehow—a further list of measures which they say they would themselves introduce. The hon. Member for Southend, as we must now learn to call him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.743.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.19", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Select Committees (Joint Meetings)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put forthwith, That, for the current Session of Parliament, Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended as follows: Line 37, before the word 'European' insert the words `Environmental Audit Committee or with the'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.18"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.22", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put forthwith, That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 2nd and 9th February, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th March, 6th and 27th April, 11th and 18th May, 8th and 15th June and 20th July 2001.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2000-12-13", "file": "debates2000-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "acc7b09263ec29ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.24", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put forthwith, That, at the sitting on Thursday 21st December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he shall have notified the Royal Assent to Acts agreed upon by both Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-13a.749.23"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.785.10", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "r. The challenge in this country—I hope it is accepted on an all-party basis, because we are involving the Confederation of British Industry and work forces in the issues—is to combine high productivity with high employment. Of course, what would damage prospects of higher growth and higher productivity most of all is a return to the old stop-go and boom-bust that we saw under the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.785.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is precisely because of the need to improve our infrastructure in the economy that we have reversed the long-term trend against investment in transport infrastructure. The Liberal party likes big figures. The £180 billion that we are investing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the Conservatives have no fiscal rules; they will not invest in the supply side, which is the infrastructure of the economy; and their monetary disciplines are suspect because they would sack Bank of England independence under certain circumstances, which they define as incompetence. At the same time they are promising tax cuts based on a surplus one year that they cannot guarantee for every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not given the figures for the United States savings ratio, which are markedly lower than those for the UK savings ratio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he didn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not given the figures for the United States savings ratio, which are markedly lower than those for the UK savings ratio. [Interruption.] Yes, indeed, but he mentioned the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not given the figures for the United States savings ratio, which are markedly lower than those for the UK savings ratio. [Interruption.] Yes, indeed, but he mentioned the United States. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he didn't.\"] All right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "savings ratio than the UK. The hon. Gentleman is trying to avoid debating the current good state of the economy and the fact that we have returned the economy to stability. We have fiscal rules and we are able to provide an environment in which people feel confident enough to spend and to save money. The hon. Gentleman is avoiding that question because he does not want to refer to the Tory record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.799.4", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "sion of the FM band. Such is the burden on flying training organisations in this country that, for example, British Aerospace has moved its flying training from Perth in Scotland to Spain, where it saves 50 per cent. of its costs. I suggest to the Financial Secretary that he might do something to help that important component of one of Britain's leading industries by cutting the rate of fuel duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member for Huntingdon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "h by a prudent examination of the five tests, he will support leaving the issue open and not ruling it out on principle. However, at one and the same time, some Conservative Members say that we must look at the issue as a matter of detail and others say that they will never join, on principle. I understand that the hon. Gentleman is a member of Conservatives Against a Federal Europe. \"John Major\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " at the issue as a matter of detail and others say that they will never join, on principle. I understand that the hon. Gentleman is a member of Conservatives Against a Federal Europe. \"John Major\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member for Huntingdon.\"] Conservative Members do not like hearing their own policy. I think that the House would like to know what they subscribe to. \"John Major\", it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-14", "file": "debates2000-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "717ab4e162151a3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Clappison", "preceding_text": "ibed as the danger of extra rainfall. As a junior Minister in the Department of the Environment who had to deal with the drought during the previous Government, I find that the danger of extra rainfall has not always been entirely self-evident. I hope that the same quarters who under the previous Government were complaining of too little rainfall are not now going to complain of too much rainfall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-14a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-15", "file": "debates2000-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a9417a2fefdd142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-15a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "rke, Johansson, Frisen and others, entitled \"Generalised Potential of Adult Neural Stem Cells\", states that other scientists have discovered that an adult neural stem cell has a very broad developmental capacity and may potentially be used to generate a variety of cell types for transplantation in different diseases. I am not a scientist. As far as I know, none of us in the Chamber is a scientist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-15a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-15", "file": "debates2000-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a9417a2fefdd142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-15a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Tonge", "preceding_text": "of up-to-14-day-old pre-embryos which did not survive had souls populating heaven, what on earth was God doing with them? Is that not a preposterous theory? We cannot know what a soul is or when we actually become a human being in God's eyes. We may have theories about it, but we do not know and we must be careful not to judge religious opinion by the same standards as we judge scientific opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-15a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.5.5", "colnum": "5", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "l poverty, particularly among pensioners, that we inherited. When people judge the political parties, whenever the election comes, they will wonder at the Conservatives, who are making it clear that they will give less money to poor people and that there will be no Christmas bonus, no reward for saving, no free television licence and no winter fuel payment. That sounds like a remarkable manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.5.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "lic. Nearly 400,000 cars are stolen each year and 120,000 of those are never recovered. Vehicle crime accounts for nearly a fifth of all recorded crime and costs, at a conservative estimate, about £3 billion a year. It causes great distress and inconvenience to victims, as all of us know who have suffered from vehicle crime—in my case, before 1997, although I accept that it has gone on since 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " point gives me the opportunity to return to the traumatic moment when I lost my vehicle. I thank her for that opportunity, as it was thanks to the great affection in which Blackburn Rovers is held that I got the vehicle back—a fact that enables me to put on record in Parliament my affection and support for the team and my congratulations to it on its magnificent victory against Burnley yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.24.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.25.7", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Well, as I also know, occasionally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.25.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "r to reduce death on the roads a universal system of CCTV or video speed cameras is required across the country is not sound. If the hon. Gentleman wants to persuade the House of the merits of his argument, I hope that he will be successful in catching your eye in due course, Mr. Speaker. I shall not be distracted by Labour Members from emphasising that there had been a reduction of 0.5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "f crime.\" That is an extraordinary state of affairs. It is peculiar that the Government should, on one hand, introduce the Bill—which has at least the appearance of robustness—and, on the other, pursue a policy that genuinely merits my recent description of the Home Secretary as a lily-livered liberal. Is it any wonder that this country's criminal classes are praying for a Labour election victory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "nds should be aware, 61 per cent. of thefts are from vehicles and only 11 per cent. are thefts of vehicles. That confirms the overall trend, and it is relevant to the Bill, for as I will say later, and I have support from outside organisations in doing so, the Bill overwhelmingly deals with the theft of vehicles rather than with the statistically more significant phenomenon of theft from vehicles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": " was not in any way criticising or casting aspersions on the police. For the avoidance of doubt, I. was criticising and casting aspersions on the Government's record, from which both the innocent public and the police suffer. I am not cavilling at the achievement of the police, nor am I saying—I emphasise this to the hon. Lady—that they should not give priority to the pursuit of violent criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "iers. It is estimated that approximately 27,000 outlets assemble number plates and that they supply about 6 million to 7 million plates each year. About 2 million plates are fitted to new vehicles and a further 2 million are trade-ins. Replacement plates account for the balance. The main objective of part II is to regulate the supply of number plates in order to combat vehicle ringing and cloning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gilroy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gilroy", "preceding_text": "Major Ranulph Rayner, Devon's high sheriff, who is backing such Crimebeat initiatives during his term of office, and Sir John Evans, our chief constable. In addition to showing the right hon. Member for Maidstone and the Weald that excellent project, I would have shared with her my concern about the car park at the rear of the Theatre Royal. In May this year, the Tories took control of the council", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.69.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "rson involved in a car accident where the person at fault is not insured finds that his insurance company has to bail him out. It puts up the cost for those of us who are law abiding. Therefore, the move is a logical extension of modern technology. I welcome it, provided, again, that there are safeguards. There need to be safeguards to ensure that this country's privacy laws and databases are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.82.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-18", "file": "debates2000-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "442cc27a505d448f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep going\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "hould be no need for such a provision, as only a genuine cessation of trade will result in de-registration. The operator will not be removed from the register without notice; he will be notified prior to any de-registration and will thus have the opportunity to make representations if he has not ceased trading. Finally—although I hope to cover other points made by the hon. Gentleman in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-18a.113.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-19", "file": "debates2000-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "77de3b5d16bbce75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-19a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "No. I have been told that I must allow the Minister time to reply to the debate. What we are doing today is therefore very important. I urge the House to pause very carefully before it makes its final decision. It is quite different from what we talked about in 1990 because, for the first time, we are saying to the science community that we shall create cloned human beings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-19a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-19", "file": "debates2000-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "77de3b5d16bbce75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-19a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "y carefully before it makes its final decision. It is quite different from what we talked about in 1990 because, for the first time, we are saying to the science community that we shall create cloned human beings—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, just listen. We shall create cloned human embryos which, if allowed to implant in the womb, would grow into human beings. That is what we are voting on tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-19a.259.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "I do not disparage the hon. Gentleman's consistent defence over many years of his point of view on this matter. However, I part company with him over the idea that, when it is proposed that Parliament use the coercive power of the law and the enforcement authorities to make illegal a practice that has previously been perfectly legal, there needs to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "r method of control. The report notes some serious problems with the lamping method, however. It needs good vehicular access; the method is unsuitable for uneven terrain, woodland or scrub. The National Farmers Union points out that the Burns analysis ignores the problem of lamp-shy foxes. It would be far from a panacea, even in areas where it might be practical to employ it. Nor could one ignore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "Obviously the injuries that the hon. Gentleman describes would lead to the animal's quick death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrat party has concluded that hunting with dogs should be banned. Although colleagues in this House and the other place know that it is the party's view, they also know that it will not be imposed on them. Like members of other parties, my colleagues will vote according to their conscience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ed in favour of it, 14 voted against and six abstained or were absent. Therefore, it is also clear that the majority of my present colleagues have been persuaded that a ban is appropriate. My right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith), who was my predecessor as spokesman on home affairs, opposed the ban. I shall make my position clear: I have always supported a ban on hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. The third constitutional issue is about the Parliament Act, which I put to the Home Secretary in an intervention. It seems wrong that that Act should be used for this matter. It would certainly be wrong in this Parliament, and I believe would even be wrong in the next one. We have two Houses of Parliament. The second is entirely the Government's composition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "ree-range piglets and game. All farmers regard foxes as a menace. No doubt the sheep, poultry, piglets and game also have strong feelings about them. Moreover, without a proper method of destruction, the number of foxes would treble annually, which, as far as I know, nobody would welcome, so the fox needs culling, but shooting alone will not do, as the Burns report makes clear. It may seem humane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "d a rural constituency for 20 years, I have seen it at close quarters and I care for it. Whatever the personal feelings of Labour Members, I ask them, why wilfully go out of the way to introduce specific legislation to destroy jobs? That is what a ban will do. Why wreck traditions and \"modernise\"—what damage that word has caused—the activities of a rural minority? Why set town against countryside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "er principles before her political career, and he should show due deference for that. She is a very open-minded, woman, as I am sure he would agree. In other circumstances, we would argue that she was not very open-minded, but, having listened to the speech of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, I currently support the right hon. Lady for Home Secretary; she has certainly taken a strong line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "used to fish a great deal; I used to love fishing. I share that pleasure with my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster), but in politics there are lines to be drawn. I would not choose to fish or to shoot, but equally, I would not choose to ban others from doing so. That is where I have drawn my line. Other right hon. and hon. Members must draw their own lines. I shall finish the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You sacked all the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "y party is against hunting—as long as all our candidates in all the constituencies where it matters can say that they disagree with us.\" I should not be surprised by that, of course; it has been Liberal policy on every subject since time immemorial. As I have said, I have no personal interest in hunting—other than that connected with my family—but I have seen something of human cruelty to animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": " \"You sacked all the miners.\"] Oh yes, and we paid them £30,000 a time in compensation. I can tell the hon. Gentleman that that was a great deal more than was paid to the 700,000 miners who lost their jobs from 1945 onwards. In 1945, when Labour was in government, three quarters of a million people were employed in the British mining industry. Today about 30,000 are employed, and the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "nister; the right hon. Member for Henley, the former Deputy Prime Minister; the right hon. And learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard), the former Home Secretary; the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Sir N. Lyell), the former Attorney-General.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "No, I will not, because my right hon. and learned Friend has intervened many times and, perhaps, he will have a chance to make a speech later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "ews. I am an animal lover. I carry a picture of my Staffordshire bull terrier around in my pocket and I hate cruelty to animals. I am thinking of putting a picture of my wife in my wallet, but the Staffordshire bull terrier currently takes precedence. To be honest, I think that I like animals better than people. I am, therefore, completely opposed to hunting a live animal with hounds, in any form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.430.6", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Salter", "preceding_text": "p of people in this country is more inappropriate to pray in aid minority rights than the Countryside Alliance and many of its Conservative supporters. Anyone at the Labour party conference in Brighton who heard the chanting and slogans emanating from the mouths of members of the Countryside Alliance about black and gay people should be under no illusions about their commitment to minority rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The middle way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "preceding_text": "ally threaten farmers who try to keep them off their land—they threaten them with personal violence or with burning their hayricks. The hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) has similar experiences on his patch. How can we morally combat that unacceptable activity to any effect when organised coursing is accepted, simply because it has a species of licence—the third way's proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthall", "preceding_text": " land—they threaten them with personal violence or with burning their hayricks. The hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) has similar experiences on his patch. How can we morally combat that unacceptable activity to any effect when organised coursing is accepted, simply because it has a species of licence—the third way's proposal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The middle way.\"] I beg its pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.440.6", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "wford county primary school and addressed an assembly of a couple of hundred children aged between four and 11. I told them that I would mention them in the Chamber of the House of Commons. We were discussing animal welfare issues and I asked how many wanted hunting banned. Without any prompting, a forest of little arms went up. Only two or three did not want it banned. That is a typical response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.440.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.440.8", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "We have been round that circuit many times. There is a difference between killing for food and killing for fun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.440.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": " their argument must surely be confident enough to hear the views of others, and be willing to modify their views if something better comes along. To have an opinion one must listen to the debate and know what people have said. Few of the hon. Members who will vote on the Second Reading of the Bill have stayed in the Chamber for much of the debate. At one point, the number in here went down to 25.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "ne spoke more cogently than my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington), who stressed at the outset that there was no compelling case for the Bill on animal welfare grounds, but that it poses a serious threat to individual freedom. The cudgels were then taken up in a truly brilliant fashion by my right hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major) in a penetrating and witty speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "hon. Members made good contributions—25 in total. The reality is that, in arguing the case on grounds of cruelty, the simple fact is that, as Burns acknowledged, all the methods of pest control are problematic; none of them is immune from criticism. The truth is that there is no compelling evidence that cruelty in foxhunting is any greater than in snaring, trapping, gassing, poisoning or shooting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "htest desire whatever to hunt. However, for as long as I have breath in my lungs, I will defend the right of other people to hunt If they so choose. The curse of our times is the instant progression of too many people from the statement, \"I do not like\" to the statement, \"It should be banned.\" I shall risk embarrassing my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal whom I cannot readily see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "There is not enough time to give way. The hon. Lady had an opportunity to speak earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. The truth is that as far as most—although I concede not all—Labour Members are concerned, the measure has nothing to do with animal welfare and everything to do with class warfare. We learned that the hon. Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ord Burns and his colleagues deserve the thanks of the House for that report. I thank the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff), who said that the report was the bible of this debate and thanked officials at the Home Office for their hard work in ensuring that we had before us a Bill that fairly reflects the different views. We have heard some impassioned defences of Huntingdon—of hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "I have not been party to any discussions about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "I have not been party to any discussions about this matter. [Interruption.] I have not agreed provisionally or conclusively to any programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Points were made in great depth and detail on Second Reading. Does my hon. Friend agree that, given the fundamental wickedness of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "that he has made in the amendment. I hope that he will get the opportunity to speak about it later. The time allocated for debate today was inadequate because it did not provide an opportunity for every hon. Member who wanted to contribute to do so. Furthermore, the Government chore to deprive the House of nearly an hour of debating time by including a ministerial statement in today's proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lidington", "preceding_text": "ebate today was inadequate because it did not provide an opportunity for every hon. Member who wanted to contribute to do so. Furthermore, the Government chore to deprive the House of nearly an hour of debating time by including a ministerial statement in today's proceedings. [Interruption.] If the programme motion is accepted, we have no guarantee that the Government will not choose to introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-20", "file": "debates2000-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8637c685cbf5fc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Well, it is not merely because the Government want to bash the measure through to the Lords. We know that they are terrified of a certain date in March; they are so scared of Sunday 18 March that they are determined to make sure that there will be no consideration of the Bill on Report in this place. On Sunday 18 March, this country will see the biggest civil rights march in its history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-20a.477.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "here was no such scheme under the previous Conservative Government. Having fought so hard for the scheme within Government, it is highly unlikely that I would not want to maximise its impact. However, the hon. Gentleman is on to a good point and I repeat that the budget is ring-fenced year by year. The carry-forward, as the hon. Gentleman knows—or not—is a matter for discussions within Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.560.7", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Ms Quin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Quin", "preceding_text": "I mentioned the initiative that the Chancellor announced in the pre-Budget report. I do not suppose that the hon. Gentleman expects me to make tax announcements in Agriculture Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.560.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.563.4", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ere effective. The court said that the matter is one of balancing rights. In the leading judgment, Lord Steyn said that one has to take into account the rights of victims and others, in addition to the rights of defendants. The hon. Lady also spoke about the planning cases. Yes, the divisional court held that the provisions were incompatible. We are appealing the case and the matter is sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.563.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Adoption", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Health (Mr. Alan Milburn)", "preceding_text": "ild, and if it is in the child's best interest for that to happen, we will go further still. Applications by foster carers who want to adopt a child in their care will be processed in just three months. The standards will also set out how prospective adopters will be welcomed and treated in an open and fair way. There will be no blanket bans on people because of their age, health or other factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "£50 to £72—the rate of the lower earnings limit. In total, we will be spending nearly £200 million more on supporting carers and people with disabilities next year, and every year thereafter. That is something that the Tories never did—what is more, they never could do it because of the cuts guarantee to which they are committed. It is interesting that so few of them have turned up for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "that our policy is for all people in receipt of the basic pension. There would be a full uprating for pensioners who are not receiving the full value of the basic pension. The costing of our proposal includes giving the full increase to all pensioners who receive the partial or full value of the contributory pension. That is our policy. It has a much greater logic than the various special schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.604.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2000-12-21", "file": "debates2000-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a77cbb4c77eca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is an expert, and has contributed useful information about the reforms in Mexico. He is quite right. Attending a conference on this subject, I was struck by the radicalism of the Chinese Government's proposals. A former general in the Red Army, who is now roughly the equivalent of the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2000-12-21a.625.0"}
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